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Practicing Simplicity (2022), Jodi Wilson

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

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Books Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon !Pasted image 20260422212255.png Book cover of Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon A young and idealistic American nurse signs up for the Vietnam War and discovers things aren't as rosy as the reports they get back home. 22 April 2026
Books Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (audiobook relisten) !Pasted image 20260422214456.png Book cover of Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir Waking up on a space ship alone with no memories, a school teacher has to figure out who he is, how he got there, and how he's supposed to save Earth, with science. Also there's an alien. And a lot of science. 22 April 2026
Books I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman !Pasted image 20260422212825.png Book cover of I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman A young woman is raised in an underground bunker along with 39 other female prisoners, and finds her freedom after their captors flee an unknown threat. 22 April 2026
Books The Women, Kristin Hannah (book club) !Pasted image 20260422212255.png Book cover of The Women by Kristin Hannah A young and idealistic American nurse signs up for the Vietnam War and discovers things aren't as rosy as the reports they get back home. 22 April 2026
Books Cézanne (2010), Parkstone International !Pasted image 20260311212605.png Book cover of Cézanne A short and accessible book about unappreciated-in-his-time 19th century artist Paul Cézanne. I'm not terribly familiar with art history and it was nice to get this taster in an easy to understand way, whilst still introducing me to ways of discussing art that I don't currently have the language for. 7 March 2026
Books Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid (book club) !Pasted image 20260224210702.png Book cover of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid Set in the 1980s, a cohort of astronauts in training includes some of the first women to go into space. Also there's a love story. Does it all work together? Sort-of. But not my favourite. 24 February 2026
Books Dark Emu (2014), Bruce Pascoe !Pasted image 20260311211725.png Book cover of Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe Aboriginal people in pre-colonial times engaged in grew and stored crops, made complex fish traps, sometimes lived in villages with large buildings, and cultivated the land in a way that allowed them to thrive in some of the most difficult places to live. I don't think I was ever taught this in history. 24 February 2026
Books The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin !Pasted image 20260220210634.png \- Humans from Earth, having stripped the planet of its natural resources, have come to colonise and cut down forests of another planet, Athshe. The native people of the planet are considered primitive and inferior, and are horribly exploited, enslaved and brutalised to the point that they're forced to abandon their peaceful nature and retaliate. 16 January 2026

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