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snurriBooks 1-10.
Books 11-20.
21. Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land by Sue Murphy Mote.
22. Meet Me In the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich.
23. Children of Rondo: Transcriptions of Rondo Oral History Interviews edited by Kimberly K. Zielinski.
24. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry.
25. The Cowboy and His Elephant by Malcolm MacPherson. I came close to giving up on this book after the first chapter, which is a speculative account of the titular elephant's life before her entire family was slaughtered; partly because it repeated so many things I've already read about how elephants live, partly because it was so depressing, and partly because it had a bit too much of the mystical fever that some writers get when they talk about elephants and forget about facts. (I'm looking at you, Modoc, AKA The Worst Elephant Book Ever Written.) But after that first chapter things pick up, as we meet Bob, rancher, animal lover, Texaco heir, and Marlboro man, who ends up adopting the orphaned elephant and helping her through the trauma of losing her world. Yeah, it's that kind of story, and I kept trying to fact-check it because it seems pretty far-fetched, but as far as I can tell this is basically a true story--MacPherson was a well-respected journalist (at least, according to Gawker) and it seems unlikely he'd jeopardize his credibility by making up feel-good animal stories. Anyway, overall a pleasant, if light, human/elephant interest story.
Books 11-20.
21. Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land by Sue Murphy Mote.
22. Meet Me In the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich.
23. Children of Rondo: Transcriptions of Rondo Oral History Interviews edited by Kimberly K. Zielinski.
24. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry.
25. The Cowboy and His Elephant by Malcolm MacPherson. I came close to giving up on this book after the first chapter, which is a speculative account of the titular elephant's life before her entire family was slaughtered; partly because it repeated so many things I've already read about how elephants live, partly because it was so depressing, and partly because it had a bit too much of the mystical fever that some writers get when they talk about elephants and forget about facts. (I'm looking at you, Modoc, AKA The Worst Elephant Book Ever Written.) But after that first chapter things pick up, as we meet Bob, rancher, animal lover, Texaco heir, and Marlboro man, who ends up adopting the orphaned elephant and helping her through the trauma of losing her world. Yeah, it's that kind of story, and I kept trying to fact-check it because it seems pretty far-fetched, but as far as I can tell this is basically a true story--MacPherson was a well-respected journalist (at least, according to Gawker) and it seems unlikely he'd jeopardize his credibility by making up feel-good animal stories. Anyway, overall a pleasant, if light, human/elephant interest story.
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