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I'm reading "Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren and it's both fascinating and beautifully written. Usually I wait until I'm done to post a review, but I wanted to share this excellent excerpt as a teaser:
"So how to combine a liter of fluid with active agents, customized according to the patient's weight and status, while keeping everything sterile? If this is for the ER or the ICU, we have about ten minutes to make it happen. Fortunately for the patient, there is a sleep-starved teenager apprenticed to a chain-smoking barmaid in the basement who is ready for action."
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Reading commentators read my message out again hehe
#fedifc #ReadingFC

Finished #reading Jules Vernes "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" (Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine // Die Leiden eines Chinesen in China) today.
I liked every book of JV I've read. But this was the first one literally made me laugh. Was a lot of fun. Poor Soun.
#books

aivi & surasshu make my fav background music when reading
#music

Am reading short stories by Raymond Chandler, and this intro is just brilliant:
"IT MUST HAVE been Friday because the fish smell from the Mansion House coffee-shop next door was strong enough to build a garage on."
#books #reading

My family has started taking up the tradition of group silent reading sessions where we all cozy up in the living room and read our own books. I started the Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo tonight and loved this simple quote that works for both the past and present. #reading

I sent in a message to Reading today and they read it out during the match and then called me good lad
and while I did follow it up to say im a good lass
it did feel good to be called a good lad by the delightful Reading commentators hehe
#fedifc #ReadingFC

I love Mortal Engines and i love reading stories in that universe. If you like those perfect books you will also enjoy this. Not on the same level as the OG series.
#books #reading

#Reading causes insanity. #SupportIndependentBookstores

2% of Americans with a child under 9 years old say that they read with their child.
#reading #children #education

And at least here in #NYC, I see evidence of people #reading all the time.
1 - Bookstores all over the city have customers at any time of day - they are often full, I struggle to get through to certain shelves at times.
2 - Every time I ride the subway i see someone reading a paper book on the train. Same thing with most times I go to any park or most cafes (at least ones where people sit alone).
3 - I have a friend who works at a major book #publisher and she’s been telling me all year that their sales are some of the best they’ve ever been. They’ve had multiple instances of needing to urgently order more books printed because of certain titles getting way more demand than expected. Those aren’t all celebrity memoirs or newest trendy fantasy either - it often happens with older titles, across genres.
4 - Nearly every acquaintance I have in the city (not just my friends) reads on a regular basis. I hear about books people have read and see them pulling books out all the time - most of the people I know read at least a book a month.

5 - I went to Brooklyn’s #Book Festival last month and it was FULL.
So many people even at the very end of the day - people buying books, people walking around and sitting down in any spot they could find in the park to start reading what they got.
I heard multiple vendors talking to each other about how they didn’t bring enough stock to meet demand that day - in fact I couldn’t buy anything from multiple vendors I wanted to support because they had so few books left, and sold out of the ones I was interested in.
#NYC #reading

Read the first of Martha Well's Murderbot books, "All Systems Red" in which a security drone rescues it's crew from violence and death on the planet they're exploring.
The robot seems barely distinguished from the cyborgs and the humans really. Certainly organic parts, autonomy, inner life. Seems to not particularly like the humans but also seems to be pretty much like one.
Seemed short, like the first episode of a show rather than the whole series. Which I suppose I should have expected if I'd noticed it was a novella. There is indeed a whole series of them. Given I bought 'em in a bundle expect I'll read more.
#reading #murderBot #marthaWells #allSystemsRed

sammy's gonna fill the camelbak with rosé
i'm squeezing in watching this Reading match while we're on the way to the theatre for 24hr horror movie marathon (the main point of me coming out to philly to begin with)
#ReadingFC