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Couldn‘t put it down

I took advantage of home time to reorganize one bookshelf, here is a partial shelfie. They are crammed in but there are no piles on the floor! And I selected 4 books to let go of because I will not read them. So just under 1% of the books on this shelf haha. At least it‘s something right! Do you see any I should aim to read this year? These are all unread.

Remembered to snap a pic just before returning this.

An excellent pop-science non-fiction book about past mass extinctions and possible future ones. This is the hundred million mile (year) high view so the author doesn‘t get into a ton of detail about each but I love his style which is a mix of awe and sarcasm.

‼️ WARNING ‼️ It did put me in a pretty dark headspace by the end.

It‘s been many months (almost a year!) since I last shared my #bedsidetablebooks

Did some Sunday morning reading but now it‘s time to get to work on my chores for the day and come back to these in the evening.

Went a little wild with spooky/mysterious/disturbing library holds for October. I‘ve read one already and am currently reading the tagged.

Absolutely loved this book. If you have any interest in looking into mass extinctions in geological history. This book is great.
Peter Brannen provides a look at a variety of different theories for each of the 5 mass extinction events (and possible future events) most commonly known, but covers the theories in such a way that you can make up your own mind what you believe, as he makes clear that they are all hotly debated.

Love! Lots of interesting information and just makes me want to read more about the history of Earth. The chapters at the end, about our time and the last extinction, might be my favorite.

Good book, wrong format. There‘s too much info in this for audio, it would have been best suited as a book with lots of pictures, or even better: a tv series! There‘s only so many names of time periods and extinct creatures a person can remember.

The Ends of the World was a wild ride through hundreds of millions of years of strange creatures both great and small, and 5 major mass extinctions that all but ended life on Earth. While on the journey Brannen points out undeniable similarities between then and present day. I have to say I experienced a lot of anxiety while reading this. Particularly the last two chapters. But it isn't and shouldn't be all doom and gloom. There is still hope.

"With his paean to 'the Pale Blue Dot,' Carl Sagan helped to illustrate how utterly marooned we are in our tiny, far-flung corner of space. But we are similarly marooned in time, between incomprehensible eternities."

For some reason I find this terrifying.

The epitaph for humanity does not yet have to include the tragic indictment of having engineered the sixth major mass extinction in earth history.

I have a certain morbid fascination with things that have ended and will end eventually. So I couldn't just leave this book on the shelf. I hope it's as good as the opening chapter.

A super informative look at the big five extinction events in the history of Earth. Most of us know about the one that ended the dinosaurs but it was interesting to read the different theories about the others. The later chapters ask if we‘re currently in a sixth extinction event with a few different viewpoints. The book is pretty easy to read and the author does a good job describing the world as it was then. Pretty neat book for archeology fans!

Never fear kids, science has an opinion on the important T. Rex vs Polar Bear fight.

Always go with the dinosaur.

Just got this book ordered via Waterstones. A friend picked it up for me as I was working an awkward shift, but looking forward to tucking into it after work today :)

The science in here was great, and I‘d love to be able to recommend it without reservation. Unfortunately, the author was an insufferable dudebro who inserted weird ableist and judgy asides about the various people he encountered while researching the book.

“While the Texas oil economy relies on the truth of geology, many of its inhabitants remain stubbornly resistant to its charms.”

Very meaty book that will expand your views of our tiny planet. Rich history of life and mind blowing details of our earth‘s past.

This looks interesting.