At the age of forty-two, Wayne Fields set upon a sort of pilgrimage when he waded the near twenty-mile stretch of a small river in northern Michigan with fly rod in hand. He emerged with a beautiful and poignant memoir, a meditation on families and aging, and a whimsical response to what time, and streams, and those we care about bring into our lives.
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This review is from: What the River Knows: An Angler in Midstream (Paperback)
Cook's Run is a short stream in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Professor Fields wants you to know its every mile, and the complexities of each. That discovery is interleaved with a life in mid current: family, dog, and cabin.One would expect an instructor in American literature to work the language well, and the reader will get just this. "But wait, there's more": extraordinary understanding of the trout of Cook's run, superb vision of the inhabitants and geography of the U.P. Fishermen/fisherwomen & families take note: this is a special piece of work.
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Not A River Runs Through It.,
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The book was fun to read but wasn't anything like Norman McClean in my opinion. What really bothered me was that the main character kept every fish he caught that was within the legal size limit and never once talked about eating any trout. It got a little boring while he slodged around in beaver dams and tried to find his way out of the woods. This wasn't my way of fishing or exploring.
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Interesting read,
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A good book, more about the thoughts of a middle aged man than about fly fishing.
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It rained hard this morning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wader tops, spring hole, forest highway, alder branches, township road Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cook's Run, Uncle Ivan, Buddy Holly, Post Office, Viet Nam, Upper Peninsula, Cook's Meadows, Golden Lake, Captain Kangaroo, Joe Columbus New!
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- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas De Quincey on page 118
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