A week of reading began when I lined my duffel bag with books for a trip to Byron Bay.

I carried Tim Low’s Where Song Began: Australian Birds and How They Changed The World under my arm as I walked the main street of Byron. The fiction bias I had in my younger reading life has shattered, and I find myself hungry for nonfiction, particularly science.

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