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A review by bethanybeyondthejordan
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
3.0
Audio.
3.5
It felt meandering to me. The two best parts were 1) when she talked about all the writers who wrote lush descriptions of place from far away (Mark Twain wrote Huck Finn from Connecticut, for instance; scholars have discovered Thoreau barely spent any time outside) and 2) the very end where she talks of her pilot friend Rahm, and that’s because I was interested in his time in Jordan with King Hussein.
A fine book by a beloved writer, just not for me.
3.5
It felt meandering to me. The two best parts were 1) when she talked about all the writers who wrote lush descriptions of place from far away (Mark Twain wrote Huck Finn from Connecticut, for instance; scholars have discovered Thoreau barely spent any time outside) and 2) the very end where she talks of her pilot friend Rahm, and that’s because I was interested in his time in Jordan with King Hussein.
A fine book by a beloved writer, just not for me.