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Review Reese Witherspoon - Draper James. com A Southern Style Blog FEB 13, 2016 BOOKS DJ READS: EIGHT BOOKS ABOUT LOVE. This time of year, there is nothing we would rather do than delve into a gripping love story. So we asked eight of our favorite bookstores in the South to give us their picks for books that explore the many facets of love, from tragic romances to unbreakable family ties. Number 2: A Fine Romance: Falling in Love With the English Countryside by Susan Branch Chosen by Full Circle Bookstore in Oklahoma City, OK: With beautiful pictures and handwritten print throughout the book, this diary of love in England is a true joy. --Reese Witherspoon Blog.DraperJames.comReviewer's Rating: 5 stars. Anglophiles listen up: this book is for you! Talented artist, writer, and blogger Susan Branch has put together a charming travel journal of her two month long�trip to England. A Fine Romance�is chock full of wonderful photos she and her husband took on their trip interspersed with the colorful drawings and lettering that have set apart her work and style as distinctly her own. The trip starts off with a six day ocean voyage, onboard the Queen Mary 2, from New York to Southampton, England. This dream trip is divided into mainly three areas: the Southwest of England, the Lake District, and the Cotswolds. They visit many attractions familiar to any self- respecting Brit lover such as Sissinghurst, Royal� Ascot, Stonehenge, Chawton (Jane Austen's home), and Hilltop (Beatrix Potter s home).� But what is really fun is learning about places less familiar, like Bateman s (the home of Rudyard Kipling), Charleston (the home of the Bloomsbury Group s Clive and Vanessa Bell), and Smallhythe Place (home of Victorian stage actress Ellen Terry). Armchair travel at its best!� Sarah Askew 4/29/15 Reviewer's Rating: 5 stars. I couldn t have read A Fine Romance at a more perfect time.�It was the perfect book to read while cooped up in a hospital room waiting for a loved one to heal.�I sailed right along with Susan Branch and her husband, Joe, as they journeyed to England via ship and explored the country for two months.�This book is not only Susan s diary during their vacation in England, it is also a very informational and exhilarating guide to both well-known and hidden places in England, many of which belong to the National Trust.�Above all else, this book is a journey of the senses, using a mixture of her characteristic font that looks like handwriting, gorgeous watercolors, and real photographs to describe, with incredibly absorbing detail, two months of smelling, tasting, and sight-seeing springtime England. The beginning chapters quickly but romantically describe how Susan and Joe met and fell in love.�It s an ordinary love story bedecked with remarkable details like the illustration of Joe with an enormous bouquet of flowers--an illustration I cannot help but keep revisiting.�After enjoying their first journey to England in 2004, Susan and Joe decide to visit again in 2012, this time documenting their adventures.�Susan s diaries wholly reflect their love for history,�food, gardens, art, and old-timey movies and music. I was mesmerized by the beauty of this book, often spending several minutes examining pictures and illustrations--their messy ship room, or rather, cocoon;�strange English curiosities such as the magnetic soap holder,�gorgeous illustrations like Susan s black teapot drawing, and inventive mixed media techniques such as the watercolor tea being poured into a picture of a real teacup.�It took me at least an hour to carefully comb through the Beatrix Potter pages.�Because of Susan s excellent attention to detail, I felt like I was exploring Hill Top as Beatrix Potter herself. I could smell the raw celery�smell of the air, taste the bangers and beans, and feel the petals of each flower.�My heart danced with joy each time Susan listed all the springtime flowers, with accompanying illustrations so perfectly lush it looked like the flowers were growing from the pages of the book.�Ordinary details such as eating hot milk cake while knitting with a friend, wood pigeons cooing My toe hurts, Betty;�and hillsides dotted with lambs�made me fist pump the air in elation. This book is balm for the spirit.�Whether you are looking for a magical retreat, a helpful and incomparable England travel guide, or inspiration to write a memoir or scrapbook of a special moment in your life, this book has something for everyone�. Hannah Jane Chambers 2/19/16 --Johnson County (Kansas) Public Libraries reviews jocolibrary.org Read more From the Inside Flap Join Susan as she recounts her lighthearted ramble of discovery through the historical homes and gardens of art and literary heroes, along ancient footpaths, through wildflower meadows and fields of lambs, into tea rooms, pubs and antique stores. This lovely hard-cover book includes hundreds of photographs and a red ribbon sewn-in book mark. A FINE ROMANCE is a work of art, part love story, part travel guide and all dream come true. Read more About the Author Susan Branch�is the New York Times Best Selling author of 13 HEART OF THE HOME�lifestyle books and calendars, with over four million sold, all of them homemade, hand-written, and watercolored ~ books about the home arts of cooking, gardening, homemaking, family, best friends, entertaining and the little things that make life sweet. Susan has now added a three-part series to her list, all of them illustrated memoirs filled with personal photographs, watercolors, quotes and recipes. �The last in the series came first (in 2013): A FINE ROMANCE, Falling in Love with the English Countryside.�The two prequels are, first: THE FAIRY TALE GIRL (pub date Oct. 2015, and then:�MARTHA'S VINEYARD, ISLE of DREAMS�(pub date Mother's Day, May 2016);� � Born and raised in Southern California, �Susan followed her heart to the island of Martha's Vineyard in her 30s, unable to live any longer without four seasons and picket fences as everyday architecture. She shares her 1849 home with her two kitties, Jack and Girl Kitty, and Joe Hall, who Susan calls� the man of her dreams.�She writes a newsletter called WILLARD, named for her grandfather, and all about the little things that make life sweet. � To receive her free newsletter, visit her popular website and blog at susanbranch.com. Read more
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