Carol’s Reviews > The Accidental Countryside: Hidden Havens for Britain's Wildlife > Status Update

"On the European mainland, where black redstarts are common and widespread, they live in villages, gardens and on the edge of towns, occupying the niche we usually associate with birds such as the robin or dunnock. [...] But until they colonised Britain, they were not normally associated with city centres or industrialised sites." - My dude, what? Black redstarts are incredibly common in European cities!

Gave this one another shot, many months after putting it away because of needlessly graphic descriptions of what happened to the inhabitants of an abbey... Only to now read a chapter in which the discourse seems to be mild for people destroying railroad networks and harsh on the public body having to currently manage said railroads. The ignorance is painful. I'll give it one more try but then I give up!

Having to read about abusing old people doesn't do much for my reading appetite :')