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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In <em>My Garden </em>(Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. <em>My Garden</em> (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jamaica Kincaid, Vermont resident who teaches at Harvard, writes as though she is transcribing thoughts as they form in her brain...the longest sentences I've ever seen (and I've seen some long sentences)...about her passion gardening, her loosely constructed gardens at her home, the people who help...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70464254">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely adore this collection of essays about the famous writer's own gardens. Jamaica Kincaid creates on paper and creates in the ground. I love her disdain for some flowers, her defense of others -- namely the Sweet Annie, one I bought myself a couple years ago simply because my daughter is n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6979000">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a book with garden hints.  A book about her garden and other observations.  Short and pithy.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In <em>My Garden </em>(Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. <em>My Garden</em> (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book in preparation for loving my new yard.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Jamaica Kincaid, author of Annie John, writes of gardens and gardeners in her most insightful and engaging book to date.  <p>In My Garden (Book), Jamaica gathers all she loves about gardening and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer, but not winter, which is so unremittingly white. She adores rhododendron Jane Grant and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily and dreams of ways to trap small plant-eating animals. The sources of her inspiration-seed catalogues (the glossy ones and, even better, the nonglossy ones), legendary gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll and Graham Stuart Thomas, famous gardens like Monet's at Giverny and Vita Sackville-West's at Sissinghurst-receive keen scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where one of her favorite school subjects was botany, and considers the implications of the English formal garden in colonized countries; and she visits historic English gardens on English soil.  <p>My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the gardeners who tend them.  <p>Illustrations  <p>Jamaica Kincaid's most recent book (as editor) is an anthology of writing on plants, My Favorite Plant (FSG, 1998). She lives in Vermont with her husband and children, and teaches at Harvard University.</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Her first garden in Vermont.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In <em>My Garden </em>(Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. <em>My Garden</em> (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still reading it, but I'm really enjoying it.  Will use it for reference when I actually have my own garden. She referrs to a lot of flowers she likes and good catalogs to order from.  I absolutely love her writing style and this book doesn't dissapoint.  It's a first edition, signed copy, so I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6717486">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In <em>My Garden </em>(Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. <em>My Garden</em> (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had this book and picked it up off myself for the third or 4th time. For some reason I never got through it before even though her writing. Anyway, since the seasons are changing and I'm watching my little garden plot drop, drop and drop again it's nice to read about another obsessive gardener....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8341388">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was just going through some old books when I came across this treasure. It's been many years, but I still remember her love of Joe Pye weed and her loathing of breadfruit, and the reasons why. I loved this book. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Jamaica Kincaid, author of Annie John, writes of gardens and gardeners in her most insightful and engaging book to date.  <p>In My Garden (Book), Jamaica gathers all she loves about gardening and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer, but not winter, which is so unremittingly white. She adores rhododendron Jane Grant and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily and dreams of ways to trap small plant-eating animals. The sources of her inspiration-seed catalogues (the glossy ones and, even better, the nonglossy ones), legendary gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll and Graham Stuart Thomas, famous gardens like Monet's at Giverny and Vita Sackville-West's at Sissinghurst-receive keen scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where one of her favorite school subjects was botany, and considers the implications of the English formal garden in colonized countries; and she visits historic English gardens on English soil.  <p>My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the gardeners who tend them.  <p>Illustrations  <p>Jamaica Kincaid's most recent book (as editor) is an anthology of writing on plants, My Favorite Plant (FSG, 1998). She lives in Vermont with her husband and children, and teaches at Harvard University.</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delightfully vibrant.  Jamaica Kincaid writes all about her experiences planting her garden.  I bought this book shortly after hearing her read aloud from her book Annie John at UVM, she was incredible. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!<br/>so great. <br/>who knew there were other people who drooled over the white flower farms catalog? or dreamed about clematis and just the right place for a new perennial? sigh.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In <em>My Garden </em>(Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. <em>My Garden</em> (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[even if you are not interested in gardening or plants, this is a beautiful book. kincaid is like a poet and her tale of travelling to france, to visit monet's garden is truly enchanting. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In <em>My Garden </em>(Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. <em>My Garden</em> (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not enjoying this book very much.  Finding the prose difficult to get through.  Not capturing my interest.  Will probably put it down and find something else to read.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In <em>My Garden </em>(Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. <em>My Garden</em> (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an extraordinary book, part memoir of her personal history with gardening, more so a powerful analysis of colonization from one of its subjects. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In <em>My Garden </em>(Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. <em>My Garden</em> (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Her obsession with gardening surpasses mine, but I still find myself thinking about this book while I am out in my garden working.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked some parts of the book but, as much as I tried, could not really like the author.  It was very distracting.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a brilliant book if you ask me. made me wish i had a greener thumb and more talent as a writer...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book takes a lot of thought, but once I realized it was just about a garden, it took on a new life.]]></body>
    
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