“Hope, even a small, new hope like mine, can be a heavy weight to carry when you've grown unaccustomed to its heft.“
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“Hope, even a small, new hope like mine, can be a heavy weight to carry when you've grown unaccustomed to its heft.“
I'm trying not to spam your feeds with quotes from this one, but some are just too much not to share.
I am two essays/stories into this collection and I just pre-ordered a paperback copy because I just know I'm going to want to revisit this on the regular. I'm reading it through Libby and my fingers are itching to underline and annotate. It's beautiful. Thanks for bringing it to our attention @JamieArc and for seconding that with your review @Chelsea.Poole
pickThis beautiful exploration of the essential queerness of nature gave me one of those deliciously transformative reading experiences where it feels like the book‘s in conversation with your life, from a passage about caterpillars‘ imaginal cells, amazing to hear after using the same metamorphic metaphor for my own life recently to a chapter about cicadas and “queering time,” the day after finding a beautiful fresh cicada husk! Euphoria, indeed.
Latest four reads added to my #bookblanket
That is the process of all human development and knowledge building. Some brave souls make a leap of faith, and if they succeed they are heroes; if they fail, the next in line step over their bodies and try a different approach.
pickForest Euphoria was a balm to my bruised and battered soul. Rarely has a book spoken to my heart in a way that made me feel so understood. I‘m already looking forward to rereading this beautiful memoir, this love letter to the earth and all its inhabitants.
pickAt some point Libro.FM had a sale and I got this audiobook.
The author lives in the suburban Seattle area, and this is a series of essays about the wildlife she finds in her own area. Birds, bugs, fungi, plants, she talks about a little of everything.
If you read a lot of nature writing some of this will likely be familiar to you, but even so I found it engaging.
New to me- slime molds. I‘ve never thought very much about them. Cool!
What a delightful book! I learned so much about the shells and other various mysterious objects that wash up on the beach - mysteries no more! The author uses scientific terms, but explains them in layman‘s language. She also encourages readers to just soak up the relaxing atmosphere of the beach, being aware of all 5 senses, meditating, and pondering age old questions. Perfect reading for anyone who is at the beach, or dreaming of being there.
pickSoulful and raw, wise and whimsical, Something in the Woods Loves You is a memoir of severe depression, therapy and recovery, and the transformative power of our relationship with nature—a living invitation of kinship with and inspiration from the world around us. A new all-time favorite, full of passages I underlined to return to in times of need—highly recommended for fans of Mary Oliver!
pickYes, yes it does. And I love this book. A favorite read this year, and of all time. Mental illness and potentially triggering but my oh my did I love these words. So many passages to highlight throughout.
Nature is healing. 🤍
Highly recommended.
