Reading Meme on Thursday Again, Maybe I Should Just Call It Mid-Week Reading Meme

[osprey_archer]

What I've Just Finished Reading

Laurel Braitman's Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves. It might also be subtitled "How Humans Drive Animals to Madness," because while some of the animals in the book seemed to have an underlying tendency toward instability, most of them seem to have been driven to their compulsions or anxieties by human abuse or neglect or captivity.

As you might imagine, this makes it a hard book to read, but interesting and thought-provoking. I particularly enjoyed the elephant sections.

What I'm Reading Now

Still Unmade, mostly out of sheer cussedness, because goddamnit but I want to know what happens to these characters. Unless the reviews on Sarah Rees Brennan's next book are phenomenal, I probably won't read it.

I've also just begun Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia, which I think I'm going to enjoy.

What I Plan to Read Next

Mary Stewart's Rose Cottage. I waffled a while between that and her book The Stormy Petrel, but Rose Cottage looks like something my mother might enjoy too so I decided to read it first.

Comments

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

Musicophilia is one of the Oliver Sacks books I haven't read, but it looks like maybe I should. Music + the wonders of the brain = well, one is really a subset of the other, I guess. I'm always a little too slow to pick up non-fiction.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I go through periods where I read a lot of nonfiction and periods where I don't read much of it at all. I have to be in the right mood, I guess.