hm, hello web. i suppose in the end i really am a yoyo blogger. my favorite garden blog has also been mia for quite some time, and she is a much more impressively wonderful blogger than i, so that tells me its ok. and today i feel like a return.
rach has declared the summer to be dedicated to russian classics, and this gets me thinking about my summer reading list. the weather is so beautiful and so perfect for reading in the sun, by my garden. tim and i especially like pulling our camping canvas collapsable (suprisingly comfortable) chairs over to the garden edge, facing the gloriously growing grapes with ever-so-tiny little green grape bunches and reading while the sun goes down, or while it is up high, anytime really. often we are reading academic material, but lately ive enjoyed branching out to fiction again. i started the summer with Mrs. Dalloway. slightly embarrasingly, i had begun this little book a few times before but this is the first time i finished it. at least i think so. and im not sure why. Orlando is one of my most favorite books ever, and the one i have read over and over more than any other. so, really, i should read more woolf, no? im currently 3/4s the way through Maps for Lovers by Nadem Aslam. there is a fabulously adorable, small bookstore/coffee shop near here where i picked this off the shelf mostly at random (and because the back cover begins "if gabriel garcia marquez had chosen to write about pakistani immigrants in england, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers...) it is very good, though not quite marquez. but it fills me with such gratitude for the life of freedom that i live. anyhow, i am going to begin a list of the books that i am reading, and those to get to and keep the tv off for the indefinet future (well, ok, ill still tivo the office and maybe one or two other treats).
tomorrow i think i will post pictures of the vegtables and flowers ive been tending.
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MWAHH - "mrs. dalloway" is my heart and soul!! so glad you've re-read it. for some reason, many people say they can't get through it the first few attempts. but god, if it isn't glorious once you do. a delicious little gem. now you need to pick up "the hours" - directly mirroring "mrs. dall" in many ways - and a quick (and subtly buddhist) read. i would proselytize about it to anyone.
do you love orlando as much as me? the most elaborate and fantastic love letter ever written!
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