The subtitle, “A Love Affair with Extinct Birds,” led me to believe that this would be a history of avian extinction, but this was not to be…
I Review a Competing Book–101 Chilies to Try Before You Die
A real chilehead would have both of these books in her/his library…
Review of “Before the Fall”
A further irony in the novel is that it doesn’t matter whodunit because by the time we know, the main themes in the book have already been explored…
A Review of the Wacky “Oh, Florida”
In the first half of the book, Floridians dress like mermaids, ride manatees, keep 10-foot pet alligators, release pet pythons in the swamps, and believe in creatures like the Giant Penguin of Clearwater…
Books on Zoological and Botanical Obsessions
But unlike the narrators of the other books, Voight is the only one who becomes as obsessed as the people she is studying…