Becoming a Gardener What Reading and Digging Taught Me About Living by Catie Marron

 

Do you like to garden?  Do you enjoy reading in a garden?  I love being in gardens and  am learning to be one.  I always feel peaceful when I garden and love to read by our garden.  

“Both books and gardens give our imaginations a chance to roam and create our own private worlds.  They let us escape time, entertaining us, and offer us pleasure and beauty.  Certainly a garden is a glorious place to read.  It is rich with life lessons-ample ground for any writer to explore.”    Catie Marron 

Becoming a Gardener What Reading and Digging Taught me about Living  by Catie Marron is an absolutely beautiful book.  This book is filled with stunning pictures, beautiful watercolors, and garden art. The author weaves her gardening journey with wisdom, resources, and  practical tips for your own gardening. Her writing is  magical and I found myself reading parts aloud to my husband. I savored this book as I carved out time each day to read the beautiful text and gaze at the pictures and art.  

What makes this book unique for me is that it is not only practical but also beautiful and philosophical.   I believe this is a book you will want to have out in your home to inspire you to garden and live life more fully.  I highly recommend it.  

Thank you @harpercollins @harperbooks for the gifted book.  All opinions are my own. 

Catie Marron is the creator and editor of two anthologies published by HarperCollins which explore the value and significance of urban public spaces: City Squares, Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World (2016), and City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts (2013). She is currently working on a third book for HarperCollins, which centers on how gardens and the process of their creation enrich lives.

Marron’s career has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism, public service, and book publishing. She is currently a trustee and Chair Emeritus of The New York Public Library, where she was Chairman of the Board from 2004 to 2011. Marron is also a trustee of Friends of the High Line, where she was also Board Chair, and a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Marron began her first career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and then at Lehman Brothers. She then became Senior Features Editor at Vogue, where she has been a contributing editor for twenty years. While writing her books, Marron launched Good Companies, a curated, online guide to companies that strive to do good while also making a profit. This venture was shaped in part by the success of Treasure & Bond, a pop-up store that she co-founded with Nordstrom and Anna Wintour in 2011. All of the store’s profits went to charities benefiting NYC children.