Status Updates From A Field Guide to Getting Lost

حالا تکلیف ما که گم شدن بلد نیستیم چیه؟!

«مارین همیشه به دل ناشناخته‌ها شیرجه می‌زد اما همیشه به خانه برمی‌گشت، در حالی که من از مبدا حرکتم، مسیر مستقیم را کشان‌کشان می‌رفتم.»

Unfortunately, my kindle edition is already missing pages. Pages 25-28 aren't there. I think they were supposed to be maps.

I’ve forged a connection whether intentional or not.

«بعضی چیز‌ها را تا زمانی داریم که گم بمانند و بعضی چیز‌ها، تا زمانی که دور اند، گم نمی‌شوند.»

یه فصل خوبه یه فصل خمیاااازه.

ترکیبی جذاب از زندگی و ادبیات و خاطره

《آبیِ دوردست رنگِ یک حس است، رنگ تنهایی و رنگ حسرت، رنگ آن‌جایی که از این‌جا پیداست، رنگ جایی که خودت آن‌جا نیستی و رنگ جایی که هیچ وقت نمی‌توانی بروی، چون این آبی کیلومترها دورتر بر لبهٔ افق ننشسته، بلکه در فاصلهٔ بین تو و آن کوه‌هاست.》

چقدر خوبه دقیقا چیزیه که این روزا بهش نیاز داشتم.

Bu kitaba Lombardy turu öncesi Sabiha Gökçen'de başlamıştım ve çok tatlı gelmişti. İnsan direkt bir bağlantı kuruyor böyle olduğunda... Ama gelin görün ki İtalya'nın tepeleri arasında gerçek "kaybolunca" daha birkaç gün önce başladığınız bu kitapla bağlantınız çelik konstrüksiyonla sağlamlaşıyor ve çok seviyorsunuz. Taptaze, nefis bir metin.

Absolutely beautiful. Gives a lot of insight and validation in changing and changing surroundings. Slayslay

From what i have read now: beautifully written non-fiction essays that scratches my brain in a very pleasing way. Really got me motivated again in its first pages already to get out there and go out of my comfortable bubble. Looking forward to the rest of the book :)

Pretentious and boring

I'm gobbling this up, this is phenomenal...

Want to dnf but we gotta hustle through this one ;(

going to take a while to finish. highlighting something on every page so far.

Me quedo por los capítulos de El azul de la distancia.

Cuando leo ensayos, lo que menos quiero es leer sobre la vida de quien escribe. Sólo quiero que se acabe pronto.

Not an easy read

Second part of title checks out. What on earth was this? No clue. Seemed pretentious and pointless.

best day of my life (I finally have 3 more Rebecca Solnit books in my possession)

"The practice of awareness takes us below the reasonableness that we'd like to think we live with and then we start to see something quite fascinating, which is the drama of our inner dialogue, of the stories that go through our minds and the feelings that go through our heart, and we start to see in this territory it isn't so neat and orderly and, dare I say it, safe or reasonable." p.198-9

"Nonfiction seems to me photographic; it poses the same challange of finding form and pattern in the stuff already out there and the same ethical obligations to the subject. Fiction like painting lets you start with a blank canvas..." p.144

'I think now that the suburbs were a kind of tranquilizer for the generation before us, if topography can be a drug.' p.107

'For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountains ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not.' p.29

'Children, Landon said, are good at getting lost, because "the key in survival is knowing you're lost": they don't stray far, they curl up in some sheltered place at night, they know they need help.' p.11

ERRR ITS OKAY!

can already tell this book is very special .. I’m FED