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can we tell im trying to zoom past my owned books so i can get some of them donated before i move in the fall

now to read the book i actually bought and didnt realize this was a series lol

no offense but i just cannot get why an author would write a slowburn for a book that doesnt even hit 200 pages because i feel nothing towards the story nor characters

i remember watching fall of the house of usher show when it came out and thought it was ass because its a mike flanagan piece but maybe the actual source itself is also Ass

my bad for the millions of to read updates i was looking at the references lol

"their (passenger pigeons) undoing was their tastiness. native americans ate them but european settlers hunted them on an industrial scale. shot them for sport. destroyed their habitat. (...) from billions to zero in one century." brusatte is making me feel absolutely devastated with this second half of the book man

cant quote the entire bit about dodos, colonization and such but this bit was so.
"I always love scientific mysteries, but these riddles make me sad. Sad because we had the opportunity to learn these things, but did not. Sad because were it not for the excesses of empire and our own ignorance, these birds (...) would still be alive."

wdym i learned theres technically 8 continents instead of 7. also the story of the dodo bird is so much sadder than i realized :((

learning more about dinosaurs this year than i ever have in my life, even as a kid who loved them, i have so much more admiration towards birds now

"it seems impossible but scotland was once subtropical. if i were sitting here 167 million years ago edinburgh would be more like modern day caribbean" and i fear we are going back with this with how bad the heatwaves keep getting

well def wrong about one theory that i had thought about but the other one not so much

finally got it from the library yay

i think i have a theory of whats happening but i could be thinking too deep and it is what it just very plainly says it is

why does she use "beautiful" legitimately at least once almost every chapter. do you not know any other word that could describe what you want to describe

so far this is ehhhhhhhh

shut upppp she named a character after the doctor in ER

was going to read a kingfisher book i bought a while ago but turns out. i have to read a book before that so waiting for the library. so this it is

she didnt but ill be real. if malta died i would feel nothing

if i had a nickel every time someone in their twenties is pursuing/very likely pursuing someone who is 14/15 i would have two nickels by now

ill be real. i dont care about althea x grag x brashen plotline

i think so far, out of the books ive read of hers, this is her best. the only complaint is the serpents povs as each one shares the same sentiment as the epilogue from the first book

good lord do i really really really dislike malta lol

wintrow...i do not know how you havent let your father die cause everytime they talk its just him saying how much he hates his son

the second half of this is naut for the weak

it feels like im taking forever on this 😭