This book is powerful and tiny. There's beauty on every page, beauty that conveys, perfectly, what it is like to be a writer. I will need to read it again someday, so I can give it the time it deserves. Maybe a chapter a day over coffee in the first hours of my day? I think that's how I could absorb it best, when my mind is still soft with waking and able to luxuriate in the sentences more than I could in the later parts of the day.

But, this is a book that, at least to me as of right now, doesn't always make a lot of sense. It's a collection of anecdotes turned metaphor meant to capture what it means to live "The Writing Life". Most of the time I related to what she said with enthusiastic nods and the occasional knowing giggle. Other times Dillard seemed to travel beyond the edges of my experience. I knew there was a point being made, but was unable to latch onto it. Hence the desire for another reading at a later date.

If you enjoy writing, or reading about writing, this book is worth your time. It's short and relatively easy to read. I recommend it.