I'm recommending the Sand County Almanac. This book changed my life. Its science. Its poetic. its an incredible appreciation of the natural world and all of its wonders. Published in 1949 and yet every single thing in this book is so relative today. I loved nature before reading this. I admired mountains, and forests, and wildlife. I understood the circle of life, keystone species, the big picture planet stuff. But this book, OHHH GOD, THIS BOOK made me look at earth and all of its idiosyncrasies in a way I truly could have never imagined in my life. I was breaking out posted notes. I was crying I was reading and re reading. I was highlighting paragraphs on end. I have never tasted a book this delicious in my life. This book wasn't written on the peak of Everest, it wasn't written in the depths of the Marianas trench. It wasn't even written in a forest! It was written from a small log cabin near the Illinois Wisconsin border. The fact that this admiration came from a man with a family and a tiny piece of land in the mid west brings me to absolute fucking tears. I truly mean it when I say it that if everyone read this book the world would be a much better place.
What a great podcast! I love Harper-Rose and I'm so glad i came here to listen you guys talk about books you care about. Definitely need to check these out soon❤
I dunno how you feel about memoirs but Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime" is an amazing read. The book does a good job of showing what it was like to be young and biracial in an Africa still struggling to get rid of Apartheid but there is still a lot of humor and happy moments in the pages.
