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June 2026—Margaret Atwood, Matt Haig and More

"By the time they have read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it, they are dead." Quote from "The Humans" by Matt Haig. I guess, no time to lose. Keep reading. I may be able to make it. Also, no need to keep reading books if I don't enjoy them. This month, I didn't finish reading most of the books I started. 1. Speaking with Nature by Ramachandra Guha I wish more people cared about the environment, climate change, wildlife conservation, and animal rights, along with human rights. Lately, I have started to pick up books on such topics. Speaking with Nature is about the origins of Indian environmentalism.   "The high living standards of one part of the world were in part enabled by its control of other parts of the world. Imperialism, the domination of one country or people over another, was therefore not just immoral, but also, in an environmental and ecological sense, unsustainable." Reading this wa...