A Country Year, Sue Hubbell
A Country Year, Sue Hubbell
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A Country Year
Living the Questions

Author: Sue Hubbell

Narrator: Jennifer Pickens

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/15/2023


Synopsis

A "delightful, witty" memoir about starting over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks (Library Journal).

Alone on a small Missouri farm after a thirty-year marriage, Sue Hubbell found a new love—of the winged, buzzing variety. Left with little but the commercial beekeeping and honey-producing business she started with her husband, Hubbell found solace in the natural world. Then she began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared about.

Describing the ups and downs of beekeeping from one springtime to the next, A Country Year transports listeners to a different, simpler place. In a series of exquisite vignettes, Hubbell reveals the joys of a life attuned to nature in this heartfelt memoir about life on the land, and of a woman finding her way in middle age.

About Sue Hubbell

Sue Hubbell (1935-2018) was the author of eight books, including A Country Year and New York Times Notable Book A Book of Bees. She wrote for the New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian, and Time, and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of the New York Times.


Reviews

Goodreads review by María on March 02, 2018

"Durante los últimos doce años he aprendido que los arboles necesitan espacio para crecer, que los coyotes cantan junto al arroyo en enero, que las abejas saben más que yo sobre la fabricación de miel, que el amor puede convertirse en tristeza y que hay más preguntas que respuestas."......more

Goodreads review by Guy on April 16, 2008

When reading "A Country Year" I was continually reminded of Oscar Wilde's apology for sending a long letter -- he did not have time to write a short one. Sue Hubbell has taken the time to write a short book filled with concise gems, each as long as it should be and no longer, and I am much the riche......more

Goodreads review by Cherisa on March 26, 2023

I really liked it though it ended abruptly and unexpectedly. She had some neat ideas about an older woman living on her own and the freedom of having that option without harassment and ostracism being so new in the world.......more

Goodreads review by Ignacio on April 26, 2018

Me da igual la historia, pues no la hay. Solo un personaje y plano, pues vale. Pero me encanta. Es de esas novelas q deseas leer por tan solo leer, no tienes la emoción de el qué pasara, es simplemente placentero. Cuenta a través de las 4 estaciones sucesos que le han llamado la atención, la mayoría......more

Goodreads review by Eibi82 on November 23, 2017

3.5 Me ha gustado muchísimo pasar Un año en los bosques con Sue Hubbell. Enmarcada dentro del género nature writing la autora, nos cuenta su día a día en las montañas Ozarks, en el Medio Oeste de EEUU, su trabajo de apicultora y las distintas situaciones que va viviendo a lo largo de un año. Una lect......more