Chasing Lakes by Katey Walter Anthony (TLC Book Tours)

 

What is your passion?  While you can definitely guess that books and reading is my passion, water resources and engineering is my professional passion. Even better is when I can combine both my love of water and reading. Chasing Lakes is the perfect book for this situation.

Katey Walter Anthony grew up loving science and the great outdoors.  Her research on methane brought her to Siberia where she had adventures trying to figure out how to capture methane for her research.  Her adventures continued in Alaska, but as she grew older, she started to realize there was a piece still missing in her life, which was faith.  She also discovered love along the way with Peter, a Minnesota farmer.

I enjoyed everything about this memoir, the great outdoors, the adventure, the science, and the introspective look on life and love.  It was a coming-of-age novel as well as an exploration of faith.  I geeked out on the science talk.  I also got into my field because I love water.  It did a good job of talking about how the natural world and human made world blend together and about climate change.  It’s hard to really define this book by any one genre, but it was a personal story of a woman exploring science, but also finding her faith.

Overall, Chasing Lakes is a personal journey of one woman through science and faith that brought her to a better understanding of the world.

Book Source:  A Review Copy from Harper One as part of the TLC Book Tour.  Thank-you! I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.