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I secured an advance copy of "The Book Of Animal Ignorance," out next month, and it's so entertaining. It's this trove of little-known tidbits about a variety of animals. My husband and I read passages to each other.
Did you know that if a mole goes without a meal for eight hours, it dies? Same here!
That a rat can swim seventy-two hours nonstop?
This is the passage I read last night:
"Although spiders are surrounded by fear and superstition, humans do sometimes eat them. The Piaroa people of Venezuela consider the world's largest spider, the goliath bird-eating tarantula (Theraphosa leblondi) a delicacy. Roasted, they yield a quarter-pound of prawnlike white meat and are served with fangs on the side as toothpicks."
Unrelated post: I liked your book very much. Did you ever see the movie "Beautiful Girls" (1996). It's sort of Willie (Timothy Hutton) playing a male version of Lilian. The dialog is as good as your (which is excellent), but totally from the male point of view. I would love a compare and contrast question..."Beautiful girls are hope..."
Posted by: Tom | August 25, 2008 at 07:46 PM