{"id":18578,"date":"2021-04-28T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/?p=18578"},"modified":"2021-04-28T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:15:33","slug":"spring-reading-a-delight-for-the-eyes-and-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/?p=18578","title":{"rendered":"Spring reading a Delight for the Eyes and the Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Frances Hodgson BURNETT: The secret garden <\/strong>\u2013 One of the best-loved stories of all time of a British-American novelist from the beginning of the 20th century. Selfish and spoilt Mary Lennox was sent to her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it until she finds the way into the secret garden and meets a local boy, talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/garden.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/garden.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/garden-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Muriel BARBERY: The elegance of the hedgehog<\/strong> \u2013 Fascinating novel of contemporary French author. The book follows hilarious, tragic and heartbreaking events in the upscale Parisian apartment building where concierge Ren\u00e9e Michel deliberately hides her intelligence until she meets an unstable but intellectually precocius girl Paloma Josse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/elegance.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/elegance.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/elegance-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Frances HARDINGE: The lie tree<\/strong> \u2013 Set in the male-dominated Victorian scientific society novel tells the story about Faith, who is trying to find out the truth about her father&#8217;s death under mysterious circumstances after the family moved to the fictional island. She discovers a strange tree that feeds off whispered lies and bears fruit that reveals hidden secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lie.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lie.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lie-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Karen Joy FOWLER: We are completely beside ourselves<\/strong> &#8211; Rosemary is at college when she realises that she must find out what happened when, aged five, she was sent to her grandparents, how vanished her inseparable sister Fran, and why she never sees her beloved older brother Lowell. Witty and smart look at domestic relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fowler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fowler.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fowler-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fay WELDON: Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen &#8211; In this epistolary novel (inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece) author responds to Alice&#8217;s complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant. She gives Alice some passionate and ironic answers and makes her think not only about books and literature but also about life and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&nbsp;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/weldon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/weldon.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.mioc.hr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/weldon-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Hodgson BURNETT: The secret garden \u2013 One of the best-loved stories of all time of a British-American novelist from the beginning of the 20th century. 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