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Falling Hour
by Geoffrey D. Morrison
Loved this. Feels like it belongs on a spectrum somewhere between John Dolan's Pleasant Hell and Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief.
This is a good book to read if you like: Sebald, nature writing, long meandering inquiries into the state of things over the course of a single day, if you are open to the idea that Canada is a fake country all hopped up on Methodism, etc.
There's way too much going on here to attempt any better sort of description than that, I think. I really liked it. Especially the parts about old Scottish dudes from the past. Which is really what the whole book is about, except there are parts that don't have that at all. I liked how he tied Protestant ideas of Salvation to modern worries over safety. And basically all the times he was ripping on Calvinism. That was cool. And the Audubon story blew my mind.
I want to re-read this book in the summer, and maybe again after that, because it really felt like it was blasting my head with ideas. Bravo for turning a type of twitter discourse into honest-to-god literature, btw.
This is a good book to read if you like: Sebald, nature writing, long meandering inquiries into the state of things over the course of a single day, if you are open to the idea that Canada is a fake country all hopped up on Methodism, etc.
There's way too much going on here to attempt any better sort of description than that, I think. I really liked it. Especially the parts about old Scottish dudes from the past. Which is really what the whole book is about, except there are parts that don't have that at all. I liked how he tied Protestant ideas of Salvation to modern worries over safety. And basically all the times he was ripping on Calvinism. That was cool. And the Audubon story blew my mind.
I want to re-read this book in the summer, and maybe again after that, because it really felt like it was blasting my head with ideas. Bravo for turning a type of twitter discourse into honest-to-god literature, btw.