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Finished reading Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Finished reading Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

Wants to read The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

Wants to read The Essex Serpent

Wants to read Bloom

Finished reading In My Kitchen: A Collection of New and Favorite Vegetarian Recipes

Rated An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything 10/10

Loved this. This book makes me feel like we can make it all right, if we keep going. Hadfield writes very methodical account of how he worked towards his goal of being an astronaut, but also how he made sure to have varied enough interests that, if it didn't work out, he'd still be happy. Of course, the details about life in space and what it takes to work for NASA are also fascinating. This isn't a greatly emotional, interior-looking memoir, but it doesn't have to be. There's the vastness of the universe to consider!

Finished reading If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Finished reading Automatic Noodle

Wants to read The West Passage

Finished reading A Sudden Light

Wants to read Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

Finished reading A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Finished reading All Systems Red

Finished reading White Cat, Black Dog

Wants to read What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Finished reading The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

Wants to read The Mars House

Wants to read Ancillary Justice

Wants to read Mexican Gothic

Rated The Fixer 6/10

Rated Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking 6/10

Small book, big ideas and questions to ponder: What drives us to do what we love? What gives us the confidence to keep going and what keeps us from starting at all? First printed in 1993, one might expect some of the concepts raised in this book to be slightly out of date, but in the two and a half hours it took me to finish it, I never once felt like I was reading a sixteen-year-old observation, nor did I feel any of it crossed the line into preachy self-help nonsense.<br><br>(Full review at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2009/12/art-fear-by-david-bayles-and-ted-orland.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>

Rated Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far, Vol. 2 10/10

Rated Oh No It Isn't! 8/10

I wouldn't say that every joke from 1998 held up, but this was a funny story, even to someone who is only loosely aware of Panto's tropes.

Finished reading When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance