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  • Series: P.S. (Paperback)
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 20, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061710237
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061710230
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (137 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsPatrician lady copes with getting lost, cancer and elder care
By Quickbeam TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on January 5, 2014
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I in no way mean to be cruel but I am Darling's age and lived most of my life on the east coast. I know how much things cost including private school, expensive college, trips abroad and an apartment in New York. In this memoir, Darling copes with empty nest status by buying a home in Vermont (while keeping the NYC loft). I think the book is overly coy about the author's financial situation. The math does not add up. Self deprecating, the author writes of her ineptitude with direction and home maintenance. I think she is aiming for an Erma Bombeck style of "woe is me" humor but it doesn't quite work for me.

Darling peppers her memoir with historical asides and new age-y quotes.That gets old quickly. Darling does write well and has an engaging style. I became impatient with the frequent sojourns in to history. I admire Darling's success in taming her demons. She does ***spoiler alert*** end up back in New York City, making the Vermont content feel like a prolonged rustic vacation.

Anyone looking for a true rustic living experience would be better served by Anne LaBastille's "Woodswoman" which provides a far more competent and genuine feel for wilderness life. This book might well appeal to those unbalanced by loss and looking to find a kindred spirit for those first baby steps of independence. I do like Darling's prose style and would enjoy more of her work that was less autobiographical.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA story of one woman's 3-year venture into midlife way-finding
By Sharon Isch TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on December 10, 2013
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At 56, journalist Lynn Darling found herself alone for the first time. Her husband had died of cancer 12 years earlier and now her only child was heading for college. Feeling the need to create a new life for herself, she sublet her New York apartment and off she went to Woodstock, Vermont, where she'd often vacationed, to find a house to buy and live in year round. Turns out the only one she could afford was an oddly constructed and not quite finished little house, off the beaten track, down an unmarked dirt road and surrounded by woods--an abode she'd later come to call "Castle Dismal."

Before long, she'd come to realize that her lifelong lack of any sense of direction could become quite an impediment when living alone in the woods. Eventually she'd get some help learning the right way to use maps and compasses and other tricks and techniques for finding your way, which she kindly shares with the rest of us. Along the way to finding that way she'd make some friends, have a go at online dating, get herself a dog, learn the difference between a weed and wisteria and be diagnosed with breast cancer--an ordeal she'll invite readers along on, but one with a happy ending. This chronicle of three years in the life of a highly talented and forthright writer makes a good read indeed. And I highly recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Modern Day Walden Pond tale
By G. Uhl on December 30, 2013
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Take Henry David Thoreau, time travel him to 2013, change his gender and "Bingo", you've got 'Out of the Woods'.

When I first read Thoreau I was in my very early twenties. I remember thinking what a load of crap. He claims to have gone into the woods to live deliberately and suck the marrow out of life when all I could see was that he free loaded off Emerson and was an artsy bum. Even 'On The Duty of Civil Disobedience', I loved the words but I always thought this man did not really suffer for the cause at all.

Anyways, now I'm approaching 50 and I see it all so differently. I love Thoreau and the Idea of going to the woods to find yourself and figure out what it all means. I love books about survival in the wilderness and especially women making their way in a rough setting.

Darling is at that stage where her role as mother and daughter are both changing. You have sometimes this brief period of time where you have a break between caregiver of your children and care giver of your adult parents. And in this case the author is faced with a life crises during this time and is forced to care for herself.

I love the way the book is sprinkled with passages about wilderness training and passages about folks who have gotten lost and about tricks to navigate terrain/life. I think it's a clever memoir, nicely balanced.
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4.0 out of 5 starsEnjoyable memoir on finding a renewed purpose in life at middle-age
By Paul Allaer TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 27, 2013
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"Out Of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding" (262 pages) is the latest from long-time writer (and erstwhile Washington Post journalist) Lynn Darling. As the book opens, we learn that Darling's world is about to be shaken up when her only child, a daughter called Zoe, is about to depart for college. This is a rather traumatic event in Darling's life, as it will make her an empty-nester (we learn that her husband passed away when Zoe was only 6 years old). Observes Darling: "My daughter's departure left questions, big questions, that her presence and the warm hive of family life had made it easy to ignore, of who to be and how to live, of what, if anything, I wanted". Darling decides to move away from her Manhattan condo full-time into a cottage she had bought some years ago in a very remote part of Vermont, indeed "off the grid", even if Darling herself is by no means experienced for that kind of life. "One of my projects in coming to Vermont had been to learn how to grow old, not just gracefully, but also with style and panache".

The book finds a clever balance between on the one hand finding (or at least attempting to find) a new direction in her life, away from Zoe and away from the city life, while on the other hand trying to become familiar with the remote part of Vermont so as not to get lost (as in: literally getting lost) so often. In that sense, this book is truly about "finding your way". I found myself enjoying this memoir the most when Darling examines her life and how she tries finding a renewed purpose, in particularly when she is diagnosed with a lump in her breast, as opposed to Darling mastering the skills of survival in life "off the grid" and topographic map reading (which takes up quite a few pages). But in the end it is a minor quibble.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsEnjoyable memoir

Loved this memoir. It was more than I expected. I thought it would just be about a woman alone and finding herself in Vermont, but no, so much more. Read more

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Helpful memoir with no self pity and great insight on getting older. I greatly appreciated her perspective on finding both a figurative and literal sense of direction.

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