A review by niecierpek
On Animals by Susan Orlean

3.75

This wasn’t bad, but I probably wouldn’t have finished it if it wasn’t a bookclub read.  It’s a collection of essays, and I have a feeling that some of them were rehashed pieces she published somewhere else beforehand. 

Some chapters were better than others, but it was really uneven. I learned a few things, like the really surprising number of lions in captivity. I liked the chapters on chickens and donkeys best. But that’s three out of twenty…