I’m linking up today with Davida @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for Throwback Thursday. It takes place on the Thursday before the first Saturday of every month (i.e., the Thursday before the monthly #6Degrees post). The idea is to highlight one of your previously published book reviews and then link back to Davida’s blog.
Today I’m looking back at my post on On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski which I first reviewed on June 8, 2007.
Here are the first two paragraphs::
This book captivated me. I have read some good books this year, but this one outshines the rest. When I wasn’t reading it I was thinking and talking about it. It’s about experiencing an experience, becoming aware of experiencing the experience and so losing the experience.
I have had the experience of experiencing Jenny Diski’s travels during a year when she visited New Zealand, spent three months in a cottage in Somerset and went to sample the life of the Sami people of Swedish Lapland. No need to go those places myself now. Really, I could be tempted by a trip to New Zealand, but that is only a pipe dream. Now, a cottage in Somerset – that is a real possibility.
Click here to read my full review
The next Throwback Thursday post is scheduled for December 2.
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Thanks for joining and the ping back! I totally adored this book, by the way!
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It’s great, isn’t it!
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It sounds as though she really captures simply being in a place, Margaret, and that sounds fantastic. And I love New Zealand, so even though going there right now isn’t possible, it’d be lovely to go there again virtually! I’d love to visit that cottage in Somerset, too!
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A visit to New Zealand still remains a pipe dream, sadly.
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