The Bubbles Go Up [Paperback]

Gloria Mackay (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Hollis Books (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1928781071
• ISBN-13: 978-1928781073
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• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,035,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightfully literate--and fun!, February 17, 2000

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Kate McKenna (Washington Sate) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bubbles Go Up (Paperback)

Gloria Mackay's book, The Bubbles Go Up, is absolutely wonderful! The brilliant images in her essays evoke so many feelings, from lovely and half-forgotten memories of childhood, to a passion for chocolate, to trolling in Puget Sound. Her topics are far more vast than that, but the topics themselves are not the important thing about this book. It's the images that jump right off the page at the reader. In "Salt is More Than a Seasoning," Mackay writes, "I need to meet up with a gust of wind that has a little spunk, that dares deposit smells of salt and seaweed and touches of sand on my skin and in my hair and up my nose." Later, she writes of "raindrops so heavy they bruised your arm." From "'Tis the Season," an essay on Christmas baking, she writes of being willing, one more time, to "stir up pots of fickle fudge and inhale the heavy scent of butter cookies, as short as sin, cooling their bottoms in smelly old tins." As an author myself, I seldom find time to read these days. But "The Bubbles Go Up" is a book I can keep by my chair and explore in frequent spurts. It's a book I can "inhale," to lift my spirits and remind me that writing can be more than a craft. It can be--and in Gloria Mackay's hands, is--a gift.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, delightful reading, September 28, 1999

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This review is from: The Bubbles Go Up (Paperback)

The Bubbles Go Up delighted my sensibilities. Gloria MacKay shares her unique view of the world, wrapping life's lessons and wisdom in wry humor. Fun, delightful reading.