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Mar 2022
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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What does it mean to look and observe without immediately searching for an answer? What are the many implications of the color blue? How do we make sense of the distance between our younger selves and current selves? Join John Green and Rosianna Halse Rojas as they discuss A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.

This episode was originally released to subscribers in March 2019. The Life’s Library Discord and subscriptions are now closed after a wonderful three years of reading together. Check out past books at www.lifeslibrarybookclub.com, Twitter, and Instagram.

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