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This was fabulous! If you enjoyed The Soul of an Octopus I HIGHLY recommend this.
#Nonfiction
Tonight‘s #hyggehour involved listening to my husband read from the tagged book. We meant to make a fire in the fireplace, but that didn‘t happen so a YouTube fire it was 😂. I just started a new job last week, so an hour of calm on Sunday nights is perfect before starting another busy week.
Introducing my new babies Benfro the bearded dragon (top) and Andarna the chameleon (bottom) #lizardsoflitsy #lizards #chameleon #beardeddragon #forthwing #theballadofsirbenfro
Page 5 of this book 🤣🤣. I always knew I liked Sy Montgomery.
pickI found this in my grandkids‘ bookshelves - I just had to read it 🥚🍳🐔 . Always a fan of Leonni!
#20in4Readathon Day 5
#RushAThon October Day 31
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pickI really enjoyed Sy‘s recounting of her time learning about a local turtle rescue in New England and the wonderful work they do. Those involved clearly have a deep love for these animals and it made me find them delightful as well. What dragged it down was her repetitive pressing of her politics into the book in a way that didn‘t help the narrative and often distracted from it (and I‘m on the same side of the aisle with her).
pickSy‘s book on octopuses made me give up eating them, and her book about turtles is no less moving. Prevented from traveling a lot for this book due to Covid, she focused on a turtle rescue near her home in Massachusetts. I fell in love with the giant snappers she mostly worked with. I had worked with a few previously as well, and they are much maligned but surprisingly smart and interesting. The people she worked with were very cool, too.
pick4 ⭐What a wonderful story about a wonderful woman. Joan Proctor had a chronic illness. And while it hampered somethings, it did not hamper her love for reptiles. She became an expert and used her expertise to make things better at the London Zoo for all reptiles. Particularly, a set of Komodo Dragons. Her legacy lives on in her research and her friendship with her scaley friends.
