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Our reading
Publishing industry claims to predict how trends will play out, but such predictions are unreliable.
Their wordsPublishers want to have people believe they know exactly how and when things will shake out, but you just never know.
Our reading
Reading a book is fundamentally a solitary experience, unlike watching a film or TV show in a group.
Their wordsBut books, while you can discuss them with a group and relive them that way, are still a solitary endeavor that takes time to digest and feel.
Their wordsPerhaps this is a bold claim, but I think anyone writing about or from the southwest who isn't also in some way clocking how drought and rising temperatures and pollution are affecting the region is being disingenuous.