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Finding Beauty In A Broken World (2008)

by Terry Tempest Williams(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0375420789 (ISBN13: 9780375420788)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: While I thoroughly appreciate Terry William's complex and heartfelt writing, I felt myself constantly in a political battle instead of understanding her point. I could sense quite a bit of finger-pointing towards certain parties and I think that defeats the purpose, which I find admirable. In fact, I very much agree with what she has to say about how humans waste resources and destory with little thought or consideration. However, I felt that her story was, at some points, too much of an emotional argument. I do applaud her thoughts and the point was well made, to an extent.
review 2: Terry tempest Williams is my favorite author. The first book of hers that I read was Refuge. I read finding beauty in a Broken world a few years ago but it is the book that I mos... moret often go back and select favorite passages and pages to read again. She has the naturalists eye and skill of observation, she has the artist's curiosity and patience to take tiny fragile pieces of glass and create beautiful mosaic, she has the voice and heart of a poet and the compassion of a bodhisattva and the experience of suffering and resilience. All of this is evident in this artful and poignant journey she makes to Italy to study Mosaic, the quiet naturalist studies the endangered and fragile prairie dog, and then she travels to Rwanda to make sense of the genocide. In Terry's world, the prairie dog's demise is connected to the genocide by the human condition of losing compassion. She artfully inspires us to stay open and see the trauma and the beauty of this indeed, very broken world. The mosaic is the perfect broken art to teach us how fragile we are as broken pieces of glass, but how beautiful and strong we are as a mosaic of a world community less

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