Bob Tarte
Autor/a de Enslaved by Ducks
Sobre l'autor
Bob Tarte has written for the New York Times, The Beat, the Boston Globe, the Whole Earth Review, and the Miami New Times. He lives in Lowell, Michigan, with his wife and more animals than we can list here
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Obres de Bob Tarte
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Lowell, Michigan, USA
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA - Professions
- columnist (The Beat; www.technobeat.com)
- Organitzacions
- Wildlife Rehab Center, Ltd. (http://www.wildlife-rehab-center.org/...)
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Ressenyes
There is one thing you cannot always predict, and that’s the nature and character of the animals you choose as pets. This is a somewhat humorous memoir of the author and his wife's experience in learning and establishing pet care routines, crazy rituals, and the feeding preferences of an assortment of pets: rabbits, an assortment of birds, geese, and ducks, turkeys, all on THEIR terms.
It started with a purchase of an unruly rabbit, and before they knew it, they had pretty much turned their home and property into a rescue home for wayward, orphaned critters when they became too much for other people to handle. I would have to say they were enslaved by more than just ducks. It read like a house full of pure chaos, and I can't even imagine the cost, the filth and the stench from all these birds and rabbits indoors, but I sure do admire their tenacity for sticking to it even through all the rough times.… (més)
It started with a purchase of an unruly rabbit, and before they knew it, they had pretty much turned their home and property into a rescue home for wayward, orphaned critters when they became too much for other people to handle. I would have to say they were enslaved by more than just ducks. It read like a house full of pure chaos, and I can't even imagine the cost, the filth and the stench from all these birds and rabbits indoors, but I sure do admire their tenacity for sticking to it even through all the rough times.… (més)
An interesting story of how a man and his wife adopted 5 cats and how their lives were affected by the cat's personalities. The cat stories are okay and there are a few harmless puns scattered throughout but I mostly felt the narrator of this story was scarily neurotic and possibly clinically depressed. He projects some of these feelings into his stories of the cats and I am not sure his POV was anywhere near the cat's actual behavior and feelings.
read 7/2/2023
read 7/2/2023
I had this for a long time. I read it for a science/nature book challenge that seems to be all in my head. It was amusing and touching at times, but there was a lot of effort to be flippant and that got a little tiring.
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- Obres
- 5
- Membres
- 891
- Popularitat
- #28,765
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 56
- ISBN
- 20
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 3
I flew through the first half but then it just felt like a repetitious slog. Nothing had changed with the quality of writing or the content but I had reached my saturation point and I was bored.