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Familiar Diversions

I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.

Currently reading

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Vol. 1
Dojyomaru, Fuyuyuki, Sean McCann
Progress: 103/374 pages
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Progress: 424/470 minutes
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Progress: 184/184 pages
Parental Guidance
Avery Flynn
Progress: 40 %
An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn
Progress: 102/358 pages
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
Progress: 385/385 pages
Educated
Tara Westover
Progress: 315/730 minutes
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Vol. 2
Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka
Progress: 24/171 pages
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
MK Czerwiec, Kimberly R. Myers, Scott T. Smith, Michael J. Green, Susan Merrill Squier, Ian Williams
Progress: 26/172 pages
Ao Oni: Mutation
Kenji Kuroda, Karin Suzuragi, Alexander Keller-Nelson
Progress: 30/152 pages

Reading progress update: I've read 188 out of 234 pages.

The Lives of Ants - Elisabeth Gordon, Laurent Keller

The last three chapters have been about genetics, and I'm not a fan of the way the authors write about ants as though they're aware of their genetic makeup and are purposely aiming to support the continuation of their genes over the genes of less related ants in the same colony. There's been one mention that their actions are probably based on scents, which have a genetic basis, rather than an actual awareness of each others' genes, but it mostly isn't written that way.

 

Also, these chapters are a bit confusing. And parts of them contradict other parts and make me wish this were a classroom and not a book, so that I could raise my hand and ask questions.