A review by yasza
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
3.0
2.5 stars.
I wanted to love this book so much because of all the hype around it. It was just how I pictured a piece of nature writing should be: poetic, with breathtaking descriptions.
Instead, while reading these 100 pages, I dozed off four times. I wasn't even tired. It was so tedious that I read it over the course of five days.
Despite being descriptive, the writing didn't make the Cairngorms come to life for me.
I thought the afterword was completely unnecessary, and I don't see why the introduction filled up almost half of the book.
I wanted to love this book so much because of all the hype around it. It was just how I pictured a piece of nature writing should be: poetic, with breathtaking descriptions.
Instead, while reading these 100 pages, I dozed off four times. I wasn't even tired. It was so tedious that I read it over the course of five days.
Despite being descriptive, the writing didn't make the Cairngorms come to life for me.
I thought the afterword was completely unnecessary, and I don't see why the introduction filled up almost half of the book.