A review by hoperu
The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck

2.0

This was OK. There were definitely moments of really great prose that made me go "Hmm...yes!" but there were a lot more moments where I was rolling my eyes. Maeterlinck really, really liked attributing human reason and emotion to the bees as they go about their business. As a history of the way people wrote natural history, it could be an interesting read, and for anyone who keeps bees. For me, not so much.