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This One Wild and Precious Life: A Hopeful Path Forward in a Fractured World by Sarah Wilson
lsparrow's review
3.0
I have to say i agree with many of the ideas in this book but found the tone somewhat patronizing.
philippakmoore's review
5.0
Nothing short of magnificent. Full of raw honesty, grief and hope. I will be thinking about this book - and it’s humour, wisdom, and passionate powerful pleas to us to take better care of each other, ourselves and the planet - for a long time.
orlabooksihaveread's review
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
A poignant, inspiring and reflective story about life. It covers so many amazing aspects. It has changed my perspectives on how I live. It is one of those books that you’ll need to pick up many times throughout your life when you need reminding.
ansemanco's review
1.0
As someone who works directly in the climate and conservation movement, this book felt very surface-level. There was a lot of self-righteousness disguised as "easy, simple living" and a lot of shaming language that felt immature and uninformed. The author seemed very concerned with fixing everything (and implied that the solutions were incredibly simple — just don't use a disposable coffee cup!) but very unwilling to hold sacred space and acknowledge the complexity of capitalism, climate change, cultural differences, etc.
The scope of the book was also much too broad and gave this surface skim of the world's ills (that we're all already aware of) without diving deeply and posing stories and descriptions that might cause us to pause and think constructively about any of it.
I just couldn't shake the undertones of arrogance, self-righteousness, and refusal to meet people where they're at, as well as the implication that no one else was thinking about these things or concerned about these issues, or changing their life as much as the author to address it. It just really belittled the decades of work professionals in this space have been doing and took on the tone of, "How has no one thought of this before?!" We have thought of it. We're working tirelessly on it. And saving your chicken bones from your meals out to make broth is most definitely not the solution we all somehow stupidly missed.
The scope of the book was also much too broad and gave this surface skim of the world's ills (that we're all already aware of) without diving deeply and posing stories and descriptions that might cause us to pause and think constructively about any of it.
I just couldn't shake the undertones of arrogance, self-righteousness, and refusal to meet people where they're at, as well as the implication that no one else was thinking about these things or concerned about these issues, or changing their life as much as the author to address it. It just really belittled the decades of work professionals in this space have been doing and took on the tone of, "How has no one thought of this before?!" We have thought of it. We're working tirelessly on it. And saving your chicken bones from your meals out to make broth is most definitely not the solution we all somehow stupidly missed.
80hannah08's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
justinsim's review
1.0
She explains that she recalled this book several times from publishers to add content after world events.
It shows. This book has no flow and is just a jumble of random topics. She makes some good points but its not worth subjecting yourself to the rest of the spiritual ranting about hiking to sus out the points of value
It shows. This book has no flow and is just a jumble of random topics. She makes some good points but its not worth subjecting yourself to the rest of the spiritual ranting about hiking to sus out the points of value
casacacti's review
3.0
(3.5/5)
this took me a while to read. it asks a lot of questions of the reader, which is great for self-reflection and realisation, but not great as a before bed read (i stopped reading it before going to sleep).
its basically a big information dump intertwined with sarah wilsons own journey of self-reflection/realisation, and i really did learn so much. i just didnt love it as much as i loved 'the beast'.
saying that, ive tabbed the absolute shit out of this and i am looking forward to going through and writing information down.
this took me a while to read. it asks a lot of questions of the reader, which is great for self-reflection and realisation, but not great as a before bed read (i stopped reading it before going to sleep).
its basically a big information dump intertwined with sarah wilsons own journey of self-reflection/realisation, and i really did learn so much. i just didnt love it as much as i loved 'the beast'.
saying that, ive tabbed the absolute shit out of this and i am looking forward to going through and writing information down.