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Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ryan Lee
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Art from my book!
Read more of this blog post »Excerpt from my book "The Exodus". books2read.com/b/The-Exodus
"With hardly a glance at its surroundings, the cat moved determinedly towards the dead animal carcass, picked it up in its jaws and with a graceful bound leaped back into the jungle from whence it came, vanishing like an apparition."Chew SY (@blackppardus.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The Exodus
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| "We don’t expect politics to be so damned ironic, do we? There was Nixon hosting a visibly impaired Elvis Presley at the White House to prop up his War On Drugs campaign, of course, or George W. Bush, servant of the oil industry, obfuscating the sc..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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| Very well developed story of a group of Paleolithic characters, survivors from a rampaging mammoth that killed their entire clan, how they ventured towards the eastern horizon and eventually over the emergent land bridge of Beringia and into a new co ...more | |
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The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs
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Max temp was reached at the beginning of the Eocene (PETM) and I suppose it declined thereafter.
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| Very nice updated renditions of many dinosaurs, sea and flying reptiles. Skips over the Paleozoic, while the section on Cenozoic is very short, so it loses some points on these. Two pager summaries of each Period don't do sufficient justice of course ...more | |
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| A beautifully illustrated children's book about the Pleistocene Epoch. Filled with two page spreads depicting scenes from the time, from frozen tundra to woodland and forests. Of course, the characteristic animals inhabiting those places are shown as ...more | |
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| Books that accompany TV documentary series seldom disappoint, and this one was no exception. In fact, it is one of the best I have come across. Packham, a charismatic TV presenter apparently writes brilliantly as well to my pleasant surprise. This is ...more | |
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| I am recently familiar with the wonderful paleoart of Charles Knight, and have flipped through the classic predecessor to this book, but not read it yet. Witton pays tribute by updating the science we have accumulated since then (Knight's book is 194 ...more | |
"There is a lot to love in this book. The author takes us back in time and allows the reader to sample thin slices of our Earth’s lengthy history. Kind of like a wine flight, only with dinosaurs. Every era he takes us to is described in detail, includ"
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| This is an ambitious book to say the least. And Flannery is brave indeed to write it, from a non-native perspective. Perhaps this gives it more objectivity. The period covered is the Cenozoic Era, from the end of dinosaurs to our current civilization ...more | |
“They walked over land once forested for centuries. Farming had destroyed the trees; cities had destroyed the farms; time had destroyed the cities. The land remained, slowly covering its degradation with new plant life.”
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“An indispensable good transported to the far corners of the world, black gold had become the very vector of the industrial vascular network, the blood of human technology.”
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“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up.”
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
Goodreads Singapore
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Live in Singapore? Join us! Apart from talking about books, we have listings for author events, giveaways, and sometimes we even organize a book club ...more
Natural History & Biology
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— last activity Mar 19, 2018 09:39PM
This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of organisms as we explore the biodiversity of the plane ...more
Happy to announce that my book 'The Exodus' is now on wattpad, where the first chapter has been published. Let me know your thoughts and please vote too.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/1770963...
Thank you!