TalkGreenToMe

Recycled Reads | Austin, TX (Bookstore)

Alrighty then. I didn‘t manage to make it out without buying anything this time. I also managed to finish a sizeable chunk of the book club book that I decided to wait until the last minute to start (standard practice, tbh). The other regular member of the #TalkGreenToMe group isn‘t making it tonight so I‘m gonna hang out for a bit and then go home.

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | Elizabeth Kolbert

Ok, so the #TalkGreenToMe book club meets tomorrow and I‘m only 6% done with the book. 😬 Right now I‘m reading about permafrost thawing and, not to be alarmist, but we‘re all going to die. I keep hoping I won‘t live to see how this all ends but I become increasingly afraid that I will. Don‘t worry about those plastic straws because we‘re going down in flames, possibly quite literally. Or in some version of the Big Water from Trial of Lightning.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I read her The Sixth Extinction and have meant to pick this one up ever since, but I agree...that book proved to me that the alarm bells were ringing on high alert, and no one seems to care.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Hooked_on_books The Sixth Extinction from her is outstanding. I found the tagged book a little tougher to get through, as it‘s a bit drier. I‘m sure it will spur great conversation, though. 5y

jpmcwisemorgan @Hooked__on__books I‘ve read The Sixth Extinction. I recall liking it but I don‘t think it was really too much of a surprise. This one isn‘t, either, but I sometimes like to forget that the clock is ticking and we‘re not doing anything to change it. We‘ve been past changing light bulbs and fuel efficient cars for a long time but that‘s what it seems people think will save us. 5y

jpmcwisemorgan @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yes, I liked that one. I think Hooked_on_books is right about this one because it is a bit drier, and is heavier on the science but still reasonably accessible if you‘ve read other similar books. So far, I wouldn‘t recommend it to someone new to environmental issues. 5y

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | Elizabeth Kolbert

If you‘re in Austin or the Austin area, join me on Thursday, July 25th at Recycled Reads (Burnet) from 7pm to 8 pm to discuss this book. #TalkGreenToMe

Soubhiville You should share this event on Slack for the #LitsyATXreadersSociety ladies! I‘m marking my calendar. Do I need to read the book in order to attend? 6y

jpmcwisemorgan @Soubhiville No, you don‘t. We often talk about other books we‘ve read or what‘s happening in the news. I‘m going to make a real effort to read this one, I often only get half way through a book before the meeting. 😬 6y

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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply | Vandana Shiva

If you‘re in the Austin area and are interested in the #TalkGreenToMe book club this is the book we‘re reading for May. We will meet May 23rd, 7-8 pm, at Recycled Reads.

Overall goal is to read books peripheral or directly related to the Green New Deal, until something actually comes out.

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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being, and why No One Saw it Coming | Paul Hawken

My #firstpost was for a #TalkGreenToMe book club selection. My #firstlike was from @brenna (last seen 3 yrs ago) and @ShatterMeFangirl and my #firststack wad on The Lies of Locke Lamora by @ThomasHewlett (last seen 3 yrs ago) and @Book_Gnome (last seen 8 mos ago). The #first time I did my firsts was for @RealLifeReading but now @Texreader is calling me out!

ThomasHewlett 3 years ago! Damn. Been too long. Time to get back on here.
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jpmcwisemorgan @ThomasHewlett Are you rejoining us? (edited) 6y

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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered | E. F. Schumacher

Guess who hasn‘t started her book club book, again? 😬

I‘m not entirely sure that we value communities over corporations. We may want to but we don‘t put it into practice.

#TalkGreenToMe

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Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age | Myra MacPherson

I'm at Recycled Reads for the #TalkGreenToMe book club and I shopped, of course. This book caught my eye. I figured it would be a good addition to my nonfiction reads.

Soubhiville I love that place! 7y

catsuit_mango The blue volume on the top looks like a tardis diary from Doctor Who... 7y

jpmcwisemorgan @catsuit_mango It is! It's unused too. It's probably being gifted to a friend who is also a fan of the show. @Soubhiville I do too! I used to be closer to it and I'm both sad and happy that I don't anymore (I used to cart home boxes of books). (edited) 7y

catsuit_mango Very cool present! 7y

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamond

Reading this for the #TalkGreentoMe bookclub (meets in real life at Recycled Reads in Austin). It's a big book so I need to start now in order to have it done by January 12th. We didn't know how timely this would be when we chose it.

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