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I've actually been reading this awhile now - since it first came out - but I find it's not something to be rushed through. Some of it is really emotionally "heavy," and other bits are just so very interesting. I find, if I read too much at one sitting, I start to rage against the heartlessness of man and I have to distance. Important stuff. I want to know. I just have to take in small bites at a time.

Love this series and the characters and it just gets better and better. This one, though...don't know...at the outset, clearly, there's animal abuse and it might be a tough read. Will see, I guess.

I can't finish. It started out promising. I liked the beginning about the imaginative children and the whale very much. But I cannot abide the whining adults in this book. Even setting it aside for a couple of months to give myself space from it all hasn't helped. I cannot be tortured with several hundred more pages, not even for the temptation of more child whimsy and delight somewhere within its depths.

Definitely an eerie read and not for those put off by foul language, but yes, I was on the hook and wanting to rush to find out how it ended whilst also NOT wanting it to end....

I confess as I was reading I was thinking how nerdy I was and simultaneously wondering which of my friends I could entice to read the wonderful gem I just savored (be it essay on tree, bee, mammal, you name it) as I went through the book. Each was a delight. Read this collection. Learn and enjoy. I did.

DNF. Too many side stories to wade through and really, I can't see slogging through 27+ hours of this. Maybe someday but right now, life seems too short.

I could not finish this. I decided I didn't care and the writing just wasn't enticing.