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“How deep in our genes is the longing for flight embedded? We always were a species of nomads.”

I can’t handle the interview format of this book. Maybe try again later.

Finished “Time Was”

Finished “It Ends With Us”

Finished one story

Geology! Gold! The only way Tana French could make me love them more!

Poor Kurt. Poor David. Poor world.

First drive to the cities. He’s in Scream

1862 Yellowstone national park
1906 Roosevelt antiquities act - natural and historic monuments
1916 Woodrow national park service

1968-1972 Apollo program
Clean air act
Earth day
NOAA
EPA
Clean water act
Endangered species act

TS Eliot
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

Kipper’s poem about a tree

Objectivity: do whatever it takes to avoid fooling yourself into believing that something is true when it is false, or that something is false when it is true.

“Once you have a history with a choice, with all the accumulated debris that goes along with that
…
You will be subject to the forces that make it hard to walk away.”

Deciding to make the decision later, or not wanting to think about it later, is the same as deciding to stay the course. You’re still making a decision; you’re not ready to veer from the status quo. Omission/commission bias.

Status quo bias

Endowment effect

Kill criteria

Sunk cost fallacy

Expected value

Read Small Town Wedding

And… If I had a hammer (a book too soon…)

Already read the first 5 in another book.

So - just finished “two blondes”

Finished “lucky”

Fairy Dust
Dracula
One Word Answers

It’s very clear the author has never given been pregnant or given birth… i would not describe ANY contraction as a “gentle squeeze”… this is going to irritate me through the rest of the book, isn’t it?

“A mother’s heart breaks a million ways in her lifetime.”

“Perhaps this is a story about a bridge.”

Oh, what tangled webs our lives really are.

I forgot that Blink 182 “all the small things” spoofed BSB “I want it that way”!! I had to watch the music videos again - oh the memories ❤️❤️❤️

The characters are annoying and selfish. I will finish to see how it ends but I don’t really like anyone except one twin and B