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A review by wicked_sassy
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
4.0
This wasn't a super interesting book (don't we know enough about Hemingway being an alcoholic? I'd have preferred Dorothy Parker) but I love Laing's writing style. She is introspective and poetic in her word choices and that made the book a compelling read.
"I don't know why this, of all possible locations, seemed the necessary place to start, but the story of what had happened there worked its way inside me, as certain stories will." -p. 15
"Nothing except changes in climate and language communicate so thoroughly a sense of travel as the difference in birdlife." -p. 33
"I woke at five, just as the sun was rising. We'd crossed by night into the Grain Belt and now we were running up Illinois, through mile after mile of stubbled corn, punctuated by metal grain silos and graveyards for abandoned trucks and cars. I put Sufjan Stevens on my iPod and watched the colourless world well up with light. The fields seemed endless, a sea that shifted as the sun rose from lead to pewter and then to gold." -p. 220-221
"There are moments in a journey that can never be predicted in advance: not their richness, nor the effect they have on one's heart." -p. 221
"I don't know why this, of all possible locations, seemed the necessary place to start, but the story of what had happened there worked its way inside me, as certain stories will." -p. 15
"Nothing except changes in climate and language communicate so thoroughly a sense of travel as the difference in birdlife." -p. 33
"I woke at five, just as the sun was rising. We'd crossed by night into the Grain Belt and now we were running up Illinois, through mile after mile of stubbled corn, punctuated by metal grain silos and graveyards for abandoned trucks and cars. I put Sufjan Stevens on my iPod and watched the colourless world well up with light. The fields seemed endless, a sea that shifted as the sun rose from lead to pewter and then to gold." -p. 220-221
"There are moments in a journey that can never be predicted in advance: not their richness, nor the effect they have on one's heart." -p. 221