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Montreal - looking for the catharsis that comes from reading finely crafted sentences, and to get in closer touch with a higher power of my understanding

"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver

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reviewed Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback, McGraw-Hill College) 4 stars

What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according …

Review of 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

There’s some sections which drag, like the part with the muskrats, which prevent it from being a 10/10, but this is a strong 8.5 or 9. My wish for Dillard to have done a bit more editing might just be my own impatience. This is worth taking the time to read slowly, piece by piece. There is so much to think about in here. An incredible work I am sure to return to, which affirms one’s faith in all that can be seen and all that cannot.