![]() ![]() The language is clean and powerful and sensuous, and the story is engaging. How could I not enjoy a book about a feminist author who spends the summer in a shack on a "nubble" of land on an island off the coast of Maine and teaches herself to forage for food? And why the heck is the word nubble not amongst the statistically improbable? I guess it wasn't paired with any other word regularly enough.īut there is a lot more to like about this short book. ![]() Once again (and only after having read the book), I found that Amazon's "statistically improbable phrases" provided some good insight into content: strawberry goosefoot, dock seeds, sea rocket, lobster buoys. ![]() And that's how I found Drinking the Rain, a memoir by Alix Kates Shulman. Books that would otherwise remain hidden on library shelves or buried behind the newer offerings at bookstores can be picked out of a stack of chick lit* as easily as picking a fossil out of a gravel driveway. One of the things I love about used book sales is the chance of finding something wonderful for a dollar or two. ![]()
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