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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
It’s just didn’t engage me enough to commit.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This book was well researched and much more nuanced than its title would suggest. The subtitle should have been the title here. In a nutshell, slow down, learn about your bioregion, and you don't have to be productive all the time. (Something I apparently needed to hear.)
hopeful
informative
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
informative
relaxing
slow-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced
slow-paced
What I liked:
-Generally just a really interesting subject. The relationship between what we pay attention to and our relationships with ourselves, other people, and the natural world. These are things I've personally been thinking about a lot over the past few years.
-All the different sources and references that come together to make Odell's arguments, without needing them to be actually related to each other, without making distinctions between "academic" and "non-academic" or "research" and "non-research". This book feels like having a conversation with someone who reads a lot of really interesting books, and I liked that
-I don't agree with all of the ideas here and that's actually a good thing - ideas that are interesting and complex enough to be disagreed with
What I didn't like:
-The tone of the writing is very academic and gets dense in places. Odell is an academic but she's writing for a wider audience here and I think some of the power and passion in the ideas gets a little lost when you have to read the same sentence three times to realize what it's saying
-The treatment of historic Indigenous Americans here to me felt a little infantilizing, reminding me of stereotypes about ~pure and gentle people who lived in total peace and harmony with the land~. (This is separate from how Odell writes about currently living Indigenous people she knows personally or as scholars, which seemed fine to me.)
-Generally just a really interesting subject. The relationship between what we pay attention to and our relationships with ourselves, other people, and the natural world. These are things I've personally been thinking about a lot over the past few years.
-All the different sources and references that come together to make Odell's arguments, without needing them to be actually related to each other, without making distinctions between "academic" and "non-academic" or "research" and "non-research". This book feels like having a conversation with someone who reads a lot of really interesting books, and I liked that
-I don't agree with all of the ideas here and that's actually a good thing - ideas that are interesting and complex enough to be disagreed with
What I didn't like:
-The tone of the writing is very academic and gets dense in places. Odell is an academic but she's writing for a wider audience here and I think some of the power and passion in the ideas gets a little lost when you have to read the same sentence three times to realize what it's saying
-The treatment of historic Indigenous Americans here to me felt a little infantilizing, reminding me of stereotypes about ~pure and gentle people who lived in total peace and harmony with the land~. (This is separate from how Odell writes about currently living Indigenous people she knows personally or as scholars, which seemed fine to me.)
Took me a year to read. Not my thing! I h8 philosophy. Let me watch my birds in peace i do not need to read that far into it