Planting Dandelions: Field Notes from a Semi-Domesticated Life, (Paperback)

from benruth

I have not yet actually received this book from LibraryThing, but I got a library copy and read it anyway. Pittman's essays are, for the most part, charming and interesting---she manages to avoid the traps that some writers of books of this type seem to get into wherein they resort to raunchiness...

from satyridae

I enjoyed this memoir mightily. Pittman is about 6 years younger than I am, and she's negotiating some territory very familiar to me. Her voice is wry but never snarky, revealing but not so intimate that one runs away scarred, and her bewilderment at times resonates deeply in my own echo chambers...

from Florinda

The increasingly popular "novel-in-stories" format seems to have a counterpart in nonfiction: the "linked-essays" memoir. Like all memoirs, these books tell a personal story, but the telling is episodic rather than along the straightforward narrative through-line found in both traditionally autob...

from jaidahsmommy

I really enjoyed this book. Kyran discusses her leap from being a wild child to a wife and mother of three. Her path was not easy, and she bares in this wonderful memoir about her life. I love that Kyran is honest about her decisions and what made her decide to "jump the picket fence" into a life...

from debnance

I received an advanced reader copy of this book from the publisher way, way back in April. It has been at the top of my TBR pile since I received it, but other books kept pushing it down in the stacks. I finally got around to reading it this week. And I'm happy I did. Planting Dandelions is a lov...