Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Practical Magic

I've been wanting to read this book ever since I saw the movie years ago and loved it.  And you know how the book is always even better than the movie, and Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman was no exception.


Practical MagicSally and Gillian begin as both sisters and best friends - but it doesn't take long for life to get in the way and both girls' individual personalities to drive them apart.  Their quiet lives with "the aunts," who are a bit strange with their magic and superstitions, are about to change in myriad ways as they grow into very different women.  Little do they know of the sudden and mutual crisis that will change their lives forever.  Even less can they avoid the buried past come back to haunt them.  Will the sisters ever be able to reconcile their differences?  Can they find it in themselves to face their fears and open their lives to the magic that once was?

The world that Alice Hoffman has created here is so delightful (I hate that word, but bear with me), brimming with innocence and the loss of that innocence.  It's enough to make you yearn for your own childhood and all that you once believed in and for some reason no longer do.  Every sentence belongs in this novel, and no chapter ends without a good reason to continue reading on.  Not sure about you, but I am in love, and definitely plan to pick up Hoffman's other books.  And catch the movie again, of course.

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