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#WomensHistoryMonth #Recommendations
13 of 31 Nonfiction
Natural history told by a woman. This book is so good. A look back at the five extinctions the planet has had and a look at now and the signs of a sixth. Kolbert heavily researched this book but the writing is easily accessible for laymen. As we push for greater changes in response to climate change, this book is important to understanding the past and the cycles the each has been through

I can think of several, but the two that stick with me most, and I've recommended to others several times, are The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert and The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. Both books opened my eyes to the dire dilemma the planet faces due to climate change.

#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

A fascinating, thought-provoking, and entertaining read!

I really enjoyed this thorough, well researched natural history of previous and present extinction periods. There wasn't much discussion of what can be done, so I will research another book to cover that. I need hope.
I like the look of this one Dodging Extinction: power, food, money and the future of life on earth by Anthony D. Barnosky.
Any other recommendations would be most welcome.

Planning goals for my #AwesomeApril #readathon

I will combine this with my #bookspin bingo challenge reads.

I hope to complete the tagged book, plus 2 non-fiction, 1 fiction and 1 graphic novel. If ok for time, I will add an extra short story collection. No plans but chilling with my children, relaxing and reading.
@Andrew65
@Clwojick
@TheAromaofBooks

Book 3 for #thingsincommon chosen for same name as previous author Elizabeth K. Plus the history element.
@Clwojick

Moving onto my 3rd book for #thingsincommon and #bookspinbingo. Might as well go for a third challenge and set myself some reading goals for Andrew's #awesomeapril #readathon

Now what to chose? 🤔
@TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 @Clwojick

1. Tagged. It changed my world view on the fragility of our environment and the dangers of climate change.
2. Not usually. I'm working on that day, so I might have a drink later after work to celebrate.
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday
Wanna play? @audraelizabeth @Buechersuechtling @ReadingIsMyHobby @Onceuponatime @TheBookDream @Daisey @Bookishlie @Sharpeipup @Cuilin @ReadingFeedsTheSoul @Lucy_Anywhere @Onepageatatime88

Happy Day 2 of camp!

The weather here in my corner of #LitsySummerCamp is in the 90s and very dry. I dropped my teen off at camp and passed "Very High Fire Danger" alert signs on the way to a trailhead that's closed for the month for unspecified "public safety" reasons, perhaps related to heat. So, I'm going to have watermelon instead of hiking today!

Tagged is a great but alarming book that addresses climate, among other things.

#curiouscovers #blueandyellow
Have you read? An interesting look at the phases the earth has gone through and while I was nervous that it would be very depressing, Kolbert is able to not only be very informative in a readable way but also to not make it completely depressing.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

You‘d think I would go for something a little more upbeat, but here I am.

1. The Sixth Extinction, Sapiens, and After On
2. Every Breath
3. read books 😁

#WeekendReads
@rachelsbrittain

This is a fascinating books, I learned a lot! Fun to learn about specific species & ancient times. The rate humans are changing the world and killing off species is unprecedented and will have drastic consequences. I know our species has issues caring about others, but we really should be concerned that we might killing off what we need to survive. 4/5 stars, read this if you are interested in science, history, and/or the future of humanity.

1. I don't know how they settled on my name, but I know my mom was considering Angharad, so I'm guessing she was aiming for names somehow related to "love." My grandma picked my middle name (which I prefer to my first name) and my dad picked the spelling.
2. Cooler weather (for a few days, anyway).

Lots of friendly Littens...I can't choose whom to tag!

#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon

Thanks so much for the tag @Eggs !

1. Dreams. I‘ve had dreams of family members who‘ve recently passed for as long as I can remember. Even when they‘ve passed away in another state.
2. My local indie bookstore. ❤️ The King‘s English ❤️

#thankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon

A fascinating read. The book provides a good overview of the impact that humans have had on the earth all the way back to the very beginning of our species. This certainly isn‘t an uplifting work, but we should all be concerned about what we are doing to the planet and the effect that we are having on life around us.

I have some time before work this morning to sit outside and read! And it‘s a lovely morning!

This book really gave insights into the extinctions happened and next to follow.

Half way through this book and even though I knew what I was getting into, it's still haunting: We humans deserve nature's fury coz we are indebt to it forever. The balance is inevitable. This is not for the faint hearted 💔
#TheSixthExtinction #nature

Ultimately a pick! I don‘t have a good knowledge of how fast species are disappearing into oblivion so this was an eye-opener. Some sections were dull and it is a bit depressing - the author doesn‘t offer up any hope in the end. But I think it‘s a necessary read if only to make us pause to consider our impact on the world.

#Booked2020 #LiveandLearn
#PopSugar2020 A book on a subject you know nothing about

Making some delicious coffee to take to work and hopefully squeeze in a few minutes of reading at my desk before starting the day.

It provides perspective to the many articles like the two samples below.

Staggering Magnitude of Bird Population Decline
https://cornellsun.com/2019/09/26/ornithologists-birdwatchers-uncover-staggering...

Crabs‘ Shells Dissolving From Severity of Pacific Ocean Acidification
https://www.ecowatch.com/pacific-ocean-acidification-2644943545.html?fbclid=IwAR...

This was my favorite read of 2019. I learned so much about our human story that I was legitimately sad when the book was over. This book made me think so many thoughts, wish I had majored in a scientific field, and understand how frequently different fields of science overlap. It was so freaking awesome.

