Bonnie S. (Bonnie) - reviewed on 8/4/2008 + 421 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I've just finished the delightful, little Still Life with Chickens. Another sort of back to the land where a woman divorces (very amicably, so this isn't a theme), and she and her daughter move from a high-falutin' neighborhood to a tiny rambshackle cottage in the next town on a saltwater pond.

A quick read of her leaving one home while raising and building shelters for the chicks, to arriving at and renovating her new home, and raising and building shelters for the chickens. As one who used to raise fowl, her little details brought back a lot of happy times with those birds, fond memories of catching a wet, warm egg in my hand as it was laid, to cleaning pasty butt off the babies. Great tidbits of info about living on the ocean and a saltwater pond.

I really recommend this very light, happy read if you are not looking for whining and badmouthing!

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