Life List by Olivia Gentile

This book is written about a woman named Phoebe Snetsinger. Phoebe (appropriately named) studied science in college, got married, had four children, and watched birds. She made a list of all the birds she had seen. Eventually she held the world's record for being the first person to see 8,000 specie. Was Phoebe Snetsinger a great scientist? Or was she a obsessive compulsive nutjob? Was she a good role model for her children? Or did she neglect her husband and children to make her world record? Would we even be asking that last question if she were a male? My opinion is that she was a great scientist and a nut job and a good role model and a neglectful wife and mother. People are complicated. Read the book and decide for yourself who Phoebe Snetsinger was.