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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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

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

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

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

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British & Irish Classic Literature

Emerald: Finished 40 Main Quest books.

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Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

C.S. Pacat

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Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

C.S. Pacat

The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember, and they keep their centuries-long vigil, sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns. Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. When an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, Will is ushered into a world of magic, where he must train to play a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark. As London is threatened by the Dark King’s return, the reborn heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war begin to draw battle lines. But as the young descendants of Light and Dark step into their destined roles, old allegiances, old enmities and old flames are awakened. Will must stand with the last heroes of the Light to prevent the fate that destroyed their world from returning to destroy his own.

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andsotimepassed

Books about sisters

Hello everyone. My sister @roserayne passed away recently.

Can you guys suggest books about sisters and dealing with the loss of a sister?

Thank you.

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There Is No Antimemetics Division

qntm

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They ain't paying no one enough for this shit

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Anyajulchen

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The writing of this girl it's giving manic pixie dream girl fantasy. Instead of conversation of the fantasy, we already have mention of sex, big tits and poop. Django is a man?

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fitzchivalry

Oceans in fiction

hey guys, does anyone have any recs for books that feature the ocean deeper than just being about pirates or including one scene where the main characters' boat is attacked by a sea monster?

I'm looking for stories that spend a considerable amount of time fleshing out ocean environments and its creatures. Is this too niche? I feel like it's kinda difficult to find books like this. I'm open to any genres but I specifically love Fantasy and Sci-fi 🐙

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There Is No Antimemetics Division

qntm

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams... But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war? Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day.This ebook is an official release by me, qntm from the SCP Foundation wiki! PM me if you require confirmation. This ebook collects all of my Antimemetics Division SCP-055, SCP-2256 and the complete serials There Is No Antimemetics Division and Five Five Five Five Five.

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Bat Eater

Kylie Lee Baker

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater. Months pass, the killer is never caught, and Cora can barely keep herself together. She pushes away all feelings, disregards the bite marks that appear on her coffee table, and won't take her aunt's advice to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. Cora tries to ignore the rising dread in her stomach, even when she and her weird co-workers begin finding bat carcasses at their crime scene clean-ups. But Cora can't ignore the fact that all their recent clean-ups have been the bodies of East Asian women. Soon Cora will learn: you can't just ignore hungry ghosts.

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Bat Eater

Kylie Lee Baker

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Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

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May 17, 2026

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I love Murderbot. I enjoyed that we got to spend some time with other members of Mensah’s family and got to see how Three was coming along. I enjoyed Murderbot’s regular emotional check-ins and its unwilling soft spot for juvenile humans. A fast, good fun read.

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Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

Martha Wells

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f—)

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readswithtea

Reading Beverages ☕️🫖🧋

Today I treated myself to a fancy schmany coffee maker (a traitor to my user name I know) and have absolutely exceeded my daily recommended caffeine allowance because I’m so excited to play with it. It is currently 9:35PM and I am having another cappuccino!

But this got me thinking - does anyone else have a specific beverage that when they drink it, they can’t help but pick up a book and get reading? And if so, drop a recommendation and your current read!!!

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