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