Summer of Glorious Madness

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Summary: Enchanting!!!!
Review: I really enjoyed this book as well as her others. She adds so much description in the book....

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Summary: Christy Yorke?s work demands reading.
Review: I've been following Christy's career since she wrote under her married name of Cohen. Her writing improves with every line it seems. I rated her previous book "Song of the Seals" as 5 star and "Summer of Glorious Madness" is even better. Her sculpting of the book's characters is as inspiring as the story line. Jack and Elizabeth, the central characters, gain our empathy immediately and show Christy's depth of knowledge of bi-polar disorder and treatment. It's also worth noting the character of Chloe, demonstrating Christy's insight on the pressures of teenage girls.
I'm anxiously awaiting Christy's next book.


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Summary: A Garden of Enchantment
Review: In Summer of Glorious Madness, Christy Yorke takes on bipolar disorder and does so with great sensitivity and understanding. Anyone who suffers (or loves someone who suffers) from mental illness or even just hypersensitivity will appreciate the compassion, dignity, and humor bestowed upon the many delightful characters of this book.

Elizabeth Shreve has led a careful, calculated life as a psychiatrist, helping others face their fears while she hides from her own. After fifteen years of withering from neglect, her marriage finally crumbles. Enter the reader and Jack Bolton, a landscape artist and former patient who has just suffered a severe manic episode. Though Dr. Shreve intends to cure Jack, she finds herself swept up in his magical, mythical world of star-crossed love and larger-than-life gardens.

As the story unfolds, the lines between genius and madness, creativity and pathology, become increasingly blurred. We witness the chaos and suffering, but also the beauty and healing, that the bipolar mind can bring. We are left wondering if we should embrace the gifts of our eccentricities, or numb ourselves with either medication or, as with Dr. Shreve, a lifetime of self-restraint.

In a world where we are compelled to assimilate, Christy Yorke is a champion of exception, illustrating the richness and wonder given to us by those who dare to express their uniqueness.

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Summary: Don't miss this book!
Review: Jack Bolton is an eccentric, sometimes mad landscape artist and Elizabeth Shreve his psychiatrist. Though she's brought in to try to cure him, somewhere along the line she stops wanting to. His creativity and madness brings her, and her garden, to life, and she's left wondering where the line is between genius and mental illness. This is a dramatic, intense, and gripping story of love, oddity, and living life to the fullest. Anyone who suffers or knows someone who suffers from bipolar disorder needs to read this book. If you have any interest in gardening at all, beware: You'll never look at your plants the same way again.

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Summary: Beautiful Story of Love & Healing
Review: Ms. Yorke has a gift for description and for making words come alive on the page unlike any other author I've read. I could smell the exotic flowers in the prolific, unique, magical gardens created by Jack as he fell into the abyss of mental illness. The colors jumped from the pages as she described the flowers and even Annie's hair.

This book was a sensual delight to read and experience. I fell in love with the folks in Dr. Elizabeth Shreve's group sessions...especially the Colonel and Kayla...such a vivid portrait of love and healing!!! The story was very well written and unputdownable.

I like this quote regarding madness by Robin Williams: "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." Jack had a magnetic spark of madness that lit up and enchanted everyone around him, me included.

If you love books that leave you feeling good/happy about life, then this is a MUST read! Thank you, Ms. Yorke, for another fabulous book!! I highly recommend all of her books. "The Wishing Garden" is magnificent and my favorite book of all time.

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Summary: Beautiful Story of Love & Healing
Review: Ms. Yorke has a gift for description and for making words come alive on the page unlike any other author I've read. I could smell the exotic flowers in the prolific, unique, magical gardens created by Jack as he fell into the abyss of mental illness. The colors jumped from the pages as she described the flowers and even Annie's hair.

This book was a sensual delight to read and experience. I fell in love with the folks in Dr. Elizabeth Shreve's group sessions...especially the Colonel and Kayla...such a vivid portrait of love and healing!!! The story was very well written and unputdownable.

I like this quote regarding madness by Robin Williams: "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." Jack had a magnetic spark of madness that lit up and enchanted everyone around him, me included.

If you love books that leave you feeling good/happy about life, then this is a MUST read! Thank you, Ms. Yorke, for another fabulous book!! I highly recommend all of her books. "The Wishing Garden" is magnificent and my favorite book of all time.

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Summary: Great Story
Review: The story was very strong. I could not put it down. Christy's writing is so descriptive and every chapter ends with a cliff hanger. I really enjoyed the book and will never look at plants the same way.

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Summary: Gripping!
Review: Wow, what an amazing book! It grabbed my interest in the first chapter and continued 'till the last page. Excellent writing by author Christy Yorke. I would love to see Hollywood make a movie out of this one!!!