Mary Delany lived from 1700 to 1788. When she was 72, she set out to paint 1000 hand-painted paper collages of flowers (a medium essentially of her own invention). The “mosaiks”, as Mary Delany called them, can still be seen
State of Grace by Ann Patchett
I don’t usually post about a single title but I feel that I want to tell the whole world about this terrific book I just finished, State of Wonder by Ann Patchett is the best book I’ve read in two