How to be a good creature

a memoir in thirteen animals

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Sy Montgomery: How to be a good creature (2018)

213 pages

English language

Published Feb. 16, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-4328-5843-8
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OCLC Number:
1051779277

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As an author, naturalist, and adventurer, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. This memoir reflects on the personalities and quirks of thirteen animals she has known. It also explores vast themes: the otherness and sameness of people and animals; the various ways we learn to love and become empathetic; how we create families; how we cope with loss and despair; and, most of all, how we can choose to be a good creature in the world.

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The book was short, but the author showed a vast love and respect for animals and their effects on her every day. I'm not sure about the title: "How to Be a Good Creature" is, I suppose, an overall goal of everyone, and people's relationships with animals definitely affects that, but it was more "How Animals Are Wonderful". And I really appreciated the wide variety of pets and animals with which she interacted that she had.

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Subjects

  • Large type books
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Animals
  • Anecdotes