The Big Year

The Big Year

Rating:  The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, by Mark Obmascik.  Free Press (2005), 288 pages. The topic of the “big year” (a competition in which birders throughout the world compete to see who can spot the most species of birds within...
The Omnivore’s Dilemma

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Rating:  The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan.  Penguin Press (2006), 450 pages. I was prepared to wade through a fair amount of dry technical talk on vegetable genetics and the like, in order to get to the good stuff in this book.  I’m...