Lemon: Kwon Yeo-sun

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I wish this had lived up to its absolutely gorgeous cover, but it didn't quite. The focus is the women-founded Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for the purpose of ending the brutal plumage trade (the main reason I was interested in it), and the tensions between the Society and the contemporary suffragist movement. The Society is represented by Etta Lemon, the suffragist movement by Emmeline Pankhurst. I appreciated how Boase set up these two women and brought out their similarities in the midst of their glaring differences: Lemon, a strong-willed and outspoken woman, opposed extending the vote to women. I also appreciated how Boase made an effort to understand both sides, although I don't think she spent as much time exploring the reasons why some women opposed the suffragist movement as she should have: she ultimately concluded (as far as I could tell) that these women had just internalized misogyny and couldn't get beyond seeing themselves as standing in the shadow of the men. In the end it felt like Boase was still struggling to wrap her mind around the concept of women opposing women's suffrage...and not quite succeeding. [She also kept mentioning and describing the moustaches on the guys, and I got the feeling she was treating it as a sign of the patriarchy or something and it was just weird.]

I had absolutely no idea about what a "thing" feathers were for Victorian-era women, or what a huge business they were -- or what a toll they took on bird populations around the world, with some species hunted to the point of extinction. Boase lays out the facts here in horrifying detail. I was reminded of how both the beaver and the buffalo here in North America were hunted and slaughtered in massive numbers -- primarily for their pelts -- between the early 1600s & late 1800s, almost to the point of extinction. This is a was a true delight. Meticulously researched with extraordinary revelations shining from every stone turned over. Historic time travel at its most compelling that transports us to a zeitgeist so utterly alien to our own and so completely that we understand and feel what it must have been to have lived in such through such a pivotal time in our social history.

Lemon

Lemon” [a Korean translated psychological literary crime thriller] is the strangest-odd-intriguing….slowly affecting book …

The novel(la) is told in chapters sets over the years from 2002 to the present day (2019) and the narration switches between three narrators, Da-on, and two of the sister's schoolmates, Taerim (태림), a rival for Jeong-jun's affections, and who was with Han Manu on the day, and Sanghui (상희), who was in a literary club with Da-on, and whose poem, inspired by Joyce's Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man (and the line: The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt) gives the novel it's title: The past owners of the farm were still living there when they arrived, and they were helpful, if not in showing them the ropes, in providing meals. They met other interesting farmers and town’s people, but they didn’t have the wonderful bakeries like they did in the book on Tuscany. What they had was a pig feast, and when I heard that they were going to kill two pigs, I couldn’t listen.”

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This book is very enjoyable, and made me want to find out more about such eccentric characters as the Duchess of Portland, and learn more about Arthur Mattingley, who photographed Australian egrets for the Society. From these and Boase’s writing, we get a good sense of out two heroines, Etta Lemon and Emmeline Pankhurst—where they came from, what drove them, and their lives, thoughts and ideas which moved in very different directions to each other.

The Realtor takes him around to look at the various farms, driving down a road next to a lemon orchard where he had to drive over the lemons that had been blown onto the road, so the title of this book. Once at the entrance to the farm, he learns that he had to walk an hour to get to it. Then, when he describes the farm, I think, the title of this book should have been, Buying a Lemon, because, first, there is no road access, and then he learns that there is no water or electricity, but there are scorpions. Sold! Chilling, suspenseful and disconcerting... I couldn't put it down and read deep into the night until I finished it, with my heart hammering' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face Pinché un trozo de cabra y fingí quedarme extasiado por el ritmo, dando golpecitos con el pie en un vano intento de encontrar el compás. Mientras golpeaba con el pie, masticaba con furia el detestable trozo de ternilla de cabra que tenía en la boca. La canción se paró de forma abrupta y, una vez más, los músicos me miraron inquisitivamente. Pero esta vez mi integridad como crítico musical fue salvada por la ternilla de cabra que oportunamente se me había quedado atragantada en la tráquea." something that’s learned as they grow up? It can be both? It can be caused by a combination of factors?”

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Some beautiful prose, and interesting statements to make about grief, guilt and tragedy... In fact, in a book where the catalyst is a mysterious unsolved murder, the murder is actually the least interesting thing about the whole story' Etta Lemon, on the other hand, was vehemently ANTI-suffrage -- but she too was a divisive, crusading figure, who helped found what eventually became known as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which still exists today and is Britain's best-known nature conservation society. There was a great deal of rivalry and tension between the two organizations. (Some women, of course, belonged to both and supported both causes.)