My work is up and down like a yoyo at the moment, to help avoid doom scrolling during quiet patches I’ve decided to start reading (nobody at work is going to pay attention to plain text on my screen, we’re all in the same boat).
I’ve got a copy of Naomi Altman’s The Power to start off with … any other recommendations?
(Obviously can’t be anything smutty or very funny because I need to be low-key, and lighter stuff would be easier to pick up and put down when I have actual work to do)
Thanks in advance :-)
Ooo! Ooo! Children of Time! I love Children of time! I will never not recommend Children of Time!
The humans fought amongst each other and mostly died. But they seeded a world that was supposed to have hyperintelligent monkeys! But there are no monkeys and now it has hyperintelligent jumping spiders! We get to follow their development and conflicts and then all of the spoilery spoiler stuff and it’s great. One of my favourite books. Are you afraid of spiders? Good, that’s a plot point in the book!
(it’s not very light though sorry)
This is the book I’ve been reading during electrolysis sessions … and I’ll never know if that’s the reason I hate this book or not.
Thanks, I’ll add it to my list, it sounds great :-)
I’m not afraid of spiders though, I had a pet tarantula once
Tarantulas are very cool! I’m kind of afraid of spiders but they are both incredibly cool and incredibly cute so I refuse to be afraid of them. One of my favourite spiders is phidippus johnsoni!
Also shoutout to cellar spiders and that neat little anxiety dance that they do.
Are those the ones that wear a little water blob hat sometimes?
Where I live now there’s lots of interesting bugs but surprisingly few spiders, when I was growing up our house was always full of spiders (very old house out in the countryside) so I guess I never had the opportunity to be scared of them, lol
I have never seen them do that but that sounds adorable so I want to! I am in a similar situation here, I moved from a place with many many spiders and it’s weird to not have as many around. It does not help that one of my roommates (a cobweb spider who I call Cain) is very rude and eats a lot of other potential roommates (any ground-dwelling spiders who walk near their web).
On the plus side I now have House Centipedes, which are like spiders who are in training for athletic competition (they run at about human walking speed).
I went and looked up the water drop hat thing, apparently water was put on jumping spiders for cute photos and isn’t a real thing :-(