2025-07-17 - Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
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Someone mentioned Arboreality on Mastodon and it looked interesting!
I checked it out from the local library and picked it up the other
day. When i began reading the book, i could not put it down. It
was hauntingly beautiful and melancholy.
What did i like about the book?
As a bibliophile, i loved the compelling image of a great library in
ruin, unfunded and decaying while desperate and intellectual
volunteers triage the damage. I love the connections. With
resignation a volunteer rescues an apparently decadent and useless
book. That book passes hands several times. It turned out to be
just the ticket for redemption.
Arboreality is intensely personal. It is slim but dense with an
immersive depth of detail. Not a word is wasted. The language is
plain, but courageous in scope. I felt as though a grandiose mind
were feeding me the crystallized "true story" about where "we" are
going, distilled from a daunting hyperlink binge. This is the
story of collapse into a smaller future, but done gracefully, told
without war or senseless starvation.
I liked Dana McFarland's review of this book:
What Is Credible Hope In This Place?
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https://thebcreview.ca/2024/04/04/2122-mcfarland-campbell/>
I read this while listening to an electronic "chillout" mix.
Note: This mix was posted with the wrong metadata and playlist.
Le Zephyr by DJ Silence
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gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/ia/
details/dj_silence_-_from_heaven_25_-_le_zephyr_2011>
author: Campbell, Rebecca, 1975-
detail: <
https://whereishere.ca/arboreality/>
LOC: PS8605.A5483 A73
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