House of Steps: Finding the Path Home

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Summary: Intriguing, touching, acutely insightful, funny
Review: EASY: a delight to read. INFORMATIVE: CRAFTED carefully, skillfully. PROFESSIONAL: author growing geometrically (1-3-6?). POSITIVE: author mellowing. LANGUAGE: succinct but not excessively. HIGHLIGHTED: masterful use of relevant quotes. THOUGHTS: personal - must sit on own bottoms. ENGAGING: reader perspectives will evaluate(FAIR). FORM(Design): selectively episodic. GRAMMAR: superior. ENHANCED: FUNNY! STYLE: free, lyrical, musical(Delightfully melodic, rhythmic sounds). NARRATIVE: Substantive, significant ideas; Factual, meaty detail; Flowing, reads faster. LAYERED: something for each, more for some, much more for others. ALMOST MORE IMPORTANT FOR WHAT IT ISN'T, AS WHAT IT IS! HOORAY for "spontaneous housework! It's OK!

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Summary: A Good Read
Review: From the almost-hermit woman who gave us "Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pond" is this delightful stay in a house out in Kansas. In "House of Steps: Finding the Path Home," she again copes with snakes and other critters. A delightful collection of essays.

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Summary: Solitude!
Review: I loved this book as I did her first. I relate well with her lifestyle, for it is mine too. I worship the solitude living alone can give me. I can laugh along with Amy as she battles the Wasps and spiders. I can share her fun at being able to walk "nekked" in the house whenever needed and in the fact we are not bound by someone elses rules. Noone can tell us how or when the house should be clean. Ms Blackmarr is my hero :-)

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Summary: Nice place for an adventure
Review: The last time we saw Amy Blackmarr (in the fine "Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pond"), she had been forced to give up her pondering on the pond and was headed to the North Georgia mountains. However, she somehow got derailed and wound up in a peculiar little house in Kansas. No problem, in her newest work, "House of Steps: Finding the Path Home," she still finds plenty of adventures to share with us, including some from her past life. And her reflections on life, love, family and nature are as sharp as ever. As she did on the pond, Amy still finds snakes and other interesting creatures to deal with, and some of the people are pretty wild too. She even wins the battle of the mailbox, sort of. Either of her books is just the right length for a trip to the beach, or a few hours in the backyard. One more thought: If you like these books, you should also try "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" by Janisse Ray, another South Georgia woman with a heart for nature.

Rating:
Summary: Nice place for an adventure
Review: The last time we saw Amy Blackmarr (in the fine "Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pond"), she had been forced to give up her pondering on the pond and was headed to the North Georgia mountains. However, she somehow got derailed and wound up in a peculiar little house in Kansas. No problem, in her newest work, "House of Steps: Finding the Path Home," she still finds plenty of adventures to share with us, including some from her past life. And her reflections on life, love, family and nature are as sharp as ever. As she did on the pond, Amy still finds snakes and other interesting creatures to deal with, and some of the people are pretty wild too. She even wins the battle of the mailbox, sort of. Either of her books is just the right length for a trip to the beach, or a few hours in the backyard. One more thought: If you like these books, you should also try "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" by Janisse Ray, another South Georgia woman with a heart for nature.