pickIt‘s wonderful that Liptrot found a way to live her life without binge drinking self destruction&that her memoir/writing has garnered success.Yet,the first half of the book is heartbreaking&exhausting.The second half,set on the islands of Orkney,where she grew up but doesn‘t feel she really belongs&where she finds stability/some form of healing(for lack of a better word), are a fine blend of nature writing& introspection.But it was very heavy&sad.
pickI cant give you a photo of wild islands and massive shipwrecks but heres a yacht that ran aground locally for you! 😂
Like @Cathythoughts i saw that this is now a movie and thought i‘d read the book 💕 Amy returns to the Orkney islands as a recovering alcoholic. She explores nature while she contemplates her past life and possible future. Sometimes meditative writing can leave me cold but i just loved this.⬇️
pickAnother island story. Orkney. I saw that Saoirse Ronan will play the lead in the movie of The Outrun, so I wanted to read the book. I loved the island setting, the wild unforgiving and beautiful landscape, the cliffs , and the basic close to the earth lives the islanders live.
I‘m looking so forward to the movie now.
pickOh, how I loved this one. Liptrot's writing is beautiful, and her story is raw and vulnerable.
After getting sober (again), and determined to make it stick, Liptrot leaves London and returns to the Orkney islands. What follows reads like a series of essays as she delves into various aspects of island life, nature, and considers her own sobriety.
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"I'm back under these decaying clouds and deep skies, living among the elements that made me. I want to see if these forces will weigh me down, like coping stones, and stop the jolting."
#WhereAreYouMonday
Windswept in the Orkneys (and carried away in a different way in London) with Amy Liptrot's beautiful, raw journey.
@Cupcake12
pickA really beautiful collection of essays for #doublespin this month - some super short, some extended, all thoughtful and interesting.
Recent acquisitions to celebrate 18th Thingaversary (30 April) and 7th Litsyversary (10 May)
pickPart history book and part memoir of this author's journey into becoming a shepherd and custodian for the breed. It also delves into the difficulties living on a small island with the sheep when it comes to getting then processed into meat and tanned hides as well. I appreciated the author's commitment to living as naturally on the land as possible, and finding ethical processing. I look forward to spinning this wool some day.
