dave37's review
5.0
A touching, funny, thoughtful and terrifically enjoyable collection of stories. Distinctly Southern in tone, but universal in their message. Highly recommended.
storytimed's review
4.0
Collection of short stories themed around feminism, rural life, animals. Loved the way it wove in Ecology Facts but was frustrated by the passivity of many of the protagonists.
joshuadavid1986's review
4.0
EXACT RATING: 3.50 stars
Lovely stories. A few of them will stick with me, but all were enjoyable.
Lovely stories. A few of them will stick with me, but all were enjoyable.
lola425's review
4.0
I kept having to put the book down and appreaciate some of Bergman's sentences. All of the stories have the connection between humans and animals and nature and life and death running through them, and in most of the stories the protagonists relate better to and interact more fully with the animals than with the humans that share their lives...which would seem alienating in the hands of a less skilled storyteller.
aniastef86's review against another edition
5.0
Non mi ero ancora imbattuta in un libro che contenesse dei racconti così validi. E aggiungo TUTTI estremamente validi. Una penna quella della Bergman che va dritta al punto e che lo raggiunge senza difficoltà. Paradisi minori è davvero un gran bel goal.
marilynsaul's review
1.0
Well, only partially read. The first story just angered me so much (when the daughter felt she "wasn't obligated" to take her mother's only companion, a parrot, home when her mother went into assisted living, basically disavowing all that her parents had been "obligated" to do for her but hadn't considered an "obligation"). The next story was about another birth/baby event, and, quite honestly, I'd already lost interest in this author's perception of motherhood.
esther_a_'s review
4.0
Didn’t particularly enjoy the first four stories but it after that I throughly enjoyed the rest! A mixture of sad, raw and beautiful relationships, entwined with animals and some nature. I was pulled in by the cover but there were a few gems in the collection of stories too.
evagro's review
4.0
This book of stories was another one of my superficial selections in which I used the "pick a book based on its cover" technique, though I think I might have discovered the book through a review from the Boston Globe. That's the nice thing about tracking my books using Pinterest - I know where the heck I uncovered these titles! My book picks based on covers don't usually work out, but this one did!
Read more: http://knowledgeiscool.blogspot.com/2014/01/book-review-birds-of-lesser-paradise.html
Read more: http://knowledgeiscool.blogspot.com/2014/01/book-review-birds-of-lesser-paradise.html