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A review by weaverl13
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
4.0
This book is beautiful. The writing style is lyrical and so descriptive. I'll give you a few quotes to illustrate that:
"I keep visualising time as a length of string, with a flame burning at one end that represents the present where we can act and be most alive. The ashes are the past, the intact string is the future."
"Each moment is a picture that will never be identically repeated."
"Spring does something to the inside of you. All things levitate. There's no choice but to move up and forwards."
The diary is auto-bibliographical and follows the young, autistic teen Dara through a year of his life. The descriptions of nature and the natural world are inspiring, and make you want to go and just sit and watch nature.
"Wildlife is my refuge. When I'm sitting and watching, grown-ups usually ask if I'm okay. Like it's not okay just to sit and process the world, to figure things out and watch other species go about their day. Wildlife never disappoints like people can."
Being non-fiction, there isn't a plot as such, so I think for me I read a bit here and there as I wasn't drawn in by action, hence why not the full 5 stars. The writing captivated me, I'd recommend it to anyone with an interest in nature or psychology (you really are completely in Dara's head)
"I keep visualising time as a length of string, with a flame burning at one end that represents the present where we can act and be most alive. The ashes are the past, the intact string is the future."
"Each moment is a picture that will never be identically repeated."
"Spring does something to the inside of you. All things levitate. There's no choice but to move up and forwards."
The diary is auto-bibliographical and follows the young, autistic teen Dara through a year of his life. The descriptions of nature and the natural world are inspiring, and make you want to go and just sit and watch nature.
"Wildlife is my refuge. When I'm sitting and watching, grown-ups usually ask if I'm okay. Like it's not okay just to sit and process the world, to figure things out and watch other species go about their day. Wildlife never disappoints like people can."
Being non-fiction, there isn't a plot as such, so I think for me I read a bit here and there as I wasn't drawn in by action, hence why not the full 5 stars. The writing captivated me, I'd recommend it to anyone with an interest in nature or psychology (you really are completely in Dara's head)