Bulburrow Court

[Mostow]

These pictures are wonderful!  It really makes everything I've read come to life. 

Thank you so much for sharing them!

Mona

[Jaelin]

Beautiful Pics!  Thanks for sharing!

[MSaff]

Thank you for posting the pictures. They bring more life to the story.

Mike

[mmaroni]

I agree.  Now I realize HOW far she fell. It did not feel so far in the book.  How adventurous for them to even to up there!

Meg

[mwinasu]

You should use a picture of the house for the front page.

[CAG]

Thank you for sharing the pictures. They really add to the setting of the novel in my mind.

[Rosei]

I loved the photos and they really increase our insights about the Sisters' house. Thank you!

[kiakar]

I really loved the pictures also. It makes for a better visual of the premise. You can fit the characters in this house simpler than before seeing them. I love writers that put homes in as characters, it makes for excessabley great characters and you can imagine them in that particular house doing the things they describe them doing.

[jillhubbs]

These pictures are such a treat to look at! I am more than half way through with the book and often find myself imagining what the home and scenery looked like, seeing these photos just makes reading this book an even richer experience.
-Jill

[windwish]

Thanks for the pictures. It's nice to have a visual reference!

[thefamilymanag…]

Mwinasu, I completely agree.  When I saw the pictures of the house, it made all of the descriptions of the house come to life, especially the bell tower. The picture of the house should be part of the cover. 

Lisa 

[katknit]

I'm afraid this house does not look very Victorian.

[Read-n-Rider]

It is obvious from the many comments, here and on the thread with the moth illustrations, that these visuals have significantly enhanced the reading of this novel for a lot of people.  I wonder if the author/publisher would consider including a few illustrations in the final version.  I think that pictures would, for example, help to alleviate what some have felt to be the "dryness" of the scientific description sections of the book.

Joan

[Bethann425]

I enjoyed looking at the pictures.  They do add to the novel of the sisters.  I feel an occassional picture in a book, such as this novel, helps to add to the life of the characters.  I enjoy novels that are closer to life, like The Sisters.  I can see this as a real family, where something caused tension between the sisters, and later in life, close to death, they want to go home and be together again.  I'm only on chapter 4, so the novel may end differently than the direction I think it's going in now.

[hasieb]

The picture really helps. It is a bit less castle and a bit more English home than I had pictured. It sets a nice tone.

[Choisya]

The author may have taken the name Bulburrow Court from the famous Bulbarrow Hill in Dorset, which is the highest point in Dorset and an ancient burial mound which featured in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbevilles:- 

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bp10/hardy/wessex/Bulbarrow.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/image_galleries/july_weather_gallery.shtml?21 

After walking on Bullbarrow Hill Hardy wrote:

'So I am found on Ingpen Beacon or on Wyll's Neck to the west

Or else on homely Bulbarrow, or little Pilsdon Crest

Where men have never care to haunt, nor women have walked with me,

And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty.' 

Message Edited by Choisya on 03-11-2008 02:35 PM

[grapes]

Oh my! This is a great, great treat! I can't stop looking at the photos. Thank you so very much.

Grapes

[Maria_H]

Hmmmm...definitely a good one to ask of the author, thanks!

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Choisya wrote:

The author may have taken the name Bulburrow Court from the famous Bulbarrow Hill in Dorset, which is the highest point in Dorset and an ancient burial mound which featured in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbevilles:-

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bp10/hardy/wessex/Bulbarrow.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/image_galleries/july_weather_gallery.shtml?21

After walking on Bullbarrow Hill Hardy wrote:

'So I am found on Ingpen Beacon or on Wyll's Neck to the west

Or else on homely Bulbarrow, or little Pilsdon Crest

Where men have never care to haunt, nor women have walked with me,

And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty.'

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[rstjm4]

Very cool pictures! It looks alot like what I had imagined it would. Very castle like!

[Everyman]

Hi, Choisya. I wondered where you were.

Will be interesting to see whether Adams did indeed take the name from this source or from somewhere else.

What do you think of the book so far?

Have you used your research skills to look up the possible conditions which Ginny might have, based on Adams's presentation of her, and come to any preliminary conclusions as to what her issue is?

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Choisya wrote:

The author may have taken the name Bulburrow Court from the famous Bulbarrow Hill in Dorset, which is the highest point in Dorset and an ancient burial mound which featured in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbevilles:-

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bp10/hardy/wessex/Bulbarrow.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/image_galleries/july_weather_gallery.shtml?21

After walking on Bullbarrow Hill Hardy wrote:

'So I am found on Ingpen Beacon or on Wyll's Neck to the west

Or else on homely Bulbarrow, or little Pilsdon Crest

Where men have never care to haunt, nor women have walked with me,

And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty.'

Message Edited by Choisya on 03-11-2008 02:35 PM

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