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A review by kristianawithak
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
5.0
Me trying to read this in November 2018: We get it Jonathan Franzen, you love birds!
Eye roll. Doesn't finish book.
Me reading book in November 2020: I GET IT Johnathan Franzen, we LOVE birds!
Me crying over the chapter on seabirds and explaining Albatross mating to my best friend.
This collection of essays has a lot to do with birding, and how birding today says a lot about climate change. It also has a lot to say about humanity. Not every essay involves birding. One essay has a plot not unlike the villain in UP searching years for a bird few believe exists. I knew Franzen and Margaret Atwood were crazy about birds, and I never got it. I love being depressed about climate change as much as the next girl, but I didn't think I was ready to care about birding. I'm glad I gave this collection another go, it was, against all odds, compulsively readable.
Eye roll. Doesn't finish book.
Me reading book in November 2020: I GET IT Johnathan Franzen, we LOVE birds!
Me crying over the chapter on seabirds and explaining Albatross mating to my best friend.
This collection of essays has a lot to do with birding, and how birding today says a lot about climate change. It also has a lot to say about humanity. Not every essay involves birding. One essay has a plot not unlike the villain in UP searching years for a bird few believe exists. I knew Franzen and Margaret Atwood were crazy about birds, and I never got it. I love being depressed about climate change as much as the next girl, but I didn't think I was ready to care about birding. I'm glad I gave this collection another go, it was, against all odds, compulsively readable.