We just read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with our 6yo (he’s never seen the film), and all of us were completely taken with it. Now we’re reading Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books, which are lovely & have interesting pre-automobile era period details. :-)
I am reading The Overstory, which is incredible and giving me a radical new understanding of trees, but also puts me in touch with the grief and despair of what we’re doing to our ecology, so not great to read before bed bc the saddest dreams ever. :-(
"Now Beacon, Now Sea"--a fabulous recent memoir by Christopher Sorrentino. And I've been re-reading Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth." Her concerns in that (1905) book are, still (not so shockingly) very much ours, especially with regard to a women's agency in a deeply stratified, unequal, high-capitalist world dominated by... you know what! And also there's just the deep pleasure of her sentences and her evergreen preoccupation with the nature of consciousness and its tragicomic fluctuations....in anyone.
We just read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with our 6yo (he’s never seen the film), and all of us were completely taken with it. Now we’re reading Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books, which are lovely & have interesting pre-automobile era period details. :-)
I am reading The Overstory, which is incredible and giving me a radical new understanding of trees, but also puts me in touch with the grief and despair of what we’re doing to our ecology, so not great to read before bed bc the saddest dreams ever. :-(
it’s been good birdwatching in Beautiful Downtown Walkerton
evening grosbeaks returned Jan 1(largest finch in North America!)
also eagles! whitetail sea eagles
and possibly the Russian!
all kinds of ducks and songbirds in all colors of the rainbow also the geese are partying like it’s 1999!
i always love your book reviews Bea!
love from Mamie
"Now Beacon, Now Sea"--a fabulous recent memoir by Christopher Sorrentino. And I've been re-reading Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth." Her concerns in that (1905) book are, still (not so shockingly) very much ours, especially with regard to a women's agency in a deeply stratified, unequal, high-capitalist world dominated by... you know what! And also there's just the deep pleasure of her sentences and her evergreen preoccupation with the nature of consciousness and its tragicomic fluctuations....in anyone.
I have two books to recommend: The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne and To Paradise by Hanya Yanigihara. My love to you all.