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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." ~Mary Oliver
reflective
reflective
slow-paced
I’m sorry but that was not for me. Too disjointed and rambl-y and not much resonated with me
harder for me to finish but mary holds a mental state that feels like something to work towards
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
To paraphrase Elvis Costello, “All this useful beauty.”
I enjoyed the essays focused more so on literature (though the more biographical aspects were a bit dull) rather than the ones focused on animals, as they were a bit... uncomfortable.
adventurous
emotional
reflective
reflective
slow-paced
I really enjoyed several of these essays, but to be honest (and looking at other reviews, it seems I’m not the only one!), some others were odd, uncomfortable, and/or disconcerting. Oliver’s style in the essays I preferred reminded me of Robin Wall Kimmerer, though I liked Braiding Sweetgrass much more than this collection.