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Another island story. Orkney. I saw that Saoirse Ronan will play the lead in the movie of The Outrun, so I wanted to read the book. I loved the island setting, the wild unforgiving and beautiful landscape, the cliffs , and the basic close to the earth lives the islanders live.
I‘m looking so forward to the movie now.

Oh, how I loved this one. Liptrot's writing is beautiful, and her story is raw and vulnerable.

After getting sober (again), and determined to make it stick, Liptrot leaves London and returns to the Orkney islands. What follows reads like a series of essays as she delves into various aspects of island life, nature, and considers her own sobriety.

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"I'm back under these decaying clouds and deep skies, living among the elements that made me. I want to see if these forces will weigh me down, like coping stones, and stop the jolting."

#WhereAreYouMonday

Windswept in the Orkneys (and carried away in a different way in London) with Amy Liptrot's beautiful, raw journey.

@Cupcake12

This memoir was right book, right time. Like Liptrot, I've moved back to a home I once left for brighter lights. (Although nowhere as cool as London or the Orkney Islands.) I enjoyed her reconnection and (re)discovery of the place she's from, seeing the landscape and the people with new understanding.
This is also an addiction memoir. Part of what drives her home is her recovery from alcoholism, about which she writes with honesty. Next week 👇

I really enjoyed this book but was not as huge into the AA bits but understand how they were integral to the story. I also enjoyed listening to it through Libby.

Addiction

#bookmoods
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This one is between pick and soso
So glad this book introduces me to the remote island and I really want to take a trip to see for myself.
However, for some reason I sometimes felt impatient when reading it.

Finished up this morning.
I‘d call The Outrun a soft pick. I was hoping for more island/ outdoor life, and that is in here, but the focus of the book is the author‘s alcohol addiction and her 2 year recovery. It‘s an important book that may be really helpful for someone going through recovery themselves. If your focus is more on the environmental story, you might want to try something else.

Venkman‘s ready for the fun part of the day to start!

So honest. A story of finding yourself at “home” among nature. Now I want to go to the Orkney Island!

I had mixed feelings about her first book - a powerful, soul bearing, hold nothing back, memoir… a great bookclub book. Her second book has just been announced … shall I / shan‘t i ???

@Mitch ! What a lovely surprise! Thank you so much, how sweet of you to send this beautiful book my way. It sounds like something I‘ll love. I can‘t wait to read it. If you follow the book link there‘s an adorable picture of baby Woodford just a few posts down too ❤️.

Liptrot writes about the natural world with a beautiful unique vision, weaving mythology, folklore, geology, history & lived experience. I wanted to return to Orkney so bad! She reminded me of the awesomeness of being on top land rising from the sea in the middle of nowhere and just feeling the power of nature. She mirrored this with her journey as an alcoholic - which was brave but maybe she needed to think more about her impact on others.

Getting in some quiet morning reading time whilst the puppy dynamo recharges!

This book came as my monthly personalised reading subscription from Mr Bs Bookshop. It‘s a book I‘ve skirted around, picked up before in a store and not left with - but I‘m a few chapters in and really liking it. Sometimes a good bookstore person knows best!

#nfn2020

I‘ve loved my personalised book subscription from Mr B‘s. They‘ve picked me a perfect book every month but it‘s felt less “treaty” as it‘s come in a brown cardboard box. Until now that is ... ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

#audioknitting in the (last?) summer sun. Finished the back of my Aran sweater, now I'm onto the front.

Goodness. How much did I like this?
Beautiful prose. Honest thought and emotions. Made me truly feel for her whilst admiring her.

No idea what this is about but the cover appealed hugely :)

Rather than heading for formal #rehab, Amy Liptrot goes home to Orkney to recover from her alcohol addiction.

Not sure if I‘ll ever get to reading this one, but I love the covers. All of them!!

#AnglophileApril

Beautiful, honest, evocative. A brilliant interweaving of two contrasting lifestyles and the lessons learned through both.

#BirdofParadise #winterwonderland
I went back thru my gr list of bks read. This was one of my books of 2017 and a heart wrenching account of a young woman struggling with alcoholism who returns to Orkney, her island of birth to recover. Part of her recovery includes working for rspb to monitor the corncrake population. A wonderful book + definitely a bird of a paradise. listen to tweet of the day corncrake - curious sound, another place to see ☺

Gorgeous, painful, hopeful and evocative. Loved this memoir.

Hi I‘m a new litten and so pleased to have just discovered #litworld2018gb!

I love reading books from other countries and these are the ones I‘ve managed so far in 2018 - some (particularly Greece, Thailand and Australia) id like to swap out for books by people actually from that country as I prefer to read books from the country or in the language rather than books set there, but I am counting books set in a country I think!

Book 2: What. An. Adventure. Into the wilds of remote Orkney islands and the human psyche. In this memoir come nature book, Liptrot captures something raw and unique and bracing. As bracing as winter sea swimming and at times, just as dark. Simply could not recommend this book enough.

Poetry in every paragraph.

I get it: she lives at the edge (geographically, psychologically) but, goodness, does she labour the point! After a while the courage with which she writes about her alcoholism begins to read more like self-flagellation/self-indulgence. And once back on Orkney she persistently relates corncrakes, jellyfish, wave action, the aurora back to herself.
As one (self-absorbed) isolate to another I wish her well but doubt I'll look out for future books.

A good morning‘s work at the charity shops. 😃

Has anyone read these?

On the road again! This time off to Seattle for work.

Reading the Outrun (think H is for Hawk meets Wild) and loving this beautiful cover art!

#flyinglittens #threebookspackedforthreedays

Reading Envy Podcast 085: An Acquired Taste with guest Thomas Otto (from The Readers Podcast.) http://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy085

Reading has come to a halt tonight because my husband hooked our Sega back up and Outrun takes priority over EVERYTHING. 🎮

My current 'being read' pile...

A wonderful memoir of the redemptive power of nature - i had to finish it off in my car before a meeting, a rainy Wednesday in Manchester hardly competes with the beauty of the islands of Scotland

I went to quickly pick up a reservation from the library at lunch and ended up with a bundle of books. Particularly looking forward to the Naomi Alderman and trying modiano.

I love this cover! 💕

Last book of 2016! Part addict memoir, part spectacular nature writing about the Orkneys. Highly recommended.

Some blues! I just picked up "The outrun" and am saving it for a long rainy weekend. And I'm counting down to winter so I can read "A Winter Book"!
#Blues #somethingforsept #septphotochallene

@RealLifeReading @TheSpinecrackersBookClub

The Outrun is a fabulous book, full of stuff about not belonging, the chaos of dependency, and how spiritual adjustments can bring people back from the brink. A solid, honest, encouraging memoir that stands apart from the narcissistic lunacy of most of the rest of the world.

I caught the full moon in my wing mirror.