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If you like contemplative memoir and love nature, this is for you. I finished it yesterday and switching to a new “treadmill book” was hard. I looked forward to this one every morning.

Quirky and contemplative, this book does not follow a typical formula.
I liked it.

Clean and re-organized the kitchen, graded all of my papers, and finished this beautiful project. It‘s been a good day! Listened to the tagged book on audio 🦊

There are a lot more animals in this book than just the fox, but the fox was the one she had a friendship with. In some places she gets repetitive and in others she gets a little weird, but this is, overall, a good memoir. I was glad that her relationship with the fox helped her grow and lose some of her self-loathing. Began Tamron Hall‘s, As the Wicked Watch, after I finished Fox & I. #audiowalk

The thing that tickles me about this book is that at the beginning of it, she talks a lot about how she was always taught not to anthropomorphize animals but this whole book is nothing but her doing exactly that. I‘m enjoying it. #audiowalk

So I was looking for a change in the type of book I listen to on my walks. Fox & I, about a biologist‘s relationship with a fox who lives near her, seemed interesting, and it was available on Hoopla, so it‘s now my new walking book. It was only in the mid 80s when I went for my lunch walk. And there was a bit of a breeze. #audiowalk

Book 74

I wasn't the right reader for The Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship. A memoir about Catherine Raven's abusive upbringing, early emancipation, and solace found as a biologist living off-the-grid is appealing. What she wrote lacked the human element. Two stars

Adored this #memoir of a biologist/zoologist professor who
leads a solitary lifestyle until she meets Fox. In all her
training and professional life it is well-known that "humans
shouldn't interfere in a wild animal's life" and one should
never anthropomorphize animals. She has gone along with this thought but eventually comes to the conclusion that humans are animals too. Having a Fox as a best friend seems so epic; I‘d love this life! Had ?

Foxes are amazing and I can see how a scientist who is trained not to anthropomorphize animals does so with a fox she meets.

This has been a longer read than expected. While the slow story was refreshing, there didn‘t feel like any real connection was being made. The title is about a fox, but most chapters was about a different section on her cabin land. Without the fox. I was expecting more focus to be on this cute runt fox himself. The simple cycle of life is a nice touch alongside the solidarity connections you get when in nature

#CurrentlyListening to this #naturememoir by a solitary biologist who bonds with a fox while living in an isolated cottage in remote Montana.

#20in4 Hour 4 @Andrew65

And here's the other side of my cataloging cart. It includes the rest of the fiction, non-fiction, large print, and paperbacks.

This was really cute. This is one of those books I get an email about that it‘s soon to be released. So I was pleased to have seen it up here. Catherine is a biologist living alone nearby Yellowstone National Park when she notices a fox coming by, same time everyday. She decides to befriend it, by reading to it The Little Prince.

“An unforgettable memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox.”

FULL POST: https://tinyurl.com/3xfvb45c

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