{"id":37339,"date":"2019-02-01T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=37339"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:45:22","slug":"book-review-how-to-be-a-good-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2019\/02\/book-review-how-to-be-a-good-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: How to be a Good Creature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37340 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/How-to-be-a-good-creature-387x478.jpg\" alt=\"Book Review: How to be a Good Creature\" width=\"280\" height=\"346\" \/><br \/>\nIn <em>How to be a Good\u00a0Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals<\/em>, Sy Montgomery shares her life of loving and studying animals. Sy is a National Book Award Finalist and naturalist. Each chapter focuses on a different creature who transformed her life. Throughout the essays, she reflects on the effects the animals had on her and how she practiced life a bit differently, thanks to their influence. One of the most amusing stories involved a pig named Christopher Hogwood, a beloved pet.<\/p>\n<p><em>How to be a Good Creature<\/em> is available as an <a href=\"http:\/\/uclid.uc.edu\/record=b6653619~S39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">e-book<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/uclid.uc.edu\/record=b6658877~S39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hardback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Penny McGinnis<br \/>\nTechnical Services Manager<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucclermont.edu\/library.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clermont College Library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In How to be a Good\u00a0Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, Sy Montgomery shares her life of loving and studying animals. Sy is a National Book Award Finalist and naturalist. Each chapter focuses on a different creature who transformed her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2019\/02\/book-review-how-to-be-a-good-creature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791],"tags":[1291,838,1748],"class_list":["post-37339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clermont-news-home","tag-book-review","tag-clermont","tag-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}