#kate morton

[blackswaneuroparedux]

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

- Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

#morton #kate morton #quote #literature #photography #photos #memories #moments #art #past #camera #life

[adrasteiax]

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

Kate Morton, from The Forgotten Garden

#quote #kate morton #the forgotten garden #literature #lit #from my collection

[vagarezas]

Para quien sabe mirar

Siempre hay señales

Kate Morton

#kate morton #literatura #literatura estrangeira #literatura en español #español #poesía #poesia #cultura australiana #amor #cita #citas #citação #citações #citacion #citación #citas en español #trechos #trechos de amor #frases #frases de amor #frases en español #escritoras #escritos #escritos en español #poetas #poetisas #poetas en español #escritores estrangeiros #escritoras estrangeiras #fragmentos

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 046

Homecoming by Kate Morton

“People who grow up in old houses come to understand that buildings have characters. That they have memories and secrets to tell. One must merely learn to listen, and then to comprehend, as with any language.”

#books #2023 reads #homecoming #kate morton #booklr #lit edit

[litandlifequotes]

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

#kate morton #the forgotten garden #book #book quote #quote #words #reading

[winnie-the-monster]

#current read #books #reading #the clockmaker's daughter #kate morton #black sheep #brynne weaver #I have no secrets #penny joelson #lol yes I’m reading more than one book at once

[o-link]

C'est un art cruel et ironique, la photographie. Le fait de glisser des moments capturés dans le futur ; des moments qui auraient dû pouvoir s’évaporer dans le passé ; ne devrait exister que dans les souvenirs, aperçus à travers le brouillard des événements qui ont suivi. Les photographies nous obligent à voir les gens avant que leur avenir ne les pèse.

-Kate Morton, La maison de Riverton

#Kate Morton #La maison de Riverton #Citation #Quote

[suspirocotidiano]

É incrível o valor que um pouco de reconhecimento tem para alguém que se acostumou a ser ignorado.

A Prisioneira do Tempo – Kate Morton

#A Prisioneira do Tempo #Kate Morton #incrível #reconhecimento #ignorado

[rockislandadultreads]

Read-Alike Friday: The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.

Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.

Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?

Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter.

That Summer by Lauren Willig

2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house's shrouded history begins to open...

1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter, Evie, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur's collection of medieval artifacts, including Gavin Thorne, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion.

From modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement, Lauren Willig's That Summer takes readers on an un-put-downable journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman's search for the truth about her past—and herself.

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after—and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.

But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist. For within the crumbling manor’s extravagant rooms and musty halls, there lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure, Indigo’s dearest childhood friend who suddenly disappeared. As the house slowly reveals his wife’s secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage . . . or their lives.

Combining the lush, haunting atmosphere of Mexican Gothic with the dreamy enchantment of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride is a spellbinding and darkly romantic page-turner about love and lies, secrets and betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

Atonement by Ian McEwan

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By day's end, their lives will be changed – irrevocably. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not imagined at its start. And Briony will have witnessed mysteries, seen an unspeakable word, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone…

Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of love and war and class and childhood and England, Atonement is a profound – and profoundly moving – exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and of the possibility of absolution.

Love & Treasure by Ayelet Waldman

A fugitive train loaded with the plunder of a doomed people. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock. And three men - an American infantry captain in World War II, an Israeli-born dealer in art stolen by the Nazis, and a pioneering psychiatrist in fin-de-siècle Budapest - who find their carefully-wrought lives turned upside-down by three fierce women, each locked in a struggle against her own history and the history of our times. And at the centre of Love and Treasure, nested like a photograph hidden in a locket, a mystery: where does the worth of a people and its treasures truly lie? What is the value of a gift, when giver and recipient have been lost - of a love offering when the beloved is no more?

In an intricately constructed narrative that is by turns funny and tragic, thrilling and harrowing, with all the expertise and narrative drive that readers have come to expect from her work, Waldman traces the unlikely journey, from 1914 Budapest to post-war Salzburg to present-day New York, of the peacock pendant whose significance changes - token of friendship, love-offering, unlucky talisman with the changes of fortune undergone by her characters as they find themselves caught up in the ebb and flow of modern European history.

#historical fiction #fiction #fiction books #mystery #readalikes #kate morton #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbrpile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

[ramblingromance]

“I’m good with words, but not the spoken kind; I’ve often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.”

— Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

#quotes #book quotes #the distant hours #kate morton #historical fiction #mystery #gothic #books #novels #this is what I’m current reading #book #novel #booklr

[claar-bookdragonwitch]

"No! No book buying today!"

"I'm not gonna buy anything, i just need my fix of book smell."

I am a liar.

#books #new books #used new books #the clockmaker's daughter #the jealousy man #kate morton #jo nesbo #early birthday presents

[volumes-and-vines]

A landscape of books is more real in some ways than the one outside the window. It isn’t experienced at a remove, it is internal, vital. They had lead completely different lives and yet through a mutual love of reading they had inhabited the same world.

Finding her, knowing she too knew the places of his imagination was powerful, intoxicating. To feel known was a revelation.

Kate Morton ~ Homecoming

#kate morton #homecoming #book quotes #reading quotes #unrequited quotes #books and libraries #bibliophile #my post

[adrasteiax]

(...) time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognized, (...)

Kate Morton, from The Forgotten Garden

#quote #kate morton #the forgotten garden #literature #lit #from my collection

[pandaspwnz]

I finished a book today!

It's The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, and it's the first book I've read in, I believe, 3 years? And before then it had been 10 or something like that, probably.

Anyway, it was good! I will say it had a very strong start that kind of fizzled a bit by the end, not that it was bad, and obviously the story was still good enough to finish reading but honestly what I loved the most was the way the author, Kate, wrote. Her descriptions of movements, thoughts, scenes? Incredible. So evocative! so unique. I really loved how she wrote and I definitely want to read more of her stuff!

#kate morton #the forgotten garden #like sometimes i'd read something shd wrote and just stop for a moment and go like. 'woah'. or i'd straight up smile? #it was beautiful #she really did a good job #books #reading #my post

[claireelizabethsblog]

~ February's Books Reviewed ~

This month could not quite live up to the joy that was January's in terms of books. I think, especially after ending on Blake's Atlas Series, I was a little in shock and mourning over what I could possibly read next! As a result, I started the month re-reading an old favourite, and then moved on to making my way through some of my mother's old books that I borrowed when I last visited. I enjoyed this in the sense that it broadened my reading habits, however it did mean that my general ranking books was lower this month.

All For The Game Series by Nora Sakavic

(269 & 338 & 431 pages)

Now, I understand these books are not good. They're problematic in several ways, probably in more ways than I realise. However, I unapologetically love them. The found family is everything, the representation (even though it is far from accurate) of demisexuality and mental health struggles make me emotional at points and this trilogy will remain one of my constant comfort reads. In terms of warnings, people should know that there are many inaccuracies and slightly problematic choices; it is also graphic and descriptive of torture and self harm. However, the characters and their relationships, with themselves and their relationships is beautiful, and as such I will always choose to come back to this trilogy when I want a cosy comforting read.

I gave this trilogy 5 stars ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

(428 pages)

I was excited to read this book as it is a classic that has been on my list for a while, but unfortunately I'd ultimately describe myself as underwhelmed by it. I know it was fairly recently in the news for its cultural inaccuracies anyway, but that combined with the fairly graphic sexual scenes did make me rather uncomfortable. Aside from that, I just found it a little dull and be perfectly honest. I'm glad I read it, but I cannot see myself ever re-reading it either.

I gave this book 2.5 stars ⭐ ⭐ 🌗

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

(518 pages)

This was another book that has been on my list for a while, especially since I've heard people claiming they absolutely loved it, however, again it was far from the best book I've read recently. The concept was extremely interesting and the style and structure was totally not what I was expecting. The age gap and time jumping made some sections a bit odd or confusing or uncomfortable; and the ending was honestly a little anticlimactic. That being said, it was definitely not a bad book, and I did enjoy parts of it, I just wasn't blown away.

I gave this book 3.5 stars ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🌗

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

(646 pages)

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book as I picked it up on a bit of a whim. Essentially, it was a mystery novel and despite life getting a little busy while reading this, it kept me hooked and coming back to it without any long breaks. There were certainly parts that were slow and also bits that were a bit clunky, but overall I found this a satisfying and very gentle read.

I gave this book 4 stars ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

(435 pages)

Amazingly descriptive, but not very engaging. I'm glad I managed to read it since it is another classic one, however there were times when I honestly wasn't sure I'd finish it. While reading it I was sure it was only going to get two stars, however it picked up significantly at the end so pulled itself up. I will say that it was really interesting reading about this period of time (first half of the 20th century) from the Greek and Italian perspective as I feel that is a rather understudied section of history.

I gave this book 3 stars ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

One Day by David Nicholls

(435 pages)

I could forgive the dull storyline if it weren't for the fact the protagonists were so incredibly awful. It's all well and good having flawed characters, but when they're bad enough that I find myself actively rooting against then it's usually not a good sign. I did enjoy the symbolism of the end however, even if it was highly predictable.

I gave this book 2 stars ⭐ ⭐

#book review #book reccs #claireelizabethsblog #aftg #nora sakavic #all for the game #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #arthur golden #memoirs of a geisha #audrey niffenegger #the time traveler's wife #kate morton #the forgotten garden #louis de bernieres #captain corelli's mandolin #david nicholls #one day

[litandlifequotes]

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

#kate morton #the forgotten garden #book #book quote #quote #words #reading