Recs if you like Upstream: Selected Essays...
Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
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✨BIRDS!!!✨
🦅🦜🦢🐧🦉🦩🐦⬛ Books about ✨BIRDS!!!✨ beautiful, strange, silly, magical creatures.
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Blending Memoirs with Research, Poetry, Culture
Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.
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Radical Intersectional Ecologies💚
Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese) through radical BIPOC, queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, disability ecological perspectives. 🪲🌾🦉🌵
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Ecology, Biology, Nature💚
Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄
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Something in the water🌊🦞🪼🪸
Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.
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prose by poets
don’t you love it when poets write novels, nonfiction, memoir! the language they bring!!
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earth and weeds and how it all goes
ecology-based books—practical, cultural, and whimsical
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Finding Hope and Whimsy
Books that feel like a warm hug and leave us feeling hopeful and whimsical, a little light amidst the dark. For the days we cannot have any more reality but instead need a cup of fluffy dreams and a pick-me-up and some optimism for the future
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remembering nature 🌅
Books to reconnect to nature and the fact that we are just a part of it. Both in the most beautiful and terrible ways 💚☀️🦋🐾🌿🪴🍀🌺🌻🌈 More non-fiction than fiction
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Short n’ (not necessarily) Sweet
Books under 250 pages
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Must-read nature & environment books
Learn more about conservation efforts, environmental science, and wildlife. Contemplate how we humans can interact with nature & help the world around us🌱☀️
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touch grass
This list centers around books that explore the natural world, and our place in it. So slow down and smell the roses, touch a tree, take a breath.
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romanticizing spring
Because it simply isn’t spring until you romanticize reading 🧚
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memoirs to feel like you actually go outside🌱🪺🪻
for those of us who love to pretend we don't live in a concrete jungle🌞
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Women and Water
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Help, I'm lost in the woods!
If you find yourself underneath the trees, unsure which way to turn, take a breath with me.
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intellectually deliciousss
here to make your brain cells tingle !! stories that unravel and take root in your mind as time goes on
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spring reads
books that are like a breath of fresh air or based in nature, or are full of exuberance, sweetness, mischief, long ramblings, and childlike fun
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poems, poetry, and plays
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