Amy Tan (1) (1952–)

I’m interested in birds. I recognize that Amy Tan is the author of another famous book which I wasn’t interested in reading either. One issue is I’m listening to it as an audiobook and apparently you’re supposed to use it as a regular book because you can’t see the pictures that she is drawn when it’s an audiobook.

So I managed to get a hold of them e-book edition from the library and it does have all these really nice pictures, but somehow looking through the pictures and reading it made me depressed. First of all the author seems like this annoying overachiever who is nature journaling, and such a way to make everybody else feel bad. Some of the birds that she draws are actually dead and there’s some tragic stories. If you’re sensitive to dead birds you may not want to read this book depending on if you’re overall interest in birds, overrides your sadness. I can’t give low star rating to a book that’s about environmentalism and naturalism. It’s just that I didn’t like this book, but I’m still giving it, Five Star based on the principal that it deserves to have good stars. Even reading the other glowing reviews on libary thing about this book makes me depressed because what’s wrong with me that I can’t appreciate this book when other people can?… (altro)