PagesOfEmma

Resident Plant Lady. Reader of fantasy, sci-fi, climate fiction and nature non-fiction. She/her, UK. Find me on IG @pages_of_emma

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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The Salt Oracle (We Are All Ghosts In The Forest, #2)

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Oct 26, 2025

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The world broke seventeen years ago when the internet became ghosts. There is a girl who can channel these dangerous ghosts, and she is The Oracle. Held on a research vessel floating in an angry ocean, she is studied by a small group of researchers, including Auli. Auli begins to question everything when faced with a new project that shakes her moral compass, and what she discovers has implications far wider than their small boat.

I adore Wilson’s writing. Her previous book, We Are All Ghosts in the Forest, was one of my favourites of 2024. They are both lyrical and thoughtful in their prose, and heavy with atmosphere, which is a recipe for perfection for me.

Storytelling is at the heart of this book. The internet still haunts us, hurts us and kills us, and we don’t want to understand that we made it that way. The stories we tell have shaped it, and not all for the better. There are stories too that affect the people. The Oracle is kept aboard, docile, to be studied. They say it is for the greater good. But what is her story? What is it she is really trying to say?

This story is complex and layered, the characters all with their own agendas. Friendships are tested, and corruption sits alongside love. It is a story set in a world that will be familiar to you, but twisted with dystopia and a dash of climate issues.

I recommend reading the first book for more context, but you can absolutely go straight into this one if you want to.

Thank you SO much to @solarisbooks for sending me an ARC of this one. You can bet I’ll be reading everything Lorraine Wilson writes from now on.

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Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

Clayton Thomas-Muller

For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As a child, he endured the intergenerational trauma that resulted from his family attending residential school. Growing up Cree in downtown Winnipeg, Canada, Clayton faced systemic racism and violence in school and on the streets, which led him to use his fists to defend himself and earn his livelihood. He escaped the hold that drugs and alcohol had on his life by reconnecting with his Cree heritage. For twenty years, he has been a campaigner with organizations including the Indigenous Environmental Network and 350.org, on the front lines of stopping the assault of industry on Indigenous peoples' lands. Using a nonlinear, oral storytelling style, Life in the City of Dirty Water offers the reflections of a man in midlife, telling his inner child, "I'm here now and I'm going to keep you safe."

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Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

Rebecca Kormos

A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet For readers of All We Can Save and Braiding Sweetgrass , Rebecca Kormos’s Intertwined aims to elevate the voices of women most impacted by the biodiversity and climate crises, weaving together their stories to make a powerful case for why women are essential to changing our current trajectory toward global warming, environmental degradation, and loss of biodiversity. The data are overwhelming that climate change does not impact everyone equally; the majority of people displaced by droughts, floods, tsunamis, and fires are women. Yet women are underrepresented at every level of decision-making about the future of our only 24 percent of CEOs in nonprofit conservation are women, and fewer than a third of the representatives in national and global climate negotiating bodies are female. Seasoned writer, wildlife biologist, filmmaker, and practicing conservation scientist Rebecca Kormos joins the ranks of recent breakthrough efforts to showcase women’s voices in the movement to combat climate change and takes this endeavor one step further with a global, intersectional narrative of how women and gender nonconforming individuals are doing the crucial work at the local and national levels to reframe how we think about environmental activism. The book closes with an inspiring call for women’s leadership at all levels of climate justice.

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FriYAY!!!

Thank god its friday!!! I finally get to read!!!! What are you guys reading this weekend? Do you have any other plans? I'm gonna finish my current read and might start 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' + im gonna watch some F1🚗

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Ragwort (The Eythin Legacy Book 2)

Sam K. Horton

A year on from the loss of Lord Pelagius Hunt of Mirecoombe, new Keeper Nancy Bligh is still struggling. She can banish the spirits and keep peace between the spriggans and piskies, but every time Nancy sleeps, she dreams of drowning. She is haunted by loss, and by whispers from all around of The Mother, and Nancy's witchcraft. As the only witch left, Nancy is eager for any guidance she can have. When she discovers the possibility that her grandmother, the most powerful witch of her time, might still live, she seizes her chance. Desperate for answers, Nancy journeys across the Cornish wilds to find her grandmother and uncover the secrets of The Mother, before it is too late.

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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Brom Brom

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.A spirited young Englishwoman, Abitha, arrives at a Puritan colony betrothed to a stranger – only to become quickly widowed when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. All alone in this pious and patriarchal society, Abitha fights for what little freedom she can grasp onto, while trying to stay true to herself and her past.Enter Slewfoot, a powerful spirit of antiquity newly woken ... and trying to find his own role in the world. Healer or destroyer? Protector or predator? But as the shadows walk and villagers start dying, a new rumor is whispered: Witch.Both Abitha and Slewfoot must swiftly decide who they are, and what they must do to survive in a world intent on hanging any who meddle in the dark arts.Complete with 8 pages of Brom’s mesmerizing full-color artwork and chapter illustrations throughout, his latest book is sure to delight.

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All I can say is that the artwork in this book is so creepy, and I have never been afraid of a carrot before... ETA: don't get your hopes up for a carrot character haha, it's just artwork.

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The Merge

Grace Walker

A thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary—and highly controversial—procedure in which two people’s consciousness can be combined to exist in one body. How far would you go to never say goodbye? Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer’s. Her daughter Amelia, a once fiery and strong-willed activist, can’t bear to see her mother’s mind fade. Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs them up to take part in the world’s first experimental merging process for Alzheimer’s patients, in which Laurie’s ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia’s healthy body and their consciousness will be blended as one. Soon Amelia and Laurie join the opaque and mysterious group of other merge teenage Lucas, who plans to merge with his terminally ill brother Noah; Ben, who will merge with his pregnant fiancée Annie; and Jay, whose merging partner is his addict daughter Lara. As they prepare to move to The Village, a luxurious rehabilitation center for those who have merged, they quickly begin to question whether everything is really as it seems. An exhilarating, immersive debut from an astonishing new voice, The Merge is a personal story of love, family, and sacrifice, as well as a thought-provoking examination of the limits of control, resistance, and freedom in our modern world.

