Cheryl’s Reviews > The Rural Life > Status Update

I love how this opens, blowing me away from the first sentences. "I walk past the blank books - gifts of nothingness - that pile up in bookstores at this season, and I can almost hear their clean white pages begging to be defaced."

So far so lovely. It's not a narrative, and it's not cohesive. Each essay is short, some months are represented by only a couple of of essays, some by several. So read it like eating at a nice buffet - some dishes you'll like more than others, some are sweeter or more savory than others....

So far so lovely. It's not a narrative, and it's not cohesive. Each essay is short, some months are represented by only a couple of of essays, some by several. So read it like eating at a nice buffet - some dishes you'll like more than others, some are sweeter or more savory than others....