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My first book from my Christmas book haul!

Loved this book! It was funny and eye-opening, describing species that are near extinction and the heroic efforts to save them.

While visiting the Museum of Natural History in Oxford a couple of days ago, I saw an exhibit on the kakapo, one of the animals featured in the book!

I‘m finishing off the #20in4 readathon at 8 hours and 15 minutes. Thanks @Andrew65 for hosting!

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#192025 #1990 @Librarybelle

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 179.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

#QuotsyMay21 Day 17: #Endangered

This was witty but also heart breaking. An enjoyable listen.

“I‘ve never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I‘ve seen a few and they‘re never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you‘re in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.”

#QuotsyJuly20 Day 22: #Tropical

#hiselderliness #bookreport #weeklyforecast

This week the elderly father thoroughly enjoyed Last Chance to See but bailed on A Woman of No Importance. “I just couldn‘t get interested in it” says he “so I thought why bother?”
Fair enough. Onto his TBR goes a sailing book & a memoir of Ali by Michael Parkinson. MP may not be known to US Littens but he is one of the best interviewers of all time 🙌
Also one very posey beautiful Diabolical Cat 😸

#ReallyRandomFebrary I can‘t believe this is the only Douglas Adams book I have read. I have Hitchhiker on my shelf enticing me to read it but I have just not gotten there yet #somanybooks! This is a great read about several species of animals in #danger of going extinct. Interesting and humorous and sad all at the same time. Great read.

I really like the way Douglas Adams tells stories. And I like animals. So this book was good.

#7days7covers #covercrush

On sale in US ebook stores. Although it's unspeakably sad in many ways, it is still one of my favorite books.
And yes, THAT Douglas Adams.
#Kindledeal

LAST CHANCE TO SEE, written by Douglas Adams (yes, THAT Douglas Adams!) and Mark Carwardine, is about the adventures they went on around the world to locate and actually see some of the rarest animals and plants. They took these trips in the mid- to late 1980s and the book was published in 1990.
With Adams at the helm the book had to be humorous and it certainly is.

Another one of those situations that fundamentally Bothers Me. Tacky AF dust jacket over a very beautiful book. Argh.

We hear about conservation efforts all the time, but rarely do we look deeper into what that entails. This was a great look into some of the adventures Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine went on to catch a glimpse of a few of the worlds endangered species. Although it was written in the 80‘s, it still felt relevant and now I want to google the animals discussed to see how they are fairing in 2018! I also want to get ahold of the BBC series. 💖

“I thought to myself that the words `endangered species‘ had become a phrase that had lost any vivid meaning. We hear it too often to be able to react to it afresh.” 😥

I may have over indulged at the #texasbookfestival but I don‘t really have any regrets. One book from a local small indie press, 3 from a somewhat local indie press that specializes in translated works, and a cute bookish tee shirt. 😃 tagged book is one I got for free for volunteering (how awesome is that?!?) #bookhaul #txbookfest #bookishtees

#GIVEAWAYREALTALK I just finished this book yesterday and loved it! 🦎 🦍🦏🐬🦇

This book is still relevant, if not more so, in 2017. Things have more than likely drastically changed since this was written, but it still holds. It discusses how humans can profoundly affect the world around us. It approaches the subject of tourism pragmatically and also shows how just a little bit of information and respectful cooperation can better our understanding in a short amount of time. Great read for everyone. ❤️

"...the most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making."

I have a huge confession: I haven't read since before our big move on June 3rd. Between packing and moving and unpacking and having morning sickness and trying to settle into a new Army town while visiting family... it has been hectic. But, this book got me out of my reading slump ❤️ I love the whole visible section, but especially what is quoted. ?

In this book, Douglas Adams and the zoologist Mark Carwardine go around the world in search of exotic, endangered animals. It's been on my TBR for a looong time... I need to fix this soon. #BeastsGiveawayChallenge @ruthemmielang

Thoroughly delightful. Part science book and part travel journal, delivered in Adams' quirky, distinctive style. Laugh-out-loud funny and thought provoking in turn.

"I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually about lunchtime."

"If you took the whole of Norway, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world, and filled it with birds, then you'd be wasting your time, because it looks very much as if someone has already done it." Douglas Adams on New Zealand's Fiordland

"I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of teaching them language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest that we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? ... I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, but that we have lost one"

My "book about nature" pick for #readjanuary. I enjoy photo sections in books, and this one, with captions by Douglas Adams, does not disappoint.

Quality time with #Coale in the studio's reading nook on this frosty, blustery November night in the mountains 😊🍵🐱📚 #catsofLitsy

#BookNDinner! When you're bummed that you don't get to dine with your sweetheart... 👑White Castle! 👑

#BookNDinner! Accompaniment this evening: rotisserie lemon-pepper chicken (mostly dark meat, that's how I roll), yellow rice with sautéed spinach, and a cold bottle of Guinness Draught. MMMmmm ?!!! This has been another presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen! Happy reads & happy eats! ???

😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Love his plays on words.

#signedsundays Here's an oldie but a goodie. I've never met him, but Douglas Adams touched this book! 🙀 And it's a really good book too.👍

'Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things.Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. That's the answer. I've had enough of telling people all the time.'

Repost from Saturday - my husband plays on our church's softball league. Naturally I've learned to always bring a book for downtime 😂