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sophia_sol) wrote2021-10-23 12:23 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2021-10-23 12:23 pm
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
This is a nonfiction book about being in relationship with the natural world, from the perspective of an author who draws from both her indigenous heritage and her training as a botanist to talk about reciprocal relationships between beings, and the work we need to do to care for the earth. It's a beautiful, thoughtful, and evocative read, and I highly recommend it.
It also wasn't the easiest book for me to read, because I think it's the kind of thing that would work best when read a chapter at a time and then left to percolate in one's brain for a while in between chapters, but my two ways of reading are "gobble it down as fast as possible" or "oops I got distracted from this book and accidentally didn't pick it up again for 2 months" so uhhh that wasn't going to happen for me. So I read the whole book over the course of just two days instead, and I think I missed out on some of the reading experience as a result.
Still definitely worth reading though! Even if I don't seem to be able to say much concrete about it. But it is a book that has gotten much hype (at least in the circles I move in) so I feel confident there are plenty of people elsewhere on the internet talking more in depth about what this book is doing, if you want more than what I've said.
It also wasn't the easiest book for me to read, because I think it's the kind of thing that would work best when read a chapter at a time and then left to percolate in one's brain for a while in between chapters, but my two ways of reading are "gobble it down as fast as possible" or "oops I got distracted from this book and accidentally didn't pick it up again for 2 months" so uhhh that wasn't going to happen for me. So I read the whole book over the course of just two days instead, and I think I missed out on some of the reading experience as a result.
Still definitely worth reading though! Even if I don't seem to be able to say much concrete about it. But it is a book that has gotten much hype (at least in the circles I move in) so I feel confident there are plenty of people elsewhere on the internet talking more in depth about what this book is doing, if you want more than what I've said.