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Ammonites & Leaping Fish: A Dance In Time (2013)

by Penelope Lively(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Penguin Fig Tree

review 1: This book was difficult to classify, although I filed it under biographies and it's subtitled "A Memoir". It's more of a musing of a life and one persons rather random observations. It was interesting and I really did enjoy the chapter on Memory. For the rest of it, while written well, her opinions matter no more or less than say, my mom or an older, wiser garden friend. And actually, I care more about the opinions of those women that I know personally.
review 2: Read this "not quite a memoir. Rather... the view from old age" especially for the spectacular first essay, which discusses what it feels like to be 80, physically, intellectually and emotionally. Though she no longer wants to travel and can only do a bit of gardening, she can still read (despite ... moremacular degeneration which she alludes to but does not dwell on). "Reading in old age is doing for me what it has always done - it frees me from the closet of my own mind." She writes beautifully about memory, a frequent subject in her novels, and her essay on reading and writing makes me wonder if I really should gird my loins for Henry James. less

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