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Title: A Country Year : Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 0-395-96701-5 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 26 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A pleasant visit to the Ozarks
Comment: I am not sure what in my life is drawing me towards books about women and beekeeping, but here is another wonderful book about both.
Sue Hubbell has an easy style of writing that drew me through this book in just over a day. While she talks about her time as a commercial beekeeper, she also writes about the simple qualities and hard realities of living close to the land and close to poverty in rural Missouri. Her observant style brings back memories of my own small town upbringing. This is just the right book for curling up on a cold Winter day or lounging in the hammock trying to escape the heat of Summer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bee-keeper tells all, and tells it well.
Comment: I almost didn't buy the audiocassette of this book because of the reviewer who said Sue Hubbell's reading was monotonous. I bought it anyway, and am thrilled to say both the content and the reading were outstanding. To my mind, the author's voice, in any tone, beats an inauthentic performance. This is one of the best works on contemporary nonfiction by women - and one of the best books on tape - I have come across in a long while. I recommend it highly, for anyone interested in how the human mind makes connections between her immediate surroundings and the larger questions of living in the world. The "bee" theme, like Thoreau's ants and Annie Dillard's creek creatures, is simply a fascinating and concrete set of phenomena through which Hubbell examines the mystical world around her, and around us all. (One last note of interest: the audiocassette - comprised of only one tape - includes a second tape on which Gary Snyder reads from his work on nature and the problem of logging in the northwest of the U.S.).
Rating: 5
Summary: A Country Year: Living the Questions
Comment: A poetic collection of prose about living in the Ozarks. The author manages to capture how it feels to live in such a magical place--makes one feel that this is still one of our national treasures--the book taps into the enjoyment of small things, of every day life, of some of the cultural nuances of the region, and of Nature's rhythms. The book is a real feel good read.
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Title: A Book of Bees : And How to Keep Them by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 0395883245 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 061805684X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men by William Longgood, Pamela Johnson ISBN: 0393305287 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Far Flung Hubbell/Essays from the American Road: Essays from the American Road by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 067942833X Publisher: Random House Inc Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: On This Hilltop by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 0345373065 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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