On Animals | 
pickThis was an interesting and quick listen! Here Orlean includes previously published essays on animals over the years (some as dated as during Keiko‘s brief stint as a “wild” whale) as well as a journal style of her life in their upstate New York farm. It‘s not a profound look at the human-animal connection, but it makes for easy listening and the section on rabbits in particular is sure to help start discussions! I‘m glad it‘s kept mostly light!
I was out of town for a few days. It was a lovely trip, but it really messed with my reading time. For this weekend‘s #20in4 marathon, I‘d like to finish at least two of these books to get a little closer to my elusive June reading goal. Myspouse has some rare summer weekend time off, which could potentially cause more upheaval to my reading time…or maybe not.
pickAn enjoyable listen read by the author. This collection is comprised of enthusiastic and informative essays on animals of all sorts from backyard chickens to Keiko the killer whale to the hardworking donkeys of Fez, Morocco, just to name a few.
Most were previously published in The New Yorker between 1995 and 2020.
pickThis collection of animal related essay was so entertaining and I learned some things as well. Orlean has a talent for finding an interesting story in each chapter, never overly sentimental but true and caring and what seems like responsible storytelling. I enjoyed the chapter on mules, the lost dog in Atlanta particularly but every chapter was great!
pickOrlean a longtime lover of animals and animal stories offers us a collection of 15 pieces written throughout her career about humans relationships with tamed and untamed animals from all over the planet! From her own narrative of keeping chickens to stories of show dogs, animal actors, pet tigers, taxidermy, lion whisperers and more! These pieces are moving and Orleans rich prose shine throughout! #bookreview #essays
pick12/150 I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected. Orlean's essays on various animals and life raising farm animals were both amusing and poignant. As she said there is a fine line around the world between what animals we think of as pets, what animals we think of as food, and those that think of us as food. 4 🐕🐕🐕🐕
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I'm about half way through On Animals (ebook), a third of the way through The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (print) and about half of Dinocalypse Now (audio)
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pickOrlean‘s essays are less about those she‘s kept as pets and more about, as NPR noted, “a heightened sensitivity to animals' life experiences.” Her writing is delightful and charming and the story structure of each essay, elegant. There is no narrative through line, but with an always curious author with a talent for weaving together humor&mundane details about the creatures with whom we share a planet, it‘s hard not to race through the chapters.
pickA fun collection of animalish essays written over the last 20+ years. Orleans shares her story of owning a large property with a menagerie. She also writes about a champion boxer stud, what happened to Keiko from Free Willy, an outbreak of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Fever, and captive tigers in the US among others. Great as an #audiobook!
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really enjoyed this. It wasn‘t on my radar at all until I saw some Litsy reviews. It‘s a collection of essays about animals, ranging from her pets to Keiko, the killer whale from Free Willy. There were a couple that I was less interested in than the others, but overall a really nice collection.
pickA collection of essays by Susan Orlean featuring animals. All are good but I believe my favorites are the ones about her own animals well and the donkeys of Fez . . . Or about the Cuban oxen.
pickFrom donkeys to pandas to chicken husbandry, Susan Orlean‘s latest book is a delightful collection of her essays on animals. These have been published before in magazines, so if you follow her, you‘ve likely already read them, but if not, this is a completely delightful book.
My book just arrived and could these endpapers be cuter?!? 🥰 🐄🐓🐇🐕🐐🐖
