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“Teaching a Stone to Talk” is a collection of what Annie calls occasional pieces “such as a writer brings out to supplement his real work; instead this is my real work” from the early 1980s. It's bits and pieces, really. In the signature essa...more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4 0 false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 21:39:49 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 21:39:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 3 0 false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 13:14:42 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 09:17:32 -0800 2009
From "Total Eclipse": "The ...more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 2 false Sat Dec 13 01:35:36 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 13:06:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 3 0 false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 23 13:52:02 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 23:08:06 -0700 2009 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which was making a sensation at the time (1974). Her prose was strong, I thought, and her observations trenchant. But her tendency to go overboard in making a point felt like someone trying too hard. The only passage to s...more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 14 11:20:20 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 11:24:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 06 19:21:17 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 12:18:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 0 false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 06:33:58 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 06:44:49 -0700 2008
I think there are a couple quotes that overal...more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Tue Dec 09 14:04:15 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 14:08:27 -0800 2008 5 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 0 false Tue Oct 21 14:45:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 14:52:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 08:08:22 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 09:02:13 -0700 2007 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood), yet still incredibly personal, Teaching a Stone to Talk is a worthy member of this incredible writer's body of work.

The book is made up of a series of shorts covering a range of plac...more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4 0 false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 13:01:29 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 06:54:00 -0700 2009
This book was a little too heavy on the life philosophy at times, but that's more of a reflection of my current state of mind (overstimu...more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4 0 false Wed Nov 25 22:35:06 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 22:41:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4 0 false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 19:14:09 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 20:24:39 -0700 2008 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or Holy the Firm or even The Maytrees. Perhaps it's because I'm still in my twenties and see the world from an awestruck perspective (a la Pilgrim) while Di...more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Mon Jan 05 09:25:11 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 07:37:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 0 0 false Sun Nov 29 12:23:10 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 06:21:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 0 false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 10:19:10 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 13:37:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 11:01:55 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 11:09:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4 0 false Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 21 08:45:37 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 29 14:34:17 -0800 2009 1
Her anecdotes and narratives about natural history, exploration, animals, and geography win...more...]]> 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 784 84 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jul 17 01:54:43 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 02:55:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12534