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sde's review
3.0
Everyone else in my book group loved this book. I thought it was merely OK. I found the writing itself lovely and lyrical, but the content read like a flowery farmer's diary. Now I'm an archivist, and I know how valuable a farmer's diary can be for all sorts of research. But it's not something I want to sit down and read cover to cover for sheer enjoyment. Like with other books about farming, it may be that I already know too much about the topic to find it interesting.
This book is very different from Paulsen's YA fiction, and it was interesting to see this side of him and learn a little bit of his own history.
This book is very different from Paulsen's YA fiction, and it was interesting to see this side of him and learn a little bit of his own history.
bibliocat4's review
4.0
Paulsen gives a wonderful poetry to this book that makes a single subject, the farm during the 4 seasons, flow and move with such grace and beauty. I truly felt a connection to my own farmer ancestors reading this book!
itsgarbagetime's review
3.0
sort of a two-note johhny sort of book, i.e. farming is constant labor and there are many beauties and tragedies in this labor, but pleasant enough. if not for the charm of thinking about how it's the same author as hatchet, i wouldn't care so much. but, given my current living situation, all v. topical.
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