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My daughter states this is her favorite book, next to the Bible. She rereads it every year. I decided to find out what she likes. Having read Annie Dillard's other book and not in the mood for it at the time, I was surprised to find myself enjoying this book immensely. I feel it is a book that needs to be read aloud. Annie lives in a one room home on Puget Sound with a view of mountain ranges, the sea and forest. She lives with one ambitious cat, a spider and her thoughts. In this book we learn to appreciate the Pacific Northwest and the moods of the rain and sea. She writes prose like poetry. The book is almost like a diary, a rambling account of days. I like that for a writer, one so open and revealing. There are no expectations of deep thoughts but to reread this book, as my daughter does, I can see that I too would gain new insights into human nature, the wilds of land and sea and the solitude we all share as individuals when we too sit in one room alone with only our pets for company. I look forward to reading this again next year.


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Holy the Firm Annie Dillard 9780060105280 Books Reviews

I love Dillard and had read all her books but his one. It's not her best -- enough said.
Dillard's slender little tome delves into very deep aspects of our selves and our sense of place. It explores the numinous in a very personal and meaningful way. Read this book.
This was of no interest to me. I quit after the first section.
I recently discovered Anne Dillard. What a find! She is my new favorite author. I must admit she must have a comma shake next to the keyboard because a sentence can run on for most of a paragraph!
Anne"s understanding of God runs just below the surface. She crafts a story from her experiences that explores the reality of God. My favorite this to do is sit down in the afternoon and just turn the afternoon over to Anne.
One of the most brilliantly passionate and inspiring bits of prose I've read in years. Truly a beautiful look at pain and how we process the world around us.
I have several copies of this book in my possession. I think Annie outdid herself with this one -- the lyricism is gorgeous, the flow of ideas & experience, stunning. It's a good intro to Dillard, quite short, but also quite stout. Not for the faint of heart.
"Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time." With the opening words of this book, Annie Dillard sets us down, Holy and Firmly, and never lets go as we read on. This is a short book, but who says Holy must be long, either in space or in time? She set me down, and I read it wholly in one day, an otherwise cloudy, rainy, and depressing day in February; she held me firmly in a holy place till I turned the last page, she held me in a place where the Sun rising is a god, the Puget Sound is a god, the Pacific is a god whose being is articulated by the surrounding scene.

[page 12] . . . his breast rises from pastures; his fingers are firs; islands slide wet down his shoulders. Island slip blue from his shoulders and glide over the water, the empty, lighted water like a stage.
Today's god rises, his long eyes flecked in clouds. He flings his arms, spreading colors; he arches, cupping sky in his belly; he vaults, vaulting and spread, holding all and spread on me like skin.

If you have read her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, For the Time Being, or Teaching a Stone to Talk, you would not be surprised, because Annie Dillard is always a surprise and a delight to read, whether it's a novel, a non-fiction story (as this one seems to be), or essays on the art of writing itself as in her The Writing Life. Like she recommends that we do, she goes at her life "with a broadax."

Can God lose a tooth? we ponder this as we read the title "God's Tooth" for Part Two, which begins with a shock, "Into this world falls a plane." Those firs, which she reckoned as god's fingers earlier, pulls an airplane out of the sky and it falls down like a loosened tooth, all white and bloody to the ground. Annie's little friend, Julie, all of seven years old, lost her face in the flaming gasoline which leapt on her as her father pulled her from the crumpled plane which didn't clear the firs at the end of the small clearing. Annie remembers the day of cidering when Julie dressed up Small, Annie's cat, as a nun in a long black gown with a white collar. Now Julie doesn't have a face and Annie finds that hard to face, the possibility of a friend being blotted out.

Holy the Firm is like a long lyrical poem which unrolls itself before our eyes as we read, never knowing how the intricate tapestry of loneliness and created-ness will weave its warp and woof of meaning for us.

To read rest of my review, see DIGESTWORLD ISSUE#133 in April, 2013. Bobby Matherne
Bobby Matherne
My daughter states this is her favorite book, next to the Bible. She rereads it every year. I decided to find out what she likes. Having read Annie Dillard's other book and not in the mood for it at the time, I was surprised to find myself enjoying this book immensely. I feel it is a book that needs to be read aloud. Annie lives in a one room home on Puget Sound with a view of mountain ranges, the sea and forest. She lives with one ambitious cat, a spider and her thoughts. In this book we learn to appreciate the Pacific Northwest and the moods of the rain and sea. She writes prose like poetry. The book is almost like a diary, a rambling account of days. I like that for a writer, one so open and revealing. There are no expectations of deep thoughts but to reread this book, as my daughter does, I can see that I too would gain new insights into human nature, the wilds of land and sea and the solitude we all share as individuals when we too sit in one room alone with only our pets for company. I look forward to reading this again next year.