What are y'all reading now?

[reuben]

Finishing the last of Lynn Coffey's Backroads series (Volume 5). Livin' the good life w/o plumbing or electricity, growing vegetables, making your own soap, canning fruit, hunting squirrels and bears, felling dead chestnut trees, raising chickens and hogs and cows for milk, eggs, and meat.

https://www.amazon.com/Backroads-Pla.../dp/0615312233

Next up will be the latest version of Patagon Journal. I'm overdue for another trip there. Yendegaia's long been on my list.

Then any one of the unread books lying around.

[Hilltopwalters]

Currently, Debt: The first 5000 years by David Graeber and Technological Society by Jacques Ellul


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[d_douglas]

I am reading ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy - utterly bleak but amazing writing. It is not for thr faint of heart. I dont need that kind of apocalyptic thinking, but the quality of the craft is just too good to ignore.

[sparky33]

Anxious People by Fredrick Backman

the book isn't at all about what I expected it to be about, but I am enjoying it

[72gmc]

Originally Posted by Toddtwenty2

I just finished Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren. I would highly recommend it.

The book is a memoir about her foray into becoming a professional geochemist/geobotanist. She beautifully intertwines her life into anecdotes about experiments, the nature of plants, and her past. I'm not going to go too deep into a review, but I fully recommend it as a worthwhile use of time.

Thanks for the note, I've just checked out the ebook. Looking forward to it.

[rustychisel]

I am reading your collective minds. It's not pretty.

[reuben]

Rainbows in the Mud, by Paul Maunder. Cyclocross. Good, not great. Worth reading.

[BobbyJones]

Enjoying this one I’m halfway through: “The Death of Expertise” by Tom Nichols

Based on some the posts I read, more than a few of you would find it interesting.

[reuben]

The Hidden Life of Trees. It seems to be along the same lines as one or two books I read a few years ago by Joan Maloof, she of the Old Growth Forest Network.

It can sound a bit fanciful or mystic at times, but the evidence is growing (no pun intended), that trees form networks with each other, support each other, and - as I hope we've all believed for some time - are part of a web of interactions with birds, fungi, insects, etc.

He may be over the top, extrapolate too far, or exceed the bounds of knowledge in some areas, but my lay belief is that he's definitely on the right track. I've seen it in my own woods.

Roger Ebert movie review:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/t...lm-review-2021

NYT movie review:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/m...es-review.html

Book review:
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi...1002/bes2.1443

[NHAero]

The Fire Is Upon Us which chronicles the James Baldwin vs William F Buckley jr debate at the Cambridge Union in 1965. Much more than the debate, it describes each man’s life to that point and how they were formed. Gave me an even greater appreciation for Baldwin - his devotion to both American democratic principles and teachings of his Christian faith, and his piercing critique that Buckley, while professing the same, at the core held beliefs that accorded to neither.

[William]

Originally Posted by reuben

The Hidden Life of Trees. It seems to be along the same lines as one or two books I read a few years ago by Joan Maloof, she of the Old Growth Forest Network.

It can sound a bit fanciful or mystic at times, but the evidence is growing (no pun intended), that trees form networks with each other, support each other, and - as I hope we've all believed for some time - are part of a web of interactions with birds, fungi, insects, etc.

He may be over the top, extrapolate too far, or exceed the bounds of knowledge in some areas, but my lay belief is that he's definitely on the right track. I've seen it in my own woods.

Agreed, I enjoyed it and found things that ring true from my own experiences...

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showp...&postcount=630





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[sparky33]

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

It’s a story about the world’s grouchiest curmudgeon. Paceliners would like it.

[makoti]

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang.

Follows the author through her life with severe mental illness. Psychotic breaks that would last months. Believing herself to be dead (Cotard's delusion). Amazing story. Not an easy read.

[carpediemracing]

Re-reading The Lottery. Shirley Jackson. Not just the lottery story, reading the other ones.

[bicycletricycle]

I got Technological Society in my read pile, how is it?

Originally Posted by Hilltopwalters

Currently, Debt: The first 5000 years by David Graeber and Technological Society by Jacques Ellul


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