A Country Year: Living the Questions

By Sue Hubbell

Book Overview

A country year is something like a baker's dozen--it contains an extra season. Hubbell lends the reader her eyes and ears to explore her peninsula between two rivers in the Ozark Mountains from one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679769501
• ISBN13: 9780679769507
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Sue Hubbell is my soul mate.

All women desiring to becoming a wiser woman should read this book...

A lyrically written memoir about country life and its charms

Sue Hubble is an excellent writer; you can feel the hot Ozark sun and hear the hypnotic murmur of her bees, the bright slash of a bunting's song and share her wonder at the joys and challenges in country life.If you aspire to memoir writing, this is a fine example of the craft. If you want walk in someone else's footsteps for a few hundred pages, learn how they live and how they think and feel about everyday things and about nature, this is for you.I love this book.

Bee-keeper tells all, and tells it well.

I almost didn't buy the audiocassette of this book because of the reviewer who said Sue Hubbell's reading was monotonous. I bought it anyway, and am thrilled to say both the content and the reading were outstanding. To my mind, the author's voice, in any tone, beats an inauthentic performance. This is one of the best works on contemporary nonfiction by women - and one of the best books on tape - I have come across in a long while. I recommend it highly, for anyone interested in how the human mind makes connections between her immediate surroundings and the larger questions of living in the world. The "bee" theme, like Thoreau's ants and Annie Dillard's creek creatures, is simply a fascinating and concrete set of phenomena through which Hubbell examines the mystical world around her, and around us all. (One last note of interest: the audiocassette - comprised of only one tape - includes a second tape on which Gary Snyder reads from his work on nature and the problem of logging in the northwest of the U.S.).

An inspiration to live the simple life!

I was visiting my future in-laws 5 years ago and I was feeling nervous and somewhat introspective. My soon to be mother-in-law suggested I read a new book she had received from a friend. A Country Year, by Sue Hubbell, was just the thing I needed. I was immediately at peace with myself and the world. I have since read all Sue Hubbell's books and can't wait for the next one to come out. I have even taken a beekeeping class! Her books help me appreciate the natural world around me. She also inspires me to slow down in this fast-paced world we live in. The simple things in life are forgotten quite a bit these days and Sue Hubbell takes the time to remind us of what we're missing out on.