sharing small stories
September, most bookish month of all, was the one in which I didn’t manage to share with you what I was reading. In truth, it was a month of big changes for me, with my youngest son starting school, and the way in which I spend my days shifting. After some weeks of adjustment, and
‘A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill’s shoulder, Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly Come in the morning where I wandered and listened To the rain wringing Wind blow cold In the wood faraway under
My July choice for The Year in Books was Wild by Cheryl Strayed, a memoir that I very much enjoyed, and followed with The Outrun by Amy Liptrot, memoir combined with nature writing set on the Scottish island of Orkney. It was starkly honest and hauntingly redemptive. This month’s book is Flaneuse by Lauren Elkin. Having written, many years ago,
My most recent choice for The Year in Books was A Writer’s Diary, Leonard Woolf’s selection of extracts from the diary of Virginia Woolf. I’m still slowly working my way though it, marvelling at Woolf’s incredible mastery of language, fascinated by the stories from her everyday life. In June, although I didn’t record it here, I