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The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

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gratiamortis's review

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adventurous emotional lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

poetic, beautiful, a door to the scottish mountainside

lucas_lex_dejong's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

kxiong5's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring relaxing slow-paced

3.75

This is a book about moving in relation to other bodies, and the choreography of your relationship to other bodies in motion. So many bodies (including that of the earth) that you can’t quite fathom it. It requires deep attention to the world (both the action and the reading of it), and unfortunately my path through reading it didn’t afford me the time to sit in this book. (I was reading in the span of time between me getting downstairs and my roommate getting downstairs before we drove to work.) But feels very nature-culture in vibe, and it’s been a long time since I’ve read something with nothing buzzing under the surface—what is in the words is what is in the world. And it felt good.