A review by cammiem8
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery

adventurous emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I couldn’t put this one down! I learned so much about octopuses and the author does a fantastic job of framing the information around her stories of encounters with octopuses in the wild and at the aquarium. This is a great introduction to the subject, a very quick and easy read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Chronic illness, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Vomit

One section does include a character discussing the suicide of a friend, in which the manner of death is described briefly, and her own struggles with suicidal thoughts. The animal deaths in the book are sad but all are of natural causes and are not gruesome, the octopuses die of old age except for one

who escapes her tank and dies from being out of the water for too long