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πŸ“– Book Review: Lab Girl

By: Bill Hopkins — People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I chose science because science gave me what I needed–a home as defined in the most literal… Read More →

May 22, 2025

book jacket for The Hidden Lives of Owls.
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πŸ“– Book Report: The Hidden Lives of Owls

By: Bill Hopkins β€œFor more than sixty-seven million years, owls have roamed the earth, flying, hunting, and raising their families in the dark.” Leigh Calvez is a writer and naturalist… Read More →

February 3, 2025

Book ReviewChapter HighlightsMonthly NewsletterNatureTrees

πŸ“– Book Report: Finding the Mother Tree

By now, most of us have heard of the controversial theory that trees communicate with each other and even help each other through an extensive underground network of fungi, connecting… Read More →

December 20, 2023

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πŸ“– The Overstory, a novel by Richard Powers: Book Review by Bill Hopkins

Richard Powers was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Overstory. I am just now getting around to reading it. Neelay, a character in the novel who is… Read More →

September 12, 2023

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