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I loved Katherine May's Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times but I'm afraid I don't quite get the point of Enchantment. She begins this short book with a good description of how I feel post-covid, and how I think many others feel - exhausted, disconnected, and isolated. The author then goes on to try and define and search for enchantment: “small wonder magnified through meaning, fascination caught in the web of fable and memory.�� I was still with her at this point, and then she began a series of personal essays divided into Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. May writes about beekeeping, swimming in the ocean, and watching meteors, all of which are quite nice, and maybe even enchanting. But I never got a sense of the "Awakening" in the subtitle. I think she was trying to say that enchantment is around us if we only look, but “if we wait passively to become enchanted, we could wait a long time.�� I understand that, but this seemed like a lot to arrive at this simple conclusion. This book just didn't speak to me, so 2.5 stars rounded up.