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Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools by Marni Fylling
4.5
The pictures were excellent and I especially loved learning about the ways these creatures help (or could help) in our lives. Sometimes I wish there was a bit more info, but it was a great starting point!
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
5.0
I’ve never read David Copperfield, but now I really want to. I think Barbara Kingsolver has such a knack for telling stories in such a poetic, real, and humorous way. Loved this one - especially the last couple chapters and the poetry in the ending and growth.
We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope by Steven Charleston
“We are the axis point of apocalypse. The degree to which we participate in the apocalyptic process can tip the scales and determine the outcome. Therefore, our greatest problem is not necessarily the event itself but our reaction to it. Resignation is the challenge….Resignation dulls the mind. Like a narcotic it puts us into an ethical trance and leaves us immobilized in the face of danger. We watch wars come and go, dictators rise and fall, the poor struggle and die, imagining that this is the way it was meant to be, resigning ourselves to the role of spectators to our own demise rather than participants in our shared salvation.”
“The change from individualism to individuality, the finding of unity in diversity, is the vision we seek.”
“The change from individualism to individuality, the finding of unity in diversity, is the vision we seek.”
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
5.0
Recommended from my therapist and really opened my eyes to a lot of things in a very nonjudgmental way.
Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke
funny
informative
reflective
4.5
I didn’t expect to like this book so much, but I found myself wanting to talk to everyone about what I was learning. As others have said, the pacing was off and I felt like it ended abruptly. I definitely wanted more!
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor by Mark Schatzker
informative
1.5
I was really confused about this book. I finished it because by the time I realized how elitist and fat phobic the author was I found myself thinking again and again about the premise and the information about flavor that I was encountering everywhere in my life.
While the content was fascinating, the author actually felt like the worst person - early in the book it made comments about his moral superiority to people who eat the foods he was disparaging, he got the university of the professor in the book wrong, and kept describing something for way too long to then suddenly reveal the thing he was talking about like it was some sort of genius literary technique.
By the end of the book, he discussed possible solutions to the issue, but really they were: I know it’s expensive, but your body is worth it. Never mind that we live in a capitalist hellscape where plenty of people already can’t afford the necessary food for their families. It was a huge disappointment, though not at all surprising coming from this ego centric man.
I just so badly wished someone else wrote this book. Let me know if they did. ;)
While the content was fascinating, the author actually felt like the worst person - early in the book it made comments about his moral superiority to people who eat the foods he was disparaging, he got the university of the professor in the book wrong, and kept describing something for way too long to then suddenly reveal the thing he was talking about like it was some sort of genius literary technique.
By the end of the book, he discussed possible solutions to the issue, but really they were: I know it’s expensive, but your body is worth it. Never mind that we live in a capitalist hellscape where plenty of people already can’t afford the necessary food for their families. It was a huge disappointment, though not at all surprising coming from this ego centric man.
I just so badly wished someone else wrote this book. Let me know if they did. ;)
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild by Thomas D. Seeley
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.
Just felt really technical. Maybe later. But for now I’ll keep it as something to fall asleep to!
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
3.5
So many thoughts about this book. I have a couple friends to recommended it, and I ended up listening to an audiobook. It was really interesting and an interesting concept to wake up and not know about your life. But I had a hard time suspending disbelief. Like why weren't they more concerned about her memory loss, why did they just let her go, and most importantly how did she get it back in the end? It made me wish I had asked my high school French teacher more questions about his brain injury.
I really hated the back and forth at the end because I was so mad with one of the outcomes. But it felt like it got tied up a little too neatly.
I thought what would have been a more compelling story than "what if you wake up and realize you have been a bitch for the last 10 years?" would be "what if you wake up and realize your life is better than you could have imagined 10 years ago?"
I really hated the back and forth at the end because I was so mad with one of the outcomes. But it felt like it got tied up a little too neatly.
I thought what would have been a more compelling story than "what if you wake up and realize you have been a bitch for the last 10 years?" would be "what if you wake up and realize your life is better than you could have imagined 10 years ago?"
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
3.5
Not as lovely as I feel like I was lead to believe. The message was good and the characters had some very funny moments. But it felt predictable and familiar.