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Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ryan Lee
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July 2011
Art from my book!
Read more of this blog post »Excerpt from my book "The Exodus". books2read.com/b/The-Exodus
"With hardly a glance at its surroundings, the cat moved determinedly towards the dead animal carcass, picked it up in its jaws and with a graceful bound leaped back into the jungle from whence it came, vanishing like an apparition."Chew SY (@blackppardus.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The Exodus
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| Great account of our knowledge of trophic cascades, with the history of research into this, beginning with Robert Paine's landmark star fish experiments and covering various other geographies and systems including John Terborgh's work in the Neotropi ...more | |
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Spirit of the Rainforest: How Indigenous Wisdom and Scientific Curiosity Reconnects Us to the Natural World
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Learnt that the word for snake in Portuguese is 'cobra'. But why would she use a non-English word in the book without qualifying?
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| Badly edited, with many repetitions especially in the glossary sections of the different parts. Somehow the ebook edition that I read was poorly formatted as well, with inconsistent font sizes and lines across text. Other than the superficial, the co ...more | |
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| I am not much of a botanist, and this is definitely a book for plant lovers, a semi travel narrative where the author visits various places in the world and waxes lyrical about the diversity of plant life found at each locale. What piqued my interest ...more | |
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| Thanks to Nina for surfacing this short story of a book. Written from a puma's POV, it is an unbroken stretch of text with no chapters, just short paragraphs narrating the first person (cat) stream of consciousness. Ostensibly inspired by that famous ...more | |
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| So I figured this sort of book format is perfect for reading on smart phones, being pretty much crib notes on the topic that are very short and fit the small screen easily. Key concepts from the theoretical to applied aspects of ecology are covered, ...more | |
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| Concise introductions to major taxa from invertebrates to vertebrates, basic physiological processes, animal behaviour, ecological concepts and conservation issues. Each topic has a three second brief summary statement, and a longer three minute elab ...more | |
"Well that wraps up the 2025 reading year.
As usual, some made up categories, and my favourite book for each, then some statistics, and my list of 5 star books from 2025. Thanks all those who read and comment on my reviews, keeps me motivated to keep w" Read more of this review » |
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| Much ink has already been spilled in books about jaguar conservation and the late great Dr Alan Rabinowitz's pivotal role. In fact, the man wrote a book all about it An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar, which I highly recommend ...more | |
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| Read the English edition. Don't be fooled by the colorful illustrations and picture book format, this book contains very detailed phylogenetic trees for most phyla of life on Earth. It spans the entire history of the planet since its formation, and a ...more | |
“They walked over land once forested for centuries. Farming had destroyed the trees; cities had destroyed the farms; time had destroyed the cities. The land remained, slowly covering its degradation with new plant life.”
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“An indispensable good transported to the far corners of the world, black gold had become the very vector of the industrial vascular network, the blood of human technology.”
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“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up.”
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
Goodreads Singapore
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Live in Singapore? Join us! Apart from talking about books, we have listings for author events, giveaways, and sometimes we even organize a book club ...more
Natural History & Biology
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— last activity Mar 19, 2018 09:39PM
This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of organisms as we explore the biodiversity of the plane ...more
Happy to announce that my book 'The Exodus' is now on wattpad, where the first chapter has been published. Let me know your thoughts and please vote too.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/1770963...
Thank you!