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Rebecca Solnit: A field guide to getting lost (2006, Penguin Books) 4 stars

Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on …

It was nice...but not what I'd hoped.

3 stars

Solnit is a great writer, but this book felt like it was forced and it just didn't do it for me. Where I should have been swept away by her prose and lush descriptions, I found myself skipping ahead because the writing felt gratuitous.