All About Books discussion

Week One's book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. This was first published in 2014.

Here's a link to a review of the book.
http://gu.com/p/3mk28?CMP=Share_iOSAp...

Unfortunately I'm having problems sorting out today's Observer article on my iPod. I'll keep trying, if anyone else can post a link to it that would be great!

I coudn't find it Gill, did you? I will check again tomorrow.

OK so here is the link to the article: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016...

an interesting quote from the opening page:
“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfilment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.” (EO Wilson)

Thanks, Jenny. I think it must be in the newspaper each Sunday, and online each Monday. I'll have a read of this.

Jenny wrote: "OK so here is the link to the article: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016...

an interesting quote from the openi..."

It sounds like an interesting book but all I can think of at the moment is the somewhat silly film Kingsman in which Samuel L. Jackson played a villain who had a similar theory.

Leslie wrote: "Jenny wrote: "OK so here is the link to the article: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016...

an interesting quote ..."

LOL

I remember hearing about this and thinking that it seemed interesting. Might have to look for a copy, but I feel like I'm drowning under my tbr right now!

Pink wrote: "I remember hearing about this and thinking that it seemed interesting. Might have to look for a copy, but I feel like I'm drowning under my tbr right now!"

I know that feeling!

Leslie wrote: "Pink wrote: "I remember hearing about this and thinking that it seemed interesting. Might have to look for a copy, but I feel like I'm drowning under my tbr right now!"

I know that feeling!"

Most of us do!
I can't say I've heard of it before; it sounds interesting though

This one is sitting on my TBR list as well. When it first came out, the library queue for reserving it was long. I haven't checked in awhile. It sounds like a very interesting book.

I finished this yesterday and found it fascinating. I will say that I preferred the start of the book, which looked more at the history of fossil discoveries and palaeontology. I found it started to drift a bit in the second half, with more tales of specific endangered animals, which were still interesting, but less cohesive as a whole.

That sounds good, then, Pink. I don't think I'm going to add it to my to-read list at present, I just want to get through some more of the books on the list first of all.

I know that feeling Gill, I'm trying to keep up with Ulysses at the moment and other group reads. Plus I have a bunch of library books to get through, but that didn't stop me just reserving another 3 books from this list!

Oh I've read this.... Last year... Umm ... No can't recall a lot about it now.... That's worrying.... I think I'm heading for the extinction list....