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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I really liked this. I read a few reviews that said they couldn't finish and I can see why, but I found it so thoughtfully constructed [and exhaustively researched]. Definitely could have been a bit shorter in parts, but overall it was compelling and informative. Didn't *love* the narrator, but maybe she was easier to stomach at 1x speed.
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
slow-paced
Long winded personal stories of anxiety and fear tied into wolf science & myth
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
reflective
slow-paced
reflective
slow-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I loved this book! Berry was able to weave so many seemingly unconnected events, concepts and experiences together that she thoroughly convinced me of their interconnectedness. Funnily enough, I’m pretty sure that’s the point of the book. Just about every second sentence was a quotation from an outside source, and I was amazed at the immense depth and breadth of sources she was pulling from and how elegantly things came together.
Personally, I was missing just a bit of force in her writing. It’s like all the interconnected thoughts she was writing about were ropes she was laying down, and I was always on the edge of my seat waiting for them all to go tight and spring shut and drive home her thoughts. By the end of her book I saw it just wasn’t her style and she had a subtler, gentler way of conveying ideas. Full respect, I personally was just left wanting a little bit.
I only have one other minor criticism. Each of the chapters of the book synthesizes real life wolf stories/science, wolf mythologies, the authors personal experiences, and a societal issue or concept. There’s a very fascinating chapter where the concept in question was gender, gendered violence, and how it relates to fear and anxiety. I felt the book was sorely missing an exploration on the trans experience, especially that of trans women. I don’t know a single gender identity so marked by the unfounded projection of other people’s fear than trans womanhood, and I think it has a place in this discussion. Usually I wouldn’t call on any random writer to explore transness, but Berry handled discussions of other marginalized groups she is not a part of extremely well in this book, and had a robust sense of how her own identity interacts with her perspective. I totally think she could have done it well, and it only would have made the book more well rounded. But that’s a small thing from one of the very first chapters!! I think this book rocks!
Personally, I was missing just a bit of force in her writing. It’s like all the interconnected thoughts she was writing about were ropes she was laying down, and I was always on the edge of my seat waiting for them all to go tight and spring shut and drive home her thoughts. By the end of her book I saw it just wasn’t her style and she had a subtler, gentler way of conveying ideas. Full respect, I personally was just left wanting a little bit.
I only have one other minor criticism. Each of the chapters of the book synthesizes real life wolf stories/science, wolf mythologies, the authors personal experiences, and a societal issue or concept. There’s a very fascinating chapter where the concept in question was gender, gendered violence, and how it relates to fear and anxiety. I felt the book was sorely missing an exploration on the trans experience, especially that of trans women. I don’t know a single gender identity so marked by the unfounded projection of other people’s fear than trans womanhood, and I think it has a place in this discussion. Usually I wouldn’t call on any random writer to explore transness, but Berry handled discussions of other marginalized groups she is not a part of extremely well in this book, and had a robust sense of how her own identity interacts with her perspective. I totally think she could have done it well, and it only would have made the book more well rounded. But that’s a small thing from one of the very first chapters!! I think this book rocks!