You get a real sense of the house they lived in too.
I always loved the two grannies who lived Up top and Down under.Īnd Laurie’s mother….how she was always late for everything…… It doesn’t matter to me at all that he looked through rose tinted glasses at his childhood, maybe we all do that a bit……that’s part of the charm of the book. There’s so much that stays with you from it. You can just share a general view/comment about the book, if you prefer.Ĭider with Rosie is a favourite of mine. Has it made you look at the world around you differently?Ĭheck in below to answer one or more (or none!) of these prompts. The language in the book is so descriptive and poetic.Are you keen to read more from Laurie Lee?.Does Cider With Rosie remind you of anything else you’ve read?.Lee says he may have embellished bits due to the passage of time. This book is brimming with nature and beautifully captures a child’s-eye-view.Care to share a favourite line or passage? Or more!.How are you finding the book so far? Are you enjoying it – or not?.Faces of rose, familiar, living huge shining faces hung up like shields between me and the sky faces with grins and white teeth (some broken) to be conjured up like genii with a howl, brushing off terror with their broad scoldings and affection. They came scrambling and calling up the steep rough bank, and parting the long grass found me. It was knife-edged, dark, and a wicked green, thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers that chirped and chattered and leapt through the air like monkeys.įrom this daylight nightmare I was awakened, as from many another, by the appearance of my sisters.
It towered above me and all around me, each blade tattooed with tiger-skins of sunlight.
I had never been so close to grass before. The June grass, amongst which I stood, was taller than I was, and I wept. Perhaps your life is a bit of a jumble of THINGS like mine? Or perhaps it’s not! Either is good and please do read at your own pace and check back into this post to chat or see what others are thinking about this Laurie Lee classic.
I’ve started a new study term and I’m about to start a new part-time contact job and I’m doing all sorts of things to get my new digs and garden just the way I like it. There is a LOT going on in world at the moment. If you joined our book club you most likely have started reading Cider With Rosie (with me!) I have to admit I’m reading slowly.
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