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Decalino
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Pickpick

I picked this up on a whim based on a blurb on the cover from author Jeff VanderMeer. A thoughtful and compelling account of Christopher Brown's effort to convert an abandoned lot full of concrete debris and an underground oil pipeline into an unconventional home. Told in brief vignettes and sketches rather than in a linear storyline, Brown's paean to unbridled nature made me yearn for spring and time to work on my chaos garden.

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fredthemoose
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Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️ I‘m torn on this one. The author highlights important areas where boys lag behind girls (rates of maturation, educational attainment) and ways particularly Black boys experience discrimination and the structural issues they face in school and society. He‘s careful to make clear he does not want to improve outcomes for boys and men at the expense of women. He loses me when talking about how now that women don‘t “need” men, ⬇️

fredthemoose … men are now adrift and don‘t know their roles. I have a hard time thinking of other groups who are waiting for society to present them with their unique, valued role instead of just rolling up their sleeves, figuring out how to use their talents to make a contribution and getting to work. 🤷‍♀️ (edited) 2mo
willaful Nicely put! 2mo
fredthemoose @willaful @quietlycuriouskate thanks. I really struggled with what to think of this. It did make me think and I want to be fair to it. The author was careful never to say it, but it seemed like implicitly a lot of the problem is that men are no long implicit the top of the hierarchy just for existing and that is hard for them and I‘m not the *most* sympathetic to that. (edited) 2mo
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AllDebooks
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My annual reading theme is sociopolitical. I haven't had a chance to post my full #Roll100 list yet. However, these are the 3 for January's roll. Getting 2025 off to a fighting start.

@PuddleJumper HNY x

kspenmoll These look good! 2mo
PuddleJumper Happy new year! 2mo
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AileenRR
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Mehso-so

Might be appreciated by One Direction fans?

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DMC_run8
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Pickpick

Both informative and infuriating, the authors offer a look at how culture wars, not policy, shape our political systems. 4.5⭐️

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LatrelWhite
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This was great as always!

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fredthemoose
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Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Look at fat phobia from a formerly/“small” fat philosopher. The moral philosophy about what we “owe” others in society was interesting, but a lot of the stuff about issues fat people face in society has been covered better by others, like Aubrey Gordon. Her conviction about abandoning diet culture fell a little flat considering she recently lost 60 lbs. and is in a smaller body, and the coverage of GLP-1s seemed hastily tacked on to the end

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thebacklistbook

I want to remind everyone at this time about special ballots and mail ins. These are never counted right away. Especially important for Pennsylvania and Michigan these two states are razor thin. And some of the states haven't finished their counts yet.
#uselection #americavotes

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sebrittainclark
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Mehso-so

3/5

Christopher Brown was inspired by the nature and wildlife he began to notice within his city when he purchased an empty lot in an industrial area in Austin to build his home. He began to document the ways that nature reclaims the places humans abandon.

I thought this book was beautifully written and the topic was very interesting. It was also very dense and I had difficulty focusing on the overall message.

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Hooked_on_books
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Using her own fatness as a jumping off point to excellent effect, Kate Manne tackles fatness and fatphobia in the most persuasive book I‘ve read on the topic. There is some cherry-picking (Glamour is not a great source to cite for surgical outcomes data), but less than I‘ve seen in other books.

NBA shortlist, nonfiction

Hooked_on_books @Megabooks I think you‘re really going to like this one. 5mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 5mo
Megabooks Thanks! It‘s in my audio queue. 5mo
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