A review by hrh_victoria
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard

2.0

I didn't enjoy this book as much as I wanted to. I've long heard praise of Dillard, but this didn't cut it. I struggled to get into the text, and, though I liked some of the images and facts independently, I wasn't interested in the piece as a whole. I enjoyed the sections on Numbers and Sand more than the other parts, but even these felt stale halfway through. I wondered if maybe it was just too philosophical for my tastes. I figured philosophy students might enjoy it more, but another philosophy student in my class said it was just repeating concepts that already exist without adding anything. So this book may fit best around a crowd of people who are interested in philosophy but haven't yet stepped into literature by canonical philosophers.