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September books
Oct. 1st, 2023 11:59 amPenny Plain, O Douglas
Strolling Player: The Life and Career of Albert Finney, Gabriel Hershman
Castle Skull, John Dickson Carr
500 miles from You , Jenny Colgan.
Colditz, Ben McIntyre
The House that is Our Own, O Douglas
Tokyo Express, Seicho Matsumoto, translated Jesse Kirkwood
My Husband Simon, Mollie Panter-Downes
Currently reading: Unforgettable, Unforgotten by O Douglas, writing under her real name, Anna Buchan and The Body in the Blitz by Robin Stevens; the second book in The Ministry of Unladylike Behaviour series.
I really meant to write about all these books but I have been overwhelmed by the decluttering bug and it’s taking all my time. As a result though, I found the three best books I read all month: my garden journals, covering 1987 – 1997. It’s not that they’re brilliantly written but that they are so full of detail. The hard work of digging, muck and compost spreading and planting. Obtaining rare seeds with details of sowing and how the plants did. Buying plants from small nurseries which no longer exist. Going to interesting talks by people no longer with us. An outing to Kew when a group of us were allowed into a secret laboratory, under strict security (I’d completely forgotten this). What terrible weather we had in March 1995! Frost, fog, snow each recorded several times. Meeting Hardy-esque characters. ‘Mr Whoite (how he pronounced it) came with my mushroom compost. He was telling me how he once hitched up the horse and cart to deliver some manure, was given some wine and was “as tiddly as a rat.”’ Everything I did in the garden minutely recorded. Any suggestions that I write a gardening book would be flattering but doomed to failure.
Pic (of me!) on LJ.
Strolling Player: The Life and Career of Albert Finney, Gabriel Hershman
Castle Skull, John Dickson Carr
500 miles from You , Jenny Colgan.
Colditz, Ben McIntyre
The House that is Our Own, O Douglas
Tokyo Express, Seicho Matsumoto, translated Jesse Kirkwood
My Husband Simon, Mollie Panter-Downes
Currently reading: Unforgettable, Unforgotten by O Douglas, writing under her real name, Anna Buchan and The Body in the Blitz by Robin Stevens; the second book in The Ministry of Unladylike Behaviour series.
I really meant to write about all these books but I have been overwhelmed by the decluttering bug and it’s taking all my time. As a result though, I found the three best books I read all month: my garden journals, covering 1987 – 1997. It’s not that they’re brilliantly written but that they are so full of detail. The hard work of digging, muck and compost spreading and planting. Obtaining rare seeds with details of sowing and how the plants did. Buying plants from small nurseries which no longer exist. Going to interesting talks by people no longer with us. An outing to Kew when a group of us were allowed into a secret laboratory, under strict security (I’d completely forgotten this). What terrible weather we had in March 1995! Frost, fog, snow each recorded several times. Meeting Hardy-esque characters. ‘Mr Whoite (how he pronounced it) came with my mushroom compost. He was telling me how he once hitched up the horse and cart to deliver some manure, was given some wine and was “as tiddly as a rat.”’ Everything I did in the garden minutely recorded. Any suggestions that I write a gardening book would be flattering but doomed to failure.
Pic (of me!) on LJ.
