For the Time Being, (Paperback)

from AaronB

This is the book I would save in a fire. It's like three-dimensional chess for the mind. Every reading of it yields new discoveries.

from nicholasjjordan

I will apparently always love Annie Dillard, and I will always give her five stars (although I've not yet read any of her fiction).

from the_darling_copilots

For the Time Being is a carefully crafted assemblage of stories, facts, and spiritual and philosophical musings, which builds in impact over the course of the book until, by the end, the total effect is astounding. Even when musing in a desultory way about her most abstract and complicated topics...

from bordercollie

"Then before me in the near distance I saw the earth itself walking, the earth walking dark and aerated as it always does in every season, peeling the light back: The earth was plowing the men under, and the spade, and the plow." This is my 4th reading of the best spiritual book in the world.

from stravinsky

swirling tangents or aphorisms, adages, and epigrams.