"Old Men in Love is bound to sell well because everyone now feels old after 25, so all youngsters are interested in what comes next." - Alasdair Gray

In Nature's Architect Jim Crumley tells us about the misunderstood beaver, why people do not care about it and why we are wrong to see it as a nuisance. The beaver is the largest rodent and he is a genius eco-engineer. I did not know when I started the book Jim Crumley would take me in his Beaverland journey. I am adoring his writing style and I am so looking forward to reading The Last Wolf.

It does not touch me,
this music of my younger self,
when my name was unknown
and I lived on nothing but sex
and cigarettes and fast food,
when I was in love again every other week.
I hear it clearly, each intricate part,
I understand it, even admire it,
but I cannot feel its passion,
the longing, the sharp hunger,
the lust for newness of that young man.
It does not touch me now.

#ianmcewan #foryou #libretto #michaelberkeley #lustfornewness

The Hidden Landscape is on my TBR for my course. Hopefully this book will help me have a better undestanding of the link between Geology and Landscape.

Frank and I had done this. We made Lexie Madison bone by bone and fibre by fibre, we baptised her and for a few months we gave her a face and a body, and when we threw her away she wanted more. She spent four years spinning herself back, out of dark earth and night winds, and then she called us here to see what we have done.

Chapter 1