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Devotions by Mary Oliver
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it was amazing
bookshelves: poetry, nature, animals, best-of, celebration, challenge, death, disaster, happiness, healing, inspiration, humor, philosophy, relationships, science, serendipity, simplicity, spirituality, trees, writing
Read 3 times. Last read April 19, 2020 to November 5, 2020.

Mary Oliver covers it all in her poems---life and death, pain and joy, loss and gain, sacrifice and gift, simplicity and complexity, the human amid nature...everything. She's somehow brilliant without ever seeming to put out any effort toward becoming so. Her poems are some of the wisest poems I've ever read.

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Reading Progress

Finished Reading (Hardcover Edition)
April 19, 2020 – Started Reading
April 19, 2020 – Shelved
May 30, 2020 –
24.0%
July 30, 2020 –
page 199
41.46%
August 30, 2020 –
page 234
48.75%
September 7, 2020 –
page 283
58.96%
September 7, 2020 –
page 283
58.96%
September 29, 2020 –
page 343
71.46%
November 5, 2020 – Finished Reading
November 16, 2020 – Shelved as: poetry
November 26, 2020 – Shelved as: nature
December 25, 2020 – Shelved (Hardcover Edition)
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: philosophy (Hardcover Edition)
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: nature (Hardcover Edition)
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: poetry (Hardcover Edition)
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: animals
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: best-of
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: celebration
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: challenge
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: death
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: disaster
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: happiness
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: healing
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: inspiration
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: humor
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: philosophy
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: relationships
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: science
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: serendipity
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: simplicity
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: spirituality
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: trees
December 25, 2020 – Shelved as: writing
January 8, 2025 – Started Reading (Hardcover Edition)
January 22, 2025 – Finished Reading (Hardcover Edition)

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message 1: by Terri (new)
Dec 26, 2020 07:07PM

Terri I love Mary Oliver’s poems.


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