Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals. Ballantine Books, 2003.
I picked up The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals partly because of its intriguing title and partly because I recently acquired a pair of chickens . I haven’t lived around […]
They are not book reviews in the usual sense. They are more like book musings. I was inspired to attempt this unconventional approach by the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska (she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996). For many years she was a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books with wit and whimsy.
I once saw a performance of Mozart’s opera Cosi fan tutte in which the six characters—two sisters of apparently independent means, their scheming boyfriends, an older man of the world, and the sassy chambermaid—romped through what appeared to be an abandoned villa. The walls were a peeling burnt sienna backdrop for a few shabby […]