About book Barnheart: The Incurable Longing For A Farm Of One's Own (2011)
This book suffers from the blog to book symptoms of needing a better edit. It didn't flow together very well and the final chapters felt rushed. Overall, I was put off by the smugness. She at one point seems amazed that someone would be concerned about the view from their window rather than the use of the land. She also has a lot of judgey things to say about her neighbors not using their properties "correctly."I love reading about folks throwing themselves headlong into a dream, but I wish she'd given this project a bit more time for reflection. I think it would have made for a better book. Overall an enjoyable and light read. I enjoyed the author's adventures and trials and connected with the feeling of wanting land and space of one's own. Her tone occasionally became pretentious which got a little tiresome (Yes, you're a special snowflake, we get it already), and her total lack of financial responsibility had me yelling in horror at times (you have HOW LITTLE? On THAT BIG of an income?!?). Despite being the same age (as she was when she wrote it), I found her somewhat immature, and was admittedly unsatisfied with the ending. I'm not sure what else I wanted from it (maybe a little personal development?), but it just wasn't there. A good read for a casual summer's day by the pool or during lunch break.
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A brief fix for my addiction to the "women who run away to work on farms" genre.
—ilikebutts
I really liked it, but it was also annoying at the same time...
—Cherisse
Yep this is the disease I have, it is heart breaking.
—Ben
