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A review by wordsandnocturnes
Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People by Kasia Boddy
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Flowers, as we know, have different significance and meanings. Blooming Flowers seeks to explore the meanings behind selected flowers. With the large number of flora out in the world, it would be difficult to cover every single one of them. Blooming Flowers solves this by selecting just a few flowers and categorising them into the four seasons.
Although this book is centred around flowers in Europe and America, some of these flowers originated in the East, from countries like India and China. Blooming Flowers explores the different meanings of flowers drawn from many cultures and even ideas in a vast number of literature, including the likes of Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. By doing this, the book effectively explores the history of these flowers and what they symbolised in both fiction and reality.
This book was informative, and managed to keep it interesting throughout the book. Besides introducing the flowers and providing small illustrations to give an idea to the reader of what the flowers look like, related art or photographs were slipped in between all the information. This gives the book brief breaks between text and gives a clearer picture of what the author is describing. As a plus, it does make the book more aesthetically pleasing and more inviting to read.
Received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks to Netgalley, Yale University Press, and Kasia Boddy for giving me the chance to read Blooming Flowers
From Words & Nocturnes.
Although this book is centred around flowers in Europe and America, some of these flowers originated in the East, from countries like India and China. Blooming Flowers explores the different meanings of flowers drawn from many cultures and even ideas in a vast number of literature, including the likes of Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. By doing this, the book effectively explores the history of these flowers and what they symbolised in both fiction and reality.
This book was informative, and managed to keep it interesting throughout the book. Besides introducing the flowers and providing small illustrations to give an idea to the reader of what the flowers look like, related art or photographs were slipped in between all the information. This gives the book brief breaks between text and gives a clearer picture of what the author is describing. As a plus, it does make the book more aesthetically pleasing and more inviting to read.
Received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks to Netgalley, Yale University Press, and Kasia Boddy for giving me the chance to read Blooming Flowers
From Words & Nocturnes.