The Weather Witch

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Reading!
Review: Inspiring, witty and filled with the raw emotions of life.
This journey through just one year of the author's life will touch your heart forever.
Take a look for yourself if you don't believe me.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Reading!
Review: Inspiring, witty and filled with the raw emotions of life.
This journey through just one year of the author's life will touch your heart forever.
Take a look for yourself if you don't believe me.

Rating:
Summary: The Weather Witch
Review: It is the author's account of building his own log home in remote northern Mnnesota. But it is much more. Its a story about undertaking a personal project, that at first consideration seemed impossibly overwelming, seeing it through to completion, and the personal satisfaction and self discovery that came from that. The author is a very astute observer of the natural and human world around him, and of himself. It is practical instruction and observation. And it is poetry. I don't think the author was thinking of Thoreau. But the book does remind one of Walden.

Rating:
Summary: The Weather Witch Bewitches!
Review: This book traces the inner work and the physical work required to build a home in the woods. There are lots of "how to" details and learning to be had, but for those of us who are not carpenters (or plumbers or electricians), the most interesting sections are about the interactions with people and animals--wild and domestic--that the author describes. I found these encounters moving. The writer's perspective is all his own--clear-sighted, unsentimental, and sometimes a bit grumpy. As you read you will see and hear how he works his way through the world, and that world view will probably work its way into yours.

Rating:
Summary: Exceptional reading
Review: When I sat down to read The Weather Witch, I knew that as a mother I could only afford about an hour. Well, priorities change when you become so affected by a book like this one. Wonderful book! Well done!

Rating:
Summary: Exceptional reading
Review: When I sat down to read The Weather Witch, I knew that as a mother I could only afford about an hour. Well, priorities change when you become so affected by a book like this one. Wonderful book! Well done!

Rating:
Summary: More Than The sum of its Parts
Review: Yes, I saw it in manuscript form, but it is so elegant in print and so rich in detail besides being both funny and poignant that it's good for a reread any time. There's Casey, the dog, and the tiny trailer, and his orange car that he lived in on the beach at Galveston, Tx, eking out a Minnesota winter. There's his born-again neighbor, Dale, and all the denizens of the Grand Rapids coffee house. There's always the struggle with the logs and the snow and money ... be sure to note his creative, actually healthy meals and there's always an undercurrent of potential danger of various sorts. It's important not to read too fast or you'll miss the tiny switches the author pulls. So enjoyable, but keep the tissues handy.

Rating:
Summary: More Than The sum of its Parts
Review: Yes, I saw it in manuscript form, but it is so elegant in print and so rich in detail besides being both funny and poignant that it's good for a reread any time. There's Casey, the dog, and the tiny trailer, and his orange car that he lived in on the beach at Galveston, Tx, eking out a Minnesota winter. There's his born-again neighbor, Dale, and all the denizens of the Grand Rapids coffee house. There's always the struggle with the logs and the snow and money ... be sure to note his creative, actually healthy meals and there's always an undercurrent of potential danger of various sorts. It's important not to read too fast or you'll miss the tiny switches the author pulls. So enjoyable, but keep the tissues handy.