My #naturalitsy friends may love this one. A quick read about turtles and those that save them and the science behind why we care for turtles and what we can learn from turtles about time. What amazing creatures.
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Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell | 
My #naturalitsy friends may love this one. A quick read about turtles and those that save them and the science behind why we care for turtles and what we can learn from turtles about time. What amazing creatures.
pickI love this book! Sy Montgomery lives the life I should be living! She works with animals and their carers or those who study them and then writes books about her experiences. She‘s written about octopuses, pigs, and a collection of essays, “How to be a Good Creature”. This one is my favorite of hers I‘ve read so far though. These turtles and the people who serve them have my heart! I admire the rescue organizations Sy mentions in the book.
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.
Page 5 of this book 🤣🤣. I always knew I liked Sy Montgomery.
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.
