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The Inland Island

7/21/2022

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Josephine W. Johnson gives an intimate and in depth look at nature and wildlife over the course of a year at her 37 acre farm in Ohio in The Island Island. Written where one chapter covers a month, we see the seasonal and phenological changes of a year in Ohio.  Johnson's writing makes everything seem beautiful, even when it is bleak.  She has a talent for making the everyday and mundane leap off the page.  I enjoyed her descriptions of the birds, toads, flowers and the weather.  Johnson focuses on more than just the big picture.  I loved when she got excited at new animal sightings.  More than just descriptive of the world around her, Johnson incorporates her feelings into her observations and at the time she wrote The Inland Island, her feelings of the Vietnam War are heavily on her mind and mixed into her observations of the natural world.  Reading The Inland Island felt like taking a walk through my backyard with a friend, enjoyable, eye-opening and peaceful.


This book was received for free in return for an honest review. 


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