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The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2)

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The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2)

Terry Pratchett

As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...

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The remorse of a true crime junkie

So no shade to anyone but I am a recovering true crime addict that spent my twenties *inhaling* podcasts and documentaries and books, so I was kind of reticent to return to the genre. But the thing I remember most about my time immersed in the unholy soup of real life murder was that Jack the Ripper was boring shit for neckbeards (sorry). This book is the antithesis of that. I’m so glad I can hear these women’s stories. And it s not interested in the gory details of the murders (you can find plenty of that elsewhere, trust me) Only onto the second part so far but really loving the walk through history and poverty and women’s experiences

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women. In this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally gives these women back their stories.

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Reading lolita in my thirties

Decided to give the book another go after listening to Jamie Loftus’ podcast, I had read the book as a teenager deep in my tumblr phase, and had come away confused: why didn’t I like the narrator, why didn’t I find it very romantic or erotic? Reader, I was never supposed to. Understanding Delores Hayes as a fully grown adult is a very different experience, and I think this is like many other pieces of media that are brilliant, but a once only experience (like Grave of the Fireflies, maybe)

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Read this ahead of the movie

And I guess I’m just messed up now Big Steven king fan but bro the Bachman books are *dark* does the fact that there’s no supernatural element make it even worse? Fully unsure as to whether I’ll be watching the move maybe I’ll be ready by September but who knows

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The Long Walk

Stephen King

Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as The Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping... with the winner being awarded "The Prize"—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you're given a warning. Three warnings and you're out of the game—permanently...

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The Long Walk

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Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist. Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations. On another hot summer’s day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless.

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Jun 28, 2025

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Thoughts from 50%

This is the perfect book to get the audiobook of, all the different narrators! Kate Winslet! And because the person changes every chapter it stops my mind from drifting off and losing track

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Mieko Kawakami

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Thoughts from 100%

The comparisons are like Bridget Jones or a Sally Rooney novel, but trans, and I think that’s sort of fair? It lives in that genre of dissecting women's relationships, it is equally funny and poignant. But I would add that this book is more than that because it so deeply lives in the complicated world of being trans in ways that doesn’t patronise the reader with “intro to queerdom” bits of exposition, or stereotypes that dilute experiences to make them palatable. It’s not Bridget jones but make it queer, it’s queer, but make it Bridget jones.

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Now go read Julia

Even if you thought this book was kinda mid (which I did tbh) reading julia by Sandra Newman afterwards was incredible and made me think more fondly about the original tbh

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Now go read Julia

Even if you thought this book was kinda mid (which I did tbh) reading julia by Sandra Newman afterwards was incredible and made me think more fondly about the original tbh

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A History of Women in 101 Objects

Annabelle Hirsch

Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking, stories behind them. “I adored this book!” –Olivia Colman This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch curates a diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women’s daily lives. The result is an intimate and lively alternative history of humans in the world. The objects date from prehistory to today and are assembled chronologically to show the evolution of how women were perceived by others, how they perceived themselves, how they fought for freedom. Some (like a 16th century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. These are artifacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it. With variety and nuance, Hirsch cracks open the fissures of what we think we know to illuminate a much richer What do handprints on early cave paintings tell us about the role of women in hunting? What does a mobile phone have to do with femicides? Or Kim Kardashian’s diamond ring with Elena Ferrante? Wide-ranging, subversive, witty, and superbly researched, this is a book that upends all our assumptions about, and presentations of, the past, proving it has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it.

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