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A subtle spiritual message underpins this book’s complex of themes and more overt calls to environmental awareness and action — to “make a difference in the world.” The theme is along the lines of, We take one walk through this existence. Don’t miss a second, make the most of it: a moral that keeps returning as a kind of tacit mantra.

Semi-autobiographical protagonist Ellowyn (Ellie) expresses it most directly in a realization about the stunning, multifaceted, but generally undervalued, spectacle of birds: “What a crime of life, to miss these precious things of nature!”

In the beginning, Ellie is twenty-six, living an uninspiring domestic life in a small town near Detroit, Michigan, with Eddie, her husband of six years. One of life’s sleepwalkers, he doesn’t seem to care too much about Ellie, or anything much else apart from his job, the state of his hamburger, getting stoned, and what’s on the TV. He barely notices the divorce go through.

An epiphanic birdwatching experience startles Ellie from her post-divorce haze into an appreciation of nature, but bewilders her long-time girlfriend Patty. Patty coins her nickname “Birdbrain” because of her newfound obsession with binoculars and birds.

The two characters are almost a “Thelma and Louise”-like combination, with their wisecracking, sometimes cynical take on aspects of Midwestern life: ”Patty was (predictably) sh[--]-faced, dancing next to the jukebox, cramming it full of quarters.”

Infectious, earthy writing, a highlight of Arthur’s style, prevents it from becoming preachy: “Wow. What a happy little bird,” Patty said drolly. “I think I’ll kill it.”

Poetic gems sparkle throughout. It’s easy to pick up a few at random:

“The little yellow flash of life [a yellow warbler] gracefully maneuvered through the weeping willows.”

“She spotted a cardinal and watched it fly towards a blue jay, flushing it away.”

“… where the goofy grackles waddled between the shopping carts.”

“A flock of finches streamed by the window flying in that body-surfing way they have, riding up and down on a wave of air.”

Casual everyday observations are convincing and often very funny, in a way that spices the gravity of the central themes. Who doesn’t like a touch of black humor?:

“I can f[---]n’ drive.” Redneck #2 said. “I ain’t had that much …” “F[---]er, you had a whole bottle of Tequila!” “Yea, two hours ago.”

The structure is quite loose and spontaneous, intensifying the drama of individual scenes while drawing us along the several strands of Ellie’s education and life-development as a feminist-influenced ecological activist and fully formed human being. You feel you really get to know the likable, and indeed admirable and accomplished, Ellie/Arthur.

Moving to San Diego she encounters first-hand the ravages of capitalist development, its devastating impact upon the environment. She organizes teams of volunteers to rescue flora and fauna from the path of the bulldozers, a scene of high drama.

My favorite scenes, however, come later, her Castaneda-like encounters with shape shifting “spirits” in the Mojave Desert and again at a place called Vedauwoo on the high plains in Wyoming, during a meandering journey home across the southwestern desert country.

I enjoyed this book. I found it most entertaining, and it heightened my sense of my own belongingness in nature. That’s part of the beauty and significance of birds, too, as Arthur implies, their “wake-up call” to the urgency of acting to protect the environment.


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Birdbrain Go Ahead Love Your Planet Just Not Too Much edition by Virginia Arthur Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

