Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (Audiobook)

from PDCRead

In this collection of fourteen essays Dillard brings her almost forensic observation of natural world as well as a keen perception of the smallest detail to a wide variety of subjects. Starting with her thoughts on a solar eclipse that she travels to see in Yakima, we accompany her on her a journ...

from laytonwoman3rd

Annie Dillard sees things others don't see; she also sees things differently than the rest of us, sometimes. Her prose can be gorgeous, but it can also be baffling, and I just don't get what she's talking about all the time. That last bit is almost a direct quote from Eudora Welty, who said the s...

from elfortunawe

This is the first Annie Dillard book I've ever read, and I found it quite deserving of my time. Being a collection of short stories, it's naturally difficult to sum the book up in a review. Expeditions and Encounters is probably about as appropriate a summation as can be provided. There are two s...

from jd234512

While I did not enjoy this nearly as much as Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, this makes me feel so blessed and honored to have ever heard of her in the first place. She manages to observe life in a way that makes you want to slow down and see what's happening rather than have it blow past. She forces yo...

from allidahl

All of her writing is so rich and deep. Similar to the way I feel about Buechner's writing, I could re-read it hundreds of times and get someting different out of it every time. This is my favorite of what I've read of hers so far, probbaly because I like the short essay style of these chapters a...