The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home
By Mikael Lindnord and Val Hudson
Very lovely portrait of an adventure junkie who picks up (or is picked up by) a stray dog while on a race in Ecuador. The dog stuff was very interesting and a pleasure to read. But before the dog came on the scene, the story of the planning for and execution of the race was was somewhat on the tedious side. Not that it was boring, but I just kept thinking, “but where’s Arthur? When’s the dog coming?”
From then on it was pretty good. I can’t say that I was thrilled and hung on every word—something about the writing style made all but the most exciting parts seem to drag—but it was good. Very much recommended. Pretty much.
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A Brief History of American Birding
By Scott Weidensaul
Wow! Other than
the gross-out parts—can you begin to imagine how many hawks were shot at Hawk
Mountain before they came up with the idea of counting them alive instead of shooting them? And all the stupid
ladies’ stupid hats causing the near-extinction of plume-bearing birds.
But past those sorts of things, and bearing in mind that for many, many years, studying birds meant shooting them, this was a fascinating, irresistible book! Very detailed but not so detailed as to be draggy, but just so very, very informative. He did his research for real and it really shows. Loved it!
p.s. It’s not brief at all
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