A review by celinereadsabook
Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill

2.0

This book was fine. Lots of it was well-researched and interesting from a non-fiction standpoint, however the prose is gratuitously descriptive almost as if to pad an already short book with extra length. A copy of this book is about 240 pages, however I suspect that with normal formatting (without the larger font and extra wide margins) it wouldn't be longer than 175 pages. Even this feels too long for the relatively simple narrative Gill is weaving. The value of this book is in the light shed on the silviculture and forestry industries in BC, not in Gill's storytelling abilities.