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#CoverLove #red #day1

This author is brilliant. Somehow she makes a book that on the surface looks to be about gardening and turns it into a historical look at the socioeconomic situation in Europe (specifically mostly UK and Russia) during the author's lifetime and after. Like who has time and resources to pursue hobbies, for example.

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★★★★☆

🌹 My first Solnit. I love Orwell and I'm interested in all the topics covered so I would have given it five stars but something about the way she wrote caused me to have to reread often just to understand what she meant. I'm not sure why. 🌹 This absolutely perfect bookmark was created to support the British Red Cross and came to me inside Paul Kingsnorth's Real England when I bought it a few years ago. 🌹

p. 252 'He desires the life of the mind and the senses, beauty, history, nature, pleasure, and sex, and the privacy and freedom in which all things flourish.'

Train is late but the sun is out and I have a book, so... 🤷

p. 177: 'Britain - the mythical place bathed in an afterglow of empire, not the conflicted contemptorary reality - seemed to be a place in which all of us, even me growing up in California, had received too much instruction, and also a collage of innumerable pieces of elsewhere. It was the person in the room you were supposed to pay attention to and know all about, the one who was supposed to define what mattered and how things should be.' ⬇️

p. 21: 'At thirteen, [Orwell] won a scholarship to the most elite [public school] of all, Eton, where he spent another four years, acquiring an accent that marked him as an outsider among the poor without making him an inside among the rich.'

Started

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#Naturalitsy

"I have often thought that much of the beauty that moves us in the natural world is not the static visual splendour that can be captured in a picture, but time itself as patterns, recurrences, the rhythmic passage of days and seasons and years, the lunar cycle and the tides, birth and death."

My first book by Rebecca Solnit for this month's #Backlistreadathon @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

#TemptingTitles #WithBlind

Searching through my TBR for this prompt I was reminded of this series. I really like MC Mallory. I need to pick up where I left off some day.