The BIRD WHISPERER - Mattie Saunders Series - Book 3

Save a bird. Save the world. Save your soul.

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“A very entertaining story with plenty of action and a strong female main character.”

“The storyline is very good and contains several subplots.”

“All the characters “gets” are realistic”.

“A highly recommended novella that was very enjoyable.”

Oiled seabirds

Two freighters have collided in the harbour. One has a ruptured fuel tank and is spilling toxic oil onto the beach. Seabirds are mired in this toxic muck.

The Saunders Exotic Bird Sanctuary is dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of exotic birds. A seagull is hardly exotic but it’s still a bird and Mattie loves birds.

She’s never rehabilitated an oiled bird. It’s more involved than just giving them a bath in dish detergent–a lot more.

 She might as well learn how since there’s likely to be more of them.

The reporters want to do know if Mattie supports a ban against more oil pipelines? More pipelines mean more oil that has to be shipped which amounts to an increase in oil tanker traffic in local waters.

Mattie supports whatever is good for the birds.

Does she have to take a stand on bigger issues to have any hope of resolving the smaller ones?

Do you?

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I'm stopping midway through; it's not bad, but it's definitely a case of a trendy bandwagon that's suffering from over-crowding.  Nobody is ever going to convince me that Microsoft's PowerPoint changed the world of Birdwatching forever.

I'll likely pick it up again at some point in the future, but right now I'm just too impatient with their stretching of the envelope.  Non-fiction should not require me to suspend disbelief (unless it's string theory).  If you ask me, they might have been better off sticking with 50 objects.

My husband has always been a reader, but the last 9 months or so, he's really devoted more time to it and as a result has been tearing through "his" books with alarming speed.  He keeps coming to me, saying: "you need to order me some more books".  This past weekend, I said no.  Then I took him to the used bookshops I discovered a few weeks ago so he could happily pick out a pile and save us a heap in shipping fees.

Which I promptly spent on books for me.  Because honestly, anyone who has known me for 5 minutes knows you can't let me loose in a bookshop.  Oh, and he needed new work pants, which meant we had to go to the mall - it's a close thing as to which of us hates the mall more, but there's a new bookshop that opened and it's small, but wonderful.  MT found 4 books before he'd been in the store a full minute.  I'm not sure the house's foundations can support both of us having a book habit.

Latin for Birdwatchers - This was a freebie from one of the used bookshops that isn't a used bookshop - it sells remainders and everything in the store is $10 or 6 for $50.  This was my 6th book and I mostly bought it because it's beautiful but also because I'll learn something.  

A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects - So it turns out I'm a hopeless sucker for history via objects.  

To See Every Bird on Earth - Anyone wondering if the bookshop had a birdwatching-themed display would not be wrong.  Since wanting to see every bird on Earth is something I would be apt to declare as a goal, I figured I read this and find out just how unpleasant such a goal might be in reality (not to mention expensive).

Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries: Uncovering Mysterious Sights, Symbols, and Societies - I love a good hidden room or cryptic symbol and I haven't read much on the subject so there should be a lot of 'new to me' stuff here if the writing is good.

Whispers in the Reading Room - Has anyone read this series?  The MC of this one is a librarian in Chicago and it takes place just after the World's Fair, so it was a done deal. Only, this one is the third in the series so I'm wondering if RIO is a must or not?

Equal Rites - My second Pratchett.  I started with death but I wanted to try one of the witches books next.

The Moonstone - Because I feel like I can't call myself a mystery reader without reading this one.

False Scent - Pure cover love (also, see above).

new books: 8

books read: 5

physical tbr: 220

   My favorite morning reading spots, when time is kind. 

One of my favorite afternoon reading spots. I usually end up daydreaming here or birdwatching. Nature is distracting at this spot. 

Happy reading! What are some of your favorite spots to read?