the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the “how was your week” thread isn’t a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples’ posts aren’t getting lost.
tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don’t gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this’ll be a good way of getting to know all the people you’re now on here with
I would be extremely interested in notification books, I’m currently working on Pests by Bethany BrookShire, what are you into? What’s the best one you’ve read this year?
generally i am an equal opportunity reader. the past few months have been a climate change nonfiction binge so there are a lot of books i can talk about in that field. i’ll probably make that a separate reply since it’s so long. outside of that the most recent one i finished was Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. his entire bibliography is a pretty good read, particularly Into Thin Air about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster and Into the Wild, abut the late and eclectic wilderness guy Christopher Johnson McCandless.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There is a curious one about a fake 9/11 survivor which is accompanied by a movie of the same name. both are pretty good; i saw the movie before the book. for lighter reading, Coyote America is a fun one–that’s about the eponymous coyote and its history as a species. reaching a little further back i was also a fan of A History of America in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps because i love it when books analyze history through an unconventional lens like that
and here’s all the climate change books. my suggested permutations:
ordered by year
California specific appendix