Wildflowers on the Rock

Janet Arnett is the former campus manager of adult education at Ontario’s Georgian College. She is the author of Antiques and Collectibles: Starting Small, The Grange at Knock, and 673 Ways to Save Money.

Too slight for a coffee-table book, too light for a reference work, too
brief for a relaxing read—maybe this is a new genre, the coffee-break
book. In 10 minutes you can read it from cover to

cover, glance at the 30 prosaic photos of flowers and berries, re-read
the eight rather scraggly poems, and have time left over to note that
there’s no index, no table of contents, almost no information—and,
apparently, no purpose.