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A #FaveNewSong (okay newish) of mine is Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish so I‘m pairing it with the tagged book, the #Naturalitsy buddy read selection for February. 🦅 🦜🦩🦤🦢🐓

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This week‘s small library haul, plus a guide to the Châteaux of the Loire I found at the thrift store. BIRDING WITH BENEFITS is the last #AuldLangSpine title I‘ll be able to source before month‘s end, but I probably won‘t get to it until early February. HEAVENLY TYRANT is a long-awaited sequel, while the other two were impulse grabs off the shelf. I‘ve wanted to reread ORANGE for ages now, and I‘m excited to read more plays this year.

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#NaturaLitsy

Our February #buddyread is Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss. This book examines the relationship between humans and birds, using ten key species from all seven continents to tell this natural history.

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

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#NaturaLitsy

Our February #buddyread is Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss. This book examines the relationship between humans and birds, using ten key species from all seven continents to tell this natural history.

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

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#PoetryMatters Day 14: #Waddle

This isn't book related, but I have to share my newest obsession. I got a birdfeeder with a camera for Christmas. So far, it has "caught" 14 different species. Here are a few of my favorite pictures so far.

I can see why BETTER LIVING THROUGH BIRDING is so popular! Christian Cooper‘s enthusiasm really shines through. I‘m enjoying it a lot and I want to prioritize his comics the next time I have a Marvel Unlimited subscription.

That said, either the print book has teeny, tiny typeface or I find his prose style very slow. It‘s taking me forever to get through these 296 pages and my progress-to-effort ratio has made me a bit grumpy. #AuldLangSpine2025

Read in 2024. Definitely one of my favorites from last year. I listened to the audio read by the author, which was wonderful & got to hear various birds. Cooper highlighted the incident in Central Park but this book is about so much more. He discussed what led him to birding, his experiences of growing up gay in the 1980‘s, traveling the world to see birds. He interweaved his social justice with the various events throughout his life.

Final Nonfiction #ReadingBracket2024
Many great, informative, moving reads this year but this one I read back in January and I still think about it 🐦

Several people in one of my summer book groups read this one and loved it. I‘m very suggestible so I immediately bought it. Now seems like a good time to read it.