
My public library recently curbed its curbside book pick-up. Cut off from new reading material while sheltering at home, I quarried my own bookshelves. I have unearthed amazing and beloved books to build my quarryntine reading list! Perhaps these texts can bolster your stay-at-home reading, too.
Meloy, Ellen. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. Print.
Genre: nonfiction
Summary: Meloy spends a full season tracking the big horn sheep of the Southwest. The task is not easy. The animals are going extinct and can hide faster than dissipating smoke. She observes them while observing mankind’s tragic disconnect from nature and all things wild–the wildness outside and the wildness within the soul.
Critique: Meloy’s writing is powerful. Her imagery will intoxicate the reader. To see the world through her eyes is to see a fantasy land. In her prose, the desert is sexy, curvaceous, hot and heaving. Unassuming frost-covered bushes are silvery birdcages. And the big horns are everything from ghosts to popping toast!
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