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Nope! I would love to meet Beatriz Williams. 💚🌷🌳

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4.5 ⭐ I just don't think anyone beats Erik Larson in nonfiction telling today. I always find his books fascinating and end up learning things I never did. Isaac's Storm is no different. It is about the deadliest hurricane to ever hit America. It happened 105 years before Katherine, in 1900 in Galveston, Texas. The hurricane killed thousands and demolished the city. Some say had it not been for the hurricane, Galveston may have been as ⬇️

What is magic but science not yet explained?

Coming of age, nature writing, and a look into what the future holds for our warming planet. A hurricane hits Florida and things are rapidly changing.

Happening over the course of Wanda‘s lifetime, I found the acceleration in climate disasters and collapse of society a bit of a stretch to happen so quickly, but believable otherwise!

A very informative book, about this very upsetting event in history,
I can't believe that next year it will be 20 years since it happened.

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This was really intriguing. Having recently lived through my own Cat 5 Hurricane (Ian), I was really interested in this. The devastation in Nola, was on another level than what we experience in Fort Myers, but I can relate to the panic, PTSD, terror, etc. a very captivating story

Better late than never. 😅 Here is my January reflection. 💛

4✨ If you have read “The One and Only Ivan” this is a companion to it with the rough around the edges Bob. He was raised on the streets, so we get his backstory. We also have a natural disaster that causes some to become lost and others to be found. Written in short chapters (some only a few sentences long) with a lot of pictures. If you do the audio along with it you get to hear Danny DeVito voice Bob. It was a really fun read.

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I bought this book on a Kindle Deal the other day & it #InvolvesExtremeWeather about the Galveston Texas of 1900. 🌀 ⛈️🌪️

Isaac has an award named after him. So it was interesting taking a dive into who he was and what went down, which suggests the credit to him may be overhyped. As someone who work who works in this field, it‘s a humbling reminder, and it‘s a solid read.