pickA doctor working with bonobos at a research facility studying language through hand signs becomes separated, and a down-on-his-luck journalist desperate for a big story is drawn into the chaos. Ape House may not have the same impact as Water for Elephants, but Sara Gruen has a gift for exploring humanity—and for revealing that humans are often the real animals.
so-so3⭐. I enjoy reading this authors books because they are set very close to home and she uses so many local places in her stories. I didn't like as much the main character and the chimpanzee being raised together and being cruelly but necessarily split up.
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Continuing the countdown of my books, from 1st to 25th, THE JACKAL‘S MISTRESS. Today it‘s my 10th, BEFORE YOU KNOW KINDNESS (2004). Fun fact: the lobster boy character? That's me. Also, though I was and am a vegetarian, I spent days in the woods with deer hunters researching this novel.
panNope. Nope nope nope. The way the characters talked? Nope. The male author writing as a dead female veterinarian? Nope. The end?!? NOPE. (Ok, it wasn‘t TERRIBLE, but I truly disliked this book). (22)
⭐️: 1.75/5
pickAfter a quick glance at attitudes to animals in various traditions around the world, the author goes on to discuss approaches in the modern Western tradition, focussing on moral philosophy and then applying the ideas to various practical matters such as animal husbandry, pets and zoos, and animal experimentation.
Interesting but mainly serves as an introduction to one perspective rather than the idea in general.
