bailedNo. Birds and her religious views were not for ME. I own my bias
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place | 
bailedNo. Birds and her religious views were not for ME. I own my bias
so-soMemoir interweaving the Great Salt Lake, birds and the death of the authors mother and grandmother.
The bad news is this was just ok for me, good news I'm using it for so many challenges.
#booked2019 happy place - nature @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
#nonfiction2019 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa something with a death
#centuryreadchallenge #readingwomenchallenge2019 19.nature
pickWhile there are things on which author Terry and I disagree, I can't shake the way her words reach into my heart. She and her mother were obviously very close, and the way she links her grief over the loss of her mother with the environmental loss of bird habitat provides a new perspective of looking at both. Nature is the sanctuary in which Terry processes and heals, in the open air, with the sounds and the scents of the earth as her comfort.
pick"We spoke of rage. Of women and landscape. How our bodies and the body of the earth have been mined." I devoured this book in two days after seeing it on a friend's feed and feeling a little reading envy. This is one I need to own!
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Would work for essay collection category of the #readingwomenchallenge
pickI stumbled upon Terry Tempest Williams and now I am deliberately marching through her work. Everything is good here: intent, prose, poetry, science. She makes such surprising yet clear connections between her personal journey and the natural environment. She makes me weep. I loved this one as much as When Women Were Birds. If you like Mary Oliver, pretty words, Birds, or your mom, read this.
Morning coffee at the duck 🦆 pond with this beautiful book, my dogs, and my husband! Perfect start to the day.
Holy wow! This is the checkout line! Biggest library book sale ever.
Here is a link to my April and #Readathon wrap up. https://coffeeandcatsblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/april-2017-wrap-up/.
My #localauthor of choice! #aprilbookshowers if Terry Tempest Williams is your local author, maybe we should have a Litsy meet up soonish?
I love Terry Tempest Williams. Her writing is beautiful.
pickThis was exquisite. At times it felt like a meditation on life, nature, family, and grace. Williams processes her mother's cancer and ties her thoughts to her reverence of the natural world. When reading this, there were many passages where the writing was so powerful and evocative that it made me stop and reflect. Highly recommend. #nonfictionnovember2016
"Restraint is the steel partition between a rational mind and a violent one. I knew rage. It was fire in my stomach with no place to go."
When the bookstore is open and you have guilt for going there over 4 years and only buying paper...so you finally buy books. Neither of which I've read. And find a place that carries Crystal Pepsi. (And I've been drinking this beer all vacation...light and tasty!)
