#Horatio Clare

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JOMP BPC - 15th September - Next Up

Maybe this is the next book I'll start - even though i've got several that I've had on the go for months and it'd be good to finish some of them first, and it's a bit early in the year to be reading a book focussed on winter - I don't want to wish the autumn away. But I keep picking it up and reading the reviews on the back cover, so it's clearly calling to me. And the author's called Horatio Clare, for goodness sake!

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DEWITHON ‘24: Llyfrbabble (Bookbabble) #2

A series of short posts highlighting recent cultural and bookish chatter from Wales This is the second post of D24 in which we look at literary and other cultural goings-on (Welsh speakers may prefer sgwrsio llenyddol Cymraeg) from the land of poetry and song. ****************************   Are You a Cwlture Vwlture?   For those of you with an ear for a tune and a liking for underground…

[hedgehog-moss]

"rn I feel like reading about someone's quiet daily life, maybe a diary or letters, set in a place or context I don't know much about, without turmoil or tragedy" oh! do you have any recommendations for books like this?

This is one of my favourite types of books! Here are 30(ish) recs...

May Sarton's The House by the Sea or Plant Dreaming Deep

Gyrðir Elíasson's Suðurglugginn / La fenêtre au sud (not translated into English unfortunately!), also Bergsveinn Birgisson's Landslag er aldrei asnalegt / Du temps qu'il fait (exists in German too)

Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, which iirc was originally written as journal entries and letters before being adapted into a book

Kenneth White's House of Tides: Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West

Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book

The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield

Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (do not read if you don't like flowers)

The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip (I've mentioned it before, it feels like this gif)

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, I keep recommending this one but it's so nice and I love snails

Epicurean Simplicity, Stephanie Mills

The Light in the Dark: A winter journal by Horatio Clare

The Letters of Rachel Henning

The letters of Tove Jansson, also The Summer Book and Fair Play

The diary of Sylvia Townsend Warner—here's an entry where she describes some big cats at the zoo. "Frank and forthcoming, flirtatious carnivores, [...] guttersnipishly loveable"

The Letters of Rachel Carson & Dorothy Freeman were very sweet and a little bit gay. I mostly remember from this long book I read years ago that Rachel Carson once described herself as "retiring into her shell like a periwinkle at low tide" and once apologised to Dorothy because she had run out of apple-themed stationery.

Jane Austen's letters (quoting the synopsis, "Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the importance of "Little Matters," of the emotional and material details of individual lives shared with friends and family")

Madame de Sévigné's letters because obviously, and from the same time period, the letters of the Princess Palatine, Louis XIV's sister-in-law. I read them a long time ago and mostly I remember that I enjoyed her priorities. There's a letter where she complains that she hasn't received the sausages she was promised, and then in the next paragraph, mentions the plot to assassinate the King of England and also, the Tartars are walking on Vienna currently.

Wait I found it:

R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September (quoting the author, "I wanted to write about simple, uncomplicated people doing normal things")

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett

Rules for Visiting, Jessica Francis Kane

The following aren't or aren't yet available in English, though some have already been translated in 5-6 languages:

ツバキ文具店 / La papeterie Tsubaki by ito Ogawa

半島へ / La péninsule aux 24 saisons by Mayumi Inaba

Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno, Dolores Prato (for a slightly more conceptual take on the "someone's everyday life" theme—I remember it as quite Proustian in its meticulousness, a bit like Nous les filles by Marie Rouanet which is much shorter and more lighthearted but shows the same extreme attention to childhood details)

Journal d'un homme heureux, Philippe Delerm, my favourite thing about this book is that the goodreads commenter who gave it the lowest rating complained that Delerm misidentified a wine as a grenache when actually it's a cabernet sauvignon. Important review!

Un automne à Kyôto, Corinne Atlan (I find her writing style so lovely)

oh and 西の魔女が死んだ / L’été de la sorcière by Kaho Nashiki —such a little Ghibli film of a book. There's a goodreads review that points out that Japanese slice-of-life films and books have "a certain way of describing small, everyday actions in a soothing, flawless manner that can either wear you out, or make you look at the world with a temporary glaze of calm contentment and introspective understanding [...]"

I'd be happy to get recommendations in this 'genre' as well :)

[thehamletdiaries]

Hamlet and Horatio playlist Fire On Fire - Sam Smith Never Look Away - Vienna Teng Iris - Goo Goo Dolls Still Falling For You - Ellie Goulding All of Me - John Legend Longest Night - Howie Day Turning Page - Sleeping At Last Let’s Hurt Tonight - OneRepublic In My Veins - Andrew Belle Heartlines - Florence and the Machine  Sanctuary - Welshly Arms  Your Soul - Felix Jaehn and Rhodes Fade Into You - Sam Palladio and Clare Bowen The Great War - Taylor Swift True Colors - Kesha and Zedd Mountains - Biffy Clyro Middle of the Night - Elley Duhé Light Me Up - Ingrid Michaelson  The Lightning Strike - Snow Patrol Mystery of Love - Sufjan Stevens Run - Snow Patrol  The Light Behind Your Eyes - My Chemical Romance  Crossfire - Brandon Flowers Rainy Zurich - The Fray The Birds Are Singing at Night - Lord Huron

[wychelm]

I wonder why I enjoy D.H. Lawrence's completely and utterly insane (and often bizarrely and deeply racist) ramblings about Melville so much (especially the Typee one) but the modern collective of dudes who write about the mystic and wild sea like voyeurs really fucking irritate me. I think maybe it's because these are guys (I'm thinking about the Hoare quotation here but also Horatio Clare) are like the find-yourself tour-of-asia backpacking gap-year rich boys of the ocean writing to me. like they're just trying to LARP as Melville because they think it's so cool and deep and interesting but they're never fucking saying anything interesting. at least Lawrence was ACTUALLY fucking deranged about Melville he put his fucking heart into that shit he literally sounds like someone on a street corner screaming about judgement day except he's talking about the ocean and home and mother and away, away from humanity! to the sea! to the naked salt elemental sea! it's so Melvillian imo. we need people to talk about Melville like this again I'm sick of these fucking ivory tower £80k a year professors gallivanting around looking at whales and taking residence on container ships to write terrible unreadable books about their experience which is just 90% them smugly jacking off about how terribly poetic and rogueish and clever they are. ENOUGH!! commit to the fucking complete abyssal insanity of water or shut the hell up. these fuckers are like a YA infestation pretending it's classic literature. IMO.

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Inspired by his own breakdown, the author’s generous and deeply researched guide to navigating mental health care in the UK is full of wisdom and hopeOne morning six years ago, Horatio Clare got out of bed and looked at the winter sunrise through a #BioTech #science

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ISBN: 978-960-645-615-2 Συγγραφέας: Benjamin Myers Εκδότης: Κλειδάριθμος Σελίδες: 272 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2024-06-01 Διαστάσεις: 20.5 x 14 Εξώφυλλο: Χαρτόδετο

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ISBN: 978-960-645-615-2 Συγγραφέας: Benjamin Myers Εκδότης: Κλειδάριθμος Σελίδες: 272 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2024-06-01 Διαστάσεις: 20.5 x 14 Εξώφυλλο: Χαρτόδετο

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ISBN: 978-960-645-615-2 Συγγραφέας: Benjamin Myers Εκδότης: Κλειδάριθμος Σελίδες: 272 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2024-06-01 Διαστάσεις: 20.5 x 14 Εξώφυλλο: Χαρτόδετο

[scriniumplenum]

Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare

Fascinating account of the author’s travels on freight ships, huge things with containers full of stuff being transported across the world. Very illuminating.

[revisesociology]

Does Therapy Work?

Increasing numbers of people in the United Kingdom are turning to therapy to help improve their mental health, but does therapy actually work? This topic was explored in a recent podcast with Journalist Horatio Clare and Psychiatrist Femi Oyebode. The focus was mainly on the use of psychotherapy to combat more serious mental health issues such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and post…

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Auroville, a cidade onde é possível viver totalmente sem dinheiro

Auroville, a cidade onde é possível viver totalmente sem dinheiro

A cidade foi fundada a partir dos princípios da ioga integral e é uma comunidade internacional, onde vivem 50 mil pessoas de 50 países, inclusive do Brasil. Horatio Clare – BBC Inauguração de Auroville em 1968: presentes 123 nações. Auroville foi fundada em 1968 como um povoado internacional dedicado à busca de uma vida sustentável e harmoniosa. Oficialmente pertencente ao sul da Índia, desde…

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Winding Up the Week #163

Winding Up the Week #163

An end of week recap “Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.”– Jasper Rees This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related…

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ICEBREAKER – Horatio Clare

To celebrate Finland’s centenary, Horatio Clare was invited to travel on an Icebreaker ship on a nordic adventure through the ice-packs of the far north.

In this off-beat travelogue, Horatio explores Finland’s little-known history and character. He also comes to understand something of the complexity and fragile beauty of ice, a near-miraculous substance which cools the planet, gives the stars their twinkle and which may hold all our futures in its crystals.

The jacket and endpapers were illustrated by Eoin Ryan

Icebreaker is available now in hardback

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Running for the Hills: A Family Story (Horatio Clare)

Running for the Hills: A Family Story (Horatio Clare)

Running for the Hills: A Family Story (Horatio Clare) lands on the shelves of my shop.

London: John Murray, 2006, Hardback in dust wrapper.

4th impression, first edition 2006.

From the cover: One summers day in the late 1960s two young Londoners fell in love with a hill farm in South Wales. They had almost no money, no idea about sheep, and their marriage was uncertain from the start.

Their new…