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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston
3 reviews
katiecentabar's review against another edition
emotional
funny
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
4.25
It really was a 5 star until a 60-page play-by-play novella about a forest fire which started as fascinating and devolved into annoying for me. But this is an incredibly soulful and beautiful elegy for the earth and all those who call it home. Pam Houston has Lived
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Child abuse
reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
WARNING: don't read this book unless you are ready to leave it all behind, buy a ranch in Colorado, and adopt a bunch of donkeys!!! Pam Houston WILL convince you.
Houston's writing is so poignant. She makes it her mission to communicate the beauty of the forest and the animals and the land while they are still around. Some chapters, I felt like I was standing next to her in the still morning, with a layer of snow over everything, or laying on the porch with her and her beloved dog in his last moments, looking up at the stars and feeling the crushing, fleeting nature of life and love. I especially felt her heartbreak and anger in the chapter "Diary of a Fire" as her world literally burned around her.
If there is a balance to be found between doom-and-gloom climate dialogue and hope, this is it. Houston puts it better herself than I can:
"This book has been an effort to write my way to an understanding of how to be alive in the meantime, in the final days, if not of the earth, then at least of the earth as I've known her. Because it has only been in knowing her that I've come to know myself."
Houston's writing is so poignant. She makes it her mission to communicate the beauty of the forest and the animals and the land while they are still around. Some chapters, I felt like I was standing next to her in the still morning, with a layer of snow over everything, or laying on the porch with her and her beloved dog in his last moments, looking up at the stars and feeling the crushing, fleeting nature of life and love. I especially felt her heartbreak and anger in the chapter "Diary of a Fire" as her world literally burned around her.
If there is a balance to be found between doom-and-gloom climate dialogue and hope, this is it. Houston puts it better herself than I can:
"This book has been an effort to write my way to an understanding of how to be alive in the meantime, in the final days, if not of the earth, then at least of the earth as I've known her. Because it has only been in knowing her that I've come to know myself."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
trudy4088d's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, and Child abuse
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
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