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Kindle Consumption: 2023
A handful of books were my companions each evening this year as I dozed off, or was wakeful, or inexplicably alert in the wee hours. Some off these I’ll recommend wholeheartedly, while others are not worth your time.
Menagerie Manor, by Gerald Durrell- Some of us are acquainted with Durrell through his accounts of an idyllic boyhood on the Greek island of Corfu. Durrell continues his obsession with animals in this volume, a collection of stories from Durrell’s years building and maintaining a zoo. The quality of the writing is an echo of My Family and Other Animals; however, in some of the stories, Durrell is inspired again, and I was at times happily transported in his telling of how he acquired and maintained his zoo creatures. Durrell is known for helping to revolutionize the purposes and operations of zoos, yet sometimes I found myself wondering whether a few of his animals would have been more content left alone in the wild. In some ways, perhaps, he never stopped being that ten-year-old kid fighting the odds to maintain his vast collection of specimens.