How to Speak Whale

Title: How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication

Author: Tom Mustill

Publisher: Grand Central Publish

 
ISBN: 9781538739112

 

Thoughts:  A chance encounter with a whale leads Mustill on a journey to understand animal communication which he lays out in lay terms.

Rating: 4/5

Why Read Moby-Dick?

Title: Why Read Moby-Dick?

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick

Publisher: Viking

 
ISBN: 9780670022991

 

Thoughts:  This book didn't make me want to read Moby-Dick, but it did help me understand it.

Rating: 3/5

Finding Grace

Title: Finding Grace

Author: Loretta Rothschild

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

 
ISBN: n/a

 

Thoughts:  The first few chapters were so sad, I almost didn't make it to what was a wonderful genre-melding story.

Rating: 4/5

Moby-Dick

Title: Moby-Dick: or, the Whale

Author: Herman Mehlville

Publisher: Penguin Books

 
ISBN: 9780143124672

 

Thoughts:  What could have been a wonderful gothic novel set on a ship instead of a manor, turned into an over-inflated dissertation on whales and whaling before FINALLY getting back to the plot with mere chapters left.

Rating: 3/5