Animals Strike Curious Poses

fulfilling book riot's 2018 read harder challenge task #22: an essay anthology AND #6: A book about nature half-extry points given to me, by me, for choosing a book that i have owned for nearly a year. review to come! full review to come - for now i am just dropping some pictures and the basic outline......more

Dig, if you will, this picture . . . It's a thousand words, right? And every essay by Passarello is a couple thousand--but feel like so much more. They are dense without feeling dense, and their gravity is increased by being in what is a relatively slim volume, themes echoing and building, her thesi......more

Passarello's newest offering is absolutely worthy of the praise being lavished on it. On one hand, this fascinating book offers its readers the advertised "modern bestiary," replete with historical examples and enriching narratives that ably tell the story of humanity's troubled relationship with ot......more

*3.5 stars. An interesting and creative book. I very much enjoyed the Mozart/starling section and the description of the horse’s mouth. Many beautiful and lyrical passages, but here’s one that gave me pause and made me laugh: “I was just one of the thousands of Americans born in 1978 that watched a s......more