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Finished reading Automatic Noodle

Finished reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Wants to read A Certain Hunger

Finished reading How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Wants to read The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

Finished reading Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English

Rated An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything 10/10

Loved this. This book makes me feel like we can make it all right, if we keep going. Hadfield writes very methodical account of how he worked towards his goal of being an astronaut, but also how he made sure to have varied enough interests that, if it didn't work out, he'd still be happy. Of course, the details about life in space and what it takes to work for NASA are also fascinating. This isn't a greatly emotional, interior-looking memoir, but it doesn't have to be. There's the vastness of the universe to consider!

Wants to read How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Wants to read The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

Finished reading A Sudden Light

Finished reading The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Wants to read Wearing the Lion

Finished reading When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Wants to read The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

Finished reading If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Finished reading The Silmarillion

Wants to read Mexican Gothic

Wants to read Miniatures

Wants to read The Goblin Emperor

Rated Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions 8/10

A really tough and important book that you can read in a few sittings. Luiselli, a writer from Mexico, worked as a translator for kids facing immigration courts, and she structures this book around the interview questionnaire. It's very high-stakes and upsetting, a look at just a few of the tens of thousands of stories of children and teens making the long journey from Central America. It's an indictment that doesn't offer many answers, and it's important to point out that it takes place during the Obama era, not the Trump era. Luiselli lays out the case, simply, that the system by which we rush these kids through the process of deciding whether they stay or go is deeply inhumane. Everyone should read it because it really cuts away all of the abstraction and puts in front of you what this issue is really about.

Wants to read A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Finished reading Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Finished reading Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion

Wants to read Americanah

Rated Abaddon’s Gate 10/10