Ari_Ari

Lesbrarian gang handi queer baby 🐈‍⬛🫀🫂

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My Taste

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)

An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)

Reading...

Museé entomologique illustré 3 - Les insectes

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I Am Strong: The Life and Journey of an Autistic Pastor

56%

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12h

Insomnie et autres poèmes

Marina Tsvetaeva

20%

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12h

Insomnie et autres poèmes

Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvétaïéva (1892-1941) est aujourd’hui reconnue comme l’un des grands poètes du XXe siècle. Femme de tous les paradoxes, à la fois russe et universelle, prosaïque et sublime, elle commence très jeune à écrire et à publier. Prise dans la tourmente révolutionnaire après l’écrasement de l’Armée blanche dans laquelle son mari s’est engagé comme officier, elle vit un douloureux exil de dix-sept ans à Berlin, à Prague, puis à Paris. De retour dans son pays natal en 1939, elle se suicide deux ans plus tard. Il est des talents si impétueux que les évènements les plus dévastateurs de l’histoire ne sauraient les étouffer. Réduite à néant par la terreur stalinienne, Marina Tsvétaïéva ne cesse aujourd’hui de revivre et de rayonner. Cette « Danseuse de l’âme », ainsi qu’elle se nommait, traverse, subit et transcende les malédictions de l’Histoire comme une comète fracassée. Par sa poésie, fulgurante, rétive et exaltée, elle fraternise d’emblée avec toutes les victimes. La singularité tragique de son itinéraire, d’une indestructible intégrité, garde aujourd’hui toute sa charge libératrice.

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

14%

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13h

Ghibliverse: Studio Ghibli Beyond the Films (Ghibliotheque Guides)

Jake Cunningham

Step beyond the magical movies and explore the wider world of Studio Ghibli. Hailed as perhaps the greatest animation studio in the world, Studio Ghibli's influence extends far further than the cinema screen. Ghibliverse plots a course through the universe outside the films, the wonderful web of inspiration and influences that are ripe and waiting for Ghibli fans to enjoy. From manga and rare movies to forgotten television series and brand new theme parks, and from literary masterpieces and rival studios to soundtracks and secret short films, expert authors and hosts of the hit Ghibliotheque podcast Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham show that the magic doesn't stop when the film credits roll.

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15h

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

48%

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17h

The Way Disabled People Love Each Other

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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17h

Swollening

Jason Purcell

Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staking a place for the queer body that has been made sick through living in this world. Part poetic experiment and part memoir, Swollening attempts to diagnose what has been undiagnosable, tracing an uneven path from a lifetime of swallowing bad feelings—homophobia in its external and internalized manifestations, heteronormativity, anxiety surrounding desire, aversion to sex—to a body in revolt. In poems that speak using the grammar and logics of sickness, Purcell offers a dizzying collision of word and image that is the language of pain alongside the banality of living on. Beginning by reading his own life and body closely and slowly zooming out to read illness in the world, Purcell comes to how might a sick, queer body forgive itself for a natural reaction to living in a sick world and go on toward hope? In Swollening , Purcell coughs up his own poetics of illness, his own aesthetics of pain, to form a tender collection that lands straight in the gut.

Ari_Ari is interested in reading...

17h

The Company of Others: Stories of Belonging

Sandra Shields

In the next decade, six million North American families will be caring for someone with a disability. But other disabled people are not so lucky, left to live in isolation and without support in an era of federal and state cutbacks. This extraordinary book is about the transforming power of family and community on “vulnerable” individuals—the mentally challenged, the mentally ill, the elderly—and how these efforts enrich us as a society. The book tells the stories, interwoven with photographs, of five such people, who are surrounded by social “circles—friends and family whose respect, encouragement, and unconditional love give them a sense of purpose and belonging. Featuring beautiful duotone photographs, the stories told here are profoundly inspiring, giving hope to anyone who, because of age, health, or disability, has been excluded from having a full and meaningful life. Co-produced with PLAN (Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network).

Ari_Ari is interested in reading...

17h

Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary

Andrea Bennett

Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness, mortality, creative work, class, and bike mechanics (apparently you can learn a lot about yourself through truing a wheel). In "Tomboy," andrea articulates what it means to live in a gender in-between space, and why one might be necessary; "37 Jobs 21 Houses" interrogates the notion that the key to a better life is working hard and moving house. And interspersed throughout the book is "Everyone Is Sober and No One Can Drive," sixteen stories about queer millennials who grew up and came of age in small communities. With the same poignant spirit as Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide, Like a Boy but Not a Boy addresses the struggle to find acceptance, and to accept oneself; and how one can find one's place while learning to make space for others. The book also wonders it means to be an atheist and search for faith that everything will be okay; what it means to learn how to love life even as you obsess over its brevity; and how to give birth, to bring new life, at what feels like the end of the world. With thoughtfulness and acute observation, andrea bennett reveal intimate truths about the human experience, whether one is outside the gender binary or not.

