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Bookzombie
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This book about how Central Park was created is beautiful and I highly recommend it. I‘m pleased she included the forced removal of residents living where the park was built, even though this is a celebration of the park. The author ends by reminding us that the park was made for all of us.

Finished March 5, 2025.

Bookzombie This book came to my intention when Paul Castle, YouTuber/Tick Tock influencer and children‘s book author, posted about a bookstore owner pulling this book from their shelves and offering refunds to customers because there is tiny illustration of 2 males being married at the park. I‘m not sure I have all the words to express how much this shit angers me. 2d
Bookzombie Also, the book features Emma Stebbins, who sculpted Angel of the Waters, and OMG she was a lesbian (I might be labeling her and apologize if I am.) Emma and her partner, Charlotte Cushman, considered themselves married. 2d
PatriciaU Ugh about the bookstore pulling this. Takes me back to early days in my library career when idiots painted diapers on the naked little boy in Sendaks In the Night Kitchen. Cretins. 2d
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xicanti
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I can see why BETTER LIVING THROUGH BIRDING is so popular! Christian Cooper‘s enthusiasm really shines through. I‘m enjoying it a lot and I want to prioritize his comics the next time I have a Marvel Unlimited subscription.

That said, either the print book has teeny, tiny typeface or I find his prose style very slow. It‘s taking me forever to get through these 296 pages and my progress-to-effort ratio has made me a bit grumpy. #AuldLangSpine2025

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
peanutnine Oh interesting. I did the audiobook so it felt well-paced with him reading it but I'm not sure how it would translate to text 3mo
xicanti @peanutnine I looked up the audiobook‘s runtime, and it‘s exactly what I‘d expect from a book of around 300 pages. Weird. There‘s just something about this guy‘s syntax that means I CANNOT read him at anything like my usual pace, even though he‘s remarkably down to earth for a nature writer (so many of them are hardcore florid) and he‘s got a lot of interesting stuff to say. 🤷‍♀️ 3mo
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ncsufoxes
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Pickpick

Read in 2024. Definitely one of my favorites from last year. I listened to the audio read by the author, which was wonderful & got to hear various birds. Cooper highlighted the incident in Central Park but this book is about so much more. He discussed what led him to birding, his experiences of growing up gay in the 1980‘s, traveling the world to see birds. He interweaved his social justice with the various events throughout his life.

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peanutnine
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Final Nonfiction #ReadingBracket2024
Many great, informative, moving reads this year but this one I read back in January and I still think about it 🐦

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ChaoticMissAdventures
I Have Lost My Way | Gayle Forman
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Pickpick

Foreman is known for her heavy YA stories and this is no exception. I really liked the title and how it tied into the 3 YA characters
The good - she has created 3 very distinct and diverse characters with 3 unique dramas and in the end they fold nicely together
The bad - this is a bit slow to get going with a bit too much focus on each character's backstory right out the gate - lots of flashbacks inside of flashbacks.

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Leftcoastzen
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park | Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar
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#SummerSouls #park Every time I have gone to New York, I try to visit some part of Central Park. A treasure! When it was first built, the common complaint was it was too far north, the city would develop that far out.😂 New York wouldn‘t be the same without this amazing space.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Sounds amazing! 9mo
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peanutnine
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April #ReadingBracket2024 nonfiction update
Of the two I read this month, my favorite was Leg. But Better Living Through Birding is beating everyone for the whole quarter still 🐦

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telkb
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Like many (most? all?) other Litsy members, I have more lists and stacks of books than time for them all. This one was a Christmas present, though, and made its way to the top of my bedside stack. I am glad. Just finished it, and found it informative, thought provoking, and entertaining.

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peanutnine
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I'll be filling out both book bracket designs throughout the year to see if they yield different results, but probably just gonna post one each month here on Litsy.

Here's my nonfiction choice for January. This was no contest the winner. I love a good memoir any day but this one had that extra something to make it great. Maybe it was the bird songs sprinkled throughout 🐦😉
#ReadingBracket2024

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booklover3258
The Reservoir | David Duchovny
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Pickpick

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/YJpgEI4IAoA

Enjoy!

Meshell1313 As in X-files? 🤔 1y
booklover3258 Yup he writes books too 14mo
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