A review by julis
Zombie Birds, Astronaut Fish, and Other Weird Animals by Becky Crew

adventurous funny fast-paced

4.0

I loved the part about animals. I generally unabashedly adore books with short vignettes about weird shit animals do, I eat that up, it’s gr8. This one, in addition to our old friends the angler fish and the mantis shrimp, provided information on species like the great tit (kills bats and eats their brains!) and more than one phenomenally gross type of parasite.

However, with each vignette is an anthropomorphized short story about the animals as if they were people. I found them virtually unreadable–not because of swearing, although Amazon reviews would beg to differ, but just because of the complete upheaval caused by trying to picture something like a male angler fish in a human context.

Skip those and the book is excellent.