Recent reading
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luzulaThe King’s Touch by Jude Morgan (2002)
Recced byselenak. The main character of this book is Charles II of England’s illegitimate son Jemmy aka the Duke of Monmouth. If you know the history here, you know that this is not going to end happily. It's a brick, but a well written one, and I enjoyed it for the complicated relationship between Jemmy and his father--I feel like it was actually a portrait of Charles II more than of Jemmy. Also, Nell Gwyn stole every scene she was in. <3
I also read two gardening books: Permakultur: framtiden i din trädgård by Ylva, Johan, and Siri Arvidsson (2017) and Hållbar odling i Skillnadens trädgård by gardening guru Sara Bäckmo (2021). I figure it's good to read widely and get various perspectives before I get my own garden. I feel like the trend is towards the no dig method, where if you start with a grass turf, you put cardboard or something on it to stifle the grass and then dump organic material on top, then wait a while and you'll have a bed you can grow things in. I've tried this myself at the family summer place, and it works great. My mom is of the older school, where she likes to weed a lot and keep the earth bare, but I incline more towards dumping more organic material around the plants you're growing to stifle the weeds and add nutrients.
Recced by
selenak. The main character of this book is Charles II of England’s illegitimate son Jemmy aka the Duke of Monmouth. If you know the history here, you know that this is not going to end happily. It's a brick, but a well written one, and I enjoyed it for the complicated relationship between Jemmy and his father--I feel like it was actually a portrait of Charles II more than of Jemmy. Also, Nell Gwyn stole every scene she was in. <3 I also read two gardening books: Permakultur: framtiden i din trädgård by Ylva, Johan, and Siri Arvidsson (2017) and Hållbar odling i Skillnadens trädgård by gardening guru Sara Bäckmo (2021). I figure it's good to read widely and get various perspectives before I get my own garden. I feel like the trend is towards the no dig method, where if you start with a grass turf, you put cardboard or something on it to stifle the grass and then dump organic material on top, then wait a while and you'll have a bed you can grow things in. I've tried this myself at the family summer place, and it works great. My mom is of the older school, where she likes to weed a lot and keep the earth bare, but I incline more towards dumping more organic material around the plants you're growing to stifle the weeds and add nutrients.
