“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” – Annie Dillard, The Living
With summer underway and warm evenings, relaxing weekends, and long-awaited vacations offering the perfect opportunities to slow down and catch up on reading, this week we share a summer reading list—filled with classic works by native Alabamians.
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neale Hurston
All Over but the Shoutin’: Rick Bragg
Women, Race, & Class: Angela Davis
Crazy in Alabama: Mark Childress
Rosa Parks: My Story: Rosa Parks, with Jim Haskins
Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions: Daniel Wallace
If the Legends Fade: Tom Hendrix
South to a Very Old Place: Albert Murray
Tongues of Flame: Mary Ward Brown
The World I Live In: Helen Keller
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
What kind of flowers are those in the picture? Really cool. . . .
Oh, let’s add to that list Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe!
Okay, I give up.
I Googled the photo and didn’t find anything similar.
I too would love knowing more about those beautiful flowers in that book.
By the way, while searching I found many beautiful books, restaurants, and Anne Dillard quotes.
Brunella
The flowers are Mexican hat plant (Ratibida columnifera). Its a native of the Midwest, and is a perennial wild flower that you can grow from seed.
What is the lovely book pictured? Thank you!
The book is called “Beauty Everyday”, and it is co-authored by Rinne Allen, Kristen Bach, and Rebecca Wood of Athens, Georgia. We’ve shared about it here on the Journal: https://journal.alabamachanin.com/2013/10/beauty-everyday-2/
LIkewise to the other comments; I’d like to know which book is pictured with the lovely flowers. Please let us all know!