Maplewood Library: Reader's Place: July 1, 2022

Press release from the Maplewood Library:

Robert Nealon

2022-06-30

BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS, PLANTS AND GARDENING

It should surprise absolutely no-one that the Venn diagrams of avid readers/writers and gardeners intersect. Both activities are best done in solitude, and require imagination and patience.

Orwell's roses, by Rebecca Solnit, 2021. (Catalog, Ebook)

A fresh take on George Orwell as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. Journeying to the cottage in Wallingford where Orwell lived in 1936, Solnit examines his desire to be agrarian and settled, how gardening restored him, and how planting something can be an act of fidelity and faith.

Bedside companion for gardeners: an anthology of garden writing for every night of the year, edited by Jane McMorland Hunter. (Catalog)

To quote the author, “Pieces of poetry and prose, fact and fiction, practical advice and wildly impractical ideas [gleaned from English–language authors, and the King James Bible] are collected together here, with one piece for every night of the year.”

Compiled by Ina Rimpau

This press release was produced by the Maplewood Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.