false 158741 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

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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...]]> 71135665 2735813 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 42125440 1023870 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 40000599 1184840 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 5 2 false Sat Dec 13 01:35:36 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 13:06:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 47289561 1266077 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 77469130 1173248 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 4 0 false Mon Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 13:57:47 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 09:24:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 49250235 2123862 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 34697867 1597507 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 21312189 134035 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 39714861 1777325 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 35880458 695451 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 5 0 false Tue Oct 21 14:45:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 14:52:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1625522 97678 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 52924657 84616 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 79023285 2982159 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 4 0 false Wed Nov 25 22:35:06 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 22:41:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 23179488 1194794 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 41962533 1867712 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 79307653 2232295 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 0 0 false Sun Nov 29 12:23:10 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 06:21:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 50062716 311286 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 17944854 316631 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 75244269 837382 12534 0060915412 9780060915414 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805m/12534.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192069805s/12534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk_Expeditions_and_Encounters 4.21 811 1983 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...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=158741