What I liked about this story was that the journey was the destination, which continually evolved. The beginning is always slow but once launched the story soared like an eagle, allowing the reader a beautiful view of the surrounding world, our world. And the idea that change was still in the works, still happening. One person at a time.
So many people live with the land in a developed state--their subdivisions built out, their parking lots all over, but the generation before watched all this happen and it broke their hearts. Don't forget that under the asphalt...this book reminds us that there is, was, life under the asphalt and how the generations that lived with this still live with the heartbreak today. This book is about one young woman's heartbreak watching this and how it transformed her into her old age. It's a fun read but also bittersweet and you close the book changed.
Birdbrain is a book with important messages about the joys, costs, and heartbreak of finding and owning one’s own true self, and of discovering the mystical, unspeakable wonder of Earth and our human-imperiled biosphere (the well-spring of all life, and our one and only home).
Ellie, the book’s protagonist, experiences a dawning awareness that her life as a taken-for-granted appendage of her husband is virtually empty and she begins to long for more—to want a life that has joy and purpose. Just as she’s deciding to leave her marriage, she begins to notice, and then become passionate about, wild birds. Thus, her journey toward personal independence and an unfolding consciousness about the natural world begins.
As her marriage falls apart, Ellie has her life-long friend, Patty, and her mom to depend on, but they don’t always agree with the decisions she makes. She vacillates about her decision to leave her husband, and soon learns that a passion to appreciate and preserve the wonders of the Earth is often as much a curse as a gift when she begins to comprehend the way humans swarm, commodify, degrade, and often destroy the natural world she loves.
Ellie spends a great many pages of this 500 page book angry, confused, and in despair. The prose is rambling, and the language is often unnecessarily rough. That said, there is plenty to appreciate—descriptions of the landscapes in Michigan, California, Oregon and Wyoming are immediate and sometimes poetic ( i.e. “the smoky blue-green odor of sage,” will stay with me for a long time), and Virginia Arthur’s command of the information she imparts about the environment and the challenge of preserving life on earth is spot-on.
A subtle spiritual message underpins this book’s complex of themes and more overt calls to environmental awareness and action — to “make a difference in the world.” The theme is along the lines of, We take one walk through this existence. Don’t miss a second, make the most of it a moral that keeps returning as a kind of tacit mantra.

Semi-autobiographical protagonist Ellowyn (Ellie) expresses it most directly in a realization about the stunning, multifaceted, but generally undervalued, spectacle of birds “What a crime of life, to miss these precious things of nature!”

In the beginning, Ellie is twenty-six, living an uninspiring domestic life in a small town near Detroit, Michigan, with Eddie, her husband of six years. One of life’s sleepwalkers, he doesn’t seem to care too much about Ellie, or anything much else apart from his job, the state of his hamburger, getting stoned, and what’s on the TV. He barely notices the divorce go through.

An epiphanic birdwatching experience startles Ellie from her post-divorce haze into an appreciation of nature, but bewilders her long-time girlfriend Patty. Patty coins her nickname “Birdbrain” because of her newfound obsession with binoculars and birds.

The two characters are almost a “Thelma and Louise”-like combination, with their wisecracking, sometimes cynical take on aspects of Midwestern life ”Patty was (predictably) sh[--]-faced, dancing next to the jukebox, cramming it full of quarters.”

Infectious, earthy writing, a highlight of Arthur’s style, prevents it from becoming preachy “Wow. What a happy little bird,” Patty said drolly. “I think I’ll kill it.”

Poetic gems sparkle throughout. It’s easy to pick up a few at random

“The little yellow flash of life [a yellow warbler] gracefully maneuvered through the weeping willows.”

“She spotted a cardinal and watched it fly towards a blue jay, flushing it away.”

“… where the goofy grackles waddled between the shopping carts.”

“A flock of finches streamed by the window flying in that body-surfing way they have, riding up and down on a wave of air.”

Casual everyday observations are convincing and often very funny, in a way that spices the gravity of the central themes. Who doesn’t like a touch of black humor?

“I can f[---]n’ drive.” Redneck #2 said. “I ain’t had that much …” “F[---]er, you had a whole bottle of Tequila!” “Yea, two hours ago.”

The structure is quite loose and spontaneous, intensifying the drama of individual scenes while drawing us along the several strands of Ellie’s education and life-development as a feminist-influenced ecological activist and fully formed human being. You feel you really get to know the likable, and indeed admirable and accomplished, Ellie/Arthur.

Moving to San Diego she encounters first-hand the ravages of capitalist development, its devastating impact upon the environment. She organizes teams of volunteers to rescue flora and fauna from the path of the bulldozers, a scene of high drama.

My favorite scenes, however, come later, her Castaneda-like encounters with shape shifting “spirits” in the Mojave Desert and again at a place called Vedauwoo on the high plains in Wyoming, during a meandering journey home across the southwestern desert country.

I enjoyed this book. I found it most entertaining, and it heightened my sense of my own belongingness in nature. That’s part of the beauty and significance of birds, too, as Arthur implies, their “wake-up call” to the urgency of acting to protect the environment.