If you reread it, I’d love to hear what you think!

This was my first time to read it & I loved it. It’s playful & vivid and I absolutely adore her sentences. The pageantry, the landscape, the weaving of voices, it coalesces beautifully.

Aww, ❤️❤️❤️ !!! I am so grateful!

I liked it a lot. I think volume 2 is my favorite so far because I loved the exploration of seasons, but I really liked the themes in this one as well.

Her writing is vivid & witty and she captures a lot of interesting history.

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#NYRBWomen25 Quintinie's gardening book was translated into English by John Evelyn in 1693 under the title, The Compleat Gard’ner. It’s available to peruse on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/comp...

“[M. de La Quintinie’s] book, ‘Instructions pour les Jardins Fruitiers et Potagers’ must be one of the best gardening books ever written; it makes the reader long for a kitchen garden; the instructions are so precise that a child could follow them” (p23) #NYRBWomen25

“Le Nôtre never lost his interest in painting & the arts, and his lodging at the Tuileries was full of beautiful things […] When he was out, this delightful man would leave the key of his house on a nail so as not to disappoint any amateurs who might call to see his collection.” (p22) #NYRBWomen25

“[Colbert] did little or nothing to help the French peasants […] indeed low farm prices suited his policy of cheap exports […] the gap between the peasantry and the rest of the population first became serious under Colbert” (p17) #NYRBWomen25

Such a wonderful review, thank you! Did you see this short piece I posted yesterday? Great timing! bsky.app/profile/joie...

Thank you for sharing! So interesting & I love when books are in conversation with each other.

I think the intro is helpful. It sets the stage.

"Carrington’s surreal lens reminds us of what purely fiscal approaches miss: the imaginative, the unquantifiable, the deeply human. If economics teaches us to manage scarcity, her fiction teaches us to see abundance where others see loss."

"Marian’s exile becomes an act of liberation, her supposed decline a portal to radical transformation. In this world, the limitations of old age are not a phase of diminishing returns or heightened financial risk, but a form of creative agency that challenges the rigidity of economic models."