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p_t_b's review
2.0
Weird mixture of boring claptrap, brilliant selection of quotations/art lore, fluffed-up memoir, and a few truly great passages. So basically this book is the kind of thing you would put on your blog. I don't really care for Annie Dillard's style or sense of what matters but she's pretty smart.
winterbee's review
reflective
This was different from what I expected. I liked her metaphors for writing though.
amiboughter's review
4.0
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
aeb3's review
3.0
One part mad, one part brilliant, and tough to say which part is larger. There are gems to be sure, but it wasn't one of my favorites.
3 Stars.
3 Stars.