How lucky can I get!
No cancer, so very thankful.
No major housework.
No lifting and bending.
No traveling, oh NO - just for a while though.
BUT. . . . . . all the time in the world to read wonderful books this week and next.
These, waiting to be opened and have their pages turned, are full of promise.
Since coming home from Ireland a couple of weeks ago, I have been eager
for the mailman who has showered me with new books. . . . . . .
for the mailman who has showered me with new books. . . . . . .
. . . . . . other than FALLEN by Lia Mills, a Dublin writer, which tweaked my
curiosity when I photographed this Dublin street banner, and which
I was able to purchase later at a tiny Killarney bookshop, my books have come
to my mailbox. FALLEN is set in Dublin at the time of the 1916 Easter
Rising and is an historical story of a young woman coming of age amidst
violence and loss.
by John Lewis-Stempel somehow appeared online when looking for something else.
I had to have it!
"In exquisite prose John Lewis-Stempel records the passing seasons in an
ancient meadow on his farm."
That singular sentence was enough to tweak my appetite for learning more
about my much loved English countryside - the fields of Devon were my
playground and I will always remember and love them for ever.
That singular sentence was enough to tweak my appetite for learning more
about my much loved English countryside - the fields of Devon were my
playground and I will always remember and love them for ever.
by Robert Kanigel.
The story of Great Blasket Island is a must read because I'm now besotted by
the history of this Irish island (the largest of a group named The Blasket Islands
off the Dingle coastline) which was inhabited until the 1950's.
The House on an Irish Hillside by Felicity Hayes-McCoy is the
new book I've decided to read first.
It is so wonderful I plan to do a full post on it later.
Just know I'm really happy to have found this book by this amazing author - and that
I have been fortunate to have just visited the Dingle Peninsula where she lives
for much of the year.
. . . . . . lastly, a new book about the extraordinary record-setting woman aviator,
Beryl Markham, caught in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter
Denis Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen who, as Isak Dinesen, wrote the
classic memoir Out of Africa.
Circling The Sun by Paula McLain.
My read and reread dog-eared copy of West With The Night was written by Beryl
herself and published in 1942. It has always been one of my favorite books
about adventurous women and life in Kenya back in the 1930's.
Hmm, Kenya, Africa, Masai Mara, Safari, Big Five. . . . .some day!!!
All photos by me - thankfully a small camera is not very heavy!
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