A review by megganjoy
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn

5.0

It is five days into the new year, and I think this may be my favorite book of 2023. I am unfamiliar with much of what he studies and then writes about, so each chapter was a new way to look at the things I share space with. The book is slower at the beginning, and the author seems to hit his stride in writing with the tenth chapter. ( I know what sounds like 1-9 is a slog, but it wasn't - his writing for the latter half of the book took a conversational tone that I prefer.) That said, chapter 10 was rough subject-wise, maybe because I fostered puppies last summer and know all too well the characters we are introduced to. The final chapter was just as charming as one could want.