Lisa’s review of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography > Likes and Comments
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Lovely review... you made me think of my father too... May be I ought to read this book too.
Thank you, Kalliope. Every reader makes a book her own. Norris never mentions fathers-- I brought this to my reading of Dakota, but this is such a rich meditation on loneliness and community that I imagine you'll find something here for yourself.
If you do read it, please let me know what you think.
Thank you for this personal review which touched my own experience as well.
Lisa, I very much enjoyed your thoughtful & warmly personal comments on "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography", a book I read & enjoyed as well. Kathleen Norris makes S. Dakota resemble an almost primitive landscape far-removed from anywhere I've experienced but at the same time a hauntingly interior zone that could be almost anywhere. I've enjoyed her prose in this & other books & your review aptly evokes the spirit of her writing. Bill
Quo wrote: " a hauntingly interior zone . . ."
Precisely! Thanks, Quo.
Yes, lovely review. I was slightly put off by what I thought might be her religiosity, but from the sound of this I was worrying needlessly.
Warwick wrote: "Yes, lovely review. I was slightly put off by what I thought might be her religiosity, but from the sound of this I was worrying needlessly."
Thanks, Warwick. She extrapolates from Catholic teachings, makes them accessible, even to secular Jews.
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Thank you, Kalliope. Every reader makes a book her own. Norris never mentions fathers-- I brought this to my reading of Dakota, but this is such a rich meditation on loneliness and community that I imagine you'll find something here for yourself.If you do read it, please let me know what you think.
Thank you for this personal review which touched my own experience as well.
Lisa, I very much enjoyed your thoughtful & warmly personal comments on "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography", a book I read & enjoyed as well. Kathleen Norris makes S. Dakota resemble an almost primitive landscape far-removed from anywhere I've experienced but at the same time a hauntingly interior zone that could be almost anywhere. I've enjoyed her prose in this & other books & your review aptly evokes the spirit of her writing. Bill
Quo wrote: " a hauntingly interior zone . . ."Precisely! Thanks, Quo.
Yes, lovely review. I was slightly put off by what I thought might be her religiosity, but from the sound of this I was worrying needlessly.
Warwick wrote: "Yes, lovely review. I was slightly put off by what I thought might be her religiosity, but from the sound of this I was worrying needlessly."Thanks, Warwick. She extrapolates from Catholic teachings, makes them accessible, even to secular Jews.
