Really Serious Oreo Book Club: The Truth About Animals

The Really Serious Book Club met at the home of Norton Schwartz to discuss The Truth About Animals—Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos and other Tales of the Wild Side of Wild life by Lucy Cooke. Beavers, sloths, bats, eels, vultures and frogs were a few of the animals whose innermost secrets and hidden lives the author revealed. She sang the praises of sloths— whose bodies were covered in algae and insects, defecated only once a week, yet have survived thousands of years in the competitive jungles of South America. This led us to consider how we humans, as competitive animals, compared in our success. Were our nature and habits any more strange than the other animals of the world? The next meeting will be October 17, when we will discuss The Food Explorer: True Adventures of the Globe Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone. If you would like to join us, email Norton at nortlynne@cox.net.
—Norton Schwartz