Crow Planet is a strange book. It’s a book about crow behavior, but it’s also (mostly?) a book about the author’s tortured life as a depressed would-be country girl living in a large city.
The bits about the crows are interesting. Crows (which I don’t like now any more than I did before reading the book) [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘animals’
September 22, 2009
Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
May 7, 2009
A Lion Named Christian by Anthony Bourke and John Randall
A Lion Called Christian is a slim book with an equally slim, almost incredible but very sweet story: two young Australians on their world trip in the late sixties buy a cub lion at Harrod’s in London. They raise him for several months in a London apartment (they provide funny descriptions of the damage he [...]
March 23, 2009
Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin
Animals Make Us Human is the latest book by Temple Grandin, the autistic author and animal specialist of Animals in Translation’s fame. While I must say I enjoyed Animals in Translation better than this one, which focuses more on pets, and is naturally less fresh than the first one, I continue to admire the author’s perceptiveness [...]
March 5, 2009
Tell me Where it Hurts by Nick Trout
Nick Trout is a vet surgeon and Tell Me Where It Hurts is organized as a “typical” day for him — except that it’s not, since it starts at 3am and ends at 10pm and despite the sanctimonious “we work so hard” statements no one would last long with this kind of schedule. The typical day [...]
