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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

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Nov 29, 2019 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: memoir, nonfiction, nature, simplicity, spirituality

I first read this book a long time ago, when it first came out. I don't remember where I saw it or why I picked it up, but I remember reading it and loving it.

I read it again in April of 2001 for my amazing online reading group, bookgrouplist, and this time I was able to read it and hear the thoughts of many wise people about the book.

This year I resolved to finish (somehow!) my memoir of the summer I spent in Yellowstone Park, and I just naturally found Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and decided to r ...more

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Apr 08, 2015 Lisa of Hopewell rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2015, pulitzer-prize-winners, modern-library-s-best-nonfiction

If it is rare that I read a book largely on science, then finishing two such in a month is rarer still. This is another of the amazing books assigned in the Amblesideonline homeschool curriculum and one of the first I’ve finished from my Self-Assigned Reading from that curriculum.

Sometimes a classic becomes a classic because there’s absolutely nothing else at all to call it. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is that book. While I admittedly skipped some of the part on internal parasites, this is among the ...more

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