Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

I'm setting this aside for now, at 41%. I'm having a lot of trouble with the rambling around looking at nature - I'm getting a lot more out of the stories of how nature behaves, or when she starts talking about the writings of other naturalists, or things that are happening around town. I wanted to like this, because she's writing from the Blue Ridge Mountains, where I used to live and miss it dearly, but Pilgrim is just not connecting with me like I want it to. Maybe I'll try again another time.Like, I was ALL IN on the story about how praying mantis females eat the heads of their (many) mates BEFORE copulation. Like, the male bodies I guess are just programmed to have one task even if their brain matter** is gone? Gives whole new meaning to thinking with one's, um, genitals.

**I don't know if praying mantises have brain matter, or genitals, and I'm not going to look it up.