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@farah Cornerstones, about keystone (or cornerstone) species and their effect on British ecologies. Just finished A Room of One's Own, quite weird and quite good; should have read earlier. I do read fiction too, and recently read Offshore, a 1970s booker prize winner by penelope fitzgerald, and it was quite excellent. Mostly about life and community on the barges of the Thames.

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It's & I can share a book that I read last year. It's;

"Man Enough to be a Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County"

Excuse my ignorance, but I had never heard about Jayne County & especially the band Jayne County & the Electric Chairs.

This book corrected my ignorance & it was an interesting read. I also checked the discography of the band & loved the music as well.

Like the book & author, the music is also straight to the point.

Random things I dislike in novels, as I sprint through my fantasy story bundles:

Written accents. I like characters HAVING accents, and I love hearing those described (“liquid vowels” or “sibilant consonants” does it for me). But mangling English spelling doesn’t.

Teen protagonists. Over it already.

The “I thought I was plain but turns out I’m actually the world saver” story line. Yawn.

Excessive use of similes. There’s a lot of faces as hard as granite here.