Book completed

Signal to Noise, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I'm still on my project of reading all of her novels. This one's about a rather unpleasant teenage girl and her two best friends, in Mexico City in 1988, and then in 2009 when she comes back home for her father's funeral. It's fun learning about high school in Mexico, although when they learn how to do magic spells together it gets increasingly disturbing, but eventually everything's resolved. Fortunately the book is short enough that I did make it to the resolution - if it had been twice as long I probably wouldn't have bothered. I did like the other two main characters, though.

Day 678: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Today I got to hear Robin Wall Kimmerer speak for a third time, although with the pandemic she wasn't able to join us in person. She's a botany professor and also a member of the Potawatomie Nation, if I remember correctly. And even though she works on the other side of thte country, she's fond of the Willamette Valley and knows it well. She has many practical ideas on how we can learn from the Earth to live in ways that are more ecologically responsible. One of her slides this time, though, made me sit up in surprise, and I realized that she's inspiring me to write a new blog post. I'd better finish reading the book she was talking about today first, though.

Here's the talk, for my own reference. She begins 27 minutes in - and the Q&A is great too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8DDqP0C5U