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Seasons: Desert Sketches | Ellen Meloy
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The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. Seasons: Desert Sketches is a compilation of these essays, transcribed from their original cassette tape recordings. Whether Meloy is pondering geese in Desolation Canyon or people at the local post office, readers will delight in her signature wit and charmand feel the pull of the desert she loves and defends. With a foreword by Annie Proulx. Ellen Meloy just might be my favorite Utah writer. Shes smart and witty. Shes laughoutloud funny. Shes selfdeprecatory and never preachy. She always gets her natural history right. And her writing is sufficiently gorgeous for her books to be finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Seasons serves as a fine introduction to the work of this underappreciated writer. Meloy grounds us in her home landscapeour home landscape, where, she realizes, I always belonged, but didnt know it. To earn our place in this red rock desert community, Meloy asks us to slow down, pay attention, stay local, go deep. Thats what she does here, and we are privileged to travel with her through the cycles of southern Utah seasons as she searches for the core of home. STEPHEN TRIMBLE, editor of Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utahs Public Lands
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Pogue
Pogue
Seasons: Desert Sketches | Ellen Meloy
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Thank you @LibrarianRyan I got my book back, your lovely note and the gift card.

LibrarianRyan Yeahhhh. Glad it finally made it. That took a while for 1st class. 4y
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LibrarianRyan
LibrarianRyan
Seasons: Desert Sketches | Ellen Meloy
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Mehso-so

With this my #LMPBC #round8 group short stories is done. I liked this, didn‘t love it. Glad to have read it but would probably never think of it again. In all honestly I would have probably preferred the authors radio performances.

I‘ll mail out tomorrow.

tagged users iconnelehelen, Pogue, LazyDays
Leftcoastzen I only have read one of her books , I remember really loving it.
[tagged book]Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
4y
LazyDays @nelehelen @LibrarianRyan Hi guys just letting you know I haven't received my book back yet, and yours Ryan should be off to you this Wed. Hope all is well.🌞 4y
LibrarianRyan @Bookishthoughts for once I‘m. To behind. I have none. I still don‘t have my book back from round 7. Which I really hope to get back. 4y
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LazyDays Oh no l hope so. The mail is always so hard to wait for, you never know what happens. 4y
LibrarianRyan @Bookishthoughts I‘m pretty sure it was never mailed. She was supposed to send to me and I only got one book. I‘ve tagged her about a few times but she seems to be absent lately. Luckily this type of thing is a rarity. 4y
nelehelen @Bookishthoughts i have your book! I got a little late so still reading it. I‘ll mail it out to you by end of this week. 4y
nelehelen @LibrarianRyan i still haven‘t gotten my book back from round 6 lol.. been emailing so hopefully i get it back soon. 4y
LibrarianRyan @nelehelen I won‘t lie. I have a book from round 3 but they know I have it and am sending it back soon. We had a hard time in that group. I got almost all the books at once. 4y
LibrarianRyan @nelehelen I lied. Mine is also round 6. Not round 7. Even though I can‘t remember what we read for 7. We had someone pull out at the last minute so we had an abbreviated selection. 4y
LazyDays @nelehelen awesome take your time enjoy. I really just wanted to know where it was. 😊 4y
LibrarianRyan @nelehelen okay and now it seems like my one set of notes is backwards because on Litsy it said 7 but it‘s in my notes for 6 (but then again I was planning on doing the galley for 6 before my demon got a hold of it. She has been better this month. She‘s stuck to chewing just her toys. 4y
LazyDays She may have not liked the smell of my dog.😣 4y
LibrarianRyan @Bookishthoughts Nah, she is going through a phase. We have all sorts of chew toys. We had her broke of the habbit but then I was home for 6 weeks. She started back to chewing books and shoes and everything else not nailed down after I went back to work. We had a good last few days. She did finally destroy her tennis ball. I keep finding little parts of it everywhere. 4y
LazyDays Poor thing 💙 4y
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LibrarianRyan
LibrarianRyan
Seasons: Desert Sketches | Ellen Meloy
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@Pogue I owe you a book. Take your pick. I was having a bad day and left your book in its sleeve (which is on the floor in this picture, please ignore the carpet stain) under the blanket when Josh took me to dinner. It was also under Joshes iPad. Apparently she likes the cover as much as @Bookishthoughts kids did. It‘s still readable and I will read, tape the cover back and the inside few pages and get it sent back as soon as possible. #lmpbc

LibrarianRyan @Bookishthoughts I thought your kids artwork was precious. Not joking. I‘ll take excitement for books in any form. 4y
LazyDays @LibrarianRyan aww thanks. He was happy to show me his shared drawing in the book I was writing in. 4y
LazyDays This poor book was so irresistible ! I still have my replacement so if you'd like I can send it to you 4y
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LazyDays @Pogue 💗 4y
LibrarianRyan @Bookishthoughts no no. This is still entirely readable. She only ripped off the cover. And ripped but left inside the title pages. 4y
Crazeedi Oh my! 4y
Gissy Maybe she didn't enjoy the "reading" ☺️ 4y
Pogue That book has been on a crazy adventure! @LibrarianRyan don‘t worry about a replacement, but thank you for the offer. 4y
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Pogue
Pogue
Seasons: Desert Sketches | Ellen Meloy
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A wonderful novella that I read for #LMPBC #Round8 #GroupS @LibrarianRyan @nelehelen @Bookishthoughts

nelehelen Love the cover! 5y
LibrarianRyan 👍 😁 5y
LazyDays Can't wait to read it! 5y
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