Despite the circumstances, Lee´s love for his family and his village shines through on every page. His mother also had to raise three daughters of his father´s previous marriage as well as her three sons, while their father left to live his own life apart from them. Lee´s childhood must have been hard a lot of the time, there was never much to eat, no electricity, icy winters, and young children often did not come through. Lee´s prose is unbelievably beautiful and his background as poet is very noticable, that combined with the landscape and life he describes makes for a book that appeals foremost to the senses. The narrative spans the years from when Lee is about three years old and his mother and his siblings move to the village until shortly before he “walked out one midsummer morning”. In thirteen quasi-episodes he describes his chaotic but loving family, the village eccentrics, the beautiful Cotswolds, and more. As a result the books I´m reading often look like in the picture 🙂 Can you already tell that I loved Cider with Rosie?Ĭider with Rosie is Laurie Lee´s memoir of his Cotswold childhood. (I carry a pack of them with me and even keep some on my bedside table). This habit come in handy when I read library books, but I still want to note down my favorite passages and so I use post-it markers.
I break the spine (gasp, I know), dog-ear them and generally put them through a lot. I´m not quite sure why this matters to me, because I don´t treat my books super carefully in any other regard. I never underline passages in books or write in the margins, it seems sacrilegious somehow.
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