A Year in Story and Sing Blogtour

A Year in Story and Song is a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons.

We humans love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them, around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to make sense of the world around us.

The seasons, in all their ever-changing variety, give us many opportunities for storytelling: the full moons and their names, Epiphany in January, St Patrick’s Day in March, May Day, Midsummer, Halloween and more. They feature mischievous boggarts and fairies, saints and sailors, leprechauns and dragons, pilgrimages and charms, milk maids and rose queens, Robin Hood and the green man. The songs range from shanties and love songs, to bawdy ballads and wassails, to carols and rounds, and have been sung for hundreds of years, often at particular moments in the calendar.

This is a book to treasure all year, every year.

My thoughts

Poetry is not really my thing but I love mythology and anything that has stories about the different cultures and what they believed.

What I really enjoyed a lot about this is that it was so different than what I normally read.  It had such a different feel to it which made me like it even more.

Many in the past believed that the seasons and changing of seasons meant a lot more to those in ancient times than what they do for us now. 

I think these songs and stories make for a lot of fun and I think they are more memorable just because of how they are portrayed. 

I am very pleased with this book as it made me feel good to read these poems and songs.  I love stories that are so very different.  While not the in-depth story that I tend to go for I think it gives me a great taste for the style of the author as well as wanting to read more.

Will definitely be looking for more from this author as I found the writing so melodic and brings joy in reading.