Deborah Fleming

I was disappointed with the content. There's nothing involving 'resurrection' and even the 'wild' part is pretty tame. Its a bag of essays on various topics, like the list of books the author found in the attic, and the list of a few spring ephemerals that bloom in their neighborhood, and an explanation as to why riding English is superior to Western. Does the world really need another essay on the Amish that doesn't say much new, especially in the context of this title and advertising, given that it has nothing to do with natural history or 'wild Ohio'? The author does put words together well, but there's no significant theme to this, and the number of essays consisting of 'lists' seemed self-indulgent. I learned nothing from this book, other than that the author feels the people whose family used to live in her house are not very nice.

This book is mostly about the author, and her strong beliefs about how people should live, and there's relatively little about natural history.… (mehr)