Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk

I enjoyed reading Annie Dillard’s, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters. She comes across as a strong individual. Her work was not random but had a purpose of building on the inner being in relation to nature and the spiritual world. She doesn’t categorize her work as fiction or nonfiction, but a mixture of both. She says fiction enhances our imagination sensual experience, and nonfiction enhances our senses of actual experiences. Her multiple essays in the collection have a similar theme of nature, awareness, and insight towards religion and the beauty of the soul. Although, I had trouble following some of her prose, I still feel she was a powerful individual with a passionate voice given in her writings.