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I've definitely learned what are a few of my icks reading this by now.

I am pretty sure I'm legally obligated to enjoy a science book that makes a casual Blade Runner reference.

Reading this in bite size chunks was definitely a good choice, there is already surprisingly much repetition in these stories. Not really that surprising, I guess.

The things you learn in this book... about ducks and hyenas and spiders. Some I knew, some I did not.

I've got a few chuckles out of this. Also makes me feel like I should get back into studying Japanese.

I'll finish this book aaaany day now... aaaany day...

I'm still trying to decide if this book makes me feel more depressed or hopeful. I guess the positive just doesn't feel quite realistic with the news we have been bombarded with in the last few years.

I still don't quite understand poetry, but the short stories in this book are mostly very, very good.

I feel like watching the news right now proves genocide is still doing a lot better than I'd hope based on this book... we're really going backwards again, aren't we.

Reading this books reminds me how little I actually know/remember about history. But I guess I'm getting a nice refresher on some things while reading.

Reading this books reminds me how little I actually know/remember about history. But I guess I'm getting a nice refresher on some things while reading.

Reached the story I bought this book for, originally, all those years ago.

Literacy is important! Even the big smart man agrees!

Not sure if you know this but humans are scary and horrible.

I love the way this is written but it is becoming more and more painful to read every page due to the subject matter.

I'm already realising I barely remember the first stories based on their names... despite liking quite a few of them, too.

I have craved coffee, tea and chocolate more than normal, reading these last parts of the book...

Quite interesting stuff, makes me really think what I actually eat and why we, in general, eat what we do, and why in some things we prefer variety (for example different kinds of apples in a shop) and in others it does not seem to matter (one kind of banana seems to be the norm).

Not sure I agree with the author's way of going all "the actual term would be this, but I prefer this / I don't trust my reader to be smart enough to deal with the actual scientific term", but otherwise an interesting book thus far.

This is making my brain hurt. But in a good way.

I feel like per every few pages of the "actual" book there's a page of footnotes to check. And they're mostly super interesting, too.

Green is a good writer, but I think I prefer his novels.

I've googled so many Latin names while reading this. And turns out most of them are no longer used, so not sure all of this googling has been all that useful. But still interesting!

Morning brain made me delete this book from my currently reading shelf completely. Going strong.