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Well, this is a peculiar book that started out ploddingly yet picked up steam after the halfway point. At times it whines, shrilly, as self-indulgent and precious (though I guess any author could be accused of this) yet at other times has dazzling moments of brilliance and soulfulness. I thought I had no expectations going into this read but at the end I thought "Hmm, that was not what I expected at all." Of course now the problem is I don't know what I thought I would be in for, reading this bo
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A lovely little book that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1975) that describes in great detail a young woman's interaction with nature for one year when she is 24.
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This book sort of wasn’t in my normal wheelhouse. The god bits particularly. Though honestly, they were fine. There wasn’t that much religion and the kind of religion that was present was that I don’t mind hearing about.
It was the nature I was here for and that was beautiful. The thing was, somehow my brain just couldn’t hold on to any of it. I found myself avoiding reading rather than to read it. I didn’t really dislike it, exactly, it just didn’t work for me. I think that for many this would ...more
It was the nature I was here for and that was beautiful. The thing was, somehow my brain just couldn’t hold on to any of it. I found myself avoiding reading rather than to read it. I didn’t really dislike it, exactly, it just didn’t work for me. I think that for many this would ...more
Maybe I was trying to read this too fast, maybe it needs to be read the way Annie Dillard "stalks" the creatures along Tinker Creek but I was a little disappointed. Dillard's observations of nature are beautifully written, her insights are sharp and brilliant but somewhere she leaves me behind when she makes a leap into the cosmos and leaves the here and now.
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Lots of beautiful writing, but I was bored.
Mar 04, 2011
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