Happy weekend, everyone! I’m off to a wedding – for the past five or six years, I’ve been down to one wedding a year. How did I ever have the energy to go to five or so in a year? Anyway, this one is local and the weather looks good (but not too hot to put on a suit), and there are lots of people I know there – all ingredients for a fantastic day.
Hope you’re having a good one, however you’re spending it. Here’s a book, a blog post, and a link to accompany you through it.
1.) The book – I still haven’t read any Laurie Colwin, but was very tempted by Another Marvelous Thing (though that US spelling of ‘marvellous’ is very hard to take). Indeed, any W&N Essentials book looks irresistible in their striking new packaging, but Colwin stood out as a writer I’ve been meaning to try for a long time.
2.) The blog post – Moira at Clothes in Books has picked the best cosy crime novels.
3.) The link – is there more to say about the Salt Path situ? Yes, it turns out – Polly Aitken is a disabled nature writer who was told her writing was uncommercial if it didn’t include a miracle cure, and she has some very interesting things to say.
Hope you enjoy the wedding celebration Simon and not too many umbrellas are needed! Thanks for cheering my wet weekend with this post. I am tempted by the Laurie Colwin cover too even though I have not yet read any of her books and would also prefer a second ‘l’!
The Polly Atkin article certainly does have some very interesting things to say. I wish I was more surprised’ ; sadly I am not. Everybody wants to believe in miracles. I expect you could write a sermon on that!
Yes, I also thought the Polly Atkin article was interesting (I was about to write ‘insightful’, but realised that sounded too much like AI text!), though it’s a shame that some of comments underneath didn’t appear to understand her point about the pressures from the publishing industry creating unrealistic expectations and thought she was saying that nature wasn’t beneficial to health!
I love Laurie Colwin and very much hope you’ll take to her, too. She’s smart but understated, a little like early-mid period Woody Allen (e.g. Annie Hall and maybe Hannah and her Sisters, if that’s your kind of thing). I’m very keen to hear what you think!
Good to know! I only watched Annie Hall for the first time the other day, so this is a timely reference.