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JenniferEgnor
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Pickpick

I think we all think about the end of the world or ourselves, if only briefly, at least once a day. We imagine how it will happen—quick, painful? With warning, time to prepare and make final rounds? We consume film, literature, and headlines that talk about it—because we love it. We think we will get the time off from work, lose our worries, lose our financial debts, our jury duties. If we lose these things, will we also lose our sense of⬇️

JenniferEgnor self? If we survive, will we retain our humanity? Humans have been obsessed with this ‘great escape‘ for as long as we have existed. Our oldest myths tell us that. We fantasize about the end—but when it comes, will we actually be ready for it? Will we accept it? What if it isn‘t the kind of end that we want? What makes one more terrible than another? With all we have done and continue to do to each other, do we deserve to go on existing? 2w
JenniferEgnor Each chapter discusses a different way we think our doom will arrive, using art, literature, film, history, modern events. The world seems an uneasy place these days, with sociopaths in the halls of power. The real question is, what will we choose to do with what we have? 2w
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Eggs
The Road | Cormac McCarthy
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”

2007 #PulitzerWinner

#Bibliophile

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks That‘s true!! 3w
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JenniferEgnor
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A conversation with the author about his latest book.

Link to listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-club/id1158913265?i=1000652169412

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totefairie
Good Omens | Neil Gaiman
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Sharpeipup
Good Omens | Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
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My Sunday.

Tamra Love it! 1mo
wanderinglynn How lovely! 1mo
MemoirsForMe 😍🙌🏻 1mo
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Imagen_leigh
Grasshopper Jungle | Andrew Smith
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Bailedbailed

woah, eww, and what did I just read? I think I liked it? Everything that is happening in this book is confusing. I honestly have no idea who this book would be appealing to. It is vulgar and vile, but also hilarious. The explicit language and constant mentioning of being horny because of so many different things was just too much for me. The sci-fic aspect was the coolest part with giant grasshoppper/praying mantis-type bugs taking over the world.

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Chelsea.Poole
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Pickpick

“Everybody dies, everything ends—but not now. Not now.”

This book covers the end of the world as we know it, or at least the end of humanity, and how that may come to pass. Chapters feature ways we‘ll go out like pandemics, nuclear weapons, climate change, overpopulation, war, cosmic events and more. Far from depressing, this was a fun look at the way humans have thought about the end of times over many years, through books, movies, etc.

AmyG Sounds fun 😳🤣 2mo
JenniferEgnor I was thinking about checking out this book when I saw it… 2mo
Chelsea.Poole @amyg ok, maybe the “fun” in my review wasn‘t the right word 😂 2mo
Gissy Sounds so interesting 👍Stacked! 2mo
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MarshmallowAdventures
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I finally found the motivation to begin my reading journey for the year in this delightfully unexpected little book. The writing style was unique and it truly felt like a relic from another world plagued by a terrible calamity. The themes of disease and the struggle to determine cause and cure are accentuated by the brutal imagery of the zombies being autopsied while still “alive.“

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Eggs
The Road | Cormac McCarthy
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“You have my whole heart. You always did.”

A terrifying journey through an earth that promises a world of ash, fire and danger, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. To me, a classic

#LoveOnTheRoad #FeelinTheLove

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 📚🙌🏻 3mo
AnnCrystal 👏😢👍📚💝. 3mo
quietlycuriouskate I want to read this but part of me fears it'll feel like a primer for things to come. 🥺 3mo
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Eggs @quietlycuriouskate But remember that grave challenges call out the strength and hope in our souls and allows us to care for those we love 3mo
Eggs @AnnCrystal 🙏🏻🥰 3mo
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SconsinBookyBadger
Good Omens (Revised) | Terry Pratchett, Terence David John Pratchett
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I did not participate in the Good Omens kickstarter campaign as I wasn‘t aware of it until around the time the accusations against NG became public. If there are any littens who have contributed to the campaign, Terry Pratchett Estate posted an update that NG will not be receiving any proceeds.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens/posts/4302179