#migrations

[etoilesbienne]

#connor turned off rbs... i have to repost it #migrations

[contremineur]

I take off all my clothes and wade out into the icy water and the pain is immense and also nothing nothing nothing.

Charlotte McConaghy, from Migrations (Flatiron Books, 2020)

#charlotte mconaghy #migrations #quote #lit #excerpt

[theinquisitxor]

Not Your Classics Challenge

Day 6- To The Lighthouse

Or, sea-centered books

#notyourclassics #book challenges #the bone ships #Seasparrow #we the drowned #migrations #the sea Wolf #in the serpents wake #my post

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Migrations Box: Winter 2024.

I really enjoyed this subscription last year, so I'm participating again! Of the lot, I'm actually most excited for VERDIGRIS (I know, right: wild, given that cover). I love getting surprise books I'd never pick out myself hand selected and shipped directly to me.

#migrations #migrations box #subscription box #book box #stories from the city of god #pier paolo pasolini #verdigris #michele mari #i'm not going anywhere #rumena buzarovska #i really like reading translations and reading around the world and i absolutely wouldn't know where to start on my own lol #and i like the IDEA of being surprised by books but the couple SFF subscriptions i've looked at make me nervous because i already-- #--preorder widely for myself (so i don't trust that i wouldn't get duplicates) #this box however is both a nice surprise and shit i absolutely have no worries about ordering myself LOL #i thought it'd come at the end of last month sooo #the fact that it came within 18 hours of mine own lil book haul was. perhaps not the greatest timing #BUT I LOVE PACKAGES AND IT FIXED MEEEE #anyway the box doesn't count toward my book buying ban things BUT #given yesterday's haul. i still should read like. 11 books. before i go out and buy more for myself lolol #this is Fine we're Fine

[rains-of-words]

simply remembering what it feels like to love creatures that aren’t human. A nameless sadness, the fading away of the birds. The fading away of the animals. How lonely it will be here, when it’s just us.

Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

#quotes #quote #rainsofwords #usermaximoff #books #charlotte mcconaghy #migrations

[aquotecollection]

We are, all of us, given such a brief moment of time together, it hardly seems fair. But it’s precious, and maybe it’s enough, and maybe it’s right that our bodies dissolve into the earth, giving our energy back to it, feeding the little creatures in the ground and giving nutrients to the soil, and maybe it’s right that our consciousness rests. The thought is peaceful.

Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy

#Charlotte McConaghy #migrations #book quote #words #nature quote

[whilereadingandwalking]

I wanted to reread Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy earlier this year, but then I discovered that she was Australian, and so I saved it until my trip, buying a new copy with a gorgeous ocean-rooted paperback cover from Better Read Than Dead, a bookstore in the Sydney suburbs. I didn't get to it while still down under, but I decided to start my reread earlier today, still infected with a drive for conservation that the reefs, rainforest, and zoos instilled in me.

On reread, the book made me cry several times over. When I was first assigned the list "Books that Break Your Heart and Put It Back Together Again" for Book Riot, this novel was the first I thought of. The swings of despair and hope in a world where nearly all animals have gone extinct, in a world where our unreliable anti-heroine is herself swinging between purpose and delusional loss, makes for an unforgettable novel. I am still so, so in love with this book on reread, enough so that I couldn't help but stay up well into the night to finish it, and loving it the 2nd time around means it officially passes into my favorites list.

Content warnings for suicidal ideation/suicide, violence, mental illness, sexual assault attempt, violence.

#migrations #charlotte mcconaghy #australian lit #rereads #bookish love #bookworm #my book reviews #reading while wandering #reading while wandering australia

[netmassimo]

An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports a study that offers evidence that groups of Homo sapiens migrated from Africa using the Levant as a passageway to western Asia and northern Arabia. A team of researchers conducted a digging campaign in Jordan looking for traces of ancient human passages in what is now a desert but tens of thousands of years ago was an area covered by savannah and grasslands. The discovery of sediments dating back about 84,000 years containing tools created with the so-called Levallois technique in that area confirms that the Levant was part of at least one of the human migration routes from Africa.

