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Twelve by Twelve
Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin off the Grid & Beyond The American Dream | Bill Powers
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Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Bentons permaculture farm, and she stroked honeybees wings as she shared her wildcrafter philosophy of living on a planet in crisis. Powers, just back from a decade of international aid work, then accepted Bentons offer to stay at the cabin for a season while she traveled. There, he befriended her eclectic neighbors organic farmers, biofuel brewers, eco-developers and discovered a sustainable but imperiled way of life. In these pages, Powers not only explores this small patch of community but draws on his international experiences with other pockets of resistance. This engrossing tale of Powerss struggle for a meaningful life with a smaller footprint proposes a paradigm shift to an elusive Soft World with clues to personal happiness and global healing.
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Eyelit
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Tbh I will most likely read all the books recommended to me, but these are the 12 I‘ve absolutely committed to read this year. Thanks for the recommendations! I look forward to an interesting (looking at you out of left field bored gay werewolf) and challenging (looking at you Rilke) year. 😄 #12bookchallenge #12challenge
Thanks again @Soubhiville for encouragement

Cuilin Fabulous, 🍀 looking forward to your reviews. 3mo
Hooked_on_books Looks like you ended up with a great mix! I think this is a fun way to choose some books. 3mo
Soubhiville I hope you‘ll like them. Maybe be surprised by the ones you are uncertain about. 🙂 3mo
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Eyelit @Soubhiville here‘s hoping! 😄 really the only one I‘m apprehensive about is the poetry. 3mo
Eyelit @Cuilin 😘 3mo
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Eyelit
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@Soubhiville did this last year and it looked like fun so I‘m joining in this year. I‘ll take 6 recs from here and 6 from other socials. I can‘t guarantee consistency (may read a couple a month, may read one a month and then forget until end of year and scramble lol) but I will read all 12. So let the recs come in! What book have you loved that you think I should read this year - fiction and nonfiction alike - all recs welcome. 😃 #12challenge

Soubhiville Have you read this yet? If not OMG, one of my best of 23. 4mo
Eyelit @Soubhiville yes! So Good! I was almost tempted to get the special edition aardvark released this month, but ultimately decided against it 😁 4mo
Deblovestoread Our Fathers or The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait. Both excellent. 4mo
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Cuilin I also loved 4mo
Hooked_on_books This is a terrific book on an important topic 4mo
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I'm only a little ways into this book, but I'm already wondering why I'm reading a book about a man who comes into a woman's longterm homestead, feels contempt for her, and then eventually stays there for only 6 months in order to write this book. why am I not reading a book by this woman? I'd like to hear her story! #12x12

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