Reviews

The Way of the Storyteller by Ruth Sawyer

angelayoung's review

5.0

For anyone who wants to know why stories need to be told (not read); why stories are so ineffably important to the making-sense of our lives and how a mistress of her art thought and felt and performed, and how we can, too. Magical and transformative (just like the best stories).

satyridae's review

3.0

I got this book for Christmas, and I was surprised that I'd never heard of it before. I adore Sawyer's Roller Skates, and thought I'd read all of her other books. This one is in a lot of ways a textbook. Sawyer examines storytelling down through the ages, and though there are some dated parts which refer to "savages", it's a pretty wonderful book. It makes me wish I could have gone to one of her events, sat at her feet, and listened to her spin a yarn.