The launch of a new school year always means there is so much to get organized even when you felt organized right from the start. Therefore, my reading has been disjointed; a cobbling together of an audiobook while doing housework and driving to and from work in addition to my obligations on a book committee and interspersing that my literary lunchbox features. There seems to be no fluidity yet. However, even disjointed reading is reading and I was able to review September’s books (that I CAN talk about) to pick my favorite of the month:

The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

But not the print version because I didn’t read it in print. Instead, I listened to the audiobook of the collection of poetry via Hoopla and was ensconced in the sounds of the forest and animals added to the audio with a multi-cast set of readers during a walk. It’s a brief collection. One that I wished was longer because it captured the essence of nature in ways that the print on the page might not have. This is an audiobook done right. One that uses the format to its fullest and it was not disappointing.

Don’t wait until April to read this collection of poetry. It can be read it any season. It’s warmth on a winter’s night or a heightened sensation of all of spring’s beauty. An amplification of nature for nature lovers everywhere.