reading wednesday

[boxofdelights]

• What are you reading?

What's a Dog For, by John Homans. I feel like I've read a significant amount of this material before, and it was more fun when Jon Katz wrote it. But people are always designing new experiments to reveal something about how dogs think, so there is always fresh water in this well.

• What did you recently finish reading?

Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens, for Tawanda book group. Not for me.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer, by Kelly Jones, from mrissa's recommendation: https://mrissa.dreamwidth.org/1041873.html

• What are you watching?

I finished Russian Doll and started The Umbrella Academy.

The Cooler is a big bag of cliches.
The Child in Time is a realistic depiction of what it's like to lose a child, but the ending is over-the-top sentimentality.
The Greatest Showman has some good song and dance numbers.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I love reading about dogs and somehow have never encountered Jon Katz. Would you rec that over the Homans' version?

[boxofdelights]

I remember liking Jon Katz's voice a lot. This guy's narrative voice is nothing special. But, as Homans says, the study of dogs has exploded in the last fifteen years, so there's a lot of science Homans has access to that Katz didn't.