A River Runs through It and Other Stories | 
A thoughtful reframing of the endless TBR problem:
https://www.oliverburkeman.com/river
Watching the movie of the tagged book with this amazing dinner my husband cooked for us tonight. He is quite the chef! 😋
pick“We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.”
A beautiful & philosophical novella about 2 brothers in the early years of the 20th century. The descriptions of Montana are vivid and alive. The brothers though different, communicate through their shared love for nature and fly fishing. As is often the case, “part of the way to come to know a thing is through its death.”
Effective, calming narration. I only read the first story👇🏼
And just like that, I‘ve deviated from my #WeeklyForecast 😜This was available through #Scribd and it fits my #ReadingUSA2020 challenge #Montana #BedtimeAudio I saw the film which was gorgeous and the writing so far is just as beautiful. Do any Littens live in Montana?? I‘d love to see what your views look like!!!!
Thanks for the tag, @Texreader
I‘ve been thinking about this since @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks posted it, so I‘m going to use 3 books that I‘ve loved for many years & have re-read the most.
1. A River Runs Through It
2. A Walk in the Woods
3. The Little Prince
#favs I tag @callielafleur @Kathy1212 @ulyssesartmiller @candority
so-soI have mixed feelings on this one. It was a quiet story and the writing was beautiful sometimes. But my fishing vocabulary was not enough to appreciate some paragraphs. And the scene with Old Rawhide being chased and kicked followed by a line 'Suddenly, I developed a passion to kick a woman in the ass' was just awful.
pickI got this for Christmas from my parents years ago and am so glad I finally read it in my #mounttbr challenge! I adore books that have such a strong sense of place and I‘ve always loved books set in american states like Montana and Wyoming, I can‘t explain exactly why but all that sky and space inspires me so much. This had such a beautiful way of talking about landscape and so much respect for the land, forestry and fish
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
1. Tagged book, The Wicked King and The Wolf And The Watchman
2. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - finished yesterday but definitely going to be on my end of year lists
3. Either people who look down on me for reading ebooks/audiobooks or people that try to make others feel bad about their reading. No lie I once met someone in a bar who made me feel bad for only having read Don Quixote once.
pickI‘ve only read the “other stories” once because obv, the masterpiece is the novella. This book has a special place in my 💚. Besides the writing, when I was summer staff at church camp a lot of yrs ago, this was a common book & movie that we all loved. I think it‘s a rare case of seeing the movie (early brad Pitt) before I read the book. I re-visit it every few years and still love so many things about it. The movie is great, too. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hanging out at a festival all weekend. My mom has figured out that I‘ll come help if she gives me a job where I can read. This is High Bridge, the highest train bridge over a navigable stream (KY River)in the U.S. The community is mostly farmers. My parents grew up here, then moved a few miles to my hometown. Same architect as the Brooklyn Bridge.
Week 2 check-in for #BFCr3: 4/4 exercise, tracked food, 4/6 books. @wanderinglynn @Laughterhp
#barracuda | I‘m just going with fishing here; not barracuda, but trout. 🎣 My husband tried and tried to get me to read this for years and I finally did last year. It‘s fantastic, of course!
#marchintothe70s
so-soAs much as I loved the idea of how the river and fly fishing are intertwined with the lives of the characters (the latter as their, seemingly, only way of communicating), I could not relate to the story or the characters. I hated the way "Old Rawhide" was portrayed and was disgusted at how the brothers treated her. "Suddenly, I developed a passion to kick a woman in the ass." At this point, I developed a passion to finish the book.
The Elkhorn and the Brown Trout are also alike in being beautiful by being partly ugly.
"It is a strange and wonderful and somewhat embarrassing feeling to hold someone in your arms who is trying to detach you from the earth and you aren't good enough to follow her."
I took this photo on the beach this morning. To me it looked like a masterpiece of art but it's a masterpiece of nature.
After years of hubby trying to get me to read this, I finally did earlier this year. SO good, 5 ⭐️.
#River #GetMovin
pick“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
I absolutely loved these stories, especially A River Runs Through It. It‘s breathtaking. I knew I loved the film, but it‘s been many years since I‘ve seen it, so the story really felt fresh. All of the stories are pretty fantastic. I highly recommend this on audio. Superb narration.
I like this #firstline. I‘m actually listening to the #audio, but hubby has an old worn out mass market on the shelf that‘s handy for photos. He‘s been asking me to read this for years. I like the narration so far. 👌🏻 #currentlyreading #currentlylistening #audible
I started this book on Thursday. A river figures prominently. I can't remember the last time I thought about rivers or heard or read the word river. Yesterday, the day after I started the book, I had an unplanned lunch overlooking the Chicago River. At a place called River Roast. And ordered a dish that looked like it could be the Riverrun house special of the Tully clan from Game of Thrones. #bookserendipity #serendipity
#theriver Not a river, but a stream, runs through the edge of our property. I read this around the time the movie with Brad Pitt came out 25 years ago, so don't remember details, although I know I liked it and the movie 👍
An old favorite, though it's been years since I read it. On its face it's about fly-fishing and the rivers of Montana. Really it's about more than that, but what I remember the most is the descriptions of nature. I wish my copy didn't have the movie cover, but the movie is wonderful as well. #booksaboutnature #readjanuary
