How to Be a Good Creature, Sy Montgomery
How to Be a Good Creature, Sy Montgomery
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How to Be a Good Creature
A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

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Author: Sy Montgomery

Narrator: Sy Montgomery

Unabridged: 3 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/25/2018

Synopsis

Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and is informed by the creatures she meets.

This restorative memoir reflects on the personalities and quirks of thirteen animals—Sy's friends—and the truths revealed by their grace. It also explores vast themes: the otherness and sameness of people and animals; the various ways we learn to love and become empathetic; how we find our passion; how we create our families; coping with loss and despair; gratitude; forgiveness; and most of all, how to be a good creature in the world.

About Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and swum with piranhas and pink dolphins in the Amazon. To research her books, films, and articles, she has worked in a pit swarming with 18,000 snakes in Canada and been hunted by a tiger in India. She has hiked the Altai Mountains of Mongolia's Gobi desert in search of snow leopards and penetrated the cloud forests of Papua New Guinea to radio collar tree kangaroos. No place is too far to go to bring animals' true stories to adults and children around the world.
Sy is the author is the nationally bestselling author of over fifteen nonfiction books, including Temple Grandin, Birdology, and Spell of the Tiger. She writes for print as well as broadcast in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible at what she considers a critical turning point in human history.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on May 10, 2023

Sy Montgomery writes books and documentaries about animals for both children and adults. In this book, Montgomery shares stories about some of her favorite creatures, including her family pets; an octopus in an aquarium; and creatures in their natural environment. Sy Montgomery Montgomery travels arou......more

Goodreads review by Katie on November 24, 2018

"After Chris and, too soon afterward, Tess had died, the one thing that kept me going was the comforting thought that I could kill myself." This quote perfectly signifies my confusion with this book and what the author is trying to accomplish. This is not so much an exploration of “how to be a good c......more

Goodreads review by destiny ♡ on November 04, 2023

I've been on a nonfiction kick lately, but I don't read a lot of memoirs — usually, if I reach for a book like this, it's because the author is someone I already have a lot of love for, not someone I'm totally unfamiliar with like Sy Montgomery. That said, when I heard that this memoir took the form......more

Goodreads review by roe on February 07, 2019

I waited two months to get this from the library and I'm kind of stunned by how much I didn't like it. Many of the animals are lovely, but the lessons they taught the author are never actually talked about? Most of it is the author talking about negative events in her life and then ending the chapte......more

Goodreads review by debbicat *made of stardust* on October 05, 2018

5 BIG HAPPY stars! If you wanna know how to be good creature, you can learn this from animals, like Sy did with 13 written about here. Such a good book! I must buy a copy. I enjoyed hearing about all 13 of her animal loves. My favorites were the dogs, Christopher Hogwood, the good pig, Octavia the O......more

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