There's some interesting whale stuff in here, but I found it a slog to get through the writing. It's not my style at all, slow and roundabout, weaving between personal anecdote and science information. I just found myself so bored that my mind kept wandering and I decided to stop.

This is a simultaneously soothing and uncomfortable read. While anything to do with whales has a necessary slowness to it seemingly born of their long lifespans and generally large-scale lives, this wandering narrative is punctuated with reminders of how we have negatively affected the environment and the creatures forced to share it with us.