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Post from the Tender Is the Flesh forum

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Thoughts from 7% (page 15)

    This book is gonna fuck me up isn’t it

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  • The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2)
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    Jul 27, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5
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    Terry Pratchett is so silly goofy Not quite sure what actually happened in the end but I thoroughly enjoyed the journey

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  • The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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    Jul 14, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5

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  • Who's Afraid of Gender?
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    Jul 14, 2025
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    Okay I have a lot of thoughts, but clearly so does Judith I am so glad a book like this exists. A proper dissection of “gender critical” thought is so necessary and I worry will be a critical historical artefact in later years. But. Reading this in 2025, post UK Supreme Court ruling… is hard. Not just because things are worse now in there short time since this book was written, but also because I’m just not sure how helpful an academic text like this is in the current climate. I don’t think JK Rowling is going to read this book and be “converted”, I also don’t think that’s what this book is for. But it didn’t do much to help my creeping existential dread, and that is why I gave it a low rating overall. I still recommend reading it! But prepare to be like “haha it’s worse now!”

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  • The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
    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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  • Lolita
    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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  • Post from the The Long Walk forum

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  • The Long Walk
    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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  • A History of Women in 101 Objects
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    Jun 28, 2025
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  • A History of Women in 101 Objects
    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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  • Detransition, Baby
    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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  • 1984
    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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