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All I can say is that the artwork in this book is so creepy, and I have never been afraid of a carrot before... ETA: don't get your hopes up for a carrot character haha, it's just artwork.

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All I can say is that the artwork in this book is so creepy, and I have never been afraid of a carrot before... ETA: don't get your hopes up for a carrot character haha, it's just artwork.

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Thoughts from 2% (page 14) personal moment of ignorance? dumb? haha

i feel like mentioning this here but idk why i was shocked when yadriel said that he and maritza ducked behind a sarcophagus, specifically. and then i got to wondering, wait... aren't those egyptian? and then i realized i'm probably having a tad ignorant of a moment and that sarcophagi are not exactly as what i've believed they were. i mean, granted, the last time i even thought about them was probably elementary school (and american public school at that!), but i got curious now. i know this book isn't taking place in egypt... lmao... right??

so anyway, i went and looked it up and all, and it's a specific type of coffin, typically made of stone and typically attributed to egypt, greece, and rome. they're also intended to be maintained above ground, vs. buried like other coffins.

greece and rome had them too?! i didn't even know that much about them?? wild. and anyway, i also learned that when literally translated, sarcophagus can mean "flesh-eating", which is because they used a specific type of limestone that decomposed the bodies within faster. how intriguing! i wonder who discovered that ol quirky property huh

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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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If you got dropped into the world of your current read, what would you be doing?

Fun question that popped up in one of my reading discords.

I am currently reading a non-fiction, and I would be farming yams in Jamaica. Honestly sounds like a good time to me lol.

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What's the highest overlap you've ever had with another user?

Sometimes I like to scroll through the user pages to try to find new people to follow, and so far I think the highest amount of overlap I've ever encountered was around 30%. Curious, how much overlap have you guys had with others? 👀

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Boox Go vs Kindle

I know there's been quite a few posts recently with regards to e-readers, but most people recommend Kobo, which doesn't seem to be available (or any other brands for that matter). The only two I am able to find - at least from a trusted shop - are: Kindle (a variety of models) Boox Go 7 (B/W or Colour (Gen II)) I have never owned an e-reader as I've always been a physical book person (but there's no denying the pros of ebooks), so I have zero experience and have only recently started considering it.

Questions:

Why are we hating on Amazon? (I will say, I am leaning more towards the Boox anyway because I like the ability of having different apps (Libby, Bible App, Other reading) and not being locked into a singular space).
B/W vs Colour (The obvious are for note-taking or reading graphics etc., but is there any other reason why colour would be better? - I don't typically read books where I will need colour, and I assume I can still highlight in black and white, I just won't have different colours).
As I said, I like the idea of not being locked into a singular space, but since a Kindle has Kindle and Kobo has Kobo - very creative naming - for buying books, how does that work on a Boox? Where do you buy and read etc. Can you use Google Play Books?
Kind of following on the previous question, but how does ebook book ownership work? I've read some stories of people who have had books simply disappear or copies being updated etc, but all I'm sayin' is if I'm paying physical book prices for ebooks, I damn well better own it and have peace of mind that it won't just up and vanish.
What is the battery life like?

Anything else regarding e-readers that newbies need to know / consider?

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Endemic: Exploring the wildlife unique to Britain

James Harding-Morris

Meet the rare, obscure, and utterly British species found nowhere else on earth.Around 70,000 species call Britain home, but how many of them can be found here and only here? Join conservationist James Harding-Morris as he uncovers the stories of our endemic wildlife – the plants, animals and fungi that are unique to these islands. Determined to give these irreplaceable species their moment in the spotlight, James goes in search of them across the length and breadth of Britain, from wild and rugged Orkney, the only known location for the Orkney vole, down to suburban Plymouth where the horrid ground-weaver spider faces global extinction at the hands of developers. He explores Devon's depths on the hunt for ghostly cave shrimp, seeks out alien fungi on Norfolk roadsides, and traces the tribulations of interrupted brome, the grass that has gone extinct not once, but twice. Along the way, he meets the experts devoted to the study and survival of these vanishingly rare creatures and plants, individuals working tirelessly – and often single-handedly – to save them from the brink of global extinction. Because many of these species are at risk of disappearing forever, before most of us have even realised they exist. A tapestry of wonder and weirdness, tragedies and triumphs, Endemic celebrates what makes our natural history so special and calls on us all to cherish and protect it.

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The Salt Oracle (We Are All Ghosts In The Forest, #2)

Lorraine Wilson

It's been seventeen years since the internet crashed and left the world broken... On the Bellwether, a huge floating college safe from the politics and war of the mainland, Auli is part of a research team studying the Oracle - a strange, uncanny girl who channels dangerous ghosts. The scientists notate everything she says, using her to piece together maps, weather forecasts, and anything else that might make the region’s hazardous waters a little safer for shipping cartels and local fishermen alike. Auli is horrified when her beloved mentor, Boudain, reveals his scheme to create more human Oracles, seeking to leverage the power of this unique girl into security for the Bellwether and perhaps even a return to a new, warped digital age. The very next day, she finds him dead. Reluctantly promoted to lead her team, Auli begins an investigation into Boudain's death. Her scrutiny reveals the corrupt heart of the institute she has dedicated herself to, and as the ghosts and even the very seas around them start to mutate, she is forced to wrestle with a life-changing decision: save the Oracle or save the Bellwether - and all the lives that depend on it.

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