Tag: The Shepherd’s Life

• Favorite Books of the 2010s

  See also: my favorite films, TV shows, and albums of the 2010s. This list happens to coincide perfectly with the period of time I began (1) reading for fun once I graduated college, (2) tracking my reading, and (3) reading a lot more. This means I had tons of titles to consider. I forced myself…

  Dec 12, 2019

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  # Atlas of a Lost World, best of, books, Boom Town, Circe, Kory Stamper, lists, Madeline Miller, Station Eleven, Steven Johnson, The Hunt for Vulcan, The Shepherd’s Life, Typewriter Revolution

• The Shepherd’s Life

  Really enjoyed James Rebanks’ The Shepherd’s Life: Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape, a memoir of a sheep farmer told season by season. I followed his Twitter account for a while and enjoyed the seeming simplicity the stream of sheep pics depicted. Reading this memoir, however, disabused me of any assumptions I’d made about the life…

  Feb 1, 2016

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  # Aldo Leopold, book notes, books, Helen Macdonald, James Rebanks, nature, poetry, review, sheep, Sigurd Olson, The Shepherd’s Life, Wendell Berry, Wordsworth