speaking of woolf i just started a reread of one of my favorite books of all time, to the river by olivia laing -- a walk along the length of the ouse river that is part heartbreak memoir, part biography (of virginia and leonard), part naturalist reverie, part travelogue Image
it's a strange unclassifiable book, like all the best ones are, and I read it every few years around spring because it has the most evocative descriptions of being outside, and because it is a book that guides you out of winter places and into the sun
olivia has a new book out on may 4, which i am excited to read (link below)! but this one is her first, and i have recommended it to more people than i can count amazon.com/dp/B08L5NJNPY/…
(link to to the river here! bookshop.org/books/to-the-r…). if you do end up reading it, let me know -- i love talking about this book.

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