![]() ![]() Try to remember what your mother or siblings or teachers once taught you, that there's no such thing as real magic.īrooks, a man of average height with a neatly combed crown of snow white hair and a somewhat mischievous smile, will tell you otherwise. Try to keep in mind that you're still in 1999, in Seattle, a town that thrives on the technological revolution, progress and a scientifically based reality. A woman who lives in a willow tree hides in an archway. Inside the cool, tree-shaded entryway is a pond surrounded by stones, one of them engraved with the word "imagine." Paintings and sculptures of fairies and dragons pop out here and there. Now summon up your bravery and step through the iron gates guarding the front entrance. ![]() Look closer, and you'll see the metal body of a dragon coiling its way around the house. Not a garish grape, mind you, but a lavender that demands you to take notice. For one thing, it's a tall house for another, it's painted purple, the favorite color of Brooks' wife, Judine. Yet at the end of the street, just steps from a cul de sac, fantasy author Terry Brooks' home adds a little magic. Īn unassuming street in West Seattle is lined with homes large and small, all stamped with a unifying similarity, a neatness securely grounded in the mundane. 19 at Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Lake Forest Park. 17 at the University Village Barnes & Noble, Seattle 20. ![]() ![]() Terry Brooks, author of "Angel Fire East," will read from and sign his books at 7 p.m. ![]()
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