fossilcore's Reviews (21)

Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot

Peter Crane

4.0

informative reflective slow-paced

Hunting Monsters

Darren Naish

3.5

informative mysterious fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

4.5

informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

Author does not condone any of these things, they are mentioned because they are relevant to to theme and are present in everyday lifes of us and our ancestors

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.0

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.0

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, War

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Death, Slavery, Cannibalism, Colonisation

Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

Helen Gordon

4.0

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

Europe: A Natural History

Tim Flannery

4.0

adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Colonisation

Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World

Michael J. Benton

4.5

informative fast-paced

A History of Plants in 50 Fossils

Paul Kenrick

4.5

informative fast-paced

Infinite Life

Jules Howard

4.25

adventurous informative medium-paced