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!bookworms any of you guys have any recommendations on botany and gardening? Something basic and something a bit more advanced.
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I've been reading
one of the worst books 
😔📚 ever shat out by the hands 
of Man 👞
It's a novelization of fricking
comics 
written in the 90s
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Uh wrong, you're holding kino in your hands.
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Finally finished LOTR. I don't remember the last time I spent that long reading a single series and I'm kind of sad it's over. What a good read.
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Nice, I'm just getting started on LOTR. I'm only on chapter 3 so I don't have too much to talk about yet, but I'm really enjoying it. One thing that sticks out to me is that despite the strong sense of place and descriptions of physical environments, there don't seem to be many physical descriptions of characters (I think Gandalf has gotten the most so far). If I've seen a book's movie I try to create my own images instead of imagining Elijah Wood or whatever, but it can be easy to just fill in a blank with what I've seen on screen. What do you do?
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I use a mix of the movie, the old animated LOTR and also this book:
https://www.amazon.ca/Brothers-Hildebrandts-Lord-Pocket-Companion/dp/0762413832
The vintage art was much closer to the description of the people and clothes/armor than the movies in most cases imo
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When I read them, by the end of the first book I had a wholly different image of Frodo in my head just from reading the text. He is probably the most changed character (for the worse) and I'm honestly continually surprised by how many people overlook this with regards to the "faithfulness" of the adaptation.
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My friend is trying to convert me to Catholicism after converting himself. It's a valiant effort, and I'm reading his book recs of The Jewish Roots of Mary and Pope Peter by Heschmeyer. These are apparently the books that will address the problems I have with Catholics and Catholicism. If I actually end up converting, I'll impress my past self with my openmindedness, you know because 1: I'm gay and 2: I think papal infallibility is devil worship in action.
Hopefully we will have good conversations with each other about this.
That and I'm continuing to read the Bible, it's very dense.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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I'm reading
rdrama 
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I ordered the first book in the xeelee sequence (Raft), should arrive tomorrow. A real book, I miss having one in the hand instead of my phone with ebooks on it
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im reading this post
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Not botany or gardening but tangentially related books i have read
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Got Killers of the Flower Moon
I'll probably start reading it in the new year. 
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Finally picked up a "Culture Series" book. I liked it. I can see why a lot of the tech weirdos really like them.
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Just finished Orlando while at an anime convention and with electro music blaring in my ears
It's what virginia Woolf would have wanted, I'm sure
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Just started James Beard's Delights and Prejudices
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