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book club with Kyle part 1

it's good, it's cringe, it's well-cited and it started me on another spiral of a journey

read chapter 33 of this while working through what books to bring to TX to visit for the first time in 8 years (!!!!!!!!!!!) girl, what. she is so for real. anyway, i will be reading this

Taking a Goodreads break, but I commend to you this book!!!!

Well, the ones who walk away from Omelas has appeared before me again and i'm going in!!!!

I'm freakin out, this is soooooo good. The title is a little misleading. Y'all go ahead and read this! Least fearmongering book about the apocalypse I'm ever read. Be not afraid :p

almost done and im back on the library waitlist 🔑

send help

This is going to take me most of the rest of the year to finish because I'm reading it with the moon cycles, but I wanna say that I am loving it and the various references and the bibliography has been interesting and helpful to me.

Harrowing so far, NGL. A couple of former co-workers recommended this one, and I felt like it was the one that spoke the most to me, so I'm gonna do it. I do feel called to step up my SciFi game. COP29 just happened last year, where "The Ministry for the Future" was created, within the book. Needless to say, the real COP29 created no such thing. 🫣

"On a planet with 300 million species and 7 billion humans, one man determining the future is a dangerous idea. It is dangerous for the Earth, because the anthropocentric, reductionist, and mechanistic assumptions by which [Bill] Gates is guided are at the root of the ecological crisis that has brought us to the brink."