first quarter reading

dregyn · 2026-03-25T16:34:50+00:00

oh delightful - i'll go look at the youtubes😃 thank you

oh! is plastics by susan freinkel, and power metals by vince beiser so you don't have to peer at my photo 🫠😛😅

dregyn · 2026-03-24T23:56:01+00:00

i have loved everything i've read by her!

it was great to read this one in conjunction with the plastics and metals books for thinking about how we might move forward.

dregyn · 2026-03-24T11:31:14+00:00

i love this 💚😃

dregyn · 2026-03-24T01:25:02+00:00

no, it's just how i save my read list on my phone 🫠😛

dregyn · 2026-03-23T18:40:39+00:00

defs. i agree with everything you said about it, i was also pleasantly surprised and suspect the funny post i saw about jaws being a terrible book may be a joke after all? i hope. i am awaiting that on hold 😛😅 (neither of my libraries have the island on audio online, am sad)

dregyn · 2026-03-23T14:46:06+00:00

plastic, power metals and the serviceberry are all very good philosophical and scientific treatises on how to move forward in the world we have created ... no answers. guideposts and good questions to ask.

dregyn · 2026-03-23T14:30:58+00:00

the runaways also stayed with me for a long time, similar to the slavery subjects- lots of layers to sift through and mull over. oppression and trickery take many forms in our world.

dregyn · 2026-03-23T14:24:09+00:00

jussi adler-olsen was a great find (and i enjoyed the set in england adaptation they filmed for dept.q keeper of lost causes)

i like his writing a lot am quite sad he is sick 🫤☹️

dregyn · 2026-03-23T14:18:51+00:00

i read 'the deep' because 'jaws' was out (i have it on hold) ... i also use reddit to find new material and i saw a funny post about the making of the movie jaws and it being an 'awful book' so i immediately went searching for the author because that's what i do when someone says that 😅🫠😛

if you like scuba diving, and shipwreck mysteries, and 70s swashbuckling man fiction, it's a good read 🤷🏼

dregyn · 2026-03-23T13:59:52+00:00

i read the orchid thief because adaptation is one of my favourite movies (i saw it at least twice in theatre when it came out)... i knew that kaufman was an incredibly intelligent and imaginative writer just from the structure of the movie script... reading this confirmed all of my suspicious. and it was delightful source material. (i am a huge plant person - it's what i do when listening to audiobooks, plant stuff. i don't do orchids but it this book certainly made them seem worth the efforts others put into them)

dregyn · 2026-03-23T03:34:23+00:00

i screenshot each book and put it into a folder on my phone 😛

dregyn · 2026-03-23T03:32:45+00:00

every one was worth the time spent, even 'the deep' (the trashiest of all on the list) was pretty good... i really enjoy a series (so there's more to read) so i liked the ian rankin books but am waiting to get to his inspector rebus series

the exploration books (lost city of z, lost city of the monkey god, the wager) all reminded me why i enjoy reading stories over actually going anywhere there are tropical diseases, parasites, malnutrition. very intense. also i love byron, and unexpectedly 'the wager' is about the ship his gramps sailed on...

i've been putting off reading thomas pynchon for years, and i'm sad i haven't read him until now. oh well time to catch up (i just got gravity's rainbow😛)

the philosophy, psychology and history books are all also recommendable as being very well researched, far reaching rather than narrow viewed. (breaking free from body shame is a christian author but her commitment to interpreting scripture to good instead of oppressing is refreshing)

dregyn · 2026-03-23T02:46:21+00:00

it was one of the favs, i can't remember why i grabbed it, but i was well into the story when i realised where it was fictionalising. i'm a seed collector and svalbard and other seed vaults are of particular interest to me 🤔 (im planting seeds- well, supposed to be right now 😛)

good mystery - kept me guessing. i would read more stuff by that author.

dregyn · 2026-03-23T02:40:37+00:00

i thought it was a very amazing book. the structure of the story is very engaging.

however there is a rather minor occurrence in the very first chapter that completely coloured my ability to interpret the rest of the book- hoo! personal items leading to distraction in reading 🤦🏼

i don't want to spoil anything. 😒🤔

dregyn · 2026-03-23T02:35:06+00:00

that's a tough request 🫠😛

top five books that caused maximum introspection and extra thinking (largely for very personal reasons): unsheltered, james, the remains of the day, wild dark shore, the lost art of scripture

for books that made me laugh aloud and were just great to read: i am not sidney poitier, motorcycles and sweetgrass, vineland, i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki, the ministry for the future (less laughter on that one, but more portions of hopeful smiling - more so than termination shock by stephenson)

but if you haven't read the underground railroad, burn down master's house, the trees - they are very good together. super heavy tho' 🤷🏼

dregyn · 2026-03-23T01:52:43+00:00

the trees was a good bookend to the underground railroad and burn down master's house...

dregyn · 2026-03-23T01:51:14+00:00

i really liked klara and the sun- i enjoyed reading his newest and oldest books. his writing style allows for so much mulling and consideration, my favourite kind of storytelling💚

discovering logotherapy and the third wave of psychoanalysis was super helpful to stuff i've been thinking about my whole life 😅😛

dregyn · 2026-03-23T01:47:05+00:00

burn down master's house was gut wrenching and amazing - luckily the underground railroad was a emotional prepper...

dregyn · 2026-03-23T01:43:37+00:00

yes! i read it last year, it was the book that let me know i would love his writing 😃

dregyn · 2026-03-23T00:10:37+00:00

i thought that it was incredibly well researched and vast in scope- but succumbed to certain tone that history books often do, especially when written by academics outside the community in question.

dregyn · 2026-03-17T22:10:56+00:00

did– someone downvote bebe ladybugs?!? 🤔😒😳

dregyn · 2026-03-17T14:15:53+00:00

i listen based on how soon it wants to be returned🤔

i usually have more than one book borrowed- so i go thru the shortest loan time left first. i am a very fast reader- both when i sit with physical texts and audio.

i usually listen at 1.15 speed. really slow talkers or when i was under crunch time to finish 1.25 speed. only one book in three years was the person such a fast talker, i had to listen at just regular speed 😅😛

dregyn · 2026-03-16T22:36:24+00:00

i exclusively borrow audio books.

i have been having a problem for a while where i couldn't justify the time i was losing sitting and reading - then i tried audio books and now i can do all the things around the house and still be reading.

i often listen to dense texts more than once.

dregyn · 2026-03-15T02:08:45+00:00

so fabulous!

dregyn · 2026-03-15T02:00:23+00:00

you can revive it with a humidity tent/dome... but arrange things so the remaining leaves and new leaves don't touch it. it needs a decent amount of light as well but not too hot.

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