Stony Wilderness

Symmetry
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Tombstone Tuesday 27 Oct 2009
Halloween Week

I am reading this book on my iPod using the Kindle app. I chose it because the story is partly about the famous Highgate cemetery in London. I didn't expect the story to feature the cemetery so much but much to my delight, it is an important part of the story. Great reading or listening for any lover of cemeteries.

How wonderful is it that in just a few clicks, you can get photo and videos about the cemetery itself? Here's a sample of what I found:

Video from Amazon and a YouTube video [that is wonderfully seasonal] and a photo set at Flickr and a whole group for the cemetery itself with over a thousand photos to look at. Not enough? check out Find a Grave's listing! They have divided the graves into the physical two huge sections of Highgate: East [75 famous interments] and West [96 famous interments]

New York Times Book Review

Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001) made me smile at the simplicity of this gravestone for a mind so wonderfully complex.

A quote from the book, Her Fearful Symmetry:

"...there was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy"

Update! From the Publisher:

Regal Literary has 25 hardcover and 10 Advanced Reader?s Copies of Her
Fearful Symmetry ready to go to the book?s Facebook fans. All you have
to do is become a fan of Her Fearful Symmetry on Facebook, send an
e-mail to hfs@regal-literary.com with the subject ?Facebook Special
Offer ? I?m a fan!? by November 13, and we?ll enter you into the
lottery.

Not only that, but if you tweet or blog about the Facebook special
offer and e-mail the link to your post or tweet to
hfs@regal-literary.com, we'll enter your name again! We?ll enter you
for each post or tweet and for each entrant you refer. Become a
follower of @regal_literary on Twitter, and we?ll enter your name for
that too! To be eligible for these additional entries, you must first
be a Facebook fan.

The Her Fearful Symmetry Facebook page features video interviews with
Audrey, links to reviews, a list of Audrey?s appearances and much more
about Audrey?s new book.

http://www.tinyurl.com/facebookhfs