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Kevin Estrada
reviewed Notes from the Shore on December 29, 2020
Notes from the Shore
This is a collection of essays that mix personal memoir with observations of the natural world at the shore* with tidbits of science and history. That's all the things I like! But I found this book to be rather boring. When I set it down, I had a hard time picking it up again.
The writing is a stream-of consciousness style. On any given page, Ackerman might jump from the chaotic richness of life in the ocean to anaphylactic shock to photosynthesis to hurricanes to the tilt of planets in the solar system. (That was all from page 167 in my edition, which I opened to at random just now.) Those are all interesting topics, but the way she jumps from one to another made my attention wander. She only touches on each topic, and since I already know a little bit about each of those things, I didn't learn anything. I felt like she was throwing spaghetti at a wall.
* The original title was "Notes from the Shore" - it was retitled and reissued as "Birds by the Shore" to capitalize on Ackerman's success with The Genius of Birds.
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