I was unable to get very far with this audiobook...it was too boring to listen to. I should try it in print, as I've liked similarly described books (of course, I've also found print versions of some nature writing to be boring also).

I am hit and miss with Rick Bass. I love some of his stuff and have to force myself through other pieces. Pieces that are too long, too rambling and too Dickensian in his use of every possible word imaginable to capture one small detail in excruciating detail. (Sarcasm off) ( )

I couldn't finish this. It's a series of essays, one for each month of the year. I worked my way through the first several months and then had to put it down. On the surface, it seemed like a book I would enjoy: author lives in remote location and chronicles a year of the natural world around him. And I did like parts of it. However, I found Bass's prose too fanciful, overflowing with simile and metaphor, sentences stretching on just a bit too long. There was not enough solid narrative running underneath his imagery. Bass is more well known (and critically acclaimed) for his fiction, so perhaps I will look into that instead. I think I have just developed an intolerance for dense prose altogether. Give me spare and lean instead, enough to convey a thread of emotion for me to seize on and I will take it from there. ( )