Not at all what I expected but a lovely surprise and shows Kingfisher’s detail in her writing.

While planting a garden a character mentions ”beans and squash and corn,” and those who’ve read Braiding Sweetgrass will know this is no accident, but rather a purposeful indigenous gardening technique that allows each vege to grow stronger through its position with the others.

You can refer to the chapter ‘The Three Sisters’ in Braiding Sweetgrass for more details, but in sum rather than grouping vegetables by species, planting these three together allows for mutually beneficial growth: the corn grows tall and has spaced out leaves that shades the squash so it receives it’s correct amount of sunlight. The corn leaves are evenly dispersed so as the bean vine grows up the corn stalk its buds have space to grow out from the vine and also catch sunlight. This technique yields more food than if each grew alone.

It’s such an easy detail that quickly adds depth to this scene, and I would’ve missed it had I not read Braiding Sweetgrass earlier this year.

what do you mean it ends there!!!!

On one hand, it's stunning and such a good read, and on the other hand, I really dont like the style it's written in 🙃

book playlist!!! absolutely love it when a book has one of these and i know a good few of the songs and love the vibes, definitely saving this one 🙂‍↕️ thank you takuya asakura for providing the vibes 🫶🌸✨️

I just had the silliest book moment.

I was walking home and an older woman, maybe in her 80s, asked me and my friends to help her carry her shopping bags up the hill to her house. She asked us where we had been and we said we saw a play about vampires. Then said she's just finished reading a vampire book. She then proceeded to tell us how she had gone to the book store and asked for more vampire books but the shop keeper had directed her to vampire romance and she said "but I don't want romance, I want EROTICA!! I'm not interested in the vampires, I'm interested in the sex!!"

It was so funny and wholesome.

We got to her front door and she said stay there, let me show you the book. "I'll quickly flash you... with the book" she said. She bustles away and returns at surprising speed for an octogenarian.

Anyway, my next read is Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Roberts, thank you Ruth!