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coping with stress by binge reading celebrity gossip memoirs…..

lol

grandpa choosing a 1000+ page book for family book club…. i honestly have to respect it.

been reading too much action lately… brain needs to be as smooth as possible rn

rereading 😈

in a big ol’ book era

sexy & scary, just how i like it

picked this up as a bit but now i’m Invested In The Drama

omfg just kill this bitch already

did not expect mention of a megalosaurus within the first few sentences… charles has me on the edge of my seat.

rereading my favorite childhood books for comfort food and having a blast

“We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness...A measure of success in this is all well enough...but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: in wilderness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.” Aldo Leopold

This is a bit weighty at times but does such a fantastic job at showing how alarms re: climate issues, ravaging of nature, colonization, etc. were clearly sounded by contemporaries through America’s past. Starts in the early 1800s at the beginning of the environmental movement in America as people watched the natural world deteriorate. We were warned about the climate crisis SO MANY TIMES.

had a junji ito itch that needed scratching and this was the only one readily available at the library... but cursed cats and self-deprecating humor? not mad about it tbh