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Love Begins In Winter: Five Stories (2009)

by Simon Van Booy(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0061661473 (ISBN13: 9780061661471)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: …dreams are either unresolved conflicts or wish fulfilments.The only authentic memories find us - like letters addressed to someone we used to be.In my youth, all conflict was resolution—just a busier form of emptiness.Actually, years mean nothing. It’s what’s inside them.They will only ever be my parents once. They are the only parents I will ever have in the history of the universe.I think all children are disappointed with their parents if they’re lucky enough to get so close.Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.In each note of music lives every tragedy of the world and every moment of its salvation.Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained.Music and love are the same.Hope is the greates... moret of all gifts.…children possess the most powerful fear of disappointing their parents.The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.Grief is sometimes a quiet but obsessive madness.Coincidences are something too great to ignore.Love is living there and surviving on the land.Love is like life but starts before and continues after....coincidences mean you're on the right path.She knew everything she needed to know without having to learn it.She seemed suddenly confused the way a woman does when she feels in danger of saying too much.The present grows within the boundaries of the past.Every moment is the paradox of now or never.It's life that chooses us - and here we are thinking that we're steering the ship, when we're just vehicles for an elaborate vision of life.Why can life suddenly fly away when those left behind have so much to say?...we perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment while alone together.A gentle reminder that what we have is already lost.You can't out a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next.Freedom is the most exciting of life's terrors.All wars are the external realisation of our internal battles.It's true the people we meet shape us.There are people we yearn for but we never seem to meet....one's life is nothing more than a string of moments....trust helps build love.I've always believed that the future is hung with keys that unlock our true feelings about some past event....all humans want the same thing: love and acceptance.You can't explain love. That's how it gets ruined.Age is a plow that unearths the true nature of things.Rain lingered; like something said but not forgotten.For, despite the accumulation of experience, one must always be ready to begin again, until it's someone else's turn to begin without us, and we are completely free from the pain of love, from the pain of attachment - the price we pay to be involved....excite and afraid to tell them how the very best and very worst of life will come from their ability to love strangers.If grief has levels, this was the one below guilt.Life had not turned out the way he thought.Why did everyone else's life seem perfect?George had lived for several years without a television. Television made him feel lost and lonely.
review 2: This is the second of Mr. Van Booy's books I've read in a short span so I can call myself one of his fans. I am intrigued how he packs each sentence with such meaning. I often found myself having to pause mid-sentence in order to take in some profound reflection. Of the five short stories, my favorite part was when Van Booy discusses the lost innocence of childhood:"It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly.There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet. Every adult yearns for some stranger , but it is really childhood we miss. We are yearning for that which has been stolen from us by what we have become."Look forward to more of Van Booy's poetic prose in 2014, and I will keep my fingers crossed that he narrates some his own works on audio; his work really should be read aloud. less

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