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I had no idea what that word meant but I love it. Braiding sweetgrass was so lovely. I can feel the messages from the plants and trees coming through so much stronger these days.....scribd is so great isn't it?

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Mar 8, 2023Liked by Medha Murtagh

As a fellow logophile, I loved this post! And I hadn't heard of Scribd, but I'm most definitely going to check it out! Audible is just way too expensive for the amount of audiobooks I want to listen to! Also: Braiding Sweetgrass is one of my favorite books of all time. It's so beautiful and powerful and informative.

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What struck me was how much more alive your drawing and writing is after a misdiagnosis. Thanks for sharing.

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I Love the heart reading its book, legs splayed. That was ME for my whole childhood!!!!! My mother spent countless nights busting me as I sneakily kept reading and reading and reading instead of sleeping. These days, as people all around me binge movies & TV, I really really want to see all these cool new shows but I find I just CANNOT tear myself away from my books! And you know me, I'm pretty sure I mentioned to you before - I'm OBSESSED with books on tape. Er, on digital whatever. Ever since I listened to Ben Kingsley read Autobiography of a Yogi, and Emma Thompson read Howard's End to me like 25 years ago, I've been hooked on this type of reading, and I basically choose to listen (vs eye-read) to my books about 90-95% of the time. SO MANY GOOD BOOKS!!!! The end. Also, love you.

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SUCH a great post, Medha - and thank you so much for your amazing spreadsheet! I haven't read anything you've read so far this year, but your reviews are pointing me in the direction of some I'd like to have a look at! For the moment, though, I'm gripped with Substack's very own Julie B. Hughes' amazing new book 'Staring Down a Dream', which was published just last week: https://juliebhughes.substack.com/p/find-the-others

Favourite picture this week? I ♥️ WORDS.

(And I've thought this a lot since subscribing to your newsletter: but I always do a (happy!) double-take of all your pictures, because we have dark hair, glasses AND a stripy top in common....! #twins)

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