Hello my PB friends! It is once again Tuesday, thanks to the linear progression of time. That means we're gathering to share the most interesting things we've learned from our reading this week. Whether it's a cool fact or a realization about yourself or human nature, this is the place to share it.

As always, a big hat tip to acidicchaos for starting this tradition and giving me the green light to continue it.

Just this morning while listening to How Flowers Made Our World by David George Haskell, I learned about the wonderful organism that is SEA GRASS. Sea grass is neither a grass nor an algae/seaweed, but its own awesome thing. It grew on land but at some point in its evolution it said "You know what, I'm taking my lignan and going back to the ocean." Like its true grass counterpart, it performs valuable carbon capture work and serves as habitat for many critters; it also helps with removing pollutants from ocean water. Let's hear it for sea grass, the unsung MVP of marine environments!

What have you learned this week?

I read a few pages in but I'm not sure if this is a book for me. Not because the clear criticism of the tradwife movement which is absolutely valid, but because it is kinda boring for me (just a few pages in though, as you can see from this forum post!)

Does someone know if it gets better after so I don't give it a DNF'd? Thank you. 💗

I see so many lists about WWII non-fiction, but have not found any about WWI. Help, please? Any book recs would be awesome!

I need some help, I'm not sure what's the correct way to report duplicates, if there's a guide somewhere I would appreciate if you show it to me

on the page it says paste the URL and then asks for the name of the author, so I've been literally pasting the URL's from the duplicates separated by an enter, and then the name of the author on the box below, but I'm not sure if this is the correct way since it's been weeks and the duplicates are still there

I know it's not a big deal but I would like to tidy up my favorite authors pages so people get to interact with other readers easily

Ok, so I'm reading a book by a male author in which the male protagonist's view on women, love and sex and so....icky(?), and I realized that I have really read a book by a male author that doesn't do this to their male characters, except maybe Percy Jackson lmao. Like, it doesn't have to be a romance book, but I just feel like love is almost always just equal to sex, and even then it's almost always in such an objectifying self-gratifying way (bc the problem isn't the sex, yk)? Like I can't really explain it. And yeah, I've read books with female authors where FMCs are somehow like this, but the thing is, I've NEVER seen a book by a male author that has...idk... emotional connection between love interests? ESPECIALLY when you pass the Y/A genre.

And it kinda makes me scared (haha) that like, what if this is just a reflection of how the average man feels towards a woman? Do men just...not have fuzzy feelings over someone that has nothing to do with sex? Was I cooked from the beginning😭?

Yeah so, if anyone has any recs of male written male characters that are loverboys (in the postive way), I would really love them (help restore my faith in humanity lolol). It doesn't have to be in the romance genre (kinda like how fantasy has romance, or thriller can have romance). Bonus if its not a Y/A book.

I can’t elaborate on why i think this but whenever Natalie talks about religion and her relationship with God, it reminds me of Bella Swan from Twilight (specifically in new moon) when she’s thinking/talking about Edward Cullen