My friends know I love books, and enjoy getting recommendations of books they have read. It is good to read books outside of your comfort zone sometimes. A friend recommended Thale's Folly by Dorothy Gilman to me. I put it on my list, and found it at the Florence/Lauderdale Public Library Saturday. I finished reading it today. I love every page , every sentence of this book. It was published in 1999, and I have missed it on the library shelves for a decade and a half. Had it not been for Ruth recommending this book, I would have missed something wonderful. Take my word for it, and check it out. Right now, I am going to make some herbal tea. [Basil,] being applied to the place bitten by venomous beasts, . . .it speedily draws the poison to it; Every like draws its like . . .Hilarius, a French physician, affirms upon his own knowledge, that an acquaintance of his, by common smelling to it, had a scorpion breed in his brain. ...
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