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Book Reviews

The Creative Lives of Animals: Understanding the artists around us

November 25, 2022 by John Yunker

Creativity is something that is easier to identify than to explain. And one person’s definition of creativity may vary from your definition. For proof, you need only enter the modern …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, New York University Press, Nonfiction, What we're reading

Fuzz, When Nature Breaks the Law

November 13, 2022 by JoeAnn Hart

By Mary Roach W. W. Norton & Co, 2021 Review by JoeAnn Hart “Like a deer in the headlights,” we say about someone who freezes in the face of impending …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Nonfiction, Trees, W. W. Norton & Company, Wolves

New and forthcoming environmental books

October 22, 2022 by John Yunker

Sadly there is not enough time for us here at EcoLit Books to read all the fine works submitted to us. Here are a few titles we’ve received over the …

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Categories Book Reviews, Children's Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, What we're reading

DEFENSIBLE SPACES, stories by Alison Turner

October 7, 2022October 5, 2022 by JoeAnn Hart

DEFENSIBLE SPACES, stories by Alison Turner Torrey House Press February 2023 Fire! It’s everywhere in Alison Turner’s tightly knit collection of stories, from fireworks to a flaming ham, “a pink …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Fiction, History, Trees

Book Review: BITCH by Lucy Cooke

September 13, 2022 by Midge Raymond

As a zoology student, Lucy Cooke was taught that the females of the species are exploited, weak, and passive. As a human animal, Cooke begged to differ. In Bitch: On the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Basic Books, Birds, Book Reviews, Ecology, Education, Insects, Nonfiction

Book Review: Odder

September 8, 2022 by Olivia Radbill
Illustrated book cover of an otter sticking her head out of the ocean against a blue sky backdrop

Katherine Applegate, author of the Newbery Medal-winning The One and Only Ivan and the widely hailed The One and Only Bob, has returned with the story of Odder. Like Applegate’s …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Fiction, Rewilding

Book Review: FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliott Dark

September 16, 2024August 31, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Alice Elliott Dark’s beautiful, sprawling novel Fellowship Point is about land and stewardship, about nature and conservation, but more than that, it is a book of friendship across the decades …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Book Review: Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

August 18, 2022 by Melissa Dennihy

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem is a powerful collection of ecopoetry that forefronts the interconnectedness of humans, animals, land, and water. Throughout, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Poetry, Pollution

Halcyon Journey: Searching for Kingfishers

June 30, 2022June 28, 2022 by John Yunker

Kingfishers are birds more often heard than seen. Walk next to Bear Creek here in the Rogue Valley and you will probably hear them, though seeing them is not so …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Oregon State University Press

Book Review: Groundglass by Kathryn Savage

June 21, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
book cover for Kathryn Savage's Groundglass, the words around broken fragments

Kathryn Savage’s gorgeous lyric essay Groundglass is a poetic reckoning with environmental pollution and its unavoidable connection to human bodies. In the book, available August 2nd from Coffee House Press, Savage blends tough …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pollution

Book Review: The Dolphin House by Audrey Schulman

June 1, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Audrey Schulman’s The Dolphin House, inspired by a true story about dolphin research in St. Thomas in the 1960s, is a beautiful, thought-provoking read, at times as heartbreaking as it …

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Categories Book Reviews, Europa Editions, Fiction
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