So OK, if you are here, you may be subjected to the occasional book report.

[elderberrywine]

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Hilarious (the muskrats!) and terrifying in equal measures.

This book has been rattling around my to-read list since forever, and I'm glad I finally got to it. Annie Dillard plops herself outside her cabin at Tinker Creek, Virginia, and watches. Really watches. The chapter on Fecundity, I might warn you, is the stuff of nightmares. Just thought I'd mention that.

I have to say, about a chapter in, I was thinking to myself, dang, this is sooooo '70's. An era I remember extremely well. And it turns out that yes, it was written in 1974. So in my head, Anne Dillard is Joanie Mitchell, Ultimate Hippie Chick. Don't show me a picture, I don't want to know otherwise. Me and Joanie, hanging out down by the Creek. Playing Freeze with the muskrats. Maybe she'll write a song. Good times. *blissful sigh*

Comments

[illuminating_dragon]

She's more attractive than Mitchell. :D It's one of my favourite books. I read it in the early 80s and have nibbled at it since. And I've read all of her other books except for the fiction. She's never less than stellar.

Book reports would be nice but your posts always poop out once school picks up speed.

[elderberrywine]

Yeah, I know. *sad glance* But you know what I really miss is writing. So maybe?

[illuminating_dragon]

Writing would be good but even setting aside 20 minutes a day to post here would be worthwhile. I'm being selfish, of course, since most of the time I just see me on my friends page and that can be tiresome.

I did give serious thought to Waymeet but there can't be more than two or three people to write for it.

[elderberrywine]

Ahh, Waymeet. Good times, good times.