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I primarily listen to audiobooks using Libby, and sometimes Audible. Feel free to ask me about how I have 15 cards on Libby.

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commented on Forest Euphoria by Patricia Kaishian

Patricia Kaishian: Forest Euphoria (Hardcover, 2025, Spiegel & Grau LLC) No rating

Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near …

The anecdotal style combined with history, with each chapter focused on a different organism, does remind me a bit of both “fearless, sleepless, deathless” and “world of wonders”. I do wish there were few more scientific citations made as FSD did but I don’t think it really matters. Also knowing Patty as a mycologist, I was surprised that the first fifth of the book focused more on animals.

finished reading Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong

Khan Wong: Down in the Sea of Angels No rating

The start was confusing and I'm not sure if the stories really needed to exist in the same book. That being said, each of the stories stuck with me in their own way, and supported one another sufficiently. I ended up liking how they got wrapped up. I do think that it would have been okay for the characters to be more historically mundane, to not have such notable epilogues, but maybe they only feel so notable because I know what they went through, making them not feel so mundane as they might in the grand scheme of things. Maybe I'm too used to folx at the margins not being recognized for the work, that it makes me feel self conscious when our simple actions of survival become a part of something that feels so much bigger than we realized.