so-soThis book was for my #readingaroundtheworld challenge, for the country of #Comoros. For me this was a hard book to read, not because of the subject matter but the way it was punctuated.
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so-soThis book was for my #readingaroundtheworld challenge, for the country of #Comoros. For me this was a hard book to read, not because of the subject matter but the way it was punctuated.
Last challenge update. My apologies for taking over your feed tonight!
These are the books I own and hope to read for #readingafrica2022. Some of the books cover multiple countries, so I‘m hoping I‘m capable of getting this done. I still have a few countries I haven‘t gotten books for yet, but I have high hopes! @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
I just realized I can move #Comoros and #EquatorialGuinea to the books I‘ve read! Whoohoo!
pickAn unusual fish known from the fossil record and believed to go extinct 70+ million years ago was found by an amateur icthyologist in a 1930s fish market, leading to an all-out manhunt for a live coelacanth. This is the story of the fish‘s heroes and a little about its villains (those who “discovered” its mythical medical properties leading to attempts to poach it like ivory). An excellent history if a bit dated. #comoros #readingafrica2022
pickI never thought that I will like book about fish … but I did. Till 1938 scientists were convinced that Coelacanths were extinct. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was curator in the small museum, always in the hunt for unusual species, and as soon as she saw to her unknown fish, she contacted the ichthyologist JLB Smith… and the treasure hunt has begun. Surprisingly readable, even a tense story about the fish that is supposed to be a missed link 👇
Status of the #readingafrica2022 challenge. I‘m trying to finish the following for #20in4readathon:
1) When the Ground is Hard (audio), #Swaziland #Eritrea
2) Dark Inheritance (ebook), #EquatorialGuinea
3) A Fish Caught in Time (IRL), #Comoros
Since I‘m down for the count with my right arm almost immobile until at least next Tuesday, the timing of this readathon is impeccable. Plan: finish all 3 books I‘m reading now for #readingafrica2022:
1) When the Ground is Hard (audio), #Swaziland #Eritrea
2) Dark Inheritance (ebook), #EquatorialGuinea
3) A Fish Caught in Time (IRL), #Comoros
I may try to start my next book for #foodandlit #Colombia, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree
@Andrew65
“Homo sapiens first walked on earth only a hundred thousand years ago; the fish before me, suspended in murky formalin, pre-dated modern man by 399.9 million years.“
#Comoros #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
I love getting such a nice descriptive vision of the islands I‘m soon to read about. #Comoros #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
