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Shel Graves

A reader, writer, and @Utopianista living by the Salish Sea, Shel served in the Peace Corps and earned her MFA in Creative Writing.

Book Review: The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams

February 20, 2014 by Shel Graves

On a bookshelf or reading list, this classic of vegetarian thought belongs beside Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation. Originally published in 1990 and reprinted in a 20th Anniversary Edition The Sexual …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Veganism

Book Review: We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur

January 9, 2014 by Shel Graves
We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur

Contributors to the Indiegogo campaign received We Animals, photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur’s beautifully designed coffee table book, just before the New Year. Published by Lantern Books, it features photos of individual …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

December 12, 2013December 12, 2013 by Shel Graves

The Snow Leopard (1978), a beautiful true account of a wildlife research trek into the Himalayas, reads like a novel. It’s rich with sensory detail — capturing the sights, tastes, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction

Book Review: Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

November 29, 2013November 28, 2013 by Shel Graves
Animal Liberation

Firstly, in March, you can take a free online course on Practical Ethics taught by Peter Singer author, ethicist and professor of bioethics at Princeton University — how fantastic! — …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood

October 17, 2013October 17, 2013 by Shel Graves
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

How do you feel about lab grown meat? Glowing, green bunnies? Is our future weird, repulsive, curious, frightening and delightful? Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy — Oryx and Crake (2003), The …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Fiction

Book Review: The Botanical Garden by Ellen Welcker

October 3, 2013 by Shel Graves
The Botanical Garden by Ellen Welcker

You could read Melville’s Moby Dick. You could travel the world. You could read about the plight of immigrants and refugees in The New York Times and discuss them over …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Oceans, Poetry

Book Review: Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

October 17, 2013September 17, 2013 by Shel Graves
Farm Sanctuary by Gene Baur

Are you going to do the Walk for Farm Animals this month because you read this book? Read this book and you might find yourself there next year. Of all …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

August 2, 2015September 13, 2013 by Shel Graves
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

No one gives animals a voice like author Richard Adams. While most may be familiar with his novel Watership Down (1972) from childhood, readers of EcoLit may especially appreciate The …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Fiction

Book Review: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

April 4, 2025August 28, 2013 by Shel Graves

If you managed not to hear about the animal rights theme before reading Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013), do comment with your experience of the …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Fiction
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