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Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit | Robert Macfarlane

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A beautifully written book on the history of mountains and mountaineering. MacFarlane has invested a great amount of research and emotion in writing this book and it is a must-have in every mountain-lover‘s library. The book delves into how mountains were perceived 200-300 years ago and traces the evolution of mountaineering in the West‘s imagination to the present day. A must read with exquisite prose.

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hedgehokey

Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer

so-so

This was a very harrowing story that makes you doubt the sanity of anyone who summits Everest. The story was well written, but a little bit rambly at times switching between 1996 and previous expeditions, at times this was lightly annoying because I wanted to hear more about what happened in 1996, but I understand that a lot of context needed to be set so that the layman (like me) could understand mountaineering terms.

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Doppoetry

Thin Air | Michelle Paver

#Bookreport

📚Currently reading:

📕Fire & Blood
📕Akechi Kogoro
📙The Witness for the Dead

Progress:

Almost forgot to post this week.

I Finished both of the Michelle Paver books. Dark Matter was far better than Thin Air but they were both enjoyable enough. Been making very good progress with F&B though I am trying to pace myself a bit to not finish it in a few days.

Doppoetry Won't pick up any audiobooks in this last week of August, but I will try to see what to listen to in September. 4mo

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Doppoetry

Thin Air | Michelle Paver

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The setting was interesting, though this was a bit less character driver than Dark Matter was. I can't say the characters were completely flat but they felt a bit more trope-y than the other book.

My main gripe with it is that a lot of the plot was copy-pasted from Dark Matter and followed the exact same story structure. You can literally draw direct parallels from both, it's a bit too on the nose if you read both.

overall it was good, though.

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Doppoetry

Thin Air | Michelle Paver

I'm gonna finish this tomorrow. I'm really liking it so far but some plot elements feel directly copy-pasted from Dark Matter which is a bit disappointing.

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Doppoetry

Thin Air | Michelle Paver

#Bookreport

📚Currently reading:

📕Fire & Blood
📕Akechi Kogoro
📙The Witness for the Dead
🎧 Thin Air & Dark Matter

Progress:

I didn't finish anything this week but I am sure that I will finish both of the Michelle Paver books as they are on the short end of things. Made good progress with F&B, I need to stop being tired in order to read the physical books.

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Shaneyney

Abominable | Dan Simmons

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so-so

While this was an ok book about mountain climbing and had some good historical information. I found it a bit tedious and was very disappointed that there wasn‘t on single abominable snow man in the whole book. I think I just went into it expecting something different. I like Simmons as an author and know that he likes to be very detailed, but the book didn‘t live up to the description on the back cover

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LibrarianRyan

Echo | Thomas Baudelet Olde Heuvelt

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2 ⭐ This is a DNF. This book was 18 hours and it feels like it. Maybe if I was reading this book instead of listening to it as an audiobook that might‘ve made a difference. I got more than four hours into it, and I don‘t care about anything that‘s happening. Plus, there is slippage going back-and-forth. different characters brought in, it‘s sometimes confusing. There is something out there in the mountains.

LibrarianRyan Two experienced climbers go to hike this peak and only one comes back. And this hiker does not come back hole. They are missing half their face due to a fall. We start the story hearing from the significant other. We hear them talk about whether they should stay with the hiker or not. How people are praised for staying when things get rough instead of parting ways. But then you also have our hiker who‘s like we “weren‘t alone on the mountain there 6mo

LibrarianRyan there was something”. I‘m at the point where the hiker is reminiscing about a hike with their grandmother. There are just so many limbs to this tree that the story is all over the place. There‘s not a linear story and it is so big and so much more than it needs to that it made the book boring. As a reader I didn‘t care about any of the characters. What I really cared about is the entity on the mountain but there‘s been nothing. No hide nor hair, 6mo

LibrarianRyan just there‘s something on the mountain. This is almost like Midsummer. A great big buildup to fizzle out to nothing and has me thinking “Why does everybody love this?” That‘s where I‘m at in this book, which is why I am at 4 1/2 hours out of 18 and DNFing.

6mo

dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

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peaKnit

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (Anchor Books) | Jon Krakauer

#WednesdayWanderings @AllDebooks @jenniferw88 @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

1. My favorite literary walks (hikes) are the tagged book as well as Wild by Cheryl Strayed
2. The terrain is vastly different looking but the feelings of solitude and loneliness seem similar. I feel inspired by the discipline and focus it takes to accomplish individual physical and mental challenges. #litsolace #midsummersolace