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kind of feeling the urge to change careers. 😂 I haven't been this distraught and angry about the way American culture treats our land ever.

if you are a land developer, civil engineer, environmental designer, builder, or anything related, I am BEGGING you to read this book.

"Ah, the suburbs: that slice of America where we name subdivisions after the trees we've cut down to build them." -A.P.

crying.

This book is HEARTbreaking. I have a good chunk of the book left but feel like I need to read the rest all in one sitting because I am sure it will make me ugly cry and I can't stop in the middle of that.

I absolutely love the way Susanna Clarke writes (I loved Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell just as much) and her characters have so much depth.

"Robert Jastrow.....talks about the astronomers, after all their questions, struggling up to a mountain peak, and finding the theologians already there." pg 92

"Robert Jastrow.....talks about the astronomers, after all their questions, struggling up to a mountain peak, and finding the theologians already there." pg 92

One chapter in... and I am already enchanted by this book! What a masterpiece! Other readers have described it as 'dreamlike' which I think is the perfect word. It is surreal and utterly mysterious.
(Also. I never dream anything interesting and rarely remember dreams. But the night after reading the first chapter I had some of the most vivid dreams I've ever had. So bizarre!)