BabyCaraxes

26. Australia. I like intelligently written horror. Nature lover, YA hater. I ping pong between scifi, non fiction, horror and classics. Love me some psychosexual weird girl lit. 🕷🍭🌑

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Reading...

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Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

11%

61%

Children of Coercive Control (Interpersonal Violence)

17%

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)

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JillyBean

Looking for books with terrible moms

I am working on a library display of books that include terrible moms. Terrible can mean neglectful, abusive, manipulative, etc. What books would you recommend? Ideally, I would like the mom to be an antagonist but any featured crappy moms will do. Thanks for your help!

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid

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Oooh its scaryyyy

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I just realised that I was thinking this book and Things have gotten worse since we last spoke were the same book

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid

Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why…I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always. Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.” And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here. In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, I’m Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first page…and never lets you go.

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vulpecula

Shout out the people who have made YOUR PB experience great!

A couple of weeks ago, I put up a friending meme to meet new people on PB. This week, I want to put up a thread where people can shout out the people who have made their experience on PB great. It can be people you’ve talked to, people whose updates make your day, or people whose reviews are fascinating/hilarious/informative/etc.

Obviously this thread is not meant as a slight to anyone, but to celebrate the many people we have met on PB!

(I will do mine in the comments.)

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Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

Robert Chapman

‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly’ Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes ‘Argues that a radical politics of neurodiversity is necessary, not only for neurodivergent folk, but for our collective liberation’ Professor Hel Spandler, editor, Asylum magazine ‘A vital book that kindles the flames of a neurodivergent revolution’ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health Communism Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the ‘normal’ brain as a product of intensified capitalism. Exploring the rich histories of the neurodiversity and disability movements, Robert Chapman shows how the rise of capitalism created an ‘empire of normality’ that transformed our understanding of the body into that of a productivity machine. Neurodivergent liberation is possible – but only by challenging the deepest logics of capitalism. Empire of Normality is an essential guide to understanding the systems that shape our bodies, minds and deepest selves – and how we can undo them. Robert Chapman is a neurodivergent philosopher who has taught at King’s College London and Bristol University. They are currently Assistant Professor in Critical Neurodiversity Studies at Durham University. They blog at Psychology Today and at Critical Neurodiversity .

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Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

Robert Chapman

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Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from celebrated author Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James. 'There is no good way to say this,' Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. 'There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.' There is no good way to say this – because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, 'a single point in a timeline'. Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, 'The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later, only, now and now and now and now.' Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.

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BabyCaraxes

Apr 08, 2026

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 3.5

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Linden Hills is hell.

An affluent black gated community which everyone wants to get down into. A symbol of "making" it for the aspiring despite the reality that the American dream is a nightmare, and the inhabitants are living in it. This novel is a revision of Naylor's Yale master’s thesis and is based on Dante's Inferno. (How it got my attention 😈)

We descend into the ascending pit with two young boys, both aspiring poets, who are doing odd jobs to earn some much needed money. It's late December and the fabulous lakes and pools are all frozen up.

My favourite part of the book was Gloria's characterisation of the women in the story, particularly the ones in the "lower circles". My favourite character being Willa, and my favourite sections (and thus with my most notes of the book) her pov. And while I'm not entirely happy with the rest of the book (it could have been so much more macabre! and I envisioned the ending darker) this book is a solid 4 stars for the characterisation of the inhabitants of Cocytus. For the swallowed up wives of the Nedeeds.

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Linden Hills

Gloria Naylor

Con sus casas llamativas, sus elegantes jardines y otros alardes de riqueza, Linden Hills no se diferencia de otras comunidades negras adineradas. Pero residir allí es una prueba indiscutible de haberlo «logrado». Aunque nadie conoce cuáles son las cualificaciones exactas, todos saben que solo determinadas personas pueden acceder y contarse entre ellas. Gloria Naylor analiza en Linden Hills cuestiones de clase y jerarquía, racismo e identidad racial, misoginia y opresión hacia las mujeres, y es, también, una historia de crecimiento psicológico y moral, como lo atestiguan sus dos protagonistas, Willie y Lester.

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CaitlinByHerShelf

Bookish items/merch/crafts

Do you like to have bookish items/merch/STUFF? 📚

I do find myself gravitating towards bookish themed things, but try to watch my consumption unless it’s things I either: a) really want b) need and will use

If you have bookish stuff, what’s your favorite? Do you collect a certain thing like bookmarks or bookish stickers?

Right now mine is this bag! My wife got it for me this weekend while in the city, and it’s perfect for carrying my normal odds and ends, plus a book and my e-reader!

tote bag from the strand

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What songs have been in your head lately? What genre do you think those songs fall under?

I have had quite a few songs in my head lately that I just keep singing so that has inspired this question!

Songs I've had in my head lately and the genre I think they fall under.

Seven by Jungkook featuring Latto- Romance specifically steamy reads

Skyscraper by NCT 127 - Sci Fi

Faster & 2 Baddies by NCT 127- Adventure since these songs are about cars specifically (they are from the same album. So is Skyscraper)

No Longer by NCT 127- This song would be under Romance, but one with a bunch of heartbreak. The boys sing as if they are heartbroken.

Fact Check by NCT 127- Nonfiction (They are telling you to check facts 😭😂)

I know most of them are NCT songs...they are currently my favorite to listen to...though I will be taking a massive break after the news of Mark Lee leaving them.

So what are some of the songs that have been in your head?

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The Animals in That Country

Laura Jean McKay

Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She’s never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals — first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean’s infected son, Lee. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species. Bold, exhilarating, and wholly original, The Animals in That Country asks what would happen if - for better or worse - we finally understood what animals were saying.

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Thoughts from 3% (page 8) | Why Ask Why

The way Becky Siegel Spratford introduces her book makes it sound like Horror is a difficult subject for librarians to navigate. Am I misreading this? She cites a lot of work into supporting librarians in this genre. Is horror that much of an "underdog"? Is it a commonplace challenge for people in the reading industry? I know horror typically deals with unpleasant experiences, but I suppose I never guessed there could be a need for additional support for this genre.

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I think theres something so intimate and sweet about hearing an author talk about how they create these worlds for other people (even if its horror 😂) Like someone you've never met crafted a world that gave you comfort and respite, and they did that intentionally

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