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I misjudged the subject of this biography right away cause it sounded like the author said he "discarded a life of privilege" to become a colonizer 😭

Picked this up in Goodwill on a whim cause I love Patchett

I'm gonna be down to the wire on this

Believe it or not, I am still regularly making progress on this book I started in APRIL 2025, and it is actually a great book. It's just that this book is also very excellent at putting me to sleep within 5 pages

I finally had a check if this audiobook is narrated by the author, and indeed it it. He is having way too much fun and it's very charming

DNF @ 5% 😭 Libby returned my hold and I'm not going to check it back out. Sorry book club

Gotta get that reread of one of my FAVORITE BOOKS before the movie. If you haven't read it you have 2 months, move!!

This is already so weird. I just did not think it was going to be literal like that

"We just have to decide who our cities are for. And we have to believe that they can change."

"What we want, what we do, and what makes us happy are rarely the same thing."

I can sense that this is going to be my next 6 month read

Started this because I needed something to help me fall asleep

Addicting in an Ender's Game sorta way

Overthrowing the oppressive government dystopias are hitting so different these days y'all

Me 🤝 Another author-narrated audiobook

Most uses of "ungulates" I've ever experienced

Ok, if you make it past the halfway mark, this book evolves into something beautiful and has made me tear up several times now

This book is so bleak it makes me nauseous with every reading stint

This book is everything I always wished nonfiction would be

Amazing book so far but really could have used better editing