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A review by hmonkeyreads
The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer
5.0
A strange little book about meditation and appreciating the quiet, small things in life.
Finch begins the story as an office drone who has a boring job and a boring, unsatisfying life. He eventually falls into the opportunity to become an estate hermit for an eccentric millionaire and over time he becomes a grizzled, skinny, nearly blind hermit who lives off the land in his bee-loud glade and finds that his spartan life is more valuable that money.
A book that highlights the beauty of meditation, nature, silence, and connections (however brief) with other people.
It's not a book for everybody, but if you've ever daydreamed about wandering around in the backcountry of our National Parks or retreating to Walden Pond, I think you'll enjoy it very much.
(I TOALLY want to be somebody's hermit now!)
Finch begins the story as an office drone who has a boring job and a boring, unsatisfying life. He eventually falls into the opportunity to become an estate hermit for an eccentric millionaire and over time he becomes a grizzled, skinny, nearly blind hermit who lives off the land in his bee-loud glade and finds that his spartan life is more valuable that money.
A book that highlights the beauty of meditation, nature, silence, and connections (however brief) with other people.
It's not a book for everybody, but if you've ever daydreamed about wandering around in the backcountry of our National Parks or retreating to Walden Pond, I think you'll enjoy it very much.
(I TOALLY want to be somebody's hermit now!)