A review by sbhatnag
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

4.0

I received this book as part of the Goodreads Giveaway. I couldn't decide whether to give this book a 3 or 4 stars. So poetically written - layered in every way imaginable - it often felt hazy, in between the concrete and the intangible - like the very thin places Kerri ní Dochartaigh writes of. It was a quiet book, so if you didn't pay close attention to the words or got caught up in the haze, you could doze off while reading the melodious prose. And then there were moments where she articulated something you have long felt but didn't have the words to describe. There is something about Irish writers that I find sublime - not sure if it is the effect of the old Irish language meeting modern English, the history of storytelling, the connection with the other world, and nature - but this book was no exception.