These Precious Days: Essays, (Hardcover)

from jillrhudy

Lovely; sometimes brutally beautiful in its honesty. The book was very long for an essay collection and took me a month to get through. but I do believe many of these essays are truly great. Patchett is undoubtedly among America's greatest living writers.

from bell7

Ann Patchett's latest collects 23 essays, many which were previously published (sometimes in a slightly different version), in a lovely rumination on life, love, and friendship. It was, quite simply, a delight to read through these personal essays. I enjoy Patchett's writing style, simple yet of...

from gbelik

These are very enjoyabe, very personal esssys. I feel like I know Ann Patchett…or I wish I did.

from muddyboy

A series of great essays by an author who is at the top of her game. She covers a wde variety f topics that include her family, her education and writing career. The must important essay and titled the same as the book itself is about her close friendship with a woman who when she met her was Tom...

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Sometimes I think Patchett's nonfiction is even better than her fiction. These essays reveal so much about her life and character that it's hard not to feel very emotionally involved with her. I particularly loved the chapters: My Year of No Shopping, Three Fathers, How Knitting Saved My Life. Tw...