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My plan for tonight's #Hyggehour is to browse Amy Stewart's amazing "spirited toast to the marriage of botany and booze." While doing so, I shall be sipping a festive, sloe gin hot toddy. ??❄️?

What are your plans?

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

#Adventathon @bookmarktavern Reading this book for #Naturalitsy, so grateful it was picked because it's an absolute delight.This bit made me laugh out loud at the strange ways we anthropomorphise other living things that are utterly indifferent to us.

My mom and I decided to make a little display in the living room for our dog Toppy right after she passed away. Our display has Toppy‘s ashes with her picture on it, her paw print with her name on it and some of her favorite toys that she liked playing with. Something I‘ve started working on is writing down some happy memories of her because it was recommended in an article I read online.

10/1/13 ❤️10/25/24 (R.I.P. Toppy!)

#petsoflitsy

#NaturaLitsy

This is such a beautiful book. Mabey is a prosaic nature writer who extols the complexities of the botanical world and its impact on our art, history, literature, medicine, and science.
My favourite chapters were The Cult of Celebrity, Growing Together and particularly Chiaroscoro.
5 ⭐️

This month's #Naturalitsy pick led me on a journey through the world of plants and how humans have interacted with these fascinating creatures throughout history. It fell short of what I was expecting but it was a pleasant and interesting read nonetheless, and the author is simply a wonderful writer.

#WinterGames2024 #XmasChaCha +5pts

#ReadAway2024 #20in4 #readathon

I finished the last 40-ish pages this morning but I‘m counting it for November. Read with #Naturalitsy I really enjoyed this blend of history & science. I possess a very brown thumb but find plants fascinating & love to both look & read about them. The short Chapter 25: A Sarawakan Stinkbomb: The Titan Arum was a particular favorite as I‘m a fan of “the corpse flower” & enjoyed his focus on the bawdier side of it.

“Endemism is an ambivalent existential state. It may represent the last rites for a wild species (...) bedded down in a single vulnerable, vanishing habitat with no long-term future. Or a new stage in its evolution, as it adapts genetically to a new refuge. Endemism is still a condition through which species enter and exit the world (...)“
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#WinterGames2024 #XmasChaCha +5pts
#FirstSnowReadathon #HyggeHourReadathon

#Samphire(...) makes it's terror untenable for itself. It seemed to me to fly against every principle of evolution(...) I eventually learned that this wasn't how evolution worked outside the laboratory. Plants may be overridingly concerned w/ the survival of their own genes, but (...) none of them manipulate their habitats to ensure their own continuance over other species. That is our species' dubious perogative.“
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#NaturaLitsy

Welcome to the discussion thread for our November #buddyread for The Cabaret of Plants by Richard Mabey.
Did you enjoy the book?
Has it renewed your sense of awe and wonder at the plant kingdom?
Did you like the literary/artistic references throughout?
Did you have a particular favourite section or chapter?

Cont. ⬇️

“In the West, cognitive behaviour therapists treat tension headaches by coaching sufferers in imagining, then relaxing, the 'tight hands' round their head. Four hundred years earlier their professional forebears would have recommended doses of walnut. For better or for worse, across centuries and cultures, metaphorical images of plants and vegetation have been a fundamental ingredient in their power to heal.“
#Naturalitsy