FINISHED: 01.08.2020, switched between eAudiobook and eBook. For non-science folks, this wasn‘t as readable as I had hoped. I chose this for the #MinneapolisCentralBookClub. We‘re meeting tonight and I‘m hoping enough of us finished it or read some of it to have a discussion. I like the historical look back at species already extinct to put in context why what humans are doing is so important to pay attention to and change.

I really wanted to love this. I like and read a lot of nature nonfiction, and think this topic is important. I had trouble concentrating on this. The story moves from time period to time period and location to location and I had trouble figuring out where and why we were. 100% could have been me and end of year brain.

"Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it‘s not clear that he ever really did"
Not all that uplifting, but interesting and chalk full of information.

“In the Englightenment, the prevailing view was that every species was a link in a great, unbreakable 'chain of being.'As Alexander Pope put in his Essay on Man:

'All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.' “

look at these cuties! the bottom is a San Jose Cochran frog also nicknamed a 'glass frog' for its translucent skin and the ability to see their internal organs. I adore the tiny but perfectly circular yellow spots on this buddy. the top is a horned marsupial frog. the females are supposed to have a pouch on their frontside like mammal marsupials. these two, among others, were found on the author's expedition to find endangered female frogs!

This is one non-fiction I don't want to forget. I set up my Notion page, and 20 ish pages in and I'm already fascinated (and sad). I'm curious if this is going to be a detailed history of mass extinctions with no solution or future-forward commentary or what but I look forward to it!

This is a really engaging science book. It‘s very accessible to the average reader and no science background is needed to be able to follow it. Despite this, the information is still accurate and not dumbed now. It examines the current era of mass extinction by looking at the animals affected by it (some species of frogs, bats, rhinos, etc) with a chapter on each.

A clear explanation of what we‘re doing to life on Earth and the consequences. I can see why it‘s on so many best nonfiction books of the decade lists. #nfnov

"The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but 'one weedy species'."

I've finally managed to come back to Litsy after a gap of almost an year. Plan to pick up from where i'd last left off. The current goal is to finish reading a book a day during the winter (semester-end) break. Will post the TBR list soon.

#BillGates #Nonfiction recommendation for #NFNov.
#historical #TBR @rsteve388 @Clwojick

Today I learned a valuable mom lesson:

Beckett had been playing on the floor with his toys. I always put books out for him. I wanted to finish this book up especially because it had been stuffed under the couch for who knows how long (lol, oops)

I look up and B has abandoned his toys and is playing with a book.

Today I realized that kids truly do learn from Mom & Dad and what we model is what they‘ll replicate.

#RaiseReaders #BeckettsBooks

The Kindle edition is on sale for $2.99 right now. I found this work of nonfiction to be both interesting and entertaining. It has an excellent balance of personal anecdote mixed with science and history.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EGJE4G2/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=rnmgdea...

For the subject matter this book was easy to read. Extinction events, especially those potentially occurring in the near future (and affecting us!) can be spoken about in a bunch of ways - I confess that as someone who reads mostly fantasy and historical fiction, I was hoping for more excitement and drama. What I got instead were well-organized, matter-of-fact summaries of how certain species went extinct and why we should care! Not bad at all.

Wow, this book! Despite the subject matter, an easy read. And such an important one! Truly puts context to the massive multi-layered crisis we're facing. #naturalhistory #extinction

I need to read this! But I am also terrified. I feel like all I've been doing the last few months is avoiding nonfiction that reveals the truth about our current condition 😞

#TheEnd #MayMovieMagic @rohit-sawant @Cinfhen

Completed for the “something about survival” category for #nonfiction2019. The book is actually more of a question of whether life on earth will survive what humans are doing to it. Reading this made me sad, depressed, angry, determined, anxious, scared, and then sad again. What the hell are we doing? Are we on a crash course with our own extinction?
Also cross-counted as book 2 for #LPMBC #GroupM.

@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

There‘s nothing quite like early Sunday morning, when everyone else is still sleeping and the house is quiet and the tea has just finished steeping and I can settle into the couch with my book. Ahhh.

Well this is not a very exciting picture 😁.

@Amiable the book is on the way to you, should arrive on Monday. #LMPBC #GROUPM

Rough week so we went to the bookstore and... sorry, TBR pile!

Has the sixth extinction started? Is this the end of the human race? Maybe and we'll pretty much only have ourselves to blame.
#LMPBC #GROUPM @Amiable @donnalyy @jmofo
I'll be getting my final thoughts together this weekend and the book out early next week to @Amiable

Also #nonfiction2019 something with history @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Humans are the worst species on our entire planet.

Just a little lite reading at work today.

What I‘m reading on this rainy Sunday 🌧📚

This is a fascinating and horrifying look at the history of extinctions and what humans have wrought upon the earth. I listened to this on audio and I‘m not sure I loved the narrator. Even so, Kolbert‘s ability to write about the horrible things that are happening to our planet was engaging. #readingwomenchallenge #abookaboutnature #nonfiction2019 #somethingwithscience #LLB19 #fromyourownLitsyTBR

On kindle sale today! This is a great book about climate and environmental change, I highly recommend it if you haven‘t read it yet.... I myself should reread it again.

A fascinating, sobering look at humans, our interactions & interconnectedness with the natural world, & our role in what many scientists believe to be the sixth mass extinction (of the previous 5, the most well known is the one that wiped out the dinosaurs)—spoiler, it‘s us! By turns heartbreaking, humorous, inspiring, & thought-provoking (always), this is a great read. The author does a great job making sense of & writing about a complex subject.