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We're Doomed. Now What?
We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change | Roy Scranton
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An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. Were Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time. Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering changethe breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what? Were Doomed. Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation. Whether writing about sailing through the melting Arctic, preparing for Houstons next big storm, watching Star Wars, or going back to the streets of Baghdad he once patrolled as a soldier, Roy Scranton handles his subjects with the same electric, philosophical, demotic touch that he brought to his groundbreaking New York Times essay, Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene.
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Nothing quite like the current issues shelf in the nonfiction section. So divisive/diverse. Although, I am interested in reading the circled book (tagged).

Or shall I continue my adventures in YA & chick lit? 💗🤔

TBH I‘m quite mentally exhausted from daily news events that I‘m enjoying my mini-break from reality as I avoid following too many stories and reading more novels or historical nonfiction/memoir.

vkois88 YA & Chick Lit all the way. Anything else is way too stressful and bound to raise your blood pressure if you're anything like me 6y
CouronneDhiver Nothing wrong with some “fluffy” books for awhile... I‘m finding myself a bit drained by the news/current events too. 6y
RavenLovelyReads That title catches your attention! 6y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage Balance, babe. Balance. Best not to overdo on reality. (Says the woman who keeps reading about the train wreck...) 6y
TheBookStacker I‘ve been reading a lot of chick lit and YA because it makes me happy in this sad world. I need the fluffy because between my work and the news I‘m drained emotionally. Can‘t even read Murder mysteries because I just need happiness! 6y
mrozzz So true, so true... I love seeing what you‘ve been reading! @BarbaraTheBibliophage I keep buying all the political books but I‘m also setting them allow on my TBR 6y
mrozzz So.... stressful. It‘s unbelievable 😣 @vkois88 I am quite enjoying the nostalgia I feel reading such light women‘s fiction. It makes me feel 16 again! Simpler times. @CouronneDhiver it‘s such a hard balance trying to keep up but not overdo it. 😕 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @mrozzz Thanks. 😍 I bought a couple right after the election that I need to read before they‘re obsolete. I can‘t stooooooooppppp!!!! 6y
mrozzz I feel that 💜 @TheBookStacker I also feel burnt out. It was fun picking out a bunch of chick lit the other day! It‘s been awhile since I “let” myself read anything so light. 6y
mrozzz Such a problem to have right?! @BarbaraTheBibliophage it‘s crazy. I feel like it‘s easier to... encounter those reads on audio so that‘s probably what I‘ll start doing, saving my audible credits for when I‘m ready 😬 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @mrozzz I‘ve definitely listened to a few of them, so I have to agree. Fire and Fury worked at 1.5 speed for me. It just upped the crazy ante. 6y
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