Ffion

@mossandinkJoined July 2025

Nature writing, quiet novels, and the kind of book you read with the window open.

Lists: 2
Reviews: 19
Books shelved: 59
Followers: 10
Following: 11

Reviews

Meditations reviewed by @mossandink
7 out of 10
Admirable, and airless.
Meditations
The Hidden Life of Trees reviewed by @mossandink
6 out of 10
Kind-hearted, and useful on beech and on how a wood holds water. He keeps telling me the trees are friends, are mothers, are talking; and each time he does it I trust the observation a little less. Fine for a beginner. Not for me.
The Hidden Life of Trees
Piranesi reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
Weather indoors, of all things.
Piranesi
Four Quartets reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
Winter light, over and over.
Four Quartets
Gilead reviewed by @mossandink
10 out of 10
The best of them.
Gilead
Braiding Sweetgrass reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
Generous, patient, a little repetitive; I forgave it by the second section.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Just Kids reviewed by @mossandink
8 out of 10
New York as weather. She's better on Robert than on herself.
Just Kids
The Remains of the Day reviewed by @mossandink
8 out of 10
Two days in October mizzle, and the whole time wanting to shake him. The countryside chapters are better than people allow — he stops at hedges he has no vocabulary for and can't say why. That's the sad part, for me. Not the letters.
The Remains of the Day
One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
I kept a list of the Aurelianos in the back and lost it twice. Yellow butterflies, insomnia, ice; I'd take the ice chapter over most novels I read this year. Read it right through the drought, which probably helped, or possibly ruined it.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Sixth Extinction reviewed by @mossandink
8 out of 10
The ammonites got me. Not the argument, the ammonites.
The Sixth Extinction
Lanny reviewed by @mossandink
7 out of 10
The village chorus pages were the best thing I read that whole March, and the plot they're pinned to is far less interesting than they are. Read it in one sitting with a woodpecker going in the ash. Still not sure about the ending.
Lanny
Nineteen Eighty-four reviewed by @mossandink
7 out of 10
There's a thrush in the wood where they meet and Orwell gives it a whole paragraph — the one living thing in the book. I notice I've kept that and not the torture. Admirable, horrible, and I don't expect I'll open it again.
Nineteen Eighty-four
Siddhartha reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
Reread in a wet tent in Ceredigion, June, rain on the flysheet all night. The river chapters hold; the young-man chapters I can do without now. I've thought about that ferryman most weeks since, which I didn't expect at nineteen and do at forty-six.
Siddhartha
Hamnet reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
The flea chapter.
Hamnet
Middlemarch reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
I had to be forty-six to like Dorothea, and I'm not proud of it.
Middlemarch
Devotions reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
Not a soft poet.
Devotions
The Overstory reviewed by @mossandink
6 out of 10
Enormous, and it will not once let you look at a tree without telling you how to feel.
The Overstory
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Entangled Life reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
Fungi, and a man who cannot stop grinning about them. I didn't mind a bit.
Entangled Life
6 readers agree with this review
H Is for Hawk reviewed by @mossandink
10 out of 10
Goshawk weather; I lost a week to it.
H Is for Hawk

Reviews

Meditations reviewed by @mossandink

The Hidden Life of Trees reviewed by @mossandink

Piranesi reviewed by @mossandink

Four Quartets reviewed by @mossandink

Gilead reviewed by @mossandink

Braiding Sweetgrass reviewed by @mossandink

Just Kids reviewed by @mossandink

The Remains of the Day reviewed by @mossandink

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @mossandink

The Sixth Extinction reviewed by @mossandink

Lanny reviewed by @mossandink

Nineteen Eighty-four reviewed by @mossandink

Siddhartha reviewed by @mossandink

Hamnet reviewed by @mossandink

Middlemarch reviewed by @mossandink

Devotions reviewed by @mossandink

The Overstory reviewed by @mossandink

Entangled Life reviewed by @mossandink

H Is for Hawk reviewed by @mossandink

Reviews

Meditations reviewed by @mossandink

The Hidden Life of Trees reviewed by @mossandink

Piranesi reviewed by @mossandink

Four Quartets reviewed by @mossandink

Gilead reviewed by @mossandink

Braiding Sweetgrass reviewed by @mossandink

Just Kids reviewed by @mossandink

The Remains of the Day reviewed by @mossandink

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @mossandink

The Sixth Extinction reviewed by @mossandink

Lanny reviewed by @mossandink

Nineteen Eighty-four reviewed by @mossandink

Siddhartha reviewed by @mossandink

Hamnet reviewed by @mossandink

Middlemarch reviewed by @mossandink

Devotions reviewed by @mossandink

The Overstory reviewed by @mossandink

Entangled Life reviewed by @mossandink

H Is for Hawk reviewed by @mossandink