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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A short popular environmental book about the importance of the natural world? Sign me up.
I feel bad even typing this, but although I agreed with almost everything the author said, I felt like I was being preached to the whole time. Her need to shoehorn everything into her gift economy premise required her to ignore the possibility of someone selling berries at a farmer's market being a good thing, for example. (Everything must be freely given!)
Also allow me to rant once again about the end of proofreading. This book is about 100 pages long and was published by Scribner for pete's sake, but it contains an error on page 34 that should have been caught by a grammar check (a missing period).
I loved the illustrations by John Burgoyne, and if someone who doesn't already buy in to our need not to destroy the planet reads this book and becomes convinced, great.
I feel bad even typing this, but although I agreed with almost everything the author said, I felt like I was being preached to the whole time. Her need to shoehorn everything into her gift economy premise required her to ignore the possibility of someone selling berries at a farmer's market being a good thing, for example. (Everything must be freely given!)
Also allow me to rant once again about the end of proofreading. This book is about 100 pages long and was published by Scribner for pete's sake, but it contains an error on page 34 that should have been caught by a grammar check (a missing period).
I loved the illustrations by John Burgoyne, and if someone who doesn't already buy in to our need not to destroy the planet reads this book and becomes convinced, great.