#archeology #paleontology #Homo sapiens #migrations #Levant

[protoslacker]

Whereas most major human expansions involved latitudinal movements and hence went through regions with similar climatic conditions 20,21, the expansion of BSP is notable for largely being longitudinal with movements through regions with very different climatic conditions, encompassing a wide range of biomes. For example, the putative BSP homeland in the highlands of Nigeria and Cameroon differs considerably from the central African rainforest, the African savannas, and the dry conditions of southwestern Africa. Yet, BSP migrated to and settled in all these different habitats and climatic conditions. 

Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, et al. in bioRxiv. The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Nature has a research briefing of this paper.

Among the many topics I know very little about but find fascinating is the Bantu Expansion. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" is something I constantly have to remind myself. But the diversity of cultures among Bantu language speakers has so intrigued me.

David Graeber's and David Wingrow's book, The Dawn of Everything, expanded the popular imagination of the variety of ways of living, and by extension expanded our ability to imagine possibles. Sometimes it is important to speak about "Africa." But that oversimplification tends to obscure hoe the people of that continent have as John Reader observes "a genius for small societies."

#africa #migrations #bantu expansion #book #genetic research

[ancientorigins]

The discovery of a single human tooth dated to 1.8 million years ago has put the Orozmani site in Georgia at the center of the Out-of-Africa theory as the oldest human remains found outside of Africa.

#Orozmani #tooth #human #Africa #Georgia #migrations #ancient #history #ancient origins

[gravity-rainbow]

Migrations - Joseph

Here's something for everyone who has thought about giving up 🖤

#migrations #joseph fasano

[contremineur]

Today there is a huge landmass to our left, and it surprises me because there is no land on the chart I’ve been studying. As we draw close enough to see, I realise that it’s an enormous island of plastic, and there are fish and seabirds and seals dead upon its shore.

Charlotte McConaghy, from Migrations (Flatiron Books, 2020)

Woodcut from The voyage of Saint Brendan (1499)

#charlotte mcconaghy #migrations #saint brendan #quote #lit #excerpt

[jennamacaroni]

I asked Niall once what he thought happened to us after we die, and he said nothing, only decomposition, only evaporation.  I asked him what he thought it meant for our lives, for how we spend them, for what they mean.  He said our lives mean nothing except as a cycle of regeneration, that we are incomprehensibly brief sparks, just as the animals are, that we are no more important than they are, no more worthy of life than any living creature.  That in our self-importance, in our search for meaning, we have forgotten how to share the planet that gave us life.

Charlotte McConaghy, “Migrations”

#charlotte mcconaghy #quotes #what i’m reading #migrations

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

okay i am creating an ADDENDUM to the bookish purchasing goals this year CALLED: i can do the migrations box again, as a little treat

#text #personal #books #reading goals #so far ive been winning at read five purchase one thanks 😌 #but the box is. outside that. #but also its only 12 books for the whole year so like. winning. #anyway i may or may not have placed an order about it this evening 🫣 #migrations #migrations box

[bandiera--rossa]

“Compared to other EU countries, in Italy there is hardly any framework for immigrants, hardly any path that people can follow to settle down and start building their lives again. I have met people who for more than ten years have lived in many Italian cities, without documents, without legal work, people who live in misery.

They have no access to services, they are deprived of basic human rights. You can also see the second generation, many children born in Italy who live in the same conditions as their parents when they first arrived there years ago. These people are forced to live in survival mode, in alert mode”.

- Enri Canaj - documentary photographer of Albanian origins, emigrated to Greece with his family of origin in the early 90s. Following his personal experience, he focused on migrations to Europe, first in Greece, then through Balkans and now towards Italy.

Photo by him - Italy - 2018: migrants waiting in line for applications for some documents.

#Enri Canaj #migrations #documentary photography #Italy #Italian inability to accommodate migrants #basic racism of Italians towards migrants

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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#scifi #books #Migrations #Charlotte McConaghy #The Last Migration #poll #I'm so perplexed by this title difference. what the fuck #result: no