BirderMame

Entertainingly written exploration of ghosts, ectoplasm, mediums, and other paranormal phenomena. Roach, a thorough skeptic about all these, has a droll style of writing, but reader Bernadette Quigley's attempt to emphasize the drollness is exceedingly annoying, with sudden hushes to whisper volume, portentous pauses and shifts in tone, arch intonations, and the very bad accents another reviewer has mentioned. The performance was almost bad enough for me to ditch the whole book, but I persevered.

This book is one of the few that I feel I need to talk about and recommend to everybody I encounter. It offers valuable insights about the world's urgent water crises and people's relationship to water, beginning with broad overview of water's chemical properties and history and moving on to detailed descriptions of the wide variety of experience in places ranging from Las Vegas and Atlanta to India (several different cities) and Australia (several different locales).

The performance is intelligent and clear. I strongly recommend this book.

This book is so well acted/read that I can't imagine that it would leap off the page in print form half so well. Michael Friedman as the voice of Jack is outstanding. The author has imagined so well the remarkable character of the brave, resourceful and ingenious Ma and her precocious and utterly believable five-year-old son. Highly recommended.