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Melissa’s 2024 Year in Books
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Middle Earth, where I would spend all my time in the Shire eating good food and taking long walks.
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| The poems of Jodie Hollander's Nocturne gather the strands of childhood trauma, rage, grief, and loss into a strong cord that pulls the reader toward, at last, the realization that "my life is more than enough / to be alive is a blessing." It feels e ...more | |
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| You'll never look at roads the same way again after reading Ben Goldfarb's Crossings. This wonderfully written, frequently funny, book takes readers on a global tour of the infrastructure that we all use but rarely think deeply about; he explores eve ...more | |
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| You'll never look at roads the same way again after reading Ben Goldfarb's Crossings. This wonderfully written, frequently funny, book takes readers on a global tour of the infrastructure that we all use but rarely think deeply about; he explores eve ...more | |
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon:
"Near the conclusion of the book, the author asks, "What does "wild" mean, anyway?" And decides: "A wild place isn't one unchanged by humans. It's a place that changes us."
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“Wright may have been the first person within the Park Service to clearly articulate the idea that “unimpaired” meant keeping healthy, functioning ecosystems intact.”
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
“Our tools, Leopold proclaimed, “suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides. But they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
“But Holmstrom’s words stand out boldly from the rest, as if perhaps someone traced them afresh in the intervening years. They read: “To the girl who proved me badly mistaken.”
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
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| Goodreads Choice ...: Theresa's 2023 Yearly Challenges | 3 | 205 | Jan 01, 2023 08:42PM | |
| Book Nook Cafe: Library book recommendation lists ~~ 2023 | 247 | 135 | Dec 22, 2023 09:25AM | |
| AlexandriaLibraryVA: All Alexandria Reads 2024 | 1 | 1 | Mar 16, 2024 08:52AM | |
| AlexandriaLibraryVA: Brave the Wild River | 1 | 62 | Mar 18, 2024 09:44AM | |
| AlexandriaLibraryVA: Melissa Sevigny | 1 | 4 | Apr 03, 2024 11:31AM | |
| Book Nook Cafe: The Book Salon ~~ July 2024 | 563 | 49 | Aug 05, 2024 05:19PM |
