skylacine's reviews
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Cute book about the author's dog slowly growing up, showcasing the good times and bad times. Pretty wholesome and a lot of Suzie's behaviors match those of my late dog, Bode, so this felt pretty familiar.

I do have to bring up that there's a few typos in this book though.

It's a solid book about gender inequality (particularly surrounding women in Eurasia) but at times the writing voice felt a bit dry. Also this book is written by a man and cites a lot of men as sources and I can't help but wonder if getting a bit more actual women involved here would've maybe added more.

A pretty eye-opening book about factory farming, particularly about the Dutch meat industry. It's well-written but at times the author does feel a tad hypocritical (he's judging the farmworkers and butchers for animal abuse and leading animals to their deaths, yet he participates in these activities himself as well). Also the author can really fall into self-pity sometimes which was a bit annoying. 

It didn't really grab me at first but gradually got more interesting as I got further along the pages. Pretty good book about this subject.

What a fucking terrible book. Worst and most offensive one I've read in years.

First of all, it's falsely advertised as being primarily about animals (which is why I picked it up in the first place). It's not. The animals are THERE, but the book is just primarily the author traumadumping about her terrible life. The animals feel like an afterthought.

Secondly, the author couldn't even be arsed to give content warnings. This book contains a shitton of child abuse, animal abuse, racism, incest, rape, pedophilia, pretty much every issue you can think of needs a content warning. And it's not like the author is only describing other people's behavior here: she is guilty of a few of these things herself as well (e.g. using racial slurs).

Thirdly, the author's writing voice is dreadful to have to read. She is fucking obsessed with using adjectives (sometimes five to six in a row) and refuses to italicize the titles of media (movies, books, etc.).

Skip this one