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7/27 Book Deals

Happy Monday to you all! Can you believe it’s the last week of July?? Honestly, I’m kinda giving up on pretending like I can follow time anymore, but it’s still pretty crazy how fast/slow/etc. everything feels lately. Fortunately, we have books to escape into and ignore everything else with! Not sure if that’s considered super “healthy,” but I think it keeps me sane (well, sane enough). :)

There’s some awesome books on sale today! I really enjoyed The Adventurer’s Son by Roman Dial, though it was definitely a bit heartbreaking at times. I’ve not yet read any of the others, but The Calculating Stars is high on my list! I’m also pretty intrigued by The Winters because I’m a huge fan of Rebecca. Anyway, I hope you all have a great start to your week! :D Stay safe and healthy!

Here is the link to find resources on how you can help out with the BLM movement! Keep the momentum going!

Today’s Deals:

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal - https://amzn.to/2Bxasf8

The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal - https://amzn.to/30V9Ngc

The Adventurer's Son by Roman Dial - https://amzn.to/2P2iYpA

Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan - https://amzn.to/2Efosev

Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan - https://amzn.to/3jKb3LN

The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee - https://amzn.to/30K8zEo

Far From the Tree by Robin Benway - https://amzn.to/3jKrMPa

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - https://amzn.to/3f22acP

The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis - https://amzn.to/303oleF

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr. - https://amzn.to/3jDRkgV

A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum - https://amzn.to/30K8hNO

The Winters by Lisa Gabriele - https://amzn.to/2OWU1fi

Sunshine by Robin McKinley - https://amzn.to/3jJcaeL

NOTE: I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate in addition to a Book Depository affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!) commission on any purchase made through these links.

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“But the real lesson had been this: Follow intuition. If often leads in the right direction, if not directly to the destination.”

-Roman Dial, The Adventurer's Son

#reading log #august 2020 #the adventurer's son #roman dial #what stood out to me in this were the unexamined attitudes #about gifted children #white upperclass parenting #travel to third-world countries and expecations #the state of conservation work #adventure and its... purpose???#the entitlement!!! about sending national guard troops to another country (?) to rescue one reckless 'adventurer'#especially when he entered the park without a permit #how to assess danger and what cultural competency has to do with it #so many things taken for granted about the way a kind of people see (and consume) the world #it's really absurd #the chauvinism!!!

“The Adventurer’s Son” is a clear-eyed adventure memoir with a poignant twist.

The Adventurer’s Son by Roman Dial https://amzn.to/38Y7yMc

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After Cody Dial disappeared, his father — the ecologist and explorer Roman Dial — set out to find him, a tale he recounts in “The Adventurer’s Son.”

The Adventurer’s Son by Roman Dial https://amzn.to/38Y7yMc

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An excerpt from ‘The Adventurer’s Son,’ by Roman Dial

The Adventurer’s Son by Roman Dial https://amzn.to/38Y7yMc

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Roman Dial has made a name for himself courageously heading out on risky adventures. But his son's disappearance in Costa Rica has him shaken—and the details aren't adding up.

I don't know how much good this will do, but it's worth a shot. I know some of you are from Costa Rica and may have already heard about this.

In short, Roman Dial (adventure icon, father of packrafting, professor of biology and mathematics, National Geographic Explorer) has been unable to reach his son, Cody, for about a month now. Cody went to Corcovado National Park (Costa Rica) by himself to hike some of the illegal trails before heading back to school for his masters degree. While Cody is experienced in backcountry trekking, Costa Rican jungles offer a wide variety of dangers such as rivers and canyons hidden by thick foliage, venomous snakes, and ~400 illegal miners.

Friends of Cody's parents have said that a request for Cody's search has been accepted by the president of Costa Rica; however, the U.S. Department of Defense hasn't taken action.

According to Roman, there are ways that U.S. citizens can help: "...email or call their congressman and their senators, and have them put pressure on the Department of Defense. They can just say 'Hey, here’s this missing person Cody Roman Dial in Costa Rica. Why isn’t the US government responding to the Costa Rican request for help to find the missing American in Costa Rica?'"

Roman's an awesome guy and served as my Alaska expert on my first NGSE trip. If you have time, shooting an email out wouldn't hurt!

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