slamr finished reading The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner …
Too dry and so many lost opportunities to use pictures rather than words. She gave many statistics in text where a chart would have been so much more effective and interesting. Also I thought it would be an interesting mix of science and stories/facts/myths however the interesting stories only came at the end after an entire book about oyster farming techniques and I was bored by then so only skimmed. I was hoping for a Mary Roach type book but was very disappointed. Has almost put me off oysters too.