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It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book that kept me up into the late hours of the night, not wanting to put it down. I’m nearly done reading “The Q” by Beth Brower. I’m so glad I found this copy at @powellsbooks while visiting Portland earlier this month, but now I’m wishing I’d gotten her others too. Beth’s stories and characters are so unique and quirky, while also being incredibly well written. I can already tell you this is a five-star book and I don’t want it to end. Also, a few early morning photos in this cutie house we stayed at. by @thewildcraftreader
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3 days ago
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I stopped everything to capture the light on my bedroom windowsill. That’s all 🥰☀️🐚 by @thewildcraftreader
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16 days ago
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I started reading Moby Dick two years ago. I took a break around the halfway point, and only recently picked it up again. During the interim, I spotted this book at a book store and had to read it. Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts was nothing like I expected. A generationally spanning novel, magical realism, and a connection to Moby Dick. It was a great supplement read without trying to, but now I’m on the hunt for more. by @thewildcraftreader
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19 days ago
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When looking at my shelves for books that represented longing, a theme I’m studying, I turned to a reread of The Great Gatsby. Admittedly, I didn’t love it the first time I read it about a decade ago, but I’m so glad I held onto it and picked it up again. I still don’t love this book, but I think Fitzgerald did some unique and meaningful things in this story. The character dynamics are so heartbreaking, every single one yearns for something beyond their control and in one way or another, they’re humiliated or heartbroken. Writing such rich character flaws is an incredible feat and the more hidden aspects of the uglier, selfish side of people isn’t easy to expose, but like most things of this nature, we can’t turn away. I’m looking forward to reading Gatsby again with my daughter. This book is an excellent choice for discussion. What are your thoughts on The Great Gatsby? Love or hate it? by @thewildcraftreader
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a month ago
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I finished reading Violeta by Isabel Allende some time ago. I wrote a great caption, then lost it, and didn’t have the energy to try again. This story has stuck with me though and I keep thinking of how incredible, how beautiful it must’ve been to write about a woman born during the first global epidemic who lives 100 years, until the second global epidemic. The span of a life laid out across pages and neatly bound into one book is, I can’t think of the best way to describe it, but it’s a way to see humanity and how winding our paths are. Or something like that. I don’t fully have the words. A lot happened in this book, some that was beautiful and gave me pause, others that were perhaps for entertainment, but nonetheless, it was very good. I feel as if this story taught me that things aren’t as nuance as they seem, or maybe they are, and that’s the point. by @thewildcraftreader
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a month ago
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About to do the biggest bookshelf clean of my life. I haven’t truly parted with more than a few books at a time since we moved 9 years ago. Over the course of that time, I’ve continued to collect and am now at a truly embarrassing state. My shelves are jam packed and bringing in anything new has no place. Don’t get me wrong though, I love my full shelves, but I also realize that I’m no longer the reader I was when I first started my home library, over 15 years ago, and I’m not the same reader I was just 9 years ago. I need room for a few practical texts to support my academic life. I need room for my children to be drawn into. And so it goes, I’ll be boxing up several piles worth to give to my library. Why is this so hard in my mind? by @thewildcraftreader
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a month ago
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We’re having a rare summer storm here in Western Washington today. It’s a welcome reprieve for the wildfires, enjoying extra hot coffee, soup simmering on the stove, and cozy time to read. While driving my youngest to summer camp today, she had a grumpy face and when I asked her what was wrong, she said, “I don’t like having to get up early to leave when it’s rainy.” She treasures her mornings in bed, reading as long as she can get away with. I just had to smile to myself. Same, girl. Anyhow, I finished reading “Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson. I’ve had to sit with it awhile to gather my thoughts on this story, its seemingly real characters, and how I saw myself in various parts of the women she describes. At first, I didn’t connect to it at all and wasn’t sure I even liked it, but a few days later, scenes are coming to mind, and I’m captivated by how down to earth and real it all felt. “To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing — the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one’s hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, every craving gives it back to us again.” by @thewildcraftreader
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3 months ago
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I picked up the novella “Kitchen” by Banana Yoshimoto on a whim. While the story is slightly unexpected, you could say, it’s also profound and beautiful. It’s the kind of writing that I can’t get through without a pencil and time to process how meaningful it is. It lets you know that as lonely and isolating as grief is, it’s something so many of us feel deeply. “In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.” by @thewildcraftreader
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3 months ago
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The evening light only reaches my bedside table this time of year, and I’m always captivated by it. Yes, I really do live like this with an ever rotating messy stack of books to choose from. No matter how often I tidy this space and put books back on the shelf, we’re back here again. C’est la vie 📚 by @thewildcraftreader
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3 months ago
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A reprieve from the summer heat. Temps dropped 20 degrees overnight and there’s rain in the forecast. This calls for an extra cup of coffee and a little extra time reading in bed 🥰🌥️☕️📖 by @thewildcraftreader
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3 months ago
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“There are not enough jam jars to can this summer sky at night. I want to spread those little meteors on a hunk of still-warm bread this winter. Any trace left on the knife will make a kitchen sink like that evening air the cool night before star showers: so sticky so warm so full of light” #summersolstice☀️ by @thewildcraftreader
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3 months ago
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I haven’t had the mental energy to read much these past few months (teaching is exhausting on a whole other level). I’ve dipped in and out of The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion (a re-read), Poems by Ray Bradbury, the first two in The School of Essential Ingredients, and more recently, a re-read of Lessons in Chemistry. Admittedly, this is a mix of audiobooks and late night pages before sleep. But to sit and read a physical book cover to cover in a few days or a week—that’s what I’m yearning for. I picked up two indie published books recently, The Shell Shop by Cindy Nichols, as purely fun reads while my mind settled back into its usual state. I’ve enjoyed that first book quite a bit, especially after long days in the garden while I dream of when I once called Florida home (not the Keys like in The Shell Shop, but a girl can dream). On another note, I think Emma Lion would’ve quite enjoyed a chilled glass of white wine in the garden if she hadn’t become so accustomed to drinking whiskey with her boys. by @thewildcraftreader
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4 months ago
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