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29 -- Featuring The Environment
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The Travelers Within: Into the Unknown by Daniel Mode
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Superman’s Not Coming by Erin Brockovich.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures This just really seems like such an odd topic for a book, but intriguing!
All Creatures Great & Small by James Herriot
Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
Although I am not rereading this book now, Too Bright to Hear Too Loud To See has stuck with me for many years.
The next book in a series my son and I enjoy features an aquifer which is integral to the environment (since if it dries up, plants die, animals have to move, etc).Of Mutts and Men
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Completed: January 14, 2021
I'm reading A Children's Bible for this prompt. It's not a religious book - I'd call it literary dystopian?! Almost done and it's been hard to put down! =)
So many places I could put "Where the Crawdads Sing," but I will place it here because the description of the marsh completely mesmerized me! It made me think back to my first reading of the 1909 book Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter, set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of northern Indiana.
Migrations would fit this category excellently.
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays- Paul Kingsworth
I chose Grandma Says by Cindy Day - about weather and signs of changes in weather.
The World Without Us is like a documentary of how the Earth would reclaim itself if humans disappeared. It also covers an educational read
Brianna wrote: "The World Without Us is like a documentary of how the Earth would reclaim itself if humans disappeared. It also covers an educational read"That one seems it would be fascinating.
Completion Post:Just finished reading: "The Drowned World" by J. G. Ballard (★★★★☆), it is a science fiction novel centering on a team of scientists researching ongoing environmental developments in a flooded, abandoned London in a post-apocalyptic world changed by global warming.
Ballard's narrative is powerfully descriptive and holds the isolationist science-fiction theme of this novel up. It is rich, eloquent, bold, and erudite – it is from a time where stories showed readers what the world looked like, where the action was secondary to the belief – simply a classic.
I read a cozy set in the National Forest that is facing a drought and the implications of that. I read a Greenwood last year and it would be really good for this topic as well.
Forests, Fishing, & Forgery by Tonya Kappes https://titlesurfingwithtraci.blogspo...
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I read Gray Mountain by John Grisham for this prompt. Super fast read and I really enjoyed it.
where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens
where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens covers the marshlands and swamps and the biodiversity there
One must read The Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey. Best series I've read in a while. could it happen? What a reading journey!
The Overstory would fit beautifully here.
The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai A parable of the story of the delicate environment of the bee and the bee as a symbol of hope and the threat to the environment of the bee by the giant Asian hornet, set against a country being taken over by extremists enforcing their views on the small village of Nawa. A really engrossing read and beautifully written.
I read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It deals with how we handle climate change in the near future (fiction). Sounds like it would be dark, but it ended up being hopeful.
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The Ministry for the Future (other topics)Salvage the Bones (other topics)
The Ardent Swarm (other topics)
Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World (other topics)
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park (other topics)
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