Book completed

[eve_prime]

Pod, by Laline Paull. I had really appreciated her book from the perspective of a bee, and my book club is now reading this one, where we get the perspectives of two dolphins and a few other sea creatures. It was intense! And much more violent than I was expecting. As with The Bees, there’s more “culture” for these species than is likely (although for the dolphins it didn’t seem too unreasonable). Another tweak to reality that helped with the story she was trying to tell is that there was surely more interspecies communication than actually happens, especially in a few cases. It was very well written, a great imaginative exercise, excellent at building empathy for what humans are doing to the oceans. Oh – also, I liked that humans weren’t called “human,” but rather “anthrop,” which was a great way to shift the reader’s perspective to the other species; in general, “people” meant other dolphins.

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[heleninwales]

I follow an interesting person on Mastodon who keeps pet ants. She is amazingly knowledgeable about how ant society operates and it's more complex that you might expect. I would think the same goes for bees.