Reviews

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd

natalielynnsmith's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.5

soupy_twist's review

adventurous informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

eubha's review against another edition

informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.0

Honestly, I just didn't connect with it like I thought I would. Reading so much about somewhere and having never actually been just didn't really work for me but the writing was, of course, beautiful. 

Will probably need to reread at some point later in my life.

oxnard_montalvo's review against another edition

On walking barefoot through the mountains, 'a flower caught between the toes is it's own small enchantment.'

Might be misquoting, but that's the feeling this book gives.; a delicate, hidden surprise.

julinapril's review against another edition

slow-paced

4.75

Man muss dieses Buch in Stille lesen, um sich davon ergreifen zu lassen. Nach einem langen, reizüberfluteten Tag wird es langweilen. Aber wenn man Zeit hat, zur Ruhe zu kommen, und dann darin liest, findet man einen riesigen Schatz mit so viel bescheiden verpackter Weisheit. Ich bin zutiefst beeindruckt von der Weitsicht der Autorin und wünsche mir, die Cairngorms auch - zumindest einmal - zu besuchen. 

gratiamortis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

poetic, beautiful, a door to the scottish mountainside

lucas_lex_dejong's review against another edition

inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

kxiong5's review against another edition

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.

rojulian's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

maccamedonian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0