A review by mono_dreams
Der Gesang in den Meeren by Doreen Cunningham

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3.0

The book is separated into two different timelines: the one taking place in Utqiagvik and the one in which she and her son travel thousands of kilometers in search of the grey whales that Doreen is very fond of. I have to admit that I didn't like the storyline around her travels with Max as much because I didn't really like reading about Doreen's thoughts on motherhood and her childhood. Overall, I prefered the paragraphs in which she talked about whales or climate change over the paragraphs containg personal stories.  It sometimes felt like I was reading her autobiography rather than a book about whales. I mean, of course, whales were mentioned plenty but oftentimes, Doreen Cunningham connected the mention of whales to her own life which I found to be rather boring. I also didn't like the way she would sometimes humanize the whales and try to compare them to human beings. That felt very unnatural and kind of frustrating to me. Although she told the reader she's aware that you can't humanize whales, she kept doing so in certain parts of the book which really confused me. 
Idk, I enjoyed learning about whales and reading about her time in Utqiagvik but there were some themes and stories within the book that either I didn't care for or was actually annoyed by.