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Sto caricando le informazioni... How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (originale 2022; edizione 2022)di Sabrina Imbler (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaHow Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures di Sabrina Imbler (2022)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. what isn't to like about this book. it's part memoir part science textbook. there were moments throughout this book that left me breathless. Sabrina Imbler's vulnerability and honesty is beautiful. it's philosophical, thought-provoking, and kind. it explores queer people as shapeshifters, as swarms, as immortal. this is a memoir that i already want to reread and take my time with. revisit single essays and appreciate Imbler's honesty Audiobook It was an accident that I listened to this during PRIDE month but what a fortunate coincidence! I thought this was a book about sea life and didn’t know it was also an exploration of the author’s gender, sexuality, and race. As a white, cis, straight person, gaining insight to their POV was fascinating and illuminating and the way that they used the behaviors and characteristics of sea creatures to illustrate similarities in humans and their own experience was just amazing. I can’t say that I enjoyed every second of this book because sometimes learning about gigantic sea worms or is more gross than anything else but overall I’m really glad that I read this and learned so much about the wonders of the ocean and the experience of a person so different from myself. How Far the Light Reaches is a unique book, part science and part memoir. The author uses sea creatures' habits as metaphors for personal life experiences. I learned some interesting facts about sea creatures, such as goldfish's growth potential and octopuses' starvation when brooding. Also, there were many tidbits about regeneration, predator/prey relationships, and morphing. The real focus, however, was on this author's ability to be true to self and explain complex feelings and iterations of growth by examining models in the sea. Imbler described sustained abuse at the hands of men by studying and comparing experiences with men to the habits of a predatory sand-striker worm, an ambush predator. Another vivid comparison was the emotional morphing from family expectations to the life of a lesbian and member of a queer community. Imbler aligns life phases to that of a morphing cuttlefish. The cuttlefish has distinct disguises for different predators. The cuttlefish transformations are triggered by evolution, but the author could not wait for the evolving process to occur; it was essential to purposely morph, wear clothes that defied societal expectations, and convey personal messages about an invisible yet heartfelt internal evolution. An easy-to-grasp description was that of a sturgeon starting its life in freshwater but mainly living in the sea. This was a great way to show a human metaphorically treading different waters during maturation. A quote from page 101 encapsulates one of the themes of Imbler's book: "As queer people, we get to choose our families. Vent bacteria, tube worms, and yeti crabs take it one step further. They choose what nourishes them. They turn away from the sun and toward something more elemental, the inner heat and chemistry of Earth." It was clear that the author found much satisfaction in studying instinct, life cycles, and stages of life. The statement that "metamorphosis in humans doesn't have to be a full-body thing" sums up the human's need to regrow in acceptance of self and others. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)591.77Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Specific topics in natural history of animals Animal ecology, animals characteristic of specific environmentsClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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