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Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues

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Words can not describe what Nick Bantcock has combined with pictures and postcards. He actually pulls you in as you must open envelopes to read the ongoing correspondence. Buy a bottle of wine, build a fire and join your significant other for a journey that will not leave you disapointed.

Griffin and Sabine are located on opposite ends of the earth -- Griffin is a lonely artist in England, while Sabine is a mysterious native of the elusive Sicmon Island chain in the South Pacific. Somehow, these two unique souls manage to find one another via a postal correspondence, and it is this correspondence back and forth which comprises the Griffin and Sabine books. Griffin and Sabine come to realize very quickly that their lives are inextricably bound up with one another, and that their coming together, face to face, is of utmost importance, not only for their own sanity, but possibly for the fate of the very world. Unfortunately, meeting face to face is more difficult than each of them could ever have imagined, and their quest to reach out to one another in a world of smoke and mirrors forms the backbone of these books.

I have loved these books since I first read them several years ago, and I keep coming back to them and rereading them over and over. They are truly able to transport you from Sabines sun-drenched paradaisical island home, to Griffin's rain-soaked isolation, and into other realms that are far less easy to describe. Excellently wrought and wonderfully creative, I encourage anyone with an imagination to read this trilogy: "Griffin and Sabine," "Sabine's Notebook," and finally, "The Golden Mean."

In the second of the Griffin and Sabine stories, we find Sabine having travelled from her island in the South Pacific to London in order to finally meet Griffin whom she had been waiting to meet for many years. Griffin unfortunately had already picked up and left London to travel the world assuming that he would never see Sabine and never be able to realize fully the love he had for her. The book is then filled with the correspondence between Sabine who is writing from Griffin's home and Griffin who receives the letters at various points along his journey. A great ending that lends added sadness to the storyline that you will not want to miss!

read the first part. and i got hooked immediately. have to go around all over the bay area for the next one. opening someone else's letters are always exciting. and in this series. it's not illegal! lol

This book is amazing! It is beautiful to look at - never want to share it for fear it won't come back! It is so much fun to read the letters and open them. And most of all, it makes one use their brain to decide what is real and what might not be and how on earth the story will end! Which means of course, every book has to be purchased because there has to be an ending at some point. Without the last book, it is impossible to guess!!! HIGHLY recommended series.

This is the 2nd book in the first trilogy of the Griffin and Sabine series. Sabine is on her way to visit Griffin and in a panic, he leaves, telling her to stay in his place. Their correspondence continues, with Griffin traveling around the world, discovering more about each other through there letters. When he returns, he finds her not there and yet by her letters she was. Is she imagined or are things more complicated than they appear? The artwork continues to striking and I found myself zipping from letter to letter to find out what was going to happen, only to be left in mystery again. Their relationship deepens further in this book. The third book beckons and I look forward to perhaps some explanation or conclusion, but perhaps we will be left in the shroud of mystery, which might not be such a bad thing after all.

Thoroughly original and wildly creative, this second part of the trilogy of Griffin and Sabine will surprise & delight for a lifetime. The combination of art and plot galvanizes interest from the very first page. This is a not-to-be-missed adventure. For lovers of language, ideas, and the renewing capacity of the human spirit, this book is a must.

The book "Sabine's Notebook" is fabulous. I ordered the complete set(6)from different merchants. No problems - rapid shipping and received as described brand new. The "Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine" is something one should have in their personal library. If you don't have the collection buy them. If you do have the collection treasure them. I purchased the first book in the collection "Griffin and Sabine" and someone stole it from me. So I am so very happy that I was able to purchase it again, before it became extinct or no longer in print. I will treasure this collection and keep a third eye on them this time. Lov'n it....

Surreal romance, Philately, amazingly beautiful postcards and a page turner. This is a beautiful gift for your self or someone else. I have all books and the post-cards. Sorry the series ended

SABINE'S NOTEBOOK is the second volume of Nick Bantock's trilogy that begins with GRIFFIN AND SABINE and ends with THE GOLDEN MEAN. It continues the correspondence between London artist Griffin Moss and South Seas incubus Sabine Strohem. It's a visually tantalizing book, containing actual envelopes glued to the pages with actual letters inside that can be taken out and read.

By the beginning of SABINE'S NOTEBOOK it has become clear that Sabine is merely a creation of Griffin's imagination. Griffin has received Sabine's notice that she is coming to London (on a card with no stamps...) but afraid of meeting his own hallucination he flees to Ireland, beginning a trip that will take him around the world. The notebook of the title is Sabine's record of Griffin's correspondence as she waits in his house in London awaiting his return. The connection of the story to W.B. Yeat's poem "The Second Coming" becomes much more tangible and a direct quote from the poem brings this volume of the trilogy to a finish.

Like the first book, SABINE'S NOTEBOOK is second-rate literature. Nonetheless, it is still an interesting novelty that is worth reading even though it's really Bantock's amazing images that matter. Considering that one can read the entire trilogy in about half an hour, these books aren't an undue demand on one's time. I tend to believe a young-adult audience would appreciate this books best, as I read the trilogy when I was a teenager and found them much more captivating then I did on a recent rereading.