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meghb's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
I’m still unsure if this book makes me incredibly depressed or vaguely hopeful, but either way, it’s a great read about conservation, even 10 years later.
marigastal's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
ericfheiman's review against another edition
2.0
This is world-class journalistic nonfiction at its best. The stories in "Wild Ones" are fascinating. I tend towards reading fiction because I'm as equally interested in style and voice as I am in content. It's one thing to find this very neutral tone in a New York Times Magazine article, another in a 300-page book. There are some interesting observations here, but, ultimately, Mooallem's voice is a bit too restrained and impersonal for my tastes.
sarahenn's review against another edition
5.0
Uhm, amazing. So well-written. So eye-opening. Fascinating.
sfstagewalker's review against another edition
5.0
This is not a particularly hopeful book, and for that I'm actually grateful. I feel like I took a journey with Mooallem. A journey starting with certain expectations and hopes, and one that took me to thoughtful places along the way. In many ways the book broke my heart and upset me, but in others I had to join Moallem in a quiet appreciation of the people whose hearts have been moved to fight an impossible fight with little hope but to fend off the inevitable as long as possible.
lyrareadsbooks's review against another edition
3.0
Somewhere in here is the core of a great book. The organization was hard to follow - more looping and spiraling at times than linear or category or geographic. This is less about the science of how climate change effects various species, and more about how awareness of climate change shapes human efforts too preserve species.
aderogat's review against another edition
5.0
Mooallem does a very good job covering the difficult questions that many of us who are involved in or care about conservation tend to ask ourselves. He doesn't try to offer up any pretty answers, which I felt was appropriate because there really are no easy or nice answers. If you care about conservation and want to learn some interesting history, this is a great book. It may leave you a little sad, but that is not the authors fault rather just a reflection of our changing planet and the many disheartening challenges we currently face to trying to preserve wildlife and wild places.
fengyuseah's review against another edition
5.0
a beautiful, beautiful book with a nuanced look at conservation efforts - equally about wildlife and the messiness that is humanity
macjustice's review
3.0
Heard about this book via the 99% Invisible episode about the author. It's fine, but I think the episode, and by extension the live reading it's based on covers what the book has to say, and the book itself mostly just adds additional background.