Beautifully lyical, speaks to the pain in one's soul. I read this in the evenings so I could mull it over in the quiet hours before the world gets too busy.

While this was a challenging book to read, due to my own mental health struggles, I found a lot of comfort in its pages. I could relate a lot to Anderson's fight with depression, solace in nature, and desire for meaning-making. I think this book is for anyone who has similar struggles or those who enjoyed Braiding Sweetgrass but wanted less textbook biology.

An interesting read of nature during the seasons. Reflections of depression were a bit difficult to read at times, but otherwise well written and would recommend.

I love the cover and I liked the way that the author combined writing about nature with writing about his mental health struggles and the role nature played in it. That said, I just wasn't very engaged with it and I didn't connect with this as I would've liked. I think that's just a me problem because I actually like the writing and I did have sympathy for his experiences, I just wasn't hooked by it and I had to force myself to pick it up.

The cover art is for this book is stunning! I love how this book is broken into seasons. This makes it easier to read and much more appealing to me as well. Each section is well written and genuinely beautiful.

This is my first book that has just about left me speechless. I am trying to decide what to say that would make everyone want to read this book.
The author shares his journey through the darkness of depression. But this is not a depressing book. It is filled with love of nature, animals and family. To help pull himself out of sadness, the author begins walking nature trials and he remembers that the natural world was once his beloved friend. It is almost as if nature was waiting for him to come back outside. His attention is drawn away from himself and to the trees, flowers and animals he sees. This is just a first step, as there is plenty to conquer. This is not an easily won battle, as the backsliding into old emotions is addressed. This is an honest book about how depression paints everything and every day. And how hard a fight it is to hold on. At the same time, it is beautifully written.
The author speaks to all of us through this book. Some of us may not have experienced melancholy the way he has, but each of us has been sad at some point. His writing about the feelings he has for the world touches your soul. That in itself is reason to read this book.
I thank NetGalley and Timber Press for the advance read.

Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson is the epitome of reading a book that was not the one you expected but the one you needed. It is a book that I could deeply empathise with, a book that provides solidarity through shared experience

I have been exploring the benefits of forest bathing and returing to nature walks of the type I had as a child, (which is at a different level of immersion than walking with the dogs) and this was just the book to exemplify the benefits to mental health that are readily available in our natural world

Anderson writes in a vulnerable, raw and honest way, with a sheen of wonder and grace that is deeply compelling. Juxtaposing their mental health journey with the experiences they have on their walks and the things they come across, using these things as prompts for reflection (I was in absolute pieces throughout the chapter of the Red-Tailed Hawk)

I would recommend this book to anyone who is on a journey right now and who needs some grounding on the metaphorical and literal level. This is an anecdotal book, a shared experience, but so beautifully written that it is highly inspirational. I will be buying a physical copy of this book as it is a keeper

Thank you to Netgalley, Timber Press and the author Jarod K Anderson for this highly emotive ARC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own