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Mat

okwithmydecay@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Mat's books

2024 Reading Goal

66% complete! Mat has read 8 of 12 books.

Naomi Klein: On Fire (AudiobookFormat, Penguin Books Ltd) 4 stars

Daunting yet inspiring and hopeful

4 stars

Before listening to this, I didn't know much about The Green Deal, and by the end of the book I was inspired and hopeful of the transformation it could be bring to society and the economy.

The book is quite sobering at times, as Klein discusses the challenges ahead, and the limited time to act. However, it feels very much like a call to arms to demand the stop of new fossil fuel extraction, preempting groups such as Just Stop Oil.

An Yu: Braised Pork (Paperback, 2021, Penguin Random House) 3 stars

One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the …

One for the Murakami fans

3 stars

With its fantastical moments, this will appeal to fans of Murakami, though whether they are an allegory or to be taken literally is up to the reader.