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Field Guide to Getting Lost
Field Guide to Getting Lost | Rebecca Solnit
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.
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anushareflects
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New books Friday ♥️
Two very different reads but both that I‘m looking forward to whenever their turn comes! #readerlife #longlongtbr

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Susanita
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 📚 10mo
Eggs Well played👏🏻👏🏻 10mo
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ravenlee
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Mehso-so

I think I prefer Solnit‘s more explicitly feminist writing than her memoir essays, but I‘ll keep reading her backlist. I found this frustrating, in that every time I became absorbed in a vignette she would shift focus and I would lose the thread. Which, given the theme of loss, could be deliberate.

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Anna40
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Pickpick

I loved this book; essays centred around the theme losing yourself, finding yourself. “As you step up to the ridgeline, the world to the west suddenly appears before you, a colossal expanse even more wild and remote than the east, a surprise, a gift, a revelation. The world doubles in size. Something like that happens when you really see someone …”

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Anna40
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@britt_brooke When I suggested the reading group to my son, he was so excited, he cleaned up his room, organised books and read from two of them. We had chocolate and started a reading log. He said it was so much fun. Not sure if the enthusiasm will last, but this was a great start :)

Alfoster Awww, so sweet!🥰 2y
britt_brooke Oh, this makes me so happy!! 🤩 2y
Smrloomis 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Awesome!!! 2y
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Megabooks
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Damn Rebecca is a prolific writer. Her essay collections are broad meditations of a theme, this time on what loss means, from kidnapping during colonial times to the loss of species to extinction. I am continually impressed by how much her essays demand from the reader. Be prepared to examine what loss means to you.

@TheAromaofBooks this is my #doublespin.

Cinfhen Beautiful review, Meg! #Stacked 3y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 3y
Megabooks @Cinfhen thanks 💕 3y
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Megabooks
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Let the month begin!

My #doublespin is tagged. My #bookspin is a library book. Both are #audiobooks.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 3y
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literateBee

Solnit is brilliant.

kspenmoll Yes! 3y
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Mitch
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So yesterday I met an old friend and she gave me a very early birthday present ( it‘s not for 2 weeks) it‘s a gorgeous cushion, refashioned from a tweed jacket. The jacket pocket has been made into a book pocket! Love it ❤️❤️❤️

Mitch Maybe a sewing project idea for you @Crazeedi ?🤣 5y
8little_paws I love it! Very cool idea 5y
Mitch @8little_paws clever isn‘t it! 5y
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Aims42 That‘s so clever!! 5y
LauraBeth Love this! 5y
Crazeedi @Mitch omg that is a great idea!!!!! I love it, now I have to go figure out what material to use to make this! Great gift idea too 5y
saresmoore Brilliant! 5y
CuriousCaterpillar Wow! That so cool. 🤗 5y
LibrarianRyan That is cool. 5y
erzascarletbookgasm Nifty! 👍 5y
Hooked_on_books Very cool! 5y
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rhymeswithvoice
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“We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.”

CoffeeNBooks Welcome to Litsy! 📚 5y
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Welcome to Litsy 💖📖💖 5y
Crazeedi Welcome to litsy!!🎉🎉 5y
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Bindrosbookshelf
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Finding little bookish corners in arty cafes hidden down laneways...

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toastykitten
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The world is blue at its edges and in its depths.

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arlenefinnigan
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Cinfhen This author sounds vaguely familiar 5y
Cinfhen Ahhhh!!! Yes!!! Thanks ❤️ I haven‘t read that one either but I heard it‘s really good 5y
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Weaponxgirl
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Mehso-so

This was one of those books where I normally love the author and parts of the writing I could tell were sublime but I just didn‘t really like it.
It took so much concentration for me personally where I felt like the mood of this book was one that was meant to be kind of like a dream whilst reading. Where the sentences just hit you like poetry and make your mind connect naturally. I don‘t think it‘s the author it‘s me on this one.

