07670cam a2200469 4500 234847215 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807000977 0807000973 B004NNUYGA Amazon 17fe0713-a3cd-4aad-bb69-d68680c3721c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 504778 OverDrive (Product ID) 209105 504778 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Fate, Tom Montgomery. Cabin Fever [Libby] : A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild. Beacon Press, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 227kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Family & Relationships. Nature. Nonfiction. "I grew fond fast of this book, and it's hard not to. Fate is a man who brings coyotes and cougars to the page in a thoughtful, beautiful prose that's readable, lyrical, and begs the reader to slow down and take their time. The book is a wide, deep river, best observed with a cup of coffee as the sun's coming up over the ridge and the night's crickets have given way to the scratching and calls of the morning's towhees.". HTML:Terrain.org. HTML:"Tom Montgomery Fate's charming volume is about his search for meaning in the suburbs, a search that takes him to the woods of Michigan where he builds his own cabin...What makes Cabin Fever such good reading is that the author doesn't try to be a modern-day Thoreau...The magic of Cabin Fever is the author's willingness to move back and forth between the two worlds of hectic suburbs and the more isolated nature-soaked cabin.". HTML:Christian Century. HTML:"Cabin Fever is a quietly stunning book, organized around the four seasons, much as Walden is structured...His elegant and rhythmic prose is about embodiment and the fight we must make to swim against the current that seeks to sweep us away from such bold and incarnational living...Not all books invite us to enter their lives in so intimate a fashion, to join our own patterns of living with theirs. But Fate's admission that he is a "slow and bungling pilgrim" serves as an admonition and a blessing to his readers to go and live, even if imperfectly, this one blessed life we've been given.". HTML:Brevity. "May touch a chord in a desperate urban-dweller's heart ... may also show ... that Mother Earth's bosom is not always welcoming to mere humans.". HTML:Wall Street Journal. HTML:"His account of a quest for a "more deliberate life," inspired by a re-reading of Thoreau's Walden several years ago, is refreshingly modest but also aching with yearning for the Home we all desire.". HTML:Christianity Today. "His frank, poignant, and funny essays grapple with the quandaries inherent in the effort to live a balanced life. Fate's clarion musings on place, time, family, social responsibility, the wild, and the civilized are thoughtful and affecting in their revelations of how complex and precious life is.". HTML:Donna Seaman, Booklist, starred review, May 1, 2011. "Never snide or condescending, Fate blends the significant milestones of marriage and family in a high-tech BlackBerry society with the joys and shortcomings of being mindful in both cultures.". HTML:Publishers Weekly. "The tone of Fate's writing is serious and thoughtful, yet laced with some humor (particularly the chapter in which he imagines a gay relationship between two male cardinals)... Fate is introspective and writes in a lyrical manner, offering much food for thought in this multi-layered, 'how to live" memoir.'". HTML:Hilary Daninhirsch, Foreword Reviews. HTML:"This quietly marvelous book is really a mystery novel at heart. The mystery is How to live? Tom Montgomery Fate, a self-described 'slow and bumbling pilgrim,' sets out to answer this question, meandering, with Thoreau as his companion, toward the truth--or more accurately, the truths. Henry David Thoreau has never been more relevant than he is today, and what a pleasure to follow the two of them sleuthing toward something solid in these fickle and shifting times."--David Gessner, author of Soaring with Fidel and The Tarball Chronicles "With Thoreau as his guide, Tom Montgomery Fate explores a wild territory where Henry himself never dared to venture: marriage, parenthood, and the suburban backyard. Along the way, he shows us how to embrace the challenges of our world, and our daily lives, with new grace, restoring us to the place where we should all be living: in gratitude and wonder. A profound and beautiful book."--John T. Price, author of Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships "In Cabin Fever, Tom Montgomery Fate has written a book as wise as it is charming. Fate, in his deeply informed dialogue with Thoreau, never dodges the many realities of American middle-class existence that might lead to a life of quiet desperation. Still, Cabin Fever is, finally, not a. HTML:Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition and curator of the Thoreau Institute. HTML:Cabin Fever might be described as a modern Walden, if you can imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan. A seasonal memoir written alternately from a little cabin in the Michigan woods and a house in suburban Chicago, the book engages readers in a serious yet irreverent conversation about Thoreau's relevance in the modern age. The author turns Thoreau's immortal statement "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately" on its head with the phrase "I got married and had children because I wished to live deliberately." Though Fate spends half his time at the cabin, this is no world-renouncing, back-to-nature paean. Unlike Thoreau during his Walden years, he balances his solitude with full engagement in family and civic life. Fate's writing reflects this balancing of nature and family in stories such as "The Confused Cardinal," in which a male cardinal feeds chicks of another species and leads to a reflection on parenting; "In the Time of Cicadas," which juxtaposes his wife's hysterectomy with the burgeoning fecundity of the seventeen-year cicadas coming out to mate; and in a beautiful essay reminiscent of E. B. White's "Once More to the Lake," in which Fate takes his son to the same cabin his father took him as a child. In his exploration of how we are to live "a more deliberate life" amid a high-tech, materialist culture, Fate invites readers into an interrogation of their own lives, and into a new kind of vision: the possibility of enough in a culture of more.. Media Type: eBook. 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