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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Some of this was interesting but too much of it was boring. I enjoyed the wolf lore and that she did her masters at UofM but I did not enjoy the amount of animal death mentioned.
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I enjoyed the PNW wolf history and science. The memoir aspects were hit or miss for me: some was relatable, some was overstated and uninteresting. Listened on audiobook!
This is just not what I expected (and wanted)! Based off of the first chapter, I was under the impression this was going to be about wolves (e.g. how they evolved, what they do for ecosystems, general facts about them, more science-y I guess), our stories/perceptions of wolves, and how those perceptions impact human relationships with wolves. But this immediately was just a lack luster memoir? I mean, a book focusing on folktales, gender, and wolf symbolism in a woman's everyday life would be an interesting and perhaps more focused one, but that was not the book I was promised when reading the summary and first chapter. And the book it actually was did not do anything for me, the author's reflections felt shallow, disjointed, and unclear. The quotes pulled from other sources only seemed peripherally related to the arguments she was trying to make, and by the end of chapter 2 I was confused about her actual thesis. I'm thinking this book is just trying to do too much, and in doing so lost focus. I just wanted a wolf book!
challenging
informative
slow-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
I don't know if it is the narration or just me having different expectations for this than what it is, but I've been trying to listen through it for weeks and I've only gotten a little over 2 hours in.
The thesis of this informational/memoir is all over the place, and I have no idea what the author's actual voice is like because it's quote after quote after quote. To be fair, I haven't gotten far enough in to reliably critique this, but it honestly sounded like a white woman using wolves and stories from other cultures to make her own more mundane and safe (as safe as a woman can be) life more interesting and mysterious.
Maybe I will return to this, but at the moment it's putting me in a slump which has never happened with an audiobook before.
The thesis of this informational/memoir is all over the place, and I have no idea what the author's actual voice is like because it's quote after quote after quote. To be fair, I haven't gotten far enough in to reliably critique this, but it honestly sounded like a white woman using wolves and stories from other cultures to make her own more mundane and safe (as safe as a woman can be) life more interesting and mysterious.
Maybe I will return to this, but at the moment it's putting me in a slump which has never happened with an audiobook before.
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced