pickThis is an excellent YA sci-fi speculative fiction story. A family camps in #Greenland so the father can study climate change while the mother writes about mitochondrial DNA while son explores the land. But nothing is as it seems and it all unravels when the son discovers a colony of people living underground for generations, who will lose their home as the climate warms. Told from two perspectives of the above- and below-world, I enjoyed the ⬇️
Poking around for a new Audiobook I found this YA book set in #Greenland. So it‘s up next for #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Random book from our home library:
📖 London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Ackroyd
Well, Amazon did not deliver the book I wanted today, so I found this in my house. Something has to scratch the book habit itch that I‘ve started in the last few months… Not sure where it came from, but I‘m not mad at it. So far it‘s giving Alice in Londonland. 50 pages in and I‘m intrigued.
pickWhere I delve deep into the Underground in London and find a library. Thanks to Kate Thompson for uncovering The Little Wartime Library
https://www.suzs-space.com/the-little-wartime-library-by-kate-thompson/
“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”
-Neil Gaiman
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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
My inner geek loved this history of the London Underground, my favourite read of February
#12Booksof2024
@Andrew65
pickI don‘t know how long it‘s taken me to read this, but it‘s been a LONG while. It‘s spent a lot of time between my place and the library but I liked it so much I didn‘t want to give up on it, and I‘m glad I didn‘t. I just loved the story and the fantastical world that Gaiman created.
Vegan pancakes at the pancake kitchen before we duck into the library for some book searching
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