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kingjason's review against another edition
5.0
"The water was Sheeny in the gloaming"
I love that line. This was a wonderful book, easily one of the best I have ever read.
I was expecting it to be good and all about nature, what I wasn't expecting was to be taken into the authors life, to experience all that she was going through, all the family issues. You really get to feel just how much she wants to escape from it all and be at peace with nature.
A couple of favourite parts in the book were scouring the remote Scottish island beaches for anything interesting that might have washed up... of course there had to be a road cone. Also watching the peregrines was very interesting and the fact that she found a copy of a book I have always wanted to read [b:The Peregrine|1071726|The Peregrine|J.A. Baker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320533665s/1071726.jpg|1058416] just makes me want a copy even more.
Looking forward to reading her next book called sightlines.
Blog review is here. https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/findings-by-kathleen-jamie/
I love that line. This was a wonderful book, easily one of the best I have ever read.
I was expecting it to be good and all about nature, what I wasn't expecting was to be taken into the authors life, to experience all that she was going through, all the family issues. You really get to feel just how much she wants to escape from it all and be at peace with nature.
A couple of favourite parts in the book were scouring the remote Scottish island beaches for anything interesting that might have washed up... of course there had to be a road cone. Also watching the peregrines was very interesting and the fact that she found a copy of a book I have always wanted to read [b:The Peregrine|1071726|The Peregrine|J.A. Baker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320533665s/1071726.jpg|1058416] just makes me want a copy even more.
Looking forward to reading her next book called sightlines.
Blog review is here. https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/findings-by-kathleen-jamie/
rosebland's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
eleanorryd's review against another edition
4.0
Really enjoyed this. Had to read some of the essays for school, read the rest because I wanted to. Slows life down for a bit and gives an interesting perspective on a lot of things.
madelinedaisy's review against another edition
4.0
Really interesting collection though I felt that the Surgeons Hall and the Edinburgh chapter didn't really fit into the book overall.
halfmanhalfbook's review against another edition
5.0
There is something about the way that Jamie writes that captivates and immerses you in the subject that she writes about.
This book is no exception to that.
The subject, or short essays, that are in this book are not exclusively about the natural world, but most are. As she writes on the matter at hand, I feel her passion and her strengths, her weakness and doubts, and all the time I am amazed by the attention to detail that she has in her prose. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether she is writing about peregrines or her husbands fever, you feel alongside, seeing the things that she has seen, feeling the wind and smelling the sea.
This is effortless, exquisite reading.
This book is no exception to that.
The subject, or short essays, that are in this book are not exclusively about the natural world, but most are. As she writes on the matter at hand, I feel her passion and her strengths, her weakness and doubts, and all the time I am amazed by the attention to detail that she has in her prose. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether she is writing about peregrines or her husbands fever, you feel alongside, seeing the things that she has seen, feeling the wind and smelling the sea.
This is effortless, exquisite reading.
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