Another Book Review

This time I have a book to avoid.  Not that it is a horrible book, just that it is not good and there are better books available.  Hit by a Farm:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn sounded like a good book.  Two women move to rural Minnesota and start to farm.  The decide what they will raise and grow; sheep, grapes and chickens; and then tell of the travails of being a farmer.

It's how the story was told, complaining and non-specific, that was tiring.  The choices were debated and told, as well as some of the setbacks or defeats, but again in a complaining and non-specific manner.  The decision to buy a sheepdog was detailed, but after that we heard no more of the dog. And the grapes that didn't withstand being planted incorrectly.

I will admit that I didn't finish the book, twice.  The first time I read only a few chapters before stopping.  This second time I made it half way before realizing I wasn't enjoying or learning anything.  And I eventually was worn down by the many times I was told how this farming gig was intruding on the author's writing job. The mildly salacious twists of the words to create chapter titles became difficult also.

Ultimately if I hadn't read How to Grow a Farmer; Animal Vegetable, Miracle; or Giving Good Weight by John McPhee; I may have finished this book.  They are books I enjoyed and learned from.