Book Review: Growing Goats And Girls by Rosanne Hodin

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 Hello hello!

It's been a little while since I last wrote. I've been off my reading game and have started writing more posts online about disability awareness and I guess that has been taking up more of my headspace of late.

I hope whoever is reading this is doing really well and quite frankly surviving and thriving in this 29 degree heat that is unheard of in the UK. Finally people are getting their BBQ's out without being laughed at.

Today I want to review a book that I first spotted when having a wonder around the beautiful Storyhouse library in Chester quite a few months back now. I was marvelling at the large array of books on offer in the beautiful space and Growing Goats And Girls caught my eye. 

The cute cover illustrations and the cosy blurb wanted me to get a cup of tea and start reading there and then but alas, I couldn't. I asked Jack to take a picture as I knew I would forget the title in three minutes tops and then when at home ordered a copy second-hand. I'm glad I did (but then, I always say that don't I?)

This book is a memoir of the author's life whilst living on a Cornish farm for 30 years. It is broken into diary-entry fragments of events, thoughts and milestones and is so warm and cosy, it's like being hugged. 

I found it to be a book I could read large sections of, or dip in and out of alongside another fiction book and it gave rest bite to when Emma got a little well, 19th century (although I am loving it!). 

I love Rosanne's straight to the point, no frills, take on life. I love the wonderful nature imagery. I love a family life depicted beautifully on a page. I recommend this as light reading over a long period and soon you will feel you really know Rosanne (at the time of her life in which she writes, anyway!).

And I guess, that's all for today...

What have you been reading? I hope it is marvellous. 

Write soon, 

Mol


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