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tasha.reads is on page 112 of 304 of The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Essay: Penguins of Madagascar
John discusses provocative opinions
“I am thoughtful - full of thoughts, all the time, inescapably, exhaustingly. But I am also mindless - acting in accordance with default settings I neither understand not examine.”

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Essay: Jerzy Dudek’s Performance on May 25, 2005
John discusses football
“You can’t see the future coming - not the terrors, for sure, but you also can’t see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.”

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Essay: Sunsets
John discusses the sun, religions, and vulnerability
“But every human who has lived for more than a few years on this planet has seen a beautiful sunset and paused to spend one of the last moments of the day grateful for, and overwhelmed by, the light.”

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Essay: Academic Decathlon
John discusses knowledge and rivers
“My thoughts are a river overflowing it’s banks, churning and muddy and ceaseless.”

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Essay: The Internet
John discusses the web and his relationship with it
“What does it mean to have my way of thinking, and my way of being, so profoundly shaped by machine logic?”

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Essay: Staphylococcus Aureus
John discusses infections
“To me, one of the mysteries of life is why life wants to be.”

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Essay: Air Conditioning
John discusses wealth disparity and AC
“Like most other energy intensive innovations, AC primarily benefits people in rich communities, while the consequences of climate change are borne disproportionately by people in impoverished communities.”

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Essay: The Hall of Presidents
John discusses American ideology and Disney World
“Both the nation and the corporation can only exist if at least some people believe in them. And in that sense, they really are kinds of magic kingdoms.”

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Essay: Teddy Bears
John discusses bears and their relationship to humans
“The animals that once terrorized us, and that we long terrorized, are now often viewed as weak and vulnerable. The mighty bear has become, like so many creatures on Earth, dependent upon us.”

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Essay: Canada Geese
John discusses the similarities between Canada geese and people
“But even though Canada geese are perfectly adapted to the human dominated planet, they seem to feel nothing but disdain for actual humans.”

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Essay: Velociraptors
John discusses the power of false images
“And so our image of velociraptors says more about us than it dies about them.”

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Essay: Diet Dr Pepper
John discusses human determination and soda
“Dr Pepper is, in its conception, unnatural. The creation of a chemist.”

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Essay: Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Stickers
John discusses microencapsulation and smell memory
“Helen Keller wrote that smell is ‘a potent wizard that transports us across a thousand miles and all the years we have lived.’”

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Essay: Lascaux Cave Paintings
John discusses seventeen-thousand cave paintings and the past
“We we’re hoping to find treasure. We found one, but not the one we thought.”

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Essay: Our Capacity For Wonder
John discusses The Great Gatsby and excess
“I was reminded that aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see.”

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Essay: Halley’s Comet
John discusses humanity’s progress and how it’s all interconnected
“History, like human life, is at once incredibly fast and agonizingly slow.”

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Essay: Humanity’s Temporal Range
John discusses apocalypticism & temporal ranges
“Never predict the end of the world. You’re almost certain to be wrong, and if you’re right, no one will be around to congratulate you.”

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Essay: You’ll never walk alone
“I think two of the fundamental facts of being a person are 1. We must go on, and 2. None of us ever walks alone. We may feel alone (in fact, we will feel alone), but even in the crushing grind of isolation, we aren’t alone.”
John discusses Theatre songs and English Football clubs

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tasha.reads is on page 145 of 418 of One Last Stop

Okay I actually love every character in this book!

— Jun 04, 2021 08:08AM 2 comments

tasha.reads is on page 20 of 418 of One Last Stop

One chapter in and I’m already so on board. I can tell I’m going to LOVE this group of characters! Also, I’m craving pancakes and bacon 🥞🥓

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tasha.reads is on page 264 of 512 of Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

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tasha.reads is on page 178 of 300 of The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Middle-Earth Universe)

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tasha.reads is on page 105 of 300 of The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Middle-Earth Universe)

More chill than expected and totally would be lost and/or dead without Gandalf but wow am I enjoying the illustrations in this version!

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tasha.reads is on page 70 of 344 of Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

I’m really enjoying the complex family dynamics in this! Also looking forward to the chaos Julian will bring. A certain section at the start of the book feels like massive foreshadowing so I’m worried I may have figured out the plot too early on but I’m excited to see where it goes anyway.

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