June 2024 — An Immense World, by Ed Yong

📖 Why this book? 📖

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A
"THRILLING" (THE NEW YORK TIMES), "DAZZLING" (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) TOUR OF THE RADICALLY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT ANIMALS PERCEIVE THE WORLD THAT WILL FILL YOU WITH WONDER AND FOREVER ALTER YOUR PERSPECTIVE, BY PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING SCIENCE JOURNALIST ED YONG

Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called "the only true voyage... not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes."

WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE
MEDAL • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD

Published June 21, 2022

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💠 What can I expect? 💠

We will meet in-person after hours in Time Tested Books. Front door willl be unlocked, and staff will point the way.

We catch up socially for the first 30 minutes and then start discussing the book promptly at 7pm.

👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜

◾️A snack to share (whatever you like!)
◾️$7 (cash or venmo, details below)
◾️And you could bring your book 😄

✴️ Event Details ✴️

Time Tested Books is keeping the store open after hours for our group. To cover the store's overhead, there is a $7 donation per person. You can venmo me (https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) or bring cash.

(Heads up: Time-Tested Books can run a bit warm after hot downtown days like these. 😅)

Thanks, and see you all soon!

📚 ** BOOK SUMMARY ** 📚

In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision.
We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.

"One of this year's finest works of narrative nonfiction." — Oprah Daily

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, PEOPLE, THE PHIL-ADELPHIA INQUIRER, SLATE, READER'S DI-GEST, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, OUTSIDE, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BOOKPAGE

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
OPRAH DAILY, THE NEW YORKER, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, PROSPECT (UK), GLOBE & MAIL, ESQUIRE, MENTAL FLOSS, MARGINALIAN, SHE READS, KIRKUS REVIEWS, LIBRARY JOURNAL