As a rather serious-minded person, I tend to be somewhat picky about the sources I turn to for news and opinion. Which is why I check in regularly on the Deutsche Welle News website, and keep both their Inside Europe and WorldLink podcasts in my podcast feed.
Earlier this month, Mark took Professor Dieter Helm’s new “Green and Prosperous Land; a Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside” as the subject for his Sunday book review.
This evening, as I sat at my desk with piles of new and forthcoming books stacked up around me, I just kept thinking “What’s it matter?” Who should really give a fat rat’s rump about anything I have to say about anything with so many hurting so badly.
Those who may have missed Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’ memoir A Million Years with You : A Memoir of Life Observed when it was first published in 2013 should be pleased to learn that it has been issued by Chelsea Green in an updated paperback edition titled Dreaming of Lions; My Life in the Wild Places that also contains a new afterword by the author.