Melissa Readmoore
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Book lover
Science lover
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"We are creatures of excess, and this is what makes us simultaneously the most creative, and most destructive, of all species. Ruling classes are simply those who have organized society in such a way that they can extract the lion's share of that surplus for themselves..."
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
A dramatically new understanding of human history, chal…
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December 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"We are creatures of excess, and this is what makes us simultaneously the most creative, and most destructive, of all species. Ruling classes are simply those who have organized society in such a way that they can extract the lion's share of that surplus for themselves..."
"What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such?"
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
December 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such?"
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
From Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
From Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker
From The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
From The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
From Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
From Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
From The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
From The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
From The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
From The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
From The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
From The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
From We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
From We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khan
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khan
From The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by Davis Graeber and David Wengrow
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
From The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by Davis Graeber and David Wengrow
From The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by Davis Graeber and David Wengrow
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
From The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by Davis Graeber and David Wengrow
"In Southern California you decorate for holidays that take place during seasons you never get."
- Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
- Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"In Southern California you decorate for holidays that take place during seasons you never get."
- Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
- Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
"The years would go by. ... Once beasts and maggots were done with his flesh, some of his bones would remain scattered on the plains for longer than he had lived. Then, he would be erased."
-In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
-In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"The years would go by. ... Once beasts and maggots were done with his flesh, some of his bones would remain scattered on the plains for longer than he had lived. Then, he would be erased."
-In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
-In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
"I feel more and more that we must not judge of God from this world. ... What can you do with a study that has gone wrong? ...this world was evidently slapped together in a hurry on one of his bad days, when the artist didn't know what he was doing or didn't have his wits about him." - Van Gogh
Van Gogh: The Life
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized r…
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November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"I feel more and more that we must not judge of God from this world. ... What can you do with a study that has gone wrong? ...this world was evidently slapped together in a hurry on one of his bad days, when the artist didn't know what he was doing or didn't have his wits about him." - Van Gogh
Art critic Albert Adrien about Van Gogh: "His is a brain at its boiling point, irresistibly pouring down its lava into all of the ravines of art, a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological."
- Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh
- Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Art critic Albert Adrien about Van Gogh: "His is a brain at its boiling point, irresistibly pouring down its lava into all of the ravines of art, a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological."
- Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh
- Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh
"And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
"There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach."
- ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
- ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach."
- ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
- ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
"It just happened to you. Passively, with no say, you ceased to be a creature of the mind and became a creature of nerve endings; from college-educated man to wailing ape in five easy seconds."
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Shining by Stephen King
October 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"It just happened to you. Passively, with no say, you ceased to be a creature of the mind and became a creature of nerve endings; from college-educated man to wailing ape in five easy seconds."
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Shining by Stephen King
"Fate is the rock that comes flying at you from the front. If you know it's coming, you can duck, but that knowledge will exhaust your body and soul."
Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-ha Kim
Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-ha Kim
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Fate is the rock that comes flying at you from the front. If you know it's coming, you can duck, but that knowledge will exhaust your body and soul."
Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-ha Kim
Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-ha Kim
"More than 1.3 million Americans lost jobs in retail and related industries between 2009 and 2019 as a direct result of private equity acquisitions."
- Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell
- Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell
October 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"More than 1.3 million Americans lost jobs in retail and related industries between 2009 and 2019 as a direct result of private equity acquisitions."
- Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell
- Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Drath of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Drath of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell
"One of the highest growing plant species in the world, the llareta generally takes root in the tropical alpine areas of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru at elevations of 14,000 to upwards of 17,000 feet, where there’s a lot of direct sunlight and solar radiation during the day"
Llareta, One of the Oldest Living Plants in the World
This hard-as-a-rock South American cushion plant can live thousands of years.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"One of the highest growing plant species in the world, the llareta generally takes root in the tropical alpine areas of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru at elevations of 14,000 to upwards of 17,000 feet, where there’s a lot of direct sunlight and solar radiation during the day"
“What exactly do Catholics believe?”
I’d been preparing my whole life for this question.
“First of all, blood. BLOOD. Second of all, thorns. Third of all, put dirt on your forehead. Do it right now. Fourth of all, Martin Luther was a pig in a cloak."
- Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
I’d been preparing my whole life for this question.
“First of all, blood. BLOOD. Second of all, thorns. Third of all, put dirt on your forehead. Do it right now. Fourth of all, Martin Luther was a pig in a cloak."
- Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
September 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“What exactly do Catholics believe?”
I’d been preparing my whole life for this question.
“First of all, blood. BLOOD. Second of all, thorns. Third of all, put dirt on your forehead. Do it right now. Fourth of all, Martin Luther was a pig in a cloak."
- Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
I’d been preparing my whole life for this question.
“First of all, blood. BLOOD. Second of all, thorns. Third of all, put dirt on your forehead. Do it right now. Fourth of all, Martin Luther was a pig in a cloak."
- Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
"Soon the whites would come, of course, but what he was seeing was a moment between, not the plains as they had been, or as they would be, but a moment of true emptiness, with thousands of miles of grass resting unused, occupied only by remnants-of the Buffalo, the Indians, the hunters."
Lonesome Dove
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier…
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September 17, 2025 at 4:59 AM
"Soon the whites would come, of course, but what he was seeing was a moment between, not the plains as they had been, or as they would be, but a moment of true emptiness, with thousands of miles of grass resting unused, occupied only by remnants-of the Buffalo, the Indians, the hunters."