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A review by nearisfresh
Things That Are by Amy Leach
5.0
Consistently it seems that my favourite books are highly stylised non-fiction. This is a collection of essays and short stories, creative non-fiction. It covers a wide range of subjects but essentially is preoccupied with nature, exploring dozens of unique aspects of the natural world, and our relationships with them. Each story is filled with easily a half dozen meanings and metaphors and points of consideration. A favourite of mine is Love-in-a-mist, which I quoted in a speech I gave at my best friend's wedding. She was the one who gifted me the book.
I feel like there's too much to say about this book, to the point where I simply could never say it all. It took me a really long time to read because every time I read another section, it would stick with me for weeks. I felt it really valuable to let the book stay with me as long as it needed to, not to rush it in its journey through my life. I'm not someone who rereads books very often, but I can very easily imagine myself coming back to this one.
The afterword also really stuck with me, as the environmentalist leanings of the book as a whole became glaring. "Here's a list of some of the world's beauties," this book says, "and here is a post-natural world." I really think this is a must-read, if only to remind yourself of how much wonder exists in the universe and how important it is to protect. Leach's style of writing is beautiful in its own right, though, and I frequently found myself wishing I could be zapped into her brain and never leave.
Thank you Rachel for giving me this book, it's going to be very important to me for a long time I think.
I feel like there's too much to say about this book, to the point where I simply could never say it all. It took me a really long time to read because every time I read another section, it would stick with me for weeks. I felt it really valuable to let the book stay with me as long as it needed to, not to rush it in its journey through my life. I'm not someone who rereads books very often, but I can very easily imagine myself coming back to this one.
The afterword also really stuck with me, as the environmentalist leanings of the book as a whole became glaring. "Here's a list of some of the world's beauties," this book says, "and here is a post-natural world." I really think this is a must-read, if only to remind yourself of how much wonder exists in the universe and how important it is to protect. Leach's style of writing is beautiful in its own right, though, and I frequently found myself wishing I could be zapped into her brain and never leave.
Thank you Rachel for giving me this book, it's going to be very important to me for a long time I think.