A review by avieherman
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

I found the pace of this book a little too slow and reflective for my tastes at the moment. At times the language feels too rich to feel completely immersive and relatable. While I also live a life of privilege, it kind of felt like the author was living on another planet with the flexibility her life seems to afford for all sorts of adventure — I don’t think this would have been irritating if the book wasn’t trying to position itself as being instructive for what we need to thrive. It was interesting and I enjoyed it, but the way it vacillated between the practical and philosophical, it felt ungrounded and trying to do too much, without quite achieving what it seems to have set out to do, so it didn’t quite hit the spot for me.