moss – The Well-read Naturalist

A Cornucopia of Books

November 28, 2021

I slowly arose from my feasting-induced state of inertia this weekend, still a bit fuzzy-headed from a lingering high blood-to-gravy ratio, and called up Mark Avery’s blog on my laptop to see what book he had selected for his Sunday Book Review this week. Much to my surprise, and very much in keeping with the spirit of the just concluded U.S. holiday from which I was still recovering, his list of book recommendations was overflowing, not only with his own choices, but with those brought by his guest contributor Stephen Moss as well.

Mark Doubles Up

February 21, 2021

One of the noteworthy failings in my literary life up to this point is my not having read Laurie Lee’s classic work “Cider with Rosie.” However I suspect that Mark Avery has, as clearly has the author of the first of the two books he took up for review this past week: Stephen Moss.

Mark Returns

April 5, 2020

The challenge with life lately (say, over the past two years, give or take) is that it has been throwing me so many curve balls – or to use the British vernacular, bowling me so many googlies – that it’s been all I can do just to keep the Aspidistra flying. And one of the many ways I’ve let it fall over this time has been my neglect of proper correspondence with Mark Avery.

This Week’s In Defense of Plants is Mossome!

October 1, 2018

If you, like me, like moss, you’ll be pleased to learn that you can indulge your bryophilic inclinations to your heart’s content through the most recent episode – number 180 – of the In Defense of Plants podcast.