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comfyreads's review
5.0
i don’t always agree with mary oliver’s perspective, but it is always undeniably interesting and sometimes feels profound! i will treasure this book throughout my life and hopefully use it as a tool to remembering how beautiful everything is
kmackmac's review
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
4.0
Very poetic and reflective with the underlying theme of nature. Loved the combination of literature and nature - felt very aligned as someone who witnesses the natural world as a poetic and romantic masterpiece.
nicomarlyse's review
4.0
I finished this in bed while it was raining listening to mostly chimes by adrianne lenker and I feel blessed to know the comforting works of these beautiful women and to know the sound of the rain on my old, old windows and to know the taste of café bustelo with cream and I am happy to know the world and all who live in it!!! I am emotional!!!
gremlinpride's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
4.5
aelsaj711's review against another edition
Ended at page 41, 25%, may continue later - currently just not feeling it:/
alidao's review
3.5
I think reading it as an e book was a mistake. Reading this as my first Mary Oliver writing was a mistake . The last this of the book was wonderful, I can’t wait to come across some poetry by Mary later in life.
reebsforspace's review
3.5
If you love the natural world and literature and if finding yourself amongst comfort, in a library, a bookstore, a cafe in which you come across this book, I implore you to read the first section, that is all you need. Oliver captures the creative, the individual, the world, with carnal, breathy thoughts. It is not a 'squishy,' heart eyed love affair, it is a viewing of the human mind. And thus the desire for art, the calling of the forest floor, the necessity and the crazed, lurching towards complete unity with mother earth. Eventually, this leads to demolition, dissonance harbored in the human mind, of course Oliver does not recognize in the heat of it. Do you blame her? I do, just a little. The beginning of Upstream is absolutely gorgeous, and the rest, perhaps some may figure, predictably, fizzles out.
I believe Oliver was genuine in her desire to take her reader with her, upstream, but somewhere, in a marked place, let them go, and towering over such things, sharing with her, where is there to go but down when she does so?
I believe Oliver was genuine in her desire to take her reader with her, upstream, but somewhere, in a marked place, let them go, and towering over such things, sharing with her, where is there to go but down when she does so?