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I was looking for a book that explained what dirt/soil is, how it forms, it's various components and how these affect plants and animals etc. In short, a science book. Well, this isn't that book. This book was a collection of short, disjointed, memoir-type stories of the author's encounters with ...
Some information packed between annoyingly smarmy hippy-ass rhapsodizing about compost. It's cool, yes, but just not as beautiful as the author wants us to believe.
This is a lovely, easy, dreamy read. It's far more a meditation on things having to do with air than a science book. The chapters form a hodge-podge that eventually becomes a picture, but it's part memoir, part poem, and part science.This use of pictures is strange. There are a few pictures, but ...
This is such a wonderful book that I completely understand why the New York Times Book Review chose it as a "Notable Book" of the year. This is science woven into life and reflections on life, and written with a poet's enjoyment of language and using language to evoke an experience. Air was simply...
Very nicely written, and bursting with passion for the subject. The problem is that, roughly halfway through the book, the author moves to presenting what could have been a series of short articles on oak, without really tying them together. Also, there are no in-text citations, just a list of sourc...
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