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I love that you mentioned Plant Dreaming Deep. So many of Sarton's books delved into her love of gardening and I've enjoyed reading and re-reading them over the years.

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Another May Sarton fan! I actually went and visited her home in York, Maine.

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Lucky you! I just did a google search and saw that it was torn down a few years ago.

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What??? It looked out on the ocean from afar...Rayne's Neck.

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I know exactly what you mean by not being able to part with garden books. Years ago, I wrote about gardening for the Tampa Bay Times, and many many garden books were sent to me gratis from the publishers (hoping for a review). I saved each and every one. Some are huge, expensive photo books full of beautiful garden pictures. I treasure them!

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ah yes - the books that show up in your life...they are so hard to part with.

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<3 “...fungi are the champions...” 🍄

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I am reading Merlin Sheldrake's book, The Entangled Life.

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Oh awesome! That is a listed book here at The Nature of Reading Bookshop.

Hailey Brock is so super-kind and thoughtful - finds fabulous reads (I take lots of notes 😃). I’m in her local climate change book club. She has a long-distance membership:

https://www.thenatureofreading.com/book-clubs

Would love to read with you Jan, if that might be of interest. January climate change club is “On Time and Water” by Andri Snaer Magnason.

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I will look it up! Right now I have several landscape projects so not much extra time - ha ha!

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I think the only garden book I ever parted with was a duplicate (LOL), which I donated to our wonderful local library.

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