bailedAnother bail. This book is not gonna help me to escape from the reality of our national elections. How can so many people be so stupid and think only of themselves and think fuck the climate, migration, the arts, and sciences? What happened to the country that used to be so social and tolerant? This book is non-fiction with a very high dose of biology and marine science. I need something easier.
TheBookHippie 🎯💯 Sigh 13mo
LeahBergen Sending ❤️❤️❤️ 13mo
TheLudicReader The whole world is cray-cray. 😳 13mo
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Bookwormjillk Yup. What is going on with this world? 13mo
Readerann Hear! Hear! 13mo
LeeRHarry Sad to say that it‘s happening the world over. Hope your next read helps you escape it all for a while 🤞 13mo
Deblovestoread Where do the sane people live? I want to go there! 💜 13mo
MrsMalaprop My current read sure isn‘t helping re the state of the world, but I am strangely really engrossed in it.![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Grapes of Wrath 13mo
Grapes of WrathJas16 I feel your pain. 13mo
BarbaraBB @MrsMalaprop That‘s the kind of book I need! Unfortunately I already read it 😀 13mo
BarbaraBB @LeahBergen @TheLudicReader @Bookwormjillk @Readerann @LeeRHarry @Deblovestoread @Jas16 waking up in another reality (the ultra right victory is even bigger than in the exit polls) but thankful for your support 💕 13mo
batsy I think like this moment is revealing the true horror of the political reality for many of us. Distressing news indeed, coming so soon after Argentina. 13mo
TheLudicReader They are talking about it on the radio here this morning…honestly, what are people thinking? 13mo
CarolynM That‘s awful, Barbara, I‘m so sorry. The drift to the right all around the world is really scary. 13mo
Anna40 I read escape books too. Trying to get into fantasy which I never read but that‘s for me as far away as I can get in an imaginary world … scary times. Are you in Europe? 13mo
BarbaraBB @TheLudicReader It even reached America? Wow. I feel like apologizing to the world but the world won‘t notice. We‘re a tiny country but I used to be so proud of the way we take care of eachother. That‘ll come to an end now I am afraid. 13mo
BarbaraBB @batsy @CarolynM So distressing. Is this really the world we want for future generations? Each for their own, fuck everyone who is in need, here and abroad. 13mo
BarbaraBB @Anna40 I am in Europe indeed. Netherlands. I escape in dystopia (it could always be worse 😉) and thrillers. 13mo
Hooked_on_books I wish I understood better why so many people in the world lately seem to be drifting in that direction. It‘s so disheartening and not at all how I see things. I feel like we would have a better future ahead of us going down the progressive path. It does feel helpless watching things go in what very much feels like the wrong direction. 13mo
Amiable My husband and I love the Netherlands—we visited there in 2016 when our son did a study abroad in Delft and again in 2019. Your election news is disheartening and distressing—as an American who woke up in 2016 to the horrifying reality that Trump was president, I totally feel your angst. As others said, the rightward drift around the world is very scary. To see it happen in a country like the Netherlands makes it even scarier. 13mo
Amiable @Deblovestoread Me too! It feels like the list of “countries I can escape to if things get really bad here” is getting smaller every day. 13mo
BarbaraBB @Amiable Thank you for your support. It is scary indeed. Cities like Delft and Amsterdam (where I live) all voted in majority for center or leftist parties but the differences with the rest of the country seem to widen. 13mo
Amiable @BarbaraBB What about Maastricht? How did that vote? We adored it there and were considering a long-term stay in the city when we retire. As a university town, I‘d hope it would be more open and accepting—is that the case? 13mo
sarahbarnes I hear you and I‘m sorry. Things feel pretty scary on all of those fronts in the US too these days. 😞 13mo
BarbaraBB @Amiable Maastricht is a wonderful city but they voted in majority for Geert Wilders unfortunately. Maastricht is very close to both Belgium and Germany and there is no border control any longer because of the EU but they want the borders closed again to prevent migration. It‘s inhumane. (edited) 13mo
BarbaraBB @Amiable I do think however it would still make a good place for a long-term stay! 13mo
Megabooks The Dutch election even made my tiny Kentucky paper. Sorry I didn‘t reach out. A very disheartening outcome. 💔💔 13mo
BarbaraBB @Megabooks I am sorry it took this shameful election result to reach the O‘s newspaper ☺️ 13mo
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