Kris finished reading We Are Green and Trembling by Robin Myers

We Are Green and Trembling by Robin Myers, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the …
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Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the …
A beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, written by Larry Mitchell with …
Call it a garden state: a cross-species ecology of astounding beauty and completeness, never static, always in motion, progressive and prolific. I want to live there, and the world won’t survive much longer if we don’t. It hasn’t come to pass, this fertile revolution, and yet every time you look into a garden, the invitation is still there.
— Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (Page 182)
I wanted to explore both types of garden stories: to count the cost of building paradise, but also to peer into the past and see if I could find versions of Eden that weren't founded on exclusion and exploitation, that might harbour ideas that could be vital in the difficult years ahead.
— Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (Page 15)
I wanted to move into a different understanding of time: the kind of time that moves in spirals or cycles, pulsing between rot and fertility, light and darkness.
— Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (Page 16)
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work …
Castle Waiting is a graphic novel series, created by Linda Medley, first published in 1996. It is set in a …
Castle Waiting is a graphic novel series, created by Linda Medley, first published in 1996. It is set in a …
A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, …
A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a …
A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a …
Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. …