Welcome to Litsy!

I‘ve been reading this a chapter a week with my book club, and it has been very enjoyable. Magnetic North is a travel log from a woman in the Arctic, and this edition had an afterword ten years later after climate change had really started to take hold. #NonFictionNovember

I liked that this book looked at climate change from more of a non-western point of view that I usually see. I also appreciated the comparison between Pope Francis‘ Laudato si‘ and the Paris Climate Accord. #Naturalitsy @AllDebooks #NonfictionNovember

It took me all month to read this just because I knew the ending, and it‘s so easy to judge in hindsight. I‘m glad I persevered though because the afterword was excellent. #NonfictionNovember

This book has a lot of succinct humpback whale information, + black and white and color photographs. It suited my purpose to prepare me for a whale watching tour perfectly. It was published in the 1990s so I don‘t know that I would necessarily recommend it as I‘m sure there are other books with more updated research.
I took this where we saw a mother and calf near Lahaina, intending to take it with whales, but living in the moment won!
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This library audiobook hold came in right in time for my day off plus #NonfictionNovember Highly recommend! Read well by the author. I learned so much, including:

* Tuberculosis aka Consumption sparked fashion trends
* It kills over a million people a year still today
* About 25% of the world‘s population has been infected by it
* It‘s almost completely treatable and even curable

So this is unexpected. I bought this a couple of years ago, and am only now getting to it, in a last-ditch attempt to read something for #nonfictionnovember.

I spent a delightful morning learning about sandhoppers. They groom themselves, to ensure their waxy exterior stays in good condition.

And this afternoon, I‘ve been treated to a discussion on whether prawns experience anxiety. Which, if I‘m honest, isn‘t something I expected to care about.

Today I learned these yew trees may have inspired Tolkien‘s door into Moria. It‘s a perfect Tree A Day and Tolkien crossover.

#ATreeADay #NaturaLitsy #FellowshipOfTolkien #NonfictionNovember #NFNovember #TodayILearned

It‘s non fiction November so I‘m posting my current read. This is the true story that inspired Colson Whitehead‘s book the Nickel Boys. I‘ve just started this and it is already gut wrenching and heartbreaking.
#nonfictionnovember

Despite further proof that we are fucked, I loved this #nonfictionnovember

I. Did. It. #finishwhatyoustarted #nonfictionnovember #allergictochunksters 11 years ago my brother in law gifted this to me, it was an absolute favourite of his and it makes sense to me how it resonated with him. As a woman, I feel the lack of female representation in this gigantic tome of a book appalling. It starts with son and ends with father which is a beautiful full circle for him as a gay man but leaves out 50% of the population