Janets_Thingamajigs

39, she/her, hospice veterinarian 💜 Far-left in Texas Read with empathy 🌸

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Aleeh

Book slump

I have been in a deep and depressing book slump since August and I just can’t seem to get out of it. I just finished my first book that I actually devoured and I thought I was finally getting out of my slump but I’m scared it’s a one off because now I feel the same depressing slump like mood that feels … depressing lol (idk if that makes sense 😅). Anyways, recommend me some books that you think are incredible or cured your book slump! I read just about any genre.

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Rejection: Fiction

Tony Tulathimutte

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel,” New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos. Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet. In “The Feminist,” a young man’s passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn’t getting him laid. A young woman’s unrequited crush in “Pics” spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self. And in “Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression,” a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways our delusions can warp our desire for connection. These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.

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So Far Gone

Jess Walter

A reclusive journalist is suddenly thrown into a wild, suspenseful journey to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren. A few weeks after the 2016 election, at Thanksgiving with his daughter and her belligerent new husband, Rhys Kinnick finally snapped. After an escalating fight about politics, he hauled off and punched the jerk. Immediately horrified by what he'd done, by the state of the world around him, and by his own spiraling mental health, Rhys chucked his smartphone out the car window and fled for a remote cabin in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. Seven years later, when his grandchildren show up on his doorstep, Rhys barely recognizes them. Their mother has disappeared, and they need a safer place to stay than with their father, who has taken up with a Christian Nationalist militia. So what if Rhys’s cabin has no electricity or indoor plumbing, and the raccoons help themselves to the monthly grocery haul? He'll do whatever he needs to for these sweet kids. But when the militia members show up and kidnap the children, Rhys realizes he'll have to re-enter the broken world. With the help of a bipolar retired detective and his caustic ex-girlfriend, Rhys reluctantly heads off on a madcap journey through the rubble of the life he left behind.

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Dec 03, 2025

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

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An honest, funny, snarky and sometimes old-man cranky look at this chapter of his life, centered around the purchase of a beach house in Emerald Isle for his family to enjoy together. It covers the back and forth emotions of managing an elderly parent as well as the suicide of his estranged sister. Mixed in are some lovely snippets of life, from befriending a wild fox, feeding time for snapping turtles, and a particularly fun live recording centered around road rage curses in different languages.

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The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

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aripcy

Post apocalyptic recommendations please !

Hiii so, i have a looong list of books to read but my bf is watching a Fallout gameplay and now i feel like i wanna read a post apocalyptic book haha

To give a more specific idea, i didnt really read any book on the subject yet but im searching for something like The last of us/The walking dead/The 100/Fallout New Vegas!

what i’m searching for:

good world-building (could be fantasy or dystopian or natural disaster or something else all is welcome)
dark/scary tones
maybe a quest to complete/an adventure
not stereotyped characters

i’d also prefer:

no YA (i know i put The 100 in the inspo but its more for the vibes and the setting)
no SA
no spicy

Bonus points if it’s written by a woman :’)

I dont even know if something like this exists haha but thank you in advance!

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dorouu

Does anyone *actually* like the miscommunication trope?

Cause I don't.

"why don't you talk to each other 🎶" - Steven Universe.

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Ecofiction 🪴 and heartbreak 💔

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Stories that envelop you in the beauty of nature, revealing how small we really are in the grand scheme of things. Plants and animals have been here before and will be here long after.

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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Subversive reads from authors unafraid to tackle taboos.

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Contemporary Literary Fiction where nothing out of the ordinary happens but the characters’ inner lives are rich, complicated, and layered.

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed. Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family. The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in. But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the greatest secrets they've been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves.

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Memoir & Biography Starter Pack Vol I 🪞📝🎙️

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An introduction to Memoir & Biography, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.

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