This Hill, This Valley
A Memoir

Oh, this book was beautiful. I read it slowly, which usually means I was bored and made myself come back to it - but not in this case. It was just so gorgeous I genuinely wanted to savor it. It was also set up for a slow read as it's a year in the life of his valley home. I started it in the Spring......more

The “gentle reads” description definitely applies to this charmer, written back in the fifties by the naturalist Hal Borland. As the dust jacket says, this book is “one of the true classics of American nature writing” that “recounts the cycle of a year on Borland’s hill-country farm in north-western......more

Spending as much time as I do reading books about other parts of the country or world, it was lovely to discover a book that speaks so beautifully and perceptively of the place I've always felt most at home: New England farm country. In this informal journal of a year of life on a Connecticut farm,......more

I picked up this book because it was mentioned in Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow Sampler. Hal and his wife Barbara were friends of Gladys and she kept this book on her coffee table to read during the seaons. I love this because I read Gladys' books seasonally as well. So I rushed over to Hoopla and ther......more

A reread of one of my favorite books.......more