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This book has been on a bunch of top ten lists. I couldn't put this book down. It's got classic storytelling which I feel like is missing in books these days.

There is way too much to say about this book. At times, I was bored out of my mind not knowing where she was going. At other times, I was moved to laughter, moved to tears, disgusted, uplifted, fascinated... This is different than any book I've read before. It's more like a nature observer's journal, and it therefore is written in a stream-of-consciousness style. It's all over the place! But, just when I thought I couldn't follow Annie Dillard's "random" thoughts, I would get smacked with clarity as she suddenly pulled those thoughts together into one cohesive idea. It was almost like reading an essay backwards... you don't get the point until you're done! At many points, I just had to commit to keep reading, and I'm very glad I did. It might be helpful to the reader to do a little research about Dillard before you start so that you can get an idea of her perspective. I started to read this and put it down out of frustration (it made me feel a little stupid), but I read a short description of Dillard written by Phillip Yancey in his book "Soul Survivors: How 13 Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church". Dillard is one of those "mentors" for Yancey. Maybe I'm just too dense to have picked this book up blindly, and others may be able to jump right in. Last thing, I would recommend reading a recent print of it (after the Pulitzer was awarded) because Dillard includes an interesting epilogue where she explains her motivation and method for writing the book.

Horst Evers seems to be the David Sedaris of Germany. He uses anthropomorphism to describe the feelings of everything from your struggling geriatric coffee maker who thinks that each day will be his last, to the poor lonely satellite out in space that has to connect your call over thousands of kilometers to a friend who is 10 minutes from you just so that you can say "I don't want to talk to you." Very entertaining short stories.

This book was amazing. It was filled with action which made the book interesting. The ending is a cliff hanger and I'm so frustrated that I have to wait almost a year for the last book to come out. I can't believe it's almost the end of the Maximum Ride series!