pickThe main character travels from Iceland to an unnamed European country to tend a rose garden at a monastery. Great descriptions of gardening and cooking. Interesting human relationships and reflections on language learning. I finished it in 1 day!
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JenP Yay! I‘m hoping to read it today or start today 😊 7y
quietlycuriouskate That sounds strangely fascinating! 7y
mhillis @JenP Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! 7y
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mhillis @River_Voice It was! I‘m going to see if I can get ahold of her other books that have been translated. 7y
Lindy Gardening, cooking, interesting relationships, language learning & women in translation: that‘s five boxes ticked & I‘m stacking this. 😊 (edited) 7y
mhillis @Lindy Hope you have a chance to read this! It has it all!! @JenP had a good review of this one too. 7y
Lindy @mhillis I checked my public library‘s holdings and discovered it‘s available there in a French translation, but not English. I will give the French edition a go, since I like to keep up my fluency. I will make a note to report back to you when I read it. 👍 7y
mhillis @Lindy Sounds good! I read that the French translation of this book was popular. 7y