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Absolutely fascinating. From the people who wrote the famous book on the movements of the Mississippi River. How come we started imagining land and water divided by clear stable lines on the Earth’s surface?? Marx and Weber wrote of the great Asiatic waterworks as the foundation of civilization. But what of all the instances when this separation is blurred or constantly moving?

The three last stories have all been amazing. Futuristic but not. Other worlds so close but yet so other, fiction that is too true for reality. I love the woman becoming wolf. This is a future I would love. Not so far from Donna Haraway’s Camille stories. Science fiction but that could make us live better. Now only two a bit longer stories left. 💜

Some of these stories are hilarious 😊

Keep thinking about Empusion. Such an amazing book. Think that and Die Wand would be my two novels to take with me to retreat forever in the Alps one day. Are there other magical Alpine books by angry women out there?? I think I need to compile a list.

Great story of the green children 💚 This writer has a wonderful sense of forest

The Timothy Mitchell article is amazing. Must read his new book.

Ah! I now have to give this one back to the library. Ordered it to buy. Won’t give up on this even if the science is hard!!

I’ve just started this book with the beautiful front cover and my shoulders relax and I think “woah!! This is going to be a good ride”….

Love being in this mysterious world of biochemistry. Feels like being on this grand discovery of ancient worlds which are us.

Totally fascinating and well written

Totally fascinating and well written

Cannot believe I didn’t remember anything fr reading this book. Did I really read it?? It is the most gripping terrible novel I’ve read in years. It is a total mystery if I’ve read this book before and couldn’t remember everything. I am totally puzzled. And totally engrossed in this story…

Woah, this book!!! 🌟🧡

It is so strange reading this book. I am supposed to have read it a long time ago but can’t remember anything! But reading makes me remember being in Freetown. Was a very special experience. First time travelling to a place with bedbugs, heat and not functioning toilets in a very long time. I remember the first night in the YMCA thinking ‘I am too old for this now’ 😂🧡🌟

I started reading this book again 15 years later. I don’t remember much but already now I am looking through photos of Freetown and trying to remember my visits to Sierra Leone. Looking forward to living in this book for a while. It’s hot. Dusty. Lizards that turn blue.

Wonder if I will ever travel to Africa again….

Argh - had to return this to the library before really starting it. To be continued…

Love how the animals connect the humans in this book. Love Forna’s precision. Love seeing both a London I know and don’t know at all - which in fact could have been other big cities elsewhere as well, I believe. The fox living in a vent at the National Theatre, I wonder if it could be true. Wonder if I’ve ever been on Old Kent Road in this city of so many neighborhoods….

This book is amazing. I am learning connections between hydrothermal vents (what I didn’t know what was!), fermentation and anaerob photosynthesis (that I know some practical stuff about) and cancer cells!!!
A tour de force of a lot of acids and enzymes and carbon varieties I don’t really understand. But I am still getting the general patterns. Wow.