Riverkeeper reviewed By the River by Niellah Arboine
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2 stars
This book was recommended to me by a friend as one of those "I saw this and thought of you" books.
I was very excited to read it and even ordered it after it wasn't available in the bookstore or the local library.
Unfortunately, I was so disappointed that I'm struggling with reviewing it in the first place.
Maybe because I expected something in the lines of Nan Shepherd's "The living mountain" or maybe because the book opens with an essay about Virginia Woolf (whom I don't care for in the slightest, so I'm biased).
The river here could he replaced with anything really, any form of suicide.
Quite a few essays are like this, and I have to admit I skipped those midway through.
There are a few good ones, that weave current issues about rivers, access to blue spaces and the need for conservation of our waterways with …
I was very excited to read it and even ordered it after it wasn't available in the bookstore or the local library.
Unfortunately, I was so disappointed that I'm struggling with reviewing it in the first place.
Maybe because I expected something in the lines of Nan Shepherd's "The living mountain" or maybe because the book opens with an essay about Virginia Woolf (whom I don't care for in the slightest, so I'm biased).
The river here could he replaced with anything really, any form of suicide.
Quite a few essays are like this, and I have to admit I skipped those midway through.
There are a few good ones, that weave current issues about rivers, access to blue spaces and the need for conservation of our waterways with personal stories and make for a good read.
Overall, this book should have been split into two separate books and only one of them should have had the title "By the River". But unfortunately, then it would be a rather short book.