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I read books sometimes. In my 30s.

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2025 Reading Goal

98% complete! Jessica has read 49 of 50 books.

Annie Jacobsen: Operation Paperclip (Hardcover, 2014, Little, Brown and Company)

Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi …

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This book made me feel disgusted for pretty much the entire time I was reading it. I had to put the book down for long periods of time. I recommend it to anyone who can stomach learning the depths of the evil that the US went out of its way to cover up and protect.

Rachel Carson: Silent spring (2002)

This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in …

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Very easy to read, very easy to understand. An interesting piece of ecology history. Many of the things discussed in this book are still happening.

Unfortunately Carson seems stuck in a settler mindset, and Native Americans were only mentioned once as a demonstration of the reach of chemical poisoning due to pesticides. No thought is given to whether pest control in North America has already been researched.

There is cringey ableist and racist terminology used in this book, briefly.

I enjoyed the book as a historical curiosity, but after the first half it kinda became a slog.