Ira L. White

Ira White's book "Enchanted Shores" is a magical walk along the sea shore with a wise father on the one hand to tell you the old stories of creation and on another level a wonderful friend who gives you solace from the modern world. All trouble seems to slip away and you are lost in the foam and the sound of the waves. You are re-born to a time before man made the world a frightening place filled with danger and deceit. A time when the glory of the universe was man's to have and hold like a child looking at the stars and reaching out to catch one and being delighted to hold just the starlight in his hand.

Reviews

Enchanted Shores is a pleasant mix of myth and magic woven into easy-to-read, flowing poetry and prose. White creates myths and fables to explain the occurrences of natural events and creatures. It is supernatural meets natural. The book contains an eclectic mix that makes the reader smile and feel good. Although each story does not conclude with a happy ending, there is a sense of peace and fulfillment that permeates the text. White melds together animals, ancient deities, angels, nature, and God to tell fictional tales with a little hint of morals thrown in. The book is an enjoyable read for anyone seeking a light-hearted version of reality that will leave you smiling at the end.

My continued impression of the stories as I finished reading your book is how well written these bright and happy stories are, how smoothly they read, and how deeply felt each is. There is a wonderful sense of contentment here, a deep peace, a sense of powerful acceptance, of the absolute rightness of things. In short, your powerful narrative skill and your love of a story as a story allows you to get away with doing things in this book that are very difficult to pull off, and for this I send many congratulations.