Thank you, Lindy, for sharing the wonderful memories about Alice Munro. Adrift at Sea looks amazing and makes me wish I was still doing storytime with kids. (Well, if I could do just that part of the job and skip the school duties and bureaucracy!) I loved when you held up The Living Mountain and you had 2000 tabs sticking out of it. Must be a winner!
Hi Lindy, around the world in 80 trees is a wonderful title! I do love trees and always have so this is one book I would like to look at including the mountain one. See you soon. Aloha
Hi Lindy! I still have to read Brotherless Nights but I am glad it won the Carol Shields prize. Let’s see if she does a double winning the Women Prize. In honor of Alice Munro’s passing I am going to read one short story of hers every day the coming weeks. Have a great weekend.
Hello Alina, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you. Reading a Munro short story a day is such a nice plan. Do you follow Angelia at Read and Reread? She’s doing the same thing with Munro’s stories. Shawn has invited me to read one of her earliest stories and then we are going to talk about it on his channel (with other people) next week.
Manguso is thought-provoking alright. Sometimes a little too much provoking, so I only read a few pages at a time. I get annoyed otherwise. It’s an interesting reaction to observe in myself. Here’s a good one: “You can choose your friends but not your friendships.”
I can't wait to get to Shrine Lende! Elatsoe was so good. The Living Mountain sounds so good, will have to check the library for that one. Have you read any of the other Around the World in 80? I very much enjoyed Plants, and saw they've more recently put out 80 Games which sounds so interesting and a departure from the previous nature focus.
If either of those Around the World in 80- are like the tree book, I am excited to hear about them! I didn’t know there were others. The tree book is great!
I vaguely remember hearing that. It’s impressive and I regret not mentioning it when I talked about her. One of her short stories in an Indigenous sci fi collection is set on the ocean post-apocalypse.
The Living Mountain sounds amazing ♥️⛰️
Deea, I think you would really enjoy Living Mountain. It shines quietly with soul awareness.
Thank you, Lindy, for sharing the wonderful memories about Alice Munro. Adrift at Sea looks amazing and makes me wish I was still doing storytime with kids. (Well, if I could do just that part of the job and skip the school duties and bureaucracy!) I loved when you held up The Living Mountain and you had 2000 tabs sticking out of it. Must be a winner!
I wanted to tab several passages on every page of Living Mountain. The writing is phenomenal!
Horse Chestnut is one of my favorite spring blooms! 🥰
The bloom candles are an impressive size and busy with bees 🐝🐝🐝😊
Hi Lindy, around the world in 80 trees is a wonderful title! I do love trees and always have so this is one book I would like to look at including the mountain one. See you soon. Aloha
The tree book will be here for you to enjoy. 🌳🌴🌲😊
Hi Lindy! I still have to read Brotherless Nights but I am glad it won the Carol Shields prize. Let’s see if she does a double winning the Women Prize. In honor of Alice Munro’s passing I am going to read one short story of hers every day the coming weeks.
Have a great weekend.
Hello Alina, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you. Reading a Munro short story a day is such a nice plan. Do you follow Angelia at Read and Reread? She’s doing the same thing with Munro’s stories. Shawn has invited me to read one of her earliest stories and then we are going to talk about it on his channel (with other people) next week.
Yay for Quentin Blake!!
I forgot to mention that Blake talks about mental health in his book: his own and that of hospital patients and visitors. #MentalHealthMay
Thanks for reading snippets from Sarah's other book. She can write a sentence and is so thought provoking.
Manguso is thought-provoking alright. Sometimes a little too much provoking, so I only read a few pages at a time. I get annoyed otherwise. It’s an interesting reaction to observe in myself. Here’s a good one: “You can choose your friends but not your friendships.”
@@lindysmagpiereads What does that mean exactly??? Now I can see why you can only read a couple pages at a time. That may also explain the title.
I can't wait to get to Shrine Lende! Elatsoe was so good.
The Living Mountain sounds so good, will have to check the library for that one.
Have you read any of the other Around the World in 80? I very much enjoyed Plants, and saw they've more recently put out 80 Games which sounds so interesting and a departure from the previous nature focus.
If either of those Around the World in 80- are like the tree book, I am excited to hear about them! I didn’t know there were others. The tree book is great!
Did you know that Darcie Little Badger has a PhD in oceanography? 😮
I vaguely remember hearing that. It’s impressive and I regret not mentioning it when I talked about her. One of her short stories in an Indigenous sci fi collection is set on the ocean post-apocalypse.