Mike Sowden Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mike Sowden

@JacquelynGill Reading @theAliceRoberts livetweeting her reaction to it was enough for me. (Also, when I studied archaeology at York 20 years ago, Mr Hancock was mentioned with the same facepalmy tone of voice that people use with David Icke or Alex Jones today.)

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Thrilled right down to my boots to have @lewis_dartnell's latest book to dive into (his last, "Origins", was the best thing I read in 2022). And based on reading the first chapter, the new one's equally magnificent. Go preorder this thing: https://t.co/O6otxObZwe https://t.co/hsTxAVpr9m

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@JacquelynGill If there's one thing I'd love for us all to teach the generations of tomorrow, it's to stop "tidying up" the natural world. George Monbiot explains this so well in "Feral", & it's stuck with me ever since. (A better idea? Spending that energy tidying up the mess *we* leave.) https://t.co/uMGS47KlIu

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“Life is short -  but it’s real wide." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, via Rob Walker's The Art Of Noticing newsletter: https://t.co/tzqiVQDJTS

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But blue is poignant. I stand by that, and so does Rebecca Solnit, who wrote about it so beautifully in "A Field Guide To Getting Lost"... That distant blue? You will never arrive in it. It'll always outpace you. 14/ https://t.co/tMG70AnIGm

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@AdamRutherford @sixteenthCgirl @SangitaMyska A book that's really helped me is Jenny Odell's "How To Do Nothing" (https://t.co/SVD5DgA8Ft). It's a perfect example of the value of sitting with ideas long enough to really, truly think about them - and it looks hard at how social media's messed with our ability to focus.

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@Heather_Poole There's just something about the way they used to make books... I have a sixteen-vol. series of the works of Charles Dickens, from 1910. Fourteen are in storage, & the first two books are with me as I live out of a backpack in a cabin in Scotland. The weight is so worth it. https://t.co/SqzgH0KXth

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@anne_theriault Hi Anne. Random Dude Who Follows You Suddenly Says Stuff alert: You write so beautifully, & you have written so beautifully. If your rare voice is doing a spot of wintering right now (as Katherine May would put it) to get its breath back, I'd say it's bloody well earned...

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