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Nayler‘s pro-animal scifi with heavy environmental themes speaks to me!

This 100 page novella is fast paced and is about Wooly Mammoths that have been cloned from ancient DNA. And the ability to implant digitally saved human minds into new bodies.

I didn‘t love this as much as The Mountain in the Sea, but I tend to enjoy full novels more than novellas in general.

Pictured is Sietje at work allowing a puppy to share her bed- uncommon!

6th book read November 2024

Wow! Fascinated nonfiction book about how “conservation became a movement for the protection of all species including human”.

This book made me feel angry and sad about the atrocities made in the past that put in extinction many species. Things that I was not aware, things I ignored, shame on me, because these actions put in danger these species and I admire led some of these actions in the fashion world😔⬇️

3.75⭐️

Though I wasn‘t in love with, I absolutely wish I had someone to talk about this book with. Highly recommend for any #bookclub. It‘s been a while that a sci-fi has really made me think. It‘s truly what I love about the genre. Never thought I‘d read such an interesting approach to discussing the ivory trade and poaching issue.

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+16 points #FrightClub

I‘d call this a fascinating but stressful read. It was a big library read on Libby a while ago, and I was intrigued enough to read it. It starts out with a pretty cool prehistory of North America, and half way through it quickly spirals into a distressing tirade of environmental destruction and needless cruelty as white colonists flood the scene. Indigenous perspectives are definitely missing in this book.

I loved this book- total thought provoking and full of climate dread.

I‘m on the fence. Parts of this were intriguing and new to me, but much of what‘s covered wasn‘t. I was pretty invested in the prehistory sections but there‘s much we don‘t know about this period so I appreciate that Flores can‘t write about what we don‘t yet know. Heavily focused on the truly barbaric and heartbreaking history of humans massacring animals which I found hard to read. Hopefully we‘ve turned a corner. Audio isn‘t the best, low pick.

I think this book is largely about the pressures, from small to cataclysmic, that have impacted animal populations. The reason I‘m not sure is that I feel that the central thesis of this book got lost. It does contain some interesting facts, but mostly it‘s ground I‘ve found covered in other books. And the audiobook has some issues.

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I had to stop because the audiobook reader began to attempt various bad British accents as direct quotes from historical figures began to appear, and I just couldn‘t take it seriously anymore.