Keeping an owl is undoubtedly an interesting experience. Reading a book about keeping an owl, not so much. So many of these memoir books about unusual pet/rescued animals are so poorly written and dull. I should have taken the hint when the cover blurb is by an author whose book I already put in that category (Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig). This author seems like a crazy cat lady. She had a relationship for over 18 years with an owl she allowed to hump her arm. Yes, until ejaculation. And apparently she can't say the word ejaculation. She also kept the fact that she had a pet owl a secret from the men she dated, purportedly to protect the owl from extremist animal activists.

Some cool anecdotes about Wesley, the owl, and a lot of stuffing to stretch it into a book. A good editor could have turned this into a wonderful article in Smithsonian magazine. For the record, the animated angry missives delivered by owl in Harry Potter are called howlers (h"owl"ers, get it?), not screamers. The author's memory failed her, and so did her editors.

Reserved for wildflower37, trade for Benediction. Mailed 1/13/14.

Thanks for sending as part of a trade! I look forward to reading this.