Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen AuvinenMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I like books about "living wild," and especially if they are written by women on their own. Auvinen also has a lot of references to other books and emphasis on poets and poetry that I loved, as well as the usual emphasis on meditation and solitude. I felt this book might help me make deeper connections in my own daily experience, which is pretty far removed from Colorado's Rocky Mountains. I am very much a canine oriented person as well, so the relationship she had with her dog (which is richly explored in this memoir) was of great interest to me. It is truly an homage to nature and makes me appreciate what Thoreau meant when he said "in Wildness is the preservation of the world."
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