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I Am Strong: The Life and Journey of an Autistic Pastor

Lamar Hardwick

56%

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Greek Lessons

Han Kang

27%

Ari_Ari finished a book

You Are a Sacred Place: Visual Poems for Living in Climate Crisis

Madeleine Jubilee Saito

"A singular gift. At once gentle and piercing, spare and profound, [Saito's] artistry breaks open hearts, releasing rivers of love for what is––and grief for what is already lost." –– NAOMI KLEIN, New York Times bestselling author of DoppelgangerIn her debut collection of comics, artist and climate activist Madeleine Jubilee Saito offers a quietly radical message of hope. Framed as a letter in response to a loved one’s pain, this series of ethereal vignettes takes readers on a journey from seemingly inescapable isolation and despair, through grief and rage, toward the hope of community and connection. Drawing on her faith as well as the traditions of climate and disability justice, Saito reminds readers that if we’re going to challenge fossil fuel capitalism, we must first imagine what lies beyond The beauty and joy of a healed world.

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Les Enfants du Solstice (French Edition)

Ari_Ari

May 14, 2026

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

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Le visuel était vraiment très beau (couleurs et tracés).

Mais je suis un peu déçue par la fin. J'ai trouvé que c'était rapide et je pensais qu'il y aurait une suite.

MAIS c'est vraiment une belle BD quand-même :)

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You Are a Sacred Place: Visual Poems for Living in Climate Crisis

Madeleine Jubilee Saito

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You Are a Sacred Place: Visual Poems for Living in Climate Crisis

Madeleine Jubilee Saito

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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings, from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks. Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.Drawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.Gathering Moss will appeal to a wide range of readers, from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment, Native Americans, and contemporary nature and science writing.

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Even in the fantasy world ‘cops’ (guards) are useless and violent

Ari_Ari TBR'd a book

When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems

Joan Baez

An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her art, this collection is an inspiring personal diary in the form of poetry. While Baez has been writing poetry for decades, she’s never shared it publicly. Poems about her life, her family, about her passions for nature and art, have piled up in notebooks and on scraps of paper. Now, for the first time ever, her life is shared revealing pivotal life experiences that shaped an icon, offering a never-before-seen look into the reminiscences and musings of a great artist. Like a late-night chat with someone you love, this collection connects fans to the real heart of who Joan Baez is as a person, as a daughter and sister, and as an artist who has inspired millions.

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Stories That Hold Space and Sit With You in the Dark

This year, my birthday is causing me all sorts of emotional turmoil. It doesn't feel like a day for celebrating. I'm in a heavy, complicated, healing season this year, rather than a celebratory one.

I wanted to spend time holding space for myself this week (because I honestly never do that) and wanted to read the Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta, because a recent post in the club made it sound like it would be the kind of book I could escape into, but one that would also hold space for me. BUT I can't find it anywhere in South Africa. 😢

So, I'd love some recommendations for books have felt like gentle companions during emotionally heavy or transitional times. The kind of books that hold a tender heart.

I’m a ravenous fantasy reader — I love the escape, but I'm trying not to escape entirely this week. So, right now, I think I the main thing I need is a book that feels like a warm hug, even if it makes me cry a little (or a lot 🥹), but also something with a little bit of substance. The kind of book that surprises you in the best way. 🤍

(Just maybe not heavy self-help books this week. 😅😂 My brain would like comfort, not homework.)

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makiki

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My cat helps with my reading time

So I've had my cat for almost 2 years now and he is the most routine-adherent creature i've ever met... and he's also a morning cat. His bedtime is like, 9pm and he's pretty much out all night... until about 5:45am. Usually he's pretty good about waking me up, but recently he's started standing on me around 6am. So for the past few weeks, i've been up (at the latest) by 7am, and once he gets his breakfast (7:45) i sit down and have a WHOLE bunch of time to read in the morning. I'm a morning person too so I don't mind. Today i'm sitting down with a lavender tea and apples and cinnamon to read while i listen to the rain

That's my story! Anyone else have a situation like this? 😂

EDITING TO ADD: IF U WANT TO ALSO POST PICS OF YOUR SWEET BABIES PLEASE DO

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