tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post7979181596588073235..comments2024-03-28T03:40:29.423-04:00Comments on Passage des Perles: The Maytrees: Meditation on marriage, loss, redemptionDuchessehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986153653120526776noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-58925324526028212322009-04-28T10:50:00.000-04:002009-04-28T10:50:00.000-04:00I'm a Dillard fan and agree that The Maytrees was ...I'm a Dillard fan and agree that The Maytrees was a great book with the power to stay with you. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the one Dillard book I've read over and over tho.<br /><br />DarlaDarlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02729017606957829830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-48873942043890396872009-04-28T08:37:00.000-04:002009-04-28T08:37:00.000-04:00Wish I could send everyone a copy; the Maytrees re...Wish I could send everyone a copy; the Maytrees really stayed with me. The way the relationship contains, bends and resolves betrayal, all in Dillard's exquisite language, is remarkable.Duchessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09986153653120526776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-3495617322750948602009-04-27T09:57:00.000-04:002009-04-27T09:57:00.000-04:00When I was younger, I assumed marital betrayal cou...When I was younger, I assumed marital betrayal could never be forgiven, that to forgive infidelity meant compromising self-respect. Through the years, of course, watching and living, I've come to know that life and love and humanity are much more complicated than that. I'll be sure to put The Maytrees on my reading list.materfamiliashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062766947897513369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-66512028987959890972009-04-27T08:04:00.000-04:002009-04-27T08:04:00.000-04:00Thanks Duchesse. This is such a nicely written po...Thanks Duchesse. This is such a nicely written post, on a writer whose work has always kind of stunned and humbled me. I haven't read The Maytrees. I've read a few of Annie Dillard's other books, starting with Ticket for a Prayer Wheel when I was an impressionable teenager. I think you've captured her with your choice of what gem she would be. That's just lovely. Some day I'll read this book, too. <br /><br />Forgiveness-of self and others--is a hot topic in my life today. <br /><br />xosallymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15832828827048897372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-84036193394192397462009-04-27T07:48:00.000-04:002009-04-27T07:48:00.000-04:00I have been wanting to read this along with Pilgri...I have been wanting to read this along with Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Thanks for sharing!Juliannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10804726854985912546noreply@blogger.com