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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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Goddess of the River

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How is the dnf situation so far this year?

The title may give away that I’ve been recently dnf’ing a lot of books (some I didn’t log here lol) due many reasons, some are: uni- I don’t like the mc- the narrator is… hmm - HOW LONG IS THIS GOING TO TAKE - what a problematic romance - even though I read most of the book I actually don’t care - dude can we get a change of scenery, why are you still describing this dude being on bed (petty reason ik, also a point for who know this book) etc… So I got curious, how many books have you guys already dnf’ed this year, and what are some of the reasons 👀?

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Earth Day Reads 🌿

Happy Earth Day! Hope everyone gets a moment to give a little love back to the planet that does so much for us 💚

I know there's some lists floating around out there, but if you have any specific books you loved, please feel free to drop them below!

I'll always recommend Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

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What is your bookish ritual?

Mine is a library visit and coffee treat every other Saturday. Also, whenever I finish reading a book, I put the price of that book into a dedicated savings account.

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Family Tree

Oh damn we got a family tree, it's time to lock in. Here's what it looks like for anyone going digital/audio

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Goddess of the River

Vaishnavi Patel

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from Vaishnavi Patel, author of the instant New York Times bestseller Kaikeyi . A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world. Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as caretaker to the mischievous godlings who roam her banks. But when their antics incur the wrath of a powerful sage, Ganga is cursed to become mortal, bound to her human form until she fulfills the obligations of the curse. Though she knows nothing of mortal life, Ganga weds King Shantanu and becomes a queen, determined to regain her freedom no matter the cost. But in a cruel turn of fate, just as she is freed of her binding, she is forced to leave her infant son behind. Her son, prince Devavrata, unwittingly carries the legacy of Ganga’s curse. And when he makes an oath that he will never claim his father’s throne, he sets in motion a chain of events that will end in a terrible and tragic war. As the years unfold, Ganga and Devavrata are drawn together again and again, each confluence another step on a path that has been written in the stars, in this deeply moving and masterful tale of duty, destiny, and the unwavering bond between mother and son.

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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Apr 21, 2026

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I don't feel like anything I can say would make an adequate review for this book. Everyone should read this. Its heavy. Despite being short it took me longer than expected to get through due to the material. But it is really important. I remember when this came out a year ago I initially didn't want to read it because it was too difficult. With everything you see in the news every day I didn't think I could read this too. But I think thats exactly why people need to read this. Im glad I did. I will probably read it again. Maybe a physical copy next time so I can take notes.

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet was viewed over 10 million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse. This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the west, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France