cass Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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John McPhee is the Spielberg of nature writing, in that he has this knack for making everything *wondrous* in this specific, highly comprehensible way. Sacrilege to say? Idk! Im running off to gaze at some exposed fault lines nearby, my copy of “Assembling California” in hand.

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@jeff4llen I love contact and I love Carl Sagan 😭😭

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@malachaicroat @whatdotcd totally - we don't raise men well. bell hooks writes on this subject in an extraordinary way, that i find myself in total alignment with. "the will to change" is the book!

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Who else has read Lisa Taddeo's "Animal" and are you also in therapy now?

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Women who wrote books as teenagers, and then pretended to be men in order to get them published: S.E. Hinton (Susan) wrote "The Outsiders" at age 17, Miles Franklin (Stella) wrote "My Brilliant Career" in 10 weeks at age 16, in 1900. Just thinking 'bout them. https://t.co/d1GGhqagX8

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"The Sea Around Us" (ty @JonathanLeland) remains one of the most important, impacting, consciousness-shifting books I've yet read on the environment/this planet. I cannot recommend the writing of Rachel Carson enough: https://lithub.com/the-urgency-of-rachel-carsons-sea-trilogy-in-a-time-of-climate-crisis

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i want to write a book that’s Janet Malcom’s “Forty One False Starts” but for every time I’ve watched “Alien” and how my impressions of it and its meaning to me have fluctuated

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I love ordering (and pre-ordering) my friend's books, especially friend's books that are their first book & are getting very buzzy early reviews. :) cc @aelaineo My copy of "Overdue" is in the mail and I'm excited to read: https://bookshop.org/books/overdue-reckoning-with-the-public-library/9781641605311