A review by lindasdarby
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on a Family Farm by John Connell

4.0

I'm giving this a 4 because there were some essays that I enjoyed so much and were so poignant that I can ignore the bits I didn't love. While this book was very similar to "The Shepherd's Life" I found that unlike the shepherd book John Connell wasn't bitter. In fact John Connell loved farming and the animals, he talked about finding his true self on the farm and his writing of the farm was just lovely and somewhat reminiscent of Wendell Berry for me. I found myself wanting to see his farm in Ireland(perhaps not in the winter) and enjoying thoroughly his writing on all aspects of the farm. A wonderful book.