Dan

Great fun. Loved it.

My father once made a gift of this book to me, and I still remember being transformed by the beauty of it.

I lost the original copy he gave me, but I was able to replace it today.

Last week I re-read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It fits in with a recent inclination to read personal accounts by gifted observers of the natural world. Writing by Thoreau, Annie Dillard, John McPhee (Encounters With the Archdruid is a wonderful book) has gotten me through another lonely winter.

Read this after seeing the previews for the new Amazon Prime TV version. The show looked like it might be fun.
The book is fun too, but it's pretty derivative stuff and I doubt I'll follow through with the rest of the series.
I would recommend it as a good choice to get someone in the YA category interested in reading as a pastime.

Wonderful.

Stories with ideas you don't just consider for a moment, but return to again and again.

What if you could remember your future? What if belief is not just a psychological violence but a physical one as well?

If I knew this, I'd forgotten it, so I was happy to discover that the story “Story of Your Life,” was the basis for the film “Arrival.” Probably my favorite film of the last few years. Imagine a language that requires knowledge of the future in order to be properly contextualized.

Loved it.

For those with limited reading time, another short but wonderful book about cultural identity and living ‘closer to the bone,' is Margaret Craven's I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1967.)

I read it a couple of weeks ago on the plane returning from California. The more I read, the tinier the plane's cabin became. British Columbia here I come.