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It's guys like this that kept from joining audubon for years

I knew it was coming it was kind of obvious, but still, fuck you and your outdoor cats too. Way to treat nature lovers.

aughh! Living across from a nature preserve and letting cats roam outdoors?!

Pretty sure this author has never been fat, because cords are absolutely worse than jeans when you're fat. They wuff wuff wuff

Whisper reminds me of Mr. Pump.

Seriously? Haunted house for days on end and it doesn't occur that the ghost lived or died there?

I think the biggest issue besides the proofreading is the first person perspective. It doesn't sound like a kid. A limited omniscient narrator wouldn't have to sound accurately tweenish.

Wait. 15 minutes in, 'I didn't even brush my teeth last night, then last night when I brushed my teeth'

Besides the narrator being annoying, this isn't feeling promising.

So slow. And does Klune realize there are other shades of blue than cerulean?

I'm finding this slow, and repetitive. Even though Wallace is an absolute asshole, the others are coming off as annoyingly sanctimonious.

Oh charming, make the asshole unreligious. We don't cause most of the problems in the world.

I'm way the hell too much of a wimp for this anthology!

Ah, this feels more like the first few in the series that I loved. Hoping it continues.

Another one where I'm so not the target audience but I'm trying because it was up for so many awards. Just, between waiting for the hold again and not being a sports fan I'm finding it slow going.

OMG thus far I love them all.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! We're getting to see Learned Edmund again!

omg the entire natural history museum bit is an absolute delight

I'm not sure if I can finish this. I want to punch cameron so badly

ARGHHH, Mary!

how badass does fossil-witch sound?!

Okay, as someone who regularly wear ammonite pendants I've made, I'm already invested in reliqs!

Oh of course the two beautiful female scientists don't get along.

Fuck you, the judgement on a female scientist being 'overweight and dowdy'

Okay, using the columbus metaphor, calling her isabella, and using native lands. This better turn a whole bunch or I'm gonna be pissed.

I'm a little skeptical of how much trust to put in his facts. There seems to be a definite christian bias in the use of BC instead of BCE and reliance on the bible's events as fact and biblical archaeology for chronology. Plus quoting Fox news.

I'm still going since he seems to also piss off a number of conservatives, so maybe it gets better?

I'm not getting all the rave reviews. I keep pushing through to see where they're coming from. Or is that the point, that we're all just pushing through?

I'm not getting the popularity. A lot about the Grants is fascinating, but a lot of the back and forth to Darwin is incredibly repetitive.

I'm also a little annoyed that in this anniversary edition they didn't correct masked boobies to nazca boobies, as it was decided they were a separate species. And he was so obsessed with looks he also totally misunderstood the remark about Cleopatra's nose.