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lckrgr 's review for:
Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell
This was a slog. I like Sarah Vowell. She's quirky and smart. I like Hawaii. It's got an important history. I didn't love this book.
As with all Vowell books she gets a little tangential at times. But in this one I think she got too off-topic at points. Also, there was, to me, this sense of weird superiority or know-it-allness in Vowell's reading that gave the impression that she was just trying to show off how cool she was for liking Hawaii and having native Hawaiian friends. I don't know, this whole book felt weirdly braggy? Which is a weird thing to say about what is ostensibly a pop-history book, but nonetheless that's how I felt.
As with all Vowell books she gets a little tangential at times. But in this one I think she got too off-topic at points. Also, there was, to me, this sense of weird superiority or know-it-allness in Vowell's reading that gave the impression that she was just trying to show off how cool she was for liking Hawaii and having native Hawaiian friends. I don't know, this whole book felt weirdly braggy? Which is a weird thing to say about what is ostensibly a pop-history book, but nonetheless that's how I felt.