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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
Not badly written, will definitely check out more of Erica Berry’s works, but it definitely felt more than a bit scattershot. There were some portions of this where I felt like she was just reciting quotes from other books with little original thought or analysis. The most immersive and entertaining (informative?) parts of this book—part memoir, part long-form essay—were the places in which Berry examined her own relationship with wolves, both real and imagined. I wish there was a little more focus on specific incidents, or specific geographies of wolf, or something to help structure this book that would’ve taken it from a 3.5 to a 4.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
library return. plan to finish in the future.
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Girl, you did not need to bring astrology into this. So many tangents that lost the point. I feel like this would’ve been more effective if she focused more on wolves and less on herself. I get what she’s trying to do, but relating the vilification of wolves to racial prejudice and gender violence almost diminishes the importance of each of those topics. She’s not a scientist nor an academic and you can tell. SO much white guilt.
This was definitely difficult to get through.
This book could have been trimmed down quite a bit. Tangents went on long enough that I often found myself forgetting what the original point of the section was. It reads like a very long essay with quotes sprinkled in spontaneously as if she's trying to reach her minimum sources. Often a passage would end in something that was probably intended to be profound but was actually quite cheesy and cringey.
Although I would have liked more about wolves themselves, I still learned some new things and if she were more concise I'd admire her writing.
This book could have been trimmed down quite a bit. Tangents went on long enough that I often found myself forgetting what the original point of the section was. It reads like a very long essay with quotes sprinkled in spontaneously as if she's trying to reach her minimum sources. Often a passage would end in something that was probably intended to be profound but was actually quite cheesy and cringey.
Although I would have liked more about wolves themselves, I still learned some new things and if she were more concise I'd admire her writing.
I tried and I kept trying but what a slog, I'm not even sure what this book is about and I listened to 10 hours. When I saw there were more than 5 left I had to DNF I'm sorry
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced