Landmarks

Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Macfarlane takes on the mission of reintroducing the world to forgotten/rare words that describe the world around us. Or more specifically Great Britain. (From the list of words I’m thinking hedges make up a great deal more of the landscape there than it does here in America.). His main argument is that if we know more vocabulary about the outside world we will appreciate it more. He may be onto something. The other day when it was neither rainy nor misty but somewhere inbetween I thought “hey, it’s mizzling”and enjoyed it that much more. Macfarlane is an amazing writer and an even better reader, pointing out the intricacies of nature writers’ works that would have passed me by. I do admit that the book may have gotten a bit long, even though it’s not a long book to begin with.

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Remnant Chronicles

The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Solid ending to a solid series. Even a “hidden” twist in the epigrams before the chapters (so don’t gloss over those). This was a fun summer read that I read with my daughter. Yes, it has a love triangle. Yes, there are swords, arrows, recoveries in caves, as well as twists you see coming. But there are twists you don’t see coming, and a nice character arch for all 3 of the main characters as they try to determine what loyalty, duty, love and trust looks like. Destinies are fulfilled in surprising ways and the ending is satisfactory. Definitely a YA series I could recommend to young women and one that was fun to read with my own YA.

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