#CurrentlyReading Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and The Singular Life of Aria Patel by Samira Ahmed. #books #reading #BookSky #Oceanic #AimeeNezhukumatathil #TheSingularLifeOfAriaPatel #SamiraAhmed

(Each line curves in the shape of a jellyfish) 2478 moon jellies were launched into space and soon bloomed to over 60,000 jellyfish. When it happens in the sky over Florida, everyone who looks up panics. Getting more for free is good, right? When the jellyfish returned to the ocean, they didn't know which way is up anymore so they didn't know when to stretch to light and when to stretch to the dark. But getting more and more on this planet is so good, right? But getting more and more on this planet is so good, right? Math time: if a rocket ship costs $62 million every time it is launched, subtract the animals that die when debris plummets into the ocean at such high speed any bird it hits becomes a plosive, bloody mist. Multiply that by being able to say you went to space to anyone who will listen for the rest of your life and add to it because getting more and more and more on this planet feels so good, right? And if tens of thousands of jellyfish don't know which way is up anymore, isn't that just fine?

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Space Jellyfish: A Parable by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

#CurrentlyReading World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Vera Wong’s Guide to Dating a Dead Man by Jesse Q. Sutanto. #books #reading #BookSky #WorldOfWonders #AimeeNezhukumatathil #VeraWongsGuideToDatingADeadMan #JesseQSutanto

Cover says: World of Wonders, In paradise of fireflies, Whale sharks, and other Astonishments "This book is about to shake the earth" -Kiese Laymon Aimee Nezhukumatathil

I am participating in our local library's summer reading program for adults (there's a kids one too) and this is for my "well designed cover" pick. I found it by random near the ecology section.
Sofar, sogood 📚😊💖💖

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Book cover of “World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil sits on a wooden table.

“The N*Word of God” by Mark*Doox. That is all.

The book, “Black Women Writers at Work” feat. Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker et al. (edited by Claudia Tate with Foreword by Tillie Olsen) sits on a wooden table.

The book “Where Do We Go From Here - Chaos or Community?” by Martin Luther King, Jr. with Foreword by Coretta Scott King sits on a wooden table.

No longer counting. Just dropping prized possessions from my bag into the wild. May they live long and prosper.

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