Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Book report

Being a list of the books I read whilst on retreat at a hundred-year-old farmhouse in Olha, MB, these past two weeks...

New-to-me reads:
Dirt of Ages by Gillian Wigmore
I See My Love More Clearly From a Distance by Nora Gould
Waiting in the Tree House by Michael Lithgow
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Robinson by Muriel Spark

Finally finally read all the way thru: 
Between Mountains by Maggie Helwig
Fall by Colin McAdam
Waiting for the Gulf Stream by Bert Almon

Toothy re-reads: 
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Curiosity by Joan Thomas
Flight Calls: An Apprentice on the Art of Listening by Brenda Schmidt

Still-reading (and so not pictured...):
Forage by Rita Wong
Digressions by Robyn Sarah
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror/Houseboat Days by John Ashbery
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich

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It was such a good couple of weeks for reading/writing/walking all-by-myself.

I storm-watched and spied on the barn swallows nesting in the rafters and took every-coupla-days trips down the gravel road to Rossburn for tea and human conversation...

And when M and Aa pulled up on the final Friday - the girl leaping into my arms, shouting Mama! - I was more-than-ready to re-enter our family unit.

4 comments:

Brenda Schmidt said...

Nice! Thank you, A!

Ariel Gordon said...

Thank you, nothing! Somewhere between you and Alice Major's Intersecting Sets, I'm become highly intrigued with the essay...

Bernadette said...

I have also read and reread Flight Calls. And I want to read it again but have to get the stacks of unread down a tad before I can allow myself that!

And I must get my hands on Alice's book, too.

Ariel Gordon said...

I'd highly recommend it.