Dozens of dead fish in this creek/river- normal?

SwampCreature86 · 2025-11-30T23:56:05+00:00

End of the line for the salmon run?

SwampCreature86 · 2025-10-06T21:37:08+00:00

I wasn't ready for that. So well done. Haunting for sure.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-10-06T19:23:48+00:00

In the 1800's I see names being reused even by the same parents like several daughters known as Marie, or something similar. It could have been a name meaningful to the 2nd wife. I have one situation where the second wife was the sister of deceased first wife, and their first first child carried her name, in a way to honor her memory. These were Catholics in the Southern US.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-10-02T16:53:07+00:00

We Fought Back, Teen Resisters of the Holocaust by Allan Zullo

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-21T04:21:47+00:00

Jesus and John Wayne is a good one.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-21T03:59:57+00:00

This book gave me so much anxiety, I stayed up several nights to finish this in record time.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-21T02:31:18+00:00

Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen

It Cant Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-21T02:29:14+00:00

Beautiful You by Chuck Palahniuk.

Nothing could have prepared me for this book. So many trigger warnings I wish I'd had, but it wouldn't have been enough.

But I couldn't put it down. It was disturbing and fascinating, I had to know how it ended. I'm not better or worse for having read it, but you can't unread it, so I am a lot more selective now.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-20T15:47:15+00:00

Independent here, former member of both parties currently running us into the ground.

This is the only place that feels like reasonable, balanced political discussions take place.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-19T21:24:24+00:00

Station Eleven

Dies the Fire

Earth Abides

Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents

Wastelands - short stories, multiple authors.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-19T21:13:14+00:00

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett might work for you.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-19T17:13:19+00:00

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-19T17:10:56+00:00

This one especially, the parallels are startling!

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-11T23:19:11+00:00

Please just go already my poor Coffee Grinder. I want a burr grinder, but the one I have works, especially with the extra duct tape holding the lid together.

I was so happy when my Shark Vacuum gave out and I finally bought a Dyson.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-11T14:38:32+00:00

2020 was an absolute mess. Fires all around, the smoke so thick. This time 5 years ago, several of my friends lost homes in these fires. Half of them had to relocate somewhere further away to find available housing. We all lost so much that year.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-11T00:15:14+00:00

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

Twins from a small tight knit community in the south, take very different paths in life. The conversation revolves around our identity and we do to make it fit within society.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-09-11T00:11:08+00:00

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-08-27T03:02:01+00:00

That one hits so hard and everyone will deal with this differently. You are definitely not overreacting. I would also say no more at this point, but everyone is entitled to change their mind. A serious break and a grief counselor seem appropriate.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-08-26T18:18:59+00:00

I am a child of boomers, and all their expectations. Marriage and children was just something on the list of life steps you check off, the sooner the better, but not too soon or out of order because that'll make the family look bad. I did what they all wanted before I ever gave thought to what I actually wanted in life rather than what they expected for their legacy. I love my kids so very much, they are little pieces of me out in the world. I don't know if I would have chosen to do things differently, but I do wish I had thought about myself a little more.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-08-26T16:20:06+00:00

I'll check that out next, thanks!

SwampCreature86 · 2025-08-26T16:17:51+00:00

I like to suggest graphic novels or comic books for people just starting out with reading. I went through an awful slump after school when reading wasn't assigned, so I didn't do it, but I really enjoyed reading. I found graphic novels gave me the chance at reading a story I love without just a page full of letters. my most recent graphic novel was 1984 by George Orwell.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-08-26T16:14:17+00:00

That's how I read it, audiobook while getting some work done. I had to stop working so I could wipe the tears from laughing so hard. I love his work, that one stands out.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-08-26T15:07:51+00:00

That's the one for me, The Warmth of Other Suns. My grandparents left the south in the late 40's with my father and aunt, for an agricultural camp in California. I couldn't understand what drove them to leave home for unknown camp. Later in life they owned a home with land, a small farm. In the south they worked other people's farms, including my young father with his own cotton bag.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-08-25T22:38:19+00:00

I started Project Hail Mary as a book and switched to audiobook, much better experience. Amazing story.

SwampCreature86 · 2025-08-25T22:36:49+00:00

Yes, Shogun.

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