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What happens when apes are given human genes and develop a human-like brain, all in the name of making them more capable of surviving the evils man has done to them & their habitat? Such a bonobo is placed in the care of the Duttons, until they are forced to return sweet smart Umber to Africa, where augmented apes may be on a killing spree. Quite a thriller; I loved it, getting to know Umber, and then discovering who was truly evil. ⬇️

#thoughtfulthursday

1) I have routines I‘ve never really thought of as rituals, but I guess they are. One is I must start my day with hot black tea—the smell makes me happy—a good way to start the day

2) Almost always. Tagged book was tonight‘s read

3) I‘ve had tinnitus, a loud whistle in both ears, my whole life so I‘m not sure what total quiet must feel like

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#EquatorialGuinea

#readingafrica2022

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I just learned that Spanish is the official language of #EquatorialGuinea. I confirmed it on Wikipedia because I didn‘t quite believe it. The country had been a Spanish colony. So many of the countries seemed to have been French colonies so I had made the wrong assumption.

#readingafrica2022

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I‘m at a point in the tagged book in which reporters have just booked into the only hotel in an #EquatorialGuinea town and I decided to look it up on Google satellite. There is only one hotel in town, with a different name, but I became fascinated with looking at these countries I‘ve been reading about. This is such a cool way to bring #readingafrica2022 to life!! I highly recommend it. Why haven‘t I done this before?. @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

A few factoids about #EquatorialGuinea

#readingafrica2022

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

#20in4readathon wrap up:

I‘d hoped to finish the three books I was reading on May 27 since I had a lot of reading time recovering from surgery. Unfortunately a lot of that time was spent sleeping from the painkillers. I finished A Fish Caught in Time, and read about 30 pages of Dark Inheritance. I only listened to a few minutes to When the Ground is Hard. I had almost no listening opportunities. Still I‘m happy with the progress I did make.

Third book coincidence in as many days and from three entirely different books: men‘s preoccupation with sex. Hopefully three‘s a charm, and I won‘t have any more such references.

I liked my previous book coincidences better—I remember a few years back when every book I read somehow got in something about the Ottoman Empire.

I‘ve read tons of the Gears‘ books about early Native Americans and so I anticipate this to be an excellently researched and well written book. Here a professor is explaining evolution in equatorial Africa

#readingafrica2022 #EquatorialGuinea

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

This is my next ebook to read for #readingafrica2022. It‘s set in #EquatorialGuinea

It‘s available for Kindle Unlimited subscribers

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB