This was the Boneshaker Science Book Club selection for
November, and it was a hit: we sold less than half of the books I ordered, the
meeting room was double-booked for the discussion time, and only one person
showed up for the discussion, which was held in the kids area. Killin’ it! That
said, A Primate’s Memoir is an excellent book. Robert Sapolsky spent much of
his adult life as a baboon researcher in Kenya, and he is a wonderful
storyteller. I learned a lot about primatology, as well as life in Africa.
Spoiler alert – the ending is brutal, but I thought the parts of the book
directly dealing with the baboons were the least interesting part.
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