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Sounds like a fascinating read. Thanks Priscilla.

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You're welcome, Matthew. Thanks for stopping by.

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Adding this to my list immediately. Thanks 🩵

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You’re welcome, Lindsey, thanks for reading!

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I've never been a reader of speculative fiction, but you've sold me. Why should spiders be scary or ugly, when you stop to think of it? These spiders are literary children of Charlotte.

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That’s so true, Rona! I hadn’t even thought of that. If you read it, I’m curious how you like it. Fee free to let me know, I’d enjoy hearing.

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This book stayed with me too!

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It's memorable, Sal, isn't it!

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Cracking open possibilities for otherworlds.

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And if we can imagine it, we can create it. At least I think so. You too, Jill? I always hear Captain Picard: "Make it so!" lol

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Absolutely

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Wow! You've set my imagination percolating. I am thinking of Paul Gallico's *The Abandoned*, a book told from the point of view of a stray cat (if I remember correctly), which I read as a tween home from school recovering from pneumonia and a bad fever - an amazing time to imagine my way into the consciousness of another species. I'm thinking of Richard Powers's *The Overstory*, which swept me away with sadness and hope for the more-than-human world. I'm thinking of Ursula Le Guin's "The Word for World Is Forest" and the gentle civilization destroyed by human colonization. ... But spiders? This book and author sound amazing. Thank you for bringing them to my attention.

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Tara, remember *Watership Down*? That one stayed with me a LONG time after I read it in my early 20s. Wasn't that the granddaddy of the genre? I loved *Overstory* too! I don't know that Ursula Le Guin title so will definitely have to check it out. I think also of a YA from recently, *And the Ocean Was Our Sky,* by Patrick Ness, very striking. I started it, long enough to get a feel for a really upside-down world, but it has an edge to it that didn't appeal to me at the moment so I didn't commit. Also, the illustrations are gorgeous, but I was on a Libby ebook so didn't have access. Thanks again for this community celebration, and Happy Birthday to the Hallelujah Book & Hope Society! Love your new name!

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Oh my goodness - Watership Down! The paperback has an aura of pathos around it in my memory, though everything else is a blur. I don't even remember if I finished it (younger than my 20s - maybe I wasn't ready - or I've forgotten), but I picture it: It had "all the feels," they say now. 😂 Thank you for the birthday wishes. The name Quiet Reading was very cozy for awhile, but the times, they call for something bolder.

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We share a last name, though mine has no e. I was born In Kansas.

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