The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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"In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history of California--a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California focuses on each distinctive region of the state, addressing its climate, rocks, soil, plants, and animals. The new edition of this classic work features updated species names and taxa, new details about parks reclassified by federal and state agencies, new stories about modern human and animal interaction, and a new epilogue on the impacts of climate change on the state"--Provided by publisher.
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This is a lovely (not an adjective I use, but most appropriate I can think of), satisfying book. There are parts I didn't like as much (I was uninterested in the narration of comics stories, but there wasn't too much of that), but to not give this 5 stars just feels disingenuous.
Loved the first half, but it gradually became a little too far fetched, domestic, and reflective. Some of the themes were also quite tired, but the comic-related content evoked a wonderful nostalgia.
I know, I know, it won the Pulitzer. And there were parts of the book I absolutely adored. HOWEVER, I think it could have been a hundred pages shorter with some incisive editing, and that would have kept me turning pages like mad, instead of what actually happened, which was that I'd get really into it for a couple chapters, and then get lost in a comic book tangent. But that's just me. Overall, entertaining.
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