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shilten_k's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
5.0
liberrydude's review
1.0
Disappointingly dull. The best thing about this book is its cover. The map is useless. The pictures are hazy, not sharp. The author writes about people and places and her taking pictures but omits the pictures. Annoying.
The author is an outsider, a Han Chinese woman, living with Kazakh herders. She tries to make herself useful and succeeds in integrating herself into the daily household chores in an austere environment. There are moments of beauty and introspection in the wilderness as she contemplates what is a vanishing way of life but they are too few. It’s mostly a tale of boring drudgery in a cold environment.
I can’t believe I didn’t abandon it. An ordeal to read.
The author is an outsider, a Han Chinese woman, living with Kazakh herders. She tries to make herself useful and succeeds in integrating herself into the daily household chores in an austere environment. There are moments of beauty and introspection in the wilderness as she contemplates what is a vanishing way of life but they are too few. It’s mostly a tale of boring drudgery in a cold environment.
I can’t believe I didn’t abandon it. An ordeal to read.
bexellency's review
Slow moving. Interesting, but no through line providing forward momentum to the story. Skipped ahead to check and the content was the same.
breannew's review against another edition
Felt very long; interesting info but hard to listen to at the slow pace