The Notebooks of Honora Gorman: Fairytales, Whimsy and Wonder
Linda Mahkovec
235 pages
Published October 21, 2022
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I love NYC and I love the 1980s so this had all the makings before I started. We not only learn about Honora but also get to experience her writings. I am also always a fan of following your dreams and that Honora is very good at it. She overcomes obstacles to write and shows us that nothing is impossible.
The book is interspersed with her tales of magic and they were a delight to read. Unlike anything else I’ve read. I loved the writing style and read the book in one sitting. It is a beautifully written book.
About the book:
Not a love story—and yet a story of love. Love for a city, the artist’s way, and dreams.
When the indomitable, though introverted, Honora Gorman moves to New York City to pursue the writer’s path, she is both awed and overwhelmed by the city’s beauty and energy. Yet she’s convinced that this is the place where her true self will finally emerge. Her beloved notebooks will chronicle her at-long-last journey.
Over the course of several decades, her path often veers and detours as she stumbles over the obstacles of jobs, love, places to live, growing older, and the sense that time is running out. Yet pushing her ever forward is the exuberant persistence of storytelling—her “conversation with life”—and her do-or-die determination to stay true to her dreams. Will she triumph in the end? Are such dreams attainable?
The result is the fanciful story of Honora’s writing life woven together with fairytales, whimsy, and wonder.
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