Xenia’s Reviews > The English Year: From Diaries and Letters > Status Update

Less interesting than winter and early spring now, maybe the now is a bit more beautiful than the then in summer

Listening to the birds with an open window, 18 degree sunshine, and feeling glad our spring so far is better than 1, 2 and 300 years ago

Breathing in bertioli water meadow after reading ten pages of ENGLISHNESS to feel even more ENGLISH and ACCOMPLISHED

Comfort in knowing winter was just as miserable in the 17/18/1900’s (even more comfort in the beauty sometimes still found in it by writers)

I’m going to take a year to read this and nobody can judge me for it!