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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320592.First_Person_Rural_Essays_of_a_Sometime_Farmer?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1173738550m/320592.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320592.First_Person_Rural_Essays_of_a_Sometime_Farmer?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43909.Noel_Perrin">Noel Perrin</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12952603?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>Perrin's collection of essays discuss life in Vermont from the perspective of someone who used to live in New York City. While the essays were at times fun to read and highlight how much Vermont has changed and silmultaneously stayed the same, they were a bit dated (I think this was first published in 1978?). Chris Bohjalian (he used to live in Brooklyn before he moved to VT) has published a collection of weekly newspaper columns that he writes for the Burlingotn Free Press. Titled Idyll Banter, this collection of lessons a NYC transplant to VT learns are much more current and, I think, funnier. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/740625?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>