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Nelle is Currently Reading

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

bookshelves: currently-reading, non-fiction

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"Alright, already this audiobook sounds like the Narrator from Hitchhiker‘s which I think is a symbiosis of the writing and the voice actor so I‘m in" — Dec 31, 2025 06:04AM

Dec 31, 2025 05:57AM

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Firefall (Firefall, #1-2)

by Peter Watts (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, berlinscifibookclub, speculative-fiction

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Nov 27, 2025 08:38AM

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The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World

by Sandor Ellix Katz

bookshelves: currently-reading, non-fiction, plants

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Nov 21, 2025 01:36AM

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Nelle’s Quotes

“Are not all mothers capable of being monsters when it comes to their children?”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

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“Sometimes, focusing on survival is necessary. Sometimes, it is just an excuse for selfishness.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

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“This is a mere dream dreamed in a bad time, an Up Yours to the people who ride snowmobiles, make nuclear weapons, and run prison camps by a middle-aged housewife, a critique of civilisation possible only to the civilised, an affirmation pretending to be a rejection, a glass of milk for the soul ulcered by acid rain, a piece of pacifist jeanjacquerie, and a cannibal dance among the savages in the ungodly garden of the farthest West”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

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“Almost every system we exist in is cruel, and it is our job to hold ourselves accountable to a moral center separate from the arbitrary ganglion of laws that, so often, get things wrong.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“I would never accept a world where Hank might be told: “I’m sorry, but while your cancer has a 92% cure rate when treated properly, there just aren’t adequate resources in the world to make that treatment available to you.” That world would be so obviously and unacceptably unjust. So how can I live in a world where Henry and his family are told that? How can I accept a world where over a million people will die this year for want of a cure that has existed for nearly a century?”
― John Green

tags: global-health, inequality, injustice, tuberculosis

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