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Overdue at the library but hope to check it out again and finish it!

52 minutes of audiobook left and if he's not getting gone girl'd right now I'm gonna be pissed

Wish I could keep reading but have to wait until book club!

Here's to nourishing imagination and reclaiming attention in 2021. This morning I told myself I wouldn't check my phone at all until noon, and in this tech-free morning I made a delicious breakfast, read a chapter of this book, and did some pen-and-paper writing I'd been meaning to get to for a while. I can see this book inspiring some big personal lifestyle changes for me.

"Hip-hop had described the poverty in the ghetto and painted pictures of violence and thug life, but I was interested in something a little different: the interior space of a young kid's head ... To tell the story of the kid with the gun without telling the story of why he has it is to tell a kind of lie." (p. 17)

Thought's on the chapter "The Time Machine": Wilson's invocation of the reader's imagination to describe the multiple physical and temporal scales of biological organization and the emergent properties that link them is nothing short of brilliant. The way he then effortlessly weaves these concepts into a historical narrative about scientific and social discourse is worthy of a Pulitzer.