Books by Sara Maitland
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review 1: This book was, at best, mediocre due to its redundancy of style and the author's pretentious prose (which becomes more and more pronounced as the book progresses). While I have to admit that the first few chapters held my interest, it became a struggle to finish this book given ...
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review 1: This is a phenomenal book. Maitland starts by asking what we really mean by silence (is it absence from all noise, in which case being alone in the forest, for example, can't be silent; or does it mean absence of human noise?) and goes on to look at what dangers silence can repre...