The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a beautiful little book chronicling a woman's admiration for a captive snail while laid up recuperating. While a profusion of chapters and parts, the little book (small pages) has plenty of whitespace and while I lingered over it over three separate days it would make a fine, lazy read in a single sitting some sunny afternoon on the porch swing of a bucolic B&B. Enraptured with the snail (Neohelix albolabris, if you must know) her study is of interest even to malacologists, such as the care of the eggs this hermaphrodite gastropod left so she could revel even in its progeny. A delightful, reflective, and educational chronicle.
(I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads.)
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