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A review by debnielsen
Landlines by Raynor Winn
5.0
This book is hope and love, the type of love that I want to read about. I’ve never been much of a romance reader but this is real, solid, steady, old love - not candlelight and wine but holding hands falling asleep in your tent under the stars love.
I’ve been drawn to this type of book lately. The get out of the rat race, step off the beaten path and find genuine purpose and peace stories, which likely says something about my state of mind.
In addition to being a love story (and a love poem to the earth), the book mixes history, geography, and the human condition into a spellbinding journey. It talks about a lot about life especially after Covid.
Wish I hadn’t come into this 3-part story in the third act but I can’t imagine it will spoil acts 1 and 2, simply fill in some gaps.
Great quotation: “Hope. It’s powerful; it can change things. But you’ve got to put yourself in the way of it, let yourself feel it. Let the power of it lift you up. That’s what you’re doing: putting yourself in the way of hope. Do that and anything can happen” (qtd. in Winn, p. 51). Must remember this.
A must read for anyone in a long term relationship or wishing they were, anyone facing chronic illness with someone, anyone in love with walking and the world.
I’ve been drawn to this type of book lately. The get out of the rat race, step off the beaten path and find genuine purpose and peace stories, which likely says something about my state of mind.
In addition to being a love story (and a love poem to the earth), the book mixes history, geography, and the human condition into a spellbinding journey. It talks about a lot about life especially after Covid.
Wish I hadn’t come into this 3-part story in the third act but I can’t imagine it will spoil acts 1 and 2, simply fill in some gaps.
Great quotation: “Hope. It’s powerful; it can change things. But you’ve got to put yourself in the way of it, let yourself feel it. Let the power of it lift you up. That’s what you’re doing: putting yourself in the way of hope. Do that and anything can happen” (qtd. in Winn, p. 51). Must remember this.
A must read for anyone in a long term relationship or wishing they were, anyone facing chronic illness with someone, anyone in love with walking and the world.