Weaponxgirl I just couldn‘t connect with this in the way it should be connected with. Kinda disappointed as it‘s the sort of book and theme I would normally love. 6y
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erinjohns
Bailedbailed

I got lost reading this book...maybe it was the big fluffy words and quotes but I prefer to get lost on my own terms.

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Ravenpuff
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Required text for one of my English classes, but so far, it really has an interesting intake of what one comes upon when they least expect it. #Nonfiction

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Vulpixen
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Mehso-so

I read this with a book club and was really excited about it. In the end, I thought the ideas and concepts were really beautiful, but I couldn‘t connect with the style. It was lovely, but just missed the mark a little for me.

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Emiller
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Book mail!! 😊❤️📚

Lauram I can‘t resist these types of books. 6y
Emiller @Lauram Neither can I 😊 6y
Lauram Do you plan to complete one of these massive walks? I always think it sounds like a good idea, but I prefer to read about them. 6y
Emiller @Lauram As much as I would love to do a thru-hike, I wouldn‘t be able to take that much time off work. But definitely plan on doing shorter ones, like maybe a week or two. 😊 6y
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Susanita
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Seen at a local eatery...

#aquotetoliveby
#anewchapter

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️ 6y
vkois88 I really like that ❤ And how awesome that they used it in a restaurant! 6y
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m.galehuxley
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I loved The Faraway Nearby. I‘m looking forward to reading another book by Rebecca Solnit.

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hike.read.repeat
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You realize that no matter how much terrain you cover there‘s far more than you ever will. Mountaineering is always spoken of as though summiting is a conquest, but as you get higher, the world gets bigger, and you feel smaller in proportion to it, overwhelmed and liberated by how much space is around you, how much room to wander, how much is unknown.

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The desert is made first and foremost out of light, at least to the eye and the heart, and you quickly learn that the mountain range twenty miles away is pink at dawn, a scrubby green at midday, blue in evening and under clouds. The light belies the bony solidarity of the land, playing over it like emotion on a face, and in this the desert is intensely alive, as the apparent mood of mountains changes hourly, as places that are flat and stark at...

hike.read.repeat ...noon fill with shadows and mystery in the evening. 6y
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hike.read.repeat
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I guess that makes my winter camp this Jayco camper parked in a field on a ranch in South Texas.

Work all winter, shine all summer.

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hike.read.repeat

Every love has its landscape. Thus place, which is always spoken of as though it only counts when you‘re present, possesses you in its absence...It is as though in the way places stay with you and that you long for them they become deities.

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hike.read.repeat

Sometimes an old photograph, an old friend, an old letter will remind you that you are not who you once were, for the person who dwelt among them, valued this, chose that, wrote thus, no longer exists. Without noticing it you have traversed a great distance...

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MEGR
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I‘ve read so many references to this book, this author...diving in to see for myself 📖

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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There are essential #mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. #QuotsyJuly18

Photo: jessicaleedoran on Instagram

erzascarletbookgasm That photo 😱 6y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads I love the photos of the abandoned houses. Unsure why @erzascarletbookgasm 6y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Pickpick

Rebecca is definitely not for the “faint at heart” reader. When I say deep, I mean really deep in terms of her thinking and perspectives. Like, she says stuff like: “Its in the nature of things to be lost” and “The places inside matter as much as the ones inside”. I love going to that level and love her for it. Going to the library now to get another one of her books. For stuff I don‘t understand, I‘m giving her 4 stars. Her other stuff, I LOVE

BarbaraBB Excellent review! 6y
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HardcoverHearts
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Paris...I love you. So many wonderful places to read!!

2BR02B So lovely. 😍 6y
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HardcoverHearts
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I swear I am not following her, but you can be damn sure that I will be here, at Shakespeare and Company to see her speak on our last night in Paris. 👌🏻

Lindy 😍 6y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That‘s where the most important things came from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

Photo: jeff_the_wiz on Instagram

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Ber135
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Pickpick

Got to finish Rebecca Solnit's book "A field guide to getting lost" during a walk into the forest, and it made it soo much better. Solnit gives you new ways to look at your surroundings, with history and facts, and stories I've never heard about the colour blue and all of its meanings. It wasnt at all what I was expecting it to be, but I learnt new things and now my morning walks are richer than ever. 4.5 stars.
#Recommendsday #TBT #Review

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IsabCamire
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RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Some of us put together Litsy tips to help new Littens navigate the site. It's the link in my bio on my page in case you need it. Or if you prefer how-to videos, @chelleo put some together at the link in her bio. 7y
Tadams4 Welcome to Litsy! 7y
Chelleo Welcome🤗 7y
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Ber135
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Only 40 pages into my first Rebecca Solnit book and I can already relate with her in so many levels about my morning walks in the park and hiking in the forest... Her work reminds me of Mary Oliver's Upstream, one of my favourites last year. Looking forward to continue reading this. #Recommend
#Nature #TBR

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VinceReads
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Pickpick

Solnit is a wonderful writer and I‘m a little disappointed I haven‘t read any of her work previously. This book is a collection of essays about various ways to get lost, almost every one of which I can relate to. Some definitely stood out more than others but overall a pretty enjoyable collection.

4/5

LibrarianJen Stacking although I probably don‘t need a field guide. 1) I would lose it and 2) I just have to walk down the hall and I forget where I am going 😂😳 7y
SandyW @LibrarianJen 😁😁😁 7y
VinceReads @LibrarianJen 😂😂😂. 7y
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VinceReads
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VinceReads
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There are so many great lines in this book!

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VinceReads
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Next up. Haven‘t read any of her work yet. Anyone who has have any thoughts on her writing?

Beachesnbooks I absolutely loved Men Explain Things to me; I've been meaning to pick up more of hers! 7y
quietlycuriouskate This one ended up less than the some of its parts for me. I've still read it twice, though, and want to read more by her. 7y
emtobiasz I read another of her memoir/essay collections a few years ago and absolutely adored it 7y
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OrangeMooseReads
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Grabbed this one for $1.99. I enjoy Solnit‘s writing.

Morr_Books Thanks for letting us know. This one has been on my to read list for a long while. 7y
OrangeMooseReads @Morr_Books you are most welcome 👍🏼 7y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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This one‘s longer than my usual #quotsydec17 picks. But it‘s a really thought-provoking one about #play.

rwmg Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else. 7y
Jaimelire I like this quote. 7y
Cathythoughts My father used to say when we were out driving & got lost : “ We are not lost , we are in Ireland. “He wasn‘t trying to be profound, only stating the obvious 🙃 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cathythoughts I love family memories like that! ❤️ 7y
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starrdom
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@TsundokuAleax @bookandcat @Schlinkles Here's what I got for #lmpbc. Any preferences/prejudices?

TsundokuAleax I am good with both. I have not heard of either of them. 7y
bookandcat Both sound good! 7y
Schlinkles Either is good with me! 7y
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Valeka
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"Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go."

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Valeka
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Evening reading material because sometimes getting lost sounds divine.

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WordWaller
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yesterday was #readabook day but because that's every day for me I was just busy getting ink on my hands all day instead of photographing these beautiful new backlist arrivals. You can't see it, but there is NO room on the shelves for these babies, but I don't see that stopping me any time soon💁🏻#tbr #tbrstack #shelfie

sofiaga This book pile is amazing. Don't worry , I ran out of space too and Still i don't think i am gonna stop. 7y
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I don't know if this is true, but I love it. 💛🦋💛

Mimi28 That's so awesome! ❤️ 7y
Mimi28 My AOL sn was slickbutterfly76. I still use it!! 7y
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quietlycuriouskate
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Pickpick

Twice I've read this book and twice I've thought "this is amazing!" at the start and "it's good" by the end. Is it the sense that the chapters don't add up to more than the sum of their parts? Or that the book just ends, rather than concludes? Maybe. That said, it's an interesting book, she gave me lots to think about and I enjoyed her writing style: I want to read more by her.

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quietlycuriouskate
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The blue of distance...
Is it a me-thing or a poet-thing, perhaps? Who else likes quietly turning certain phrases over and over like especially tasty pieces of deliciousness?

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peggyriley
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Stunning.

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