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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I'd probably give this book 3.5 stars, but I enjoyed it too much to round down to 3. It has a lot of good stuff. It's about wolves, but it's more about the author. While it does provide information about wolves, wolves in history, wolves in literature, and human attitudes to wolves, a lot of the book is about wolves as allegories and metaphors, and their (real wolves, allegorical wolves, and metaphorical wolves) influence on humans, in particular the author. A very different mix of memoir and information. For the most part, the memoirs are interesting incidents and some really spoke to me. And I loved all the wolf info.
For my tastes, there was a bit too much of the author trying to work through her anxieties and figure out who she is and wants to be. I started to get a bit tired of it and felt she could have condensed her self-analysis a bit. And in the end she kind of abandoned all the wolf stuff and her conclusions are entirely about herself - all the information about wolves petered out and went nowhere.
For my tastes, there was a bit too much of the author trying to work through her anxieties and figure out who she is and wants to be. I started to get a bit tired of it and felt she could have condensed her self-analysis a bit. And in the end she kind of abandoned all the wolf stuff and her conclusions are entirely about herself - all the information about wolves petered out and went nowhere.
adventurous
reflective
sad
slow-paced
informative
sad
slow-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Had a whole review typed out but my app crashed and now I’m pissed
So TLDR
3/5, oddly organized, some weird anecdotes, not enough scientific or cultural info about fear or wolves, but some good prose and I enjoyed the mandrake chapter.
So TLDR
3/5, oddly organized, some weird anecdotes, not enough scientific or cultural info about fear or wolves, but some good prose and I enjoyed the mandrake chapter.
Took me a bit to feel engaged with this book, but the second half had me wishing I had a hard copy to annotate.
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Well-written and researched, just not the book I was expecting or hoping to read
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This was so much more immersive than I expected it to be, and also so different than I expected, which I think was a deep-dive into learning about wolves. It wasn't that. It was a braided memoir (a format I love when it works, and I think it works here), different threads weaving together to form a whole I found more compelling than the one I thought I was looking for.