title: The Mincing Mockingbird: Guide to Troubled Birds
author: Matt Adrian
description: This book will have you doubled over with laughter.Its so much fun.Marney Rich Keenan, <i>The Detroit News</i><br /><br />For too long we have enjoyed our assumed power over the birds, reducing them to fetish objects of voyeuristic desire. Binoculars in hand, we stalk them in the forest, ignorant of the fact that<i>they are stalking us</i>. The Mincing Mockingbirds new book documents the dangers we face. The bird rebellion has begun.<i>Paste </i>Magazine
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  # The Perfect Friend
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Lorna Dounaeva
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](part0002.html#1T140-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Saturday](part0003.html#2RHM0-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Book Signing](part0004.html#3Q280-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Sunday](part0005.html#4OIQ0-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Captor and the
  Captive](part0006.html#5N3C0-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Pigeons of Portobello
  Market](part0007.html#6LJU0-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Jug](part0008.html#7K4G0-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Relish](part0009.html#8IL20-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Cut](part0010.html#9H5K0-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Muse](part0011.html#AFM60-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Waiting](part0012.html#BE6O0-e54f191b1d6b44a9896ac8f5c7199207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Inspiration](part0013.html#