Doddyaboutbooks

🇦🇺Neurospicy mood reader, with a focus on Aussie books and diverse books and authors. Queer AF. Xe/xir

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

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Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism (Feminst Technosciences)

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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Some transphobic sentiment here from Ashraf (and his white work colleague)

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What was the breathing exercise to manage the sensation of dread and disgust at knowing you worked closely with somebody who would be celebrating on the day of your people’s Nakba?

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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Kara Cooney

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Gigorou: It's time to reclaim beauty. First Nations wisdom and womanhood

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There are so many phrases the author uses that’re giving millennial trying to appeal to a younger audience and it’s really making me cringe 😅 I will persevere though as I think this book has potential 🤞

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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

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Childhood favorites to what you read today

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the books I read as a child shaped my taste in books now. My childhood favorite series was The Spiderwick Chronicles, (whimsical but dark, horror/fantasy,) and I can clearly see how that’s influenced my current taste in books (Root Rot and Don’t Let the Forest In for example.) My other favorite book series was How to Train Your Dragon, and again I can directly see how that’s impacted my taste (Liveship Traders and the rest of Robin Hobb’s work.) So I was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience with the books they read as a kid shaping their current taste in books. Or I guess not even just books, it could be shows, movies or other types of media. Edit to add: another childhood favorite of mine was The Mistmantle Chronicles, which is basically Redwall. Criminally, I’ve never read Redwall, but it’s also anthropomorphic animals with swords, and it’s basically the kid equivalent of political intrigue fantasy.

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Bellies

Nicola Dinan

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming’s orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he’s already mapped out their future together. But shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition.From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face tectonic shifts in their relationship and friend circle in the wake of Ming’s transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crises—some personal, some professional, some life-altering—Tom and Ming are forced to confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken since graduating, and each must answer the essential question: Is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are?Buoyed by a voice as tender, effervescent and wryly funny as the cast of characters it centers, Bellies is an unforgettable story of youth, intimacy, hunger and heartbreak, at once boldly original yet fiercely familiar, which unabashedly holds a mirror up to our most vulnerable selves and desires.

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Might Cry Later

Kay Kerr

A hilarious, romantic, messy, neurodivergent story of burnout for readers of Bonnie Garmus, Gabrielle Zevin and Meg Mason, by autistic author Kay Kerr.Meet Nora Byrne. Over-thinker, under-achiever, champion vibes-killer.After spectacularly blowing up her life, twenty-one-year-old Nora Byrne retreats to the family home with little to show for herself but a shiny new autism diagnosis. But it's hard to process this news under the critical eye of her mother, who already treats her like the black sheep, and the rest of her less-than-understanding family.Worst of all, it's the week before Christmas, which means mandatory socialising with the neighbours - including Fran, her childhood best friend, last seen when she broke his heart (again). Nora's only goal is to get through the interminable family dinners, awkward Fran encounters and excessive holiday festivities without crying, throwing up, or finding new ways to humiliate herself. But with her track record, it's not going to be easy ...A heartfelt, hilarious and romantic story about burning out, coming home and finding yourself, no matter how messy and imperfect the process. Praise for Might Cry Later'Such a smart, funny, gorgeous evocation of the messy path to acceptance of self and others.' - Laura McPhee-Browne 'Finally, the messy, complex neurodivergent heroine I've been waiting for! I love Nora and I think you will, too.' - Clem Bastow

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Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

Alice Sparkly Kat

Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation. In a cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language, Alice Sparkly Kat unmasks the political power of astrology, showing how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. Too often, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism, used as a force of oppression, or distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their individual and collective power. By looking at the symbolic and etymological histories of the sun, moon, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter, we can trace and understand the politics of magic–and challenge our own practices, interrogate our truths, and reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities of care. Fearless, radical, and fresh, Sparkly Kat’s Postcolonial Astrology ushers in a new wave of astrology revival, refusing to apologize for its magickism and connecting its power to the spirituality and politics we need now. Intersectional, inclusive, and geared towards queer and POC communities, it uses our historical and collective constructs of the planets, sun, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history, redefine the body in the world, and assert our politics of the personal, in astrology and all things.

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‘I’m out here trying to compose myself, so either you let me do that or you deal with the worse version of me inside. It’s up to you; you can’t have both.’

One thing I admire about Nora is her ability to say this stuff to her family.

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Thoughts from 88% (page 298)

I had not been home for nearly a year at that point, but I knew that when I saw Elsie she would shower my shrinking body only in praise. Somewhere along the line it becomes acceptable for girls to become picky eaters, to restrict and restrict and restrict , as long as the results are visible. Healthy is code for thin, no matter how we get there.

True but enraging, and no doubt another reason females escape diagnosis

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