by Rebecca Solnit
I loved this massive quilt of patchwork essays embroidered with new words, derivations, original ideas, folk lore, stories, and personal truths which are spun by Rebecca Solnit, an author who I have never heard of and know nothing about. I take that back. As I read this brilliant and textured work, ...
Ah, Rebecca Solnit has not failed with this book. I loved "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" and greatly looked forward to this one, reading that it's from the same vein as the other.This book has one very unique aspect that I haven't seen in any other book: there is a separate story written on the bot...
This book was interesting..... every time I got fed up with it and thought about putting it aside, it got really good. I liked reading about her interpretation of fairy tales, and her essay on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Somewhat boring and much too introspective in some places, but overall a dec...
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