It is flippin' HYSTERICAL. And romantic. But there is one line, from Amanda, at the beginning of the movie that always rings true to me and it is this...
"It is a truth, generally acknowledged, that we are all longing to escape....I escape always to my favorite book. Pride and Prejudice."
I have to agree with her and I do love the book Pride and Prejudice as I am a huge Jane Austen fan. But when I want to escape? I escape to my favorite authoress....LaVyrle Spencer.
Oh how I love her books! My absolute favorite is "Bittersweet", followed closely by "Family Blessings". These books are ones that I have read at least a hundred times. I could quote so much of them word for word and I know what happens each time I end a page and turn to the next. But they comfort me and I love them.
I just began Bittersweet again tonight. I packed all my other books and they are stashed away in the trailer waiting to make the trip to my new little home...but I could not pack that one. When I am blue, I read this book. When I am sad, I read this book. When I am happy, I read this book and when I am nostalgic, I read this book.
I have for years wanted to make a trip back to Wisconsin. My Daddy took my brother and I back to Crivitz, Wisconsin in 1968 to the old farm his Mother and Father began when they immigrated from Poland. Daddy said that Grandma and Grandpa were SO proud to become Americans that they would not allow their children to speak Polish in the home. They were AMERICANS and they would speak English as Americans were supposed to. (Times change, eh? Press ONE for English....)
I will never forget that trip. I loved Wisconsin. The green and the water. The hay fields and the woods. The lakes that stretch forever. Bittersweet brings so much of that back to me.
Crivitz is on the other side of the bay from the Door County peninsula....just a couple of hours drive from Fish Creek where the story of Bittersweet takes place. It would be so easy to just drive from one small town to another and I dream of doing this each and every time I read my favorite book.
Maggie and Eric have become such good friends to me and although I do not condone the way they get together, I rejoice when all is set right. I cry with Maggie, I agonize with Eric. I laugh with Brookie and I thrill when Maggie finds Harding House. Get the book. I know you will LOVE it!
I know I cannot make this trip this year because of the move to my new home, but next year. NEXT YEAR in the fall I am going back!!!
Thorpe House Inn
Cana Island Lighthouse
Peninsula State Park
Chambers Island
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