I love this book. I'm wending my way through it, taking my time, taking time to appreciate Kimmerer's stories and images, her experiences and understanding.
One of the images that stays with me the most is her standing waist-deep in a river, for hours on end, recording the layers of mosses growing on the cliffs edging the river. I love reading about the specifics of her field work.
I found this at the Friends of the Library book store at Fort Mason and am having a great time reading it.
I've always liked Nick Hornby, and - as a reader with great ambition and wide-ranging interests and hardly any time to read - I enjoy reading about what he did and didn't get to each month.
I'm starting this tonight - I'm so excited.
My main motivation for reading this is that I'm planning to read Zadie Smith's On Beauty, and I've read that was inspired by Howards End. Plus, it's always good to read an unread classic.
I've been quite surprised to realize how much there is to this story, and how little I knew. I was delighted to learn about the newly-discovered early correspondence.
I was inspired to read this by the Teaching Company's Medieval Heroines, which I borrowed from the library.
I'm skimming most of this, but paying closer attention to the chapters defining deliberate practice.