chelford's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
I read this title for a book club at work. While it certainly inspired me to want to be more involved in direct action, I wonder if anyone who doesn't already consider themself an activist or advocate would read this cover to cover. It's a heavy read. I usually rush through books, but I can see why the book club set a relatively slow schedule. You need time to reflect and recover. Certain essays resonated with me more strongly than others, but that just goes to show that there as many different forms of activism as there are activists.
a_robin_reads's review against another edition
DNF
This was totally different then what I hoped/expected. It was more like a full on "I did all this and I'm great" story, which I really didn't like. I thought it would more be stories about animals and not about the person saving the animals and saying how great they did. In the first story I would have loved to hear more about the rescued chicken and in the second about the monkey who was chained to a windowsill. How they rescued these animals and how there life turned out. I'm not interested about the humans really.
Review first published on my blog:
I tried to read Voices for animal liberation by a couple of authors. I got this from Netgalley. I read the first two stories in this book. And boy didn't I like them. I thought this book would be like an honor to amazing animals they rescued, the story about these animals and maybe why these people chose to be animal rescuers. I was wrong. This book is basically a human worship book. This people tell the story of what they did in rescuing animals. For example: I founded the organisation blah blah blah and I got an award for my article blah blah blah. It just wasn't what I expected and therefore gave up on it.
This was totally different then what I hoped/expected. It was more like a full on "I did all this and I'm great" story, which I really didn't like. I thought it would more be stories about animals and not about the person saving the animals and saying how great they did. In the first story I would have loved to hear more about the rescued chicken and in the second about the monkey who was chained to a windowsill. How they rescued these animals and how there life turned out. I'm not interested about the humans really.
Review first published on my blog:
I tried to read Voices for animal liberation by a couple of authors. I got this from Netgalley. I read the first two stories in this book. And boy didn't I like them. I thought this book would be like an honor to amazing animals they rescued, the story about these animals and maybe why these people chose to be animal rescuers. I was wrong. This book is basically a human worship book. This people tell the story of what they did in rescuing animals. For example: I founded the organisation blah blah blah and I got an award for my article blah blah blah. It just wasn't what I expected and therefore gave up on it.
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