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charley0796 's review for:
The Secret Life of Cows
by Rosamund Young
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
A lighthearted book of true anecdotes mostly on cows and a few other farm animals. It reads exactly like the secret life of cats/dogs tv show. It made perfect sense that the author anthropomorphised her animals - because why wouldn’t you? We do it for our pets all the time and after decades of running a farm I’m sure you would really start to learn the animal’s language. It’s silly to think animals do not have families or speak to one another, nor that we can get a sense of that through knowing them over time.
I didn’t feel this was a life changing read. It just was. I listened to it as an audiobook and liked her narration (I sped it up to 1.5x speed though). My main criticism is that everything felt a bit all over the place, as she warned in the foreword, there is no structure to the book and that made it hard to follow the anecdotes at times.
I didn’t feel this was a life changing read. It just was. I listened to it as an audiobook and liked her narration (I sped it up to 1.5x speed though). My main criticism is that everything felt a bit all over the place, as she warned in the foreword, there is no structure to the book and that made it hard to follow the anecdotes at times.