A photo from a special place in Virginia

Iris – Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

taken from my Flickr

Meadowlark is a place of great peace for me. Not only the land itself, the gardens, woods and water but the overall atmosphere of reverence for nature.

Someday I hope a bench will remember me here.

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My LibraryThing books

My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Revolution by Diana Darke

TomMcGreevy's review: "A lovely book discussing the author's time in Syria, revolving overtly around the purchase and restoration of her house in Damascus, Bait Baroudi. Her focus is less on the revolution than it is on the people and culture of Syria. In such a spirit, it succeeds in humanizing the country and its people."

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

TomMcGreevy's review: "Other than as an interesting portrayal of its lead character, I'm not sure that this book amounts to much at all. The story isn't particularly interesting, the secondary characters lack adequate flesh in themselves, to be compelling. And the video at the centre of the plot, isn't substantive enough to show why […]

The Mehlis report by Rabīʻ Jābir

TomMcGreevy's review: "A wonderful, brilliantly written work of fiction set in Lebanon during the period leading up to the release of the Mehlis Report, the UN investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. The novel focusses on a brother and a sister, one alive, the other dead. And focusses also on th […]

The curious case of dassoukine's trousers by Fouad Laroui

TomMcGreevy's review: "A set of well-written, linked, short stories. Tender in a most unexpected way, with a mean surrealistic streak..."

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