It's the story of locals, lawmakers and firefighters, confronting a fire in Fort McMurray, Canada so intense it created its own weather systems: lightning, hurricanes, storms. It's an account of what is to come: houses full of flammable plastic, soil dried out by climate change. The book is chilling, especially in the light of the UN's recent announcement that that we are currently on track for 2.9 degrees of global warming.
I've been reading Big Swiss by Jen Beagin. It's a comedy that follows the story of Greta, an audio transcriber for a sex therapist who becomes infatuated with one of the clients whose sessions she is transcribing. It is a very funny book that is hard to put down. There are lots of subplots, twists and laugh-out-loud moments.
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