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Minor Deity |
I’ve been reading Richard Powers: The Overstory, Prisoner’s Dilemma, The Time Of Our Singing. All good. J
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Minor Deity |
  And continuing my slow, savoring read of "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer as recommended to me years ago by Bernard.  I don't want it to end, and I go back and reread chapters..She is speaking tomorrow at a Native People's group in Western Mass..I am driving out to see her..Zoom just does not cut it.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
It was last year's selection for the One Book, On Village community read in my town. https://www.ahml.info/node/100011316 And before you ask, no I haven't read it yet... 
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| Minor Deity |
Oh, WTG you don't know what you are missing.... For a taste you can hear her in an old interview..that just warms my heart.. On Being - The Intelligence of Plants I passed my old copy on to a coworker who didn't have books in her budget. She came to me and said..."The Witch Hazel" chapter made her cry...as it did me.. As soon as I got home I read it again. So lovely..all of it... This book just speaks to me... I still have a copy, a new one..It is hardback with embossed cover, wonderul paper...and a ribbon to keep my place.
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
I took time off in May/June to have 2 cataract surgeries (and the new lens implants eliminated my myopia!). So I spent a lot of time reading on my Kindle. The Matthew Shardlake Tudor mysteries by C.J. Sansom Daisy Jones and the Six (fictional rockumentary about a 70’s band and their breakup) by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Loved it! I love music talk. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles Matrix by Lauren Groff (loved this middle ages nunnery tale) Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (someone on this board recommended it. Loved it.)
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| Minor Deity |
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Me too, JF.
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Jodi| knitterati Beatification Candidate |
Oh, yes, me too! I read it twice. Once for whodunnit. Then again to see how it was crafted.
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| Minor Deity |
For those Robin Wall Kimmerer fans, this talk was amazing..I went in person surrounded by Native Peoples... Her teachings will inform our work at my org as we partner to buy land for a conservation/farm project. You can see the recording HERE.
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Minor Deity |
Thanks, y'all. 
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| Minor Deity |
Just finished a tiny gem. It was on the staff pick in a tiny bookstore in Colorado..I loved the tiny, hard back size but the writing was even better..I have ordered the sequel and sent the first to my 93 year old Mom.   And skimming this...Ironically a few days ago, I ran across a line or two that mentioned CT still had school loans at the time of his nomination to the Supreme Court...Huh.. 
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate |
I just inhaled Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond. It was fascinating, like Tara Westover’s Educated.
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| Unrepentant Dork Gadfly  |
I just finished Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language by Arika Okrent https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55332395 It was fascinating and her writing style was really enjoyable. I listened to it on Audible. It’s read by the author and she did an excellent job.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
A friend who just retired from Harvard Business School recommended a different book by Arthur Brooks; they worked together on some classes, I think. When I looked at the list of books written by Brooks I decided to read this one first.  So far, so good...
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| Minor Deity |
LOVED "Educated"..I read it continously over a weekend..so this is going on my list!!!
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