Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding (Hardcover) by Lynn Darling

from bobbieharv

My kind of book exactly - quiet peaceful writing, though Darling was dealing with the death of her husband and departure of her only daughter to college. Reminded me a little of May Sarton's "Journal of a Solitude," without Sarton's irascibility. Took off half a star just because at the beginning...

from SheTreadsSoftly

Lynn Darling explains in the introduction the genesis of why she wrote Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding:"I was forty-four when my husband died and fifty-six when my daughter entered college. I was getting old, and I didn't know how to do that. So many people seemed to do it badly, and yet...

from dawnlovesbooks

This reminded me of Thoreau's "Walden" but from the perspective of a modern, middle-aged woman! The author moves from New York City, to an isolated house in the woods of Vermont. "I moved to the house at the end of the road to make a new home, a new life, and it was only later that I would realiz...

from bobbieharv

My kind of book exactly - quiet peaceful writing, though Darling was dealing with the death of her husband and departure of her only daughter to college. Reminded me a little of May Sarton's "Journal of a Solitude," without Sarton's irascibility. Took off half a star just because at the beginning...

from SheTreadsSoftly

Lynn Darling explains in the introduction the genesis of why she wrote Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding:"I was forty-four when my husband died and fifty-six when my daughter entered college. I was getting old, and I didn't know how to do that. So many people seemed to do it badly, and yet...