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The storm was so loud last night it kept me awake. When opened the curtains this morning I discovered that somehow, amongst all the disarray and over turned plant pots, these baby daffs had opened. ☔🌻
Some more reads/listens from 2019 for my virtual bookshelf: - Happiness by Aminatta Forna. This book revisits a minor character from The Memory of Love, a psychiatrist called Attila. The book follows him on a trip to England and along the way explores some interesting questions about psychiatry such as: When it is appropriate to pathologise the individual and when it is more appropriate to pathologise the society? How is the diagnosis of trauma used in the legal system? What role does social and global inequality play in mental illness and how we diagnose it? What is nature? How much should we intervene in nature? That's a lot of questions and I've made it sound heavy and academic which it's not but I did find it raised lots of interesting issues and gave me lots to think about. Oh and there are foxes and a love story involving an older woman👍. I really enjoyed it. - Where Women Are Kings by Christie Watson. A story about a little boy in care and the process of being adopted. This book broke my heart. It is very well observed and accurate as far as I know but it was so emotionally difficult to read I had to stop half way through and haven't picked it back up yet. I will though, and I would recommend it. It's so insightful I think everyone should probably read it. - The Carer by Deborah Moggach is a lighter book I read to recover from the previous one. It's a gentle page turner, well written and you can read it safely just before you go to sleep knowing it's not going to break your heart. - We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo. I loved the character of the narrator and learnt a lot about both Zimbabwe and America that I didn't know before.
A skeleton seed pod from last year's purple poppies.(I've collected the seeds.) This morning I went outside and got my hands in the earth for the first time this year and it felt good. Isn't this blue sky gorgeous 😮 💙💙 . . . In other news, this is a screen shot of the photo. For the last few months instagram hasn't let me post pictures from my camera roll onto the grid but it's fine with screen shots. Not sure why... maybe because my phone is reaching the end of its long life. Anyone else had this? . . #mygarden
Christmas present project 🐦🐥🐤
It's new year's day and I'm organising my virtual book shelf. I listen to a lot of audio books and the only problem with audio is you don't have a physical copy to remind you what you've read so I'm putting them here instead... 📚 I loved 'Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo so much that I missed it as soon as I finished it and had to immediately start another of her novels - 'Mr Loverman', which is also brilliant. ⭐ 'Constellations' by Sinead Gleeson: I haven't finished this one yet, not because I didn't like it (it's amazing), but because I wanted to save a few chapters to enjoy in the new year. The book is so good I want to eke it out (it's non fiction so easier to do). 💞 'The Confession' by Jessie Burton I enjoyed so much. There were so many characters and scenarios I related to. There is one moment where she describes a particular relationship in such a perfect way that it had me laughing out loud (if you've read, it it's the Jorritos bit - pretty sure I've known a Joe! 😂) 🔈 All of these 4 are phenomenally well read as audio books. I recommend them all 😄 . . . #bookstagram #books #audiobooks @sineadgleeson @bernardineevaristowriter @jessieburton
Happy Halloween from this Witch's cat 😽🎃🎇❤ . #catsofinstagram

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