Replied to https://boffosocko.com/2023/11/30/55820049/ by Chris Aldrich (Boffo Socko)

Seeing that you’ve stalled on Braiding Sweetgrass (one of my favorites), if you’ll allow me, I’ll make a recommendation that worked out incredibly well for me when I read it.
I came to it at a time when I was doing a lot of reading on Indigenous ways of knowing and the idea of orality. As a result, in addition to buying a physical copy, I got an audiobook version from the library…

Thank you for the suggestion Chris! From what I’ve read of it so far, it does seem like it would be suited well to reading aloud. I haven’t listened to an audiobook in probably twenty years — we used to do books on tape during family road trips as a teen, and I came to really dislike them I can still recall several particularly bad ones making the agonizing hours of driving feel even longer. But now that I get to choose my own book, maybe it’s time to give them another try Because I did enjoy some of what we listened to — I recall His Dark Materials having a full cast.

I finally made the time to read Kimmerer’s essay The Serviceberry on Thanksgiving, and I kept turning to my husband and going, “This essay is amazing.” So it seems like an appropriate time to pull Braiding Sweetgrass back off the shelf I got on the audiobook list at the library but it’s a 13 week wait so we’ll see there.