September Reads. Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl and Tom Lake by Ann Patchett were the outstanding reads of September.
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss | 
September Reads. Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl and Tom Lake by Ann Patchett were the outstanding reads of September.
pickAn achingly beautiful essay collection to be savored. I am so glad I read this beautiful book slowly. This is a highlight of my reading year so far. 5 🌟. This is the first of many books that I hope to read of Margaret Renkl. Highly recommend!!
The state of my reading this month. Starting books rather than finishing the ones I am reading. My goal in September is to finish what I have started and to carry on with the #booker books I can get my hands on! @TheAromaofBooks #bookspin #doublespin
I‘m so excited about both of these from my #BlindDateWithABook grabs.
Neither of them were even remotely on my radar, so I‘m looking forward to stretching my horizons!
📕 Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
🖊 Lahiri, Jhumpa
📺 Luther
🎙 Lezhneva, Julia (see comments for link to gorgeous performance of Pergolesi‘s Stabat Mater)
🎶 Let Down -Radiohead
#ManicMonday #LetterL
@CBee
pick“Here is what no one told me about grief: you inhabit it like a skin.” Enjoyed all of the birds and flowers in this book.
pickThis beautiful collection of short, poignant chapters was so exquisitely written, it calmed me whenever I picked it up. It was between this book and American Dirt as my book for the weekend, and I‘m so thankful this one “won”. I can‘t recommend this one enough.
pickI wish I'd picked up a print copy of Margaret Renkl's Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss because I think I may have absorbed it better (or at least earlier) than I did the audio. But I enjoyed the reading experience nonetheless, and reader Joyce Bean was excellent. This memoir consists of short, punchy chapters that alternate between Renkl's memoir-through-essays and short reflections on the natural world ⬇️
I'm loving this one. The audiobook is good, but you do miss out on the gorgeous collage- like illustrations, done by the author's brother.
Glad to snag this from the library right after it was picked for #ReadWithJenna. Reading on my tablet instead of my Kindle for these gorgeous color illustrations
Newest pint glass. 😍 This year‘s logo is so gorgeous! I also bought Renkl‘s book and had it signed. She was super nice.
pickThis was such a lovely book. She writes of her family‘s history and her own with such love and compassion, sadness and joy. These family stories are juxtaposed with stories about her observations of the beauty and brutality of the natural world, as well as paintings by her brother. I found the Derek Walcott quote at the end really summed it up - “So much to do still, all of it praise.” 5⭐️
pickAll the stars! I can‘t tell you how accurately she captured both my feelings when caregiving and the grief I felt losing someone I love.
pickLate Migrations is Margaret Renkl‘s debut book. It is a perfect mix of memoir and nature writing. The author shares stories of her girlhood in Alabama and the stories of her ancestors. More interesting though is Renkl‘s reflections on global climate change as observed in her Tennessee backyard. Grief and joy are tangled together in this unassuming book, which is brilliantly illustrated by the author‘s brother. Read this one!!
