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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
adventurous
emotional
relaxing
medium-paced
Loved when they went deep into the science and biology side of things, but started to get a bit bored when it was getting a little bit more on the memoir side of things. I wish this book was in two, one that looked deeper into the nature side of things, and one that was a pure memoir.
Still enjoyable tho.
Still enjoyable tho.
emotional
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
I'm gonna cry. This book meant so much to me; I'm gonna go study biology.
informative
medium-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
This is more of a memoir than a strictly scientific look at the preponderance of queerness in nature (though it definitely covers that topic). It's a beautiful look at the reader's life so far and how nature/ecological place (or displacement) inform trauma, trauma survival, and the aftermath of intergenerational trauma. Lots of examples of queer organisms in terms of sex characteristics as well as orientations.
The text meandered and looped around throughout the book. It's fairly nonlinear for what I expected to be a science-type text. As I learned more about the author and their goals, the style fits, but it took some adjustment.
The text meandered and looped around throughout the book. It's fairly nonlinear for what I expected to be a science-type text. As I learned more about the author and their goals, the style fits, but it took some adjustment.
informative
inspiring
My favorite part of this book is the author’s expansive definition of queerness. She doesn’t only highlight same sex interactions between animals, but more broadly speaks to anything that operates outside of what humans see as “normal.” She talks about bias in science as well as philosophy such as human exceptionalism. I also greatly appreciated her personal anecdotes and stories of coming to her queerness