Since March is Women's History month I thought I would read a book about a woman that loved nature and saw how humans and science were damaging the one thing that she loved most.
This was not an easy book to read. There was a lot of back story and history of what was happening in the world and in the world of science. I appreciate knowing these things as it helps to understand the drive of Carson, but it was a bit tedious.
She was a perfectionist. It took her a long time to write, she never made a deadline, but what she wrote awed people. I will be honest in that I have not read some of her key works (they are on my list for this year!). Her love of nature and how it all worked together. Her love that made her present an amazing case against indiscriminate use of pesticides and chemicals. She spent her life getting her thoughts and ideas out to everyone, in a way that everyone could understand.
She died at a very young age and cannot imagine what she could have done. In her short life though she accomplished much and left a huge stamp on how we can look at the world.
Souder is wordy and in the end it seemed to me that only 25% of the book or so was about Carson. Again, I can see the importance of knowing what was going on during the time that she was writing but it was a bit much at times and a slog to get through. If you have the patience to get through the nuts and bolts what was written about Carson was very informative and enlightening.
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