The lightness that comes with accepting the terrible things that can happen in one's life.Have you ever been trapped at a cocktail party by someone who, while undeniably smart (and perhaps in a different context might be interesting), is so full of themselves they imagine every single thing they've ever done or thought or experienced is fascinating and you need to hear about it in excruciating detail—for your own good? Overall, it was a true pleasure to read.meh... Am I the only one who doesn't fall in love with Solnit's writing?

About place, the the experience we have as we move through it, about topography, how it reveals us while simultaneously revealing itself, about wandering, how our thoughts work when we move. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The "lost" become "found" once they fully assimilate to the new culture, to the point where many do not want to return to "civilization" (a word empowered by whomever gets a chance to define it).I did not connect with this book. Please try again later. donating = loving. Piecing together my thoughts on this will take a while.Reads a bit like Annie Dillard, what with its gentle contemplation of nature and our place in it. This has become a very autobiographical book because she draws on her own walking experiences, the migration history of her family, her own punk phase in the 1970s, and so on. Whenever I read her essays, in this book or elsewhere, I find myself jotting down excerpts every few minutes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting..
Imagine you try to gracefully make excuses to escape them, but they have a self-important way of making poetic meta-comments on the entire situation as well, droning on about the interconnected-ness of, well, nearly everything. About A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Those familiar with Solnit through her recent fast-paced political work—typically published first online, later organized inIntrospective, while still attentive to the world outside herself, Solnit meanders in this slow-moving collection centered on the concept of "getting lost." Naturally, they never once pause to let you participate. Mixed tapes, Renaissance painting, rattlesnakes, The Inferno, and love are all in the mix. Particularly liked the section on settlers' children taken and adopted by Indians in violent raids along the frontiers. As with the painting, there is a hidden portrait between the covers of this book, a life composed and painted over with disparate, affective visuals, to be lost and found. This was true for me in the case of this book, I'm afraid.

But also experiences of ‘confusion’ or ‘wandering’ in other lives, times and cultures are discussed. I thought the book would be full of big thinks and big wanders, all based on the idea of getting lost--in terms of actual space and place, like in the wilderness or an unfamiliar city, whether by accident or with purpose--and moving through the world in a literal sense. I am obsessed with reading about nomadism. 0143037242 Once again, the basic message is that wandering, getting lost is inherent to life, is actually the rule rather than the ordered life to which we all cling:I'm convinced Rebecca Solnit could talk about any topic and I'd be keen to listen.
She is well-read and sensitive, and has a mind like a bird dog, picking up the scent of one idea, hunting it either into the light or into the underbrush before picking up the trail of the next idea and loping after it.


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