Mr. Mac and Me | 
pickI enjoyed this story about a friendship between a teenage boy at the start of ww1 and the great artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh who, together with his wife, had moved to the Suffolk Town of Southwold. Using this nugget of truth, the author creates an imagined tale that expands to describe Tom, his family, and the inhabitants of the town. The book had me searching about Mackintosh + his artist wife Margaret as well as his subsequent arrest.
bailedI'm really not enjoying this. I hate to do it, especially as this is my #Bookspin book, but I'm doing something I rarely do and officially bailing. It's probably my preconceived idea about the book that is the problem. I was expecting (and wanting) more about "Mr Mac" and less about "Me". Also, I've been unreasonably preoccupied with the outcome of the US election over the last few days and finding it difficult to concentrate on reading.
@RamsFan1963 thanks for the tag
The lemon in my G&T! Not kidding.
Tagged book, loved the descriptions of walking in the English countryside looking for flowers to paint.
Yes, I swam with Fungi a dolphin off the coast of Kerry, Ireland in the 90‘s.
#thoughtfulthursday
If you wish to play, consider yourself tagged.
Last week I went to see this amazing exhibition of Rennie Mackintosh and collaborators (still on st the Walker, Liverpool). Just finished this great fictional look at the Mackintoshs' time in Suffolk during WW1.
1. Puffy AND crunchy. I alternate🙄
2. I just finished it - Mr. Mac and Me.
3. Work both days. And playoff football. Go Vikes🏈
4. Be able to talk to animals. Especially scared ones.
5. Biology/Horticulture major, no minor. 🐝🦋🐞🐰🦊🐻🌷🌼🌸🌿🌳🌲
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pickLoved this! Wonderful novel! Beautifully written. Set on the Suffolk coast right at the beginning of WW I. It's the story of village life and the unlikely friendship between Thomas Maggs, a village teenager, and summer visitor and architect/artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
The illustration on the book jacket is from Mackintosh's work. The frittilaria on the right are from my garden this past spring.
1. Paperback fiction bookcase awaiting most recent #bookoutlet order. There is a stack of overflow on each side.
2. History.
3. Wine. White only; red makes my ears get red and hot🙄
4. Blue.
5. Mr. Mac and Me
#HumpDayPost
Shelfies are my favorite📚📚📚❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗
So happy to come home from work today and find that my #bookoutlet order arrived???I think this was a pretty good #bookhaul - 14 books for just over $35! The cover on Mr. Mac and Me is just beautiful. And there's an Ann Patchett blurb that says "I loved every page." I might just move this one closer to the top of the ol' TBR pile?
This whole #nobuyjuly thing isn't going super great, but all of this was $65 w shipping, and today is the last day, so at least I got through it! And even though I totally still bought books, there were literally dozens that I did not buy bc of the hashtag. So, yay! Still counting it as a success! #yesiknowthisissad #bookoutlet #bookhaul
Waiting. Waiting. This train is long and taking its time to change tracks. Good thing John Banks is a good narrator. 🚂🚂
Gorgeous flowers on this cover. Fritillaria, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Mr. Mac of the title.
#feistyfeb day 10: flowers on covers
pickLike Emily Dickinson, and in prose as poetic as it comes, Freud tells her truths about art and love "slant." An exceptionally beautiful cover, too.
