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Ladataan... The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of NatureTekijä: Charlie Hailey
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten. I am still reading this delicious book. I enjoy dipping into it for an immersive patch of 'me time'. The writing sweeps me away into nature and it feels very visceral; even though many of the animal species are foreign to me here in New Zealand. I will update this review when I've finished enjoying this read.Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten. I received this book as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers programme; thank you to the author and publishers for this opportunity.I loved this book so much! The prose is beautiful, and particularly in the parts where he was writing about sitting on the porch and looking at what he could see within and beyond the porch, the writing felt like the water lapping on the river shore - I felt totally immersed in the place, thanks to the hypnotic writing; it was like I was sitting on the porch looking out myself. I also enjoyed the forays into architecture and philosophy as well as nature. A fantastic book, highly recommended. The Porch from Charlie Hailey is an enjoyable read that both grounds and transports the reader. A wonderful book for the world we are all currently inhabiting. The prose, beautifully written, grounds us in the real and everyday world around us. Using the porch as the focal point, we examine both it (in all its many forms) and what can be experienced from peering from it. From these very common sights and sounds we are then transported both to other physical places as well as other intellectual and/or spiritual places. While this traveling in place with Hailey is a wonderful journey, that is in many ways the smallest aspect of what the reader is offered here. More important, I think, is the invitation to take our own journeys using whatever in our own lives might serve a similar function as his porch. The textures of our own musings will be very different but will, much as Hailey's did for him, give us a better appreciation of where we are and what we need or should do to make the world a better place. I highly recommend this to readers who enjoy taking these trips through places both real and imagined while never losing sight of our roles in the bigger picture. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one place teach us about the world and ourselves? What do we--and the things we've built--mean in this world? In a time when reflections on the nature of society and individual endurance are so paramount, Charlie Hailey's latest book is both a mental tonic and a welcome provocation. Solidly grounded in ideas, ecology, and architecture, The Porch takes us on a journey along the edges of nature where the outside comes in, hosts meet guests, and imagination runs wild. Hailey writes from a modest porch on the Homosassa River in Florida. He sleeps there, studies the tides, listens for osprey and manatee, welcomes shipwrecked visitors, watches shadows on its screens, reckons with climate change, and reflects on his own acclimation to his environment. The profound connections he unearths anchor an armchair exploration of past porches and those of the future, moving from ancient Greece to contemporary Sweden, from the White House roof to the Anthropocene home. In his ruminations, he links up with other porch dwellers including environmentalist Rachel Carson, poet Wendell Berry, writers Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston, philosopher John Dewey, architect Louis Kahn, and photographer Paul Strand. As close as architecture can bring us to nature, the porch is where we can learn to contemplate anew our evolving place in a changing world--a space we need now more than ever. Timeless and timely, Hailey's book is a dreamy yet deeply passionate meditation on the joy and gravity of sitting on the porch. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers AlumCharlie Hailey's book The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Current Discussions-
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