A review by sde
Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass by Ruth Wright Paulsen, Gary Paulsen

3.0

Everyone else in my book group loved this book. I thought it was merely OK. I found the writing itself lovely and lyrical, but the content read like a flowery farmer's diary. Now I'm an archivist, and I know how valuable a farmer's diary can be for all sorts of research. But it's not something I want to sit down and read cover to cover for sheer enjoyment. Like with other books about farming, it may be that I already know too much about the topic to find it interesting.

This book is very different from Paulsen's YA fiction, and it was interesting to see this side of him and learn a little bit of his own history.