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by Lorilin
Posted on July 31, 2020October 12, 2020

Paris Never Leaves You

The Heirloom Garden by Viola Shipman book cover

by Lorilin
Posted on May 26, 2020June 1, 2020

The Heirloom Garden

by Lorilin
Posted on April 21, 2020June 27, 2020

A Hundred Suns

by Lorilin
Posted on February 29, 2020May 17, 2020

The Grace Kelly Dress

by Lorilin
Posted on January 30, 2020March 19, 2020

The Moonshiner’s Daughter

by Lorilin
Posted on February 6, 2019June 18, 2019

The Lost Girls of Paris

by Lorilin
Posted on December 13, 2018February 5, 2019

Tony’s Wife (★★★☆☆)

by Lorilin
Posted on September 11, 2018October 13, 2018

The Winter Soldier (★★★☆☆)

by Lorilin
Posted on June 13, 2018December 4, 2018

My Lady’s Choosing (★★★★★)

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I’m Lorilin, a stay-at-home mom in Chicago who reads books to stay sane. Even though I spend most of my day looking after my lovely and wild children, I always make time to read—mostly fiction, wellness, and memoir, with a few cookbooks and gardening books thrown in the mix.

I rate all books on a scale of one to five ladybugs, so my favorites will have these little guys floating by the title 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞.

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Oh, this was a sad one. WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER follows a group of people in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastates the city. We hear from a mother who loses her entire family, a wealthy expat and his daughter, a drug trafficker, and an old market woman who bears witness to ALL THE TRAGEDY. This is one of those books you read to learn about something you knew nothing about but should have (at least for me). The writing is beautiful, and—this is cliche to say, but I’ll say it anyway—I was transported while reading it. I felt like I was right there beside these characters. I knew them and cared for them. It really helped me understand how devastating the destruction in Haiti really was after the earthquake.

This is the first year I’m listening to the advice of @roy_diblik_ (author of THE KNOW MAINTENANCE GARDEN) and turning my clean yard waste directly back into nourishing mulch. All you have to do is make piles of fallen leaves and then mow over them with your regular lawnmower. Then you can redistribute the leaf pieces wherever you want. I kept most of mine on the lawn, but I also put a lot in a back corner of my property that is honest-to-God pure clay soil 😵‍💫 and needs A LOT of organic matter. We’ll see if it makes a difference come spring, but I’m pretty happy with myself right now, can’t lie. What do you do to get your yard winter ready?

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