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jainabee 's review for:
The Fifth Sacred Thing
by Starhawk
I resisted reading this for a long time— I wasn't ready to accept fiction by one of my favorite non-fiction writers. I know that is unfair, and I was wrong— did I somehow forget that Starhawk is also a fantastic story-teller? I couldn't put it down and found myself thinking about it at all hours when I should've been doing something else (like sleeping?).
From the first line there is such a theme of effort, struggle, trying, pushing past one's limits and then needing to find more as the situation becomes more and more dire and hopeless. It's exhausting! Yet it's also so enticing— images of San Francisco turned into a patchwork of streams and gardens with painted gondolas swinging overhead, the fractions of quirky countercultures knitting together, and plenty of shameless sex.
Now onto the prequel, Walking To Mercury!
From the first line there is such a theme of effort, struggle, trying, pushing past one's limits and then needing to find more as the situation becomes more and more dire and hopeless. It's exhausting! Yet it's also so enticing— images of San Francisco turned into a patchwork of streams and gardens with painted gondolas swinging overhead, the fractions of quirky countercultures knitting together, and plenty of shameless sex.
Now onto the prequel, Walking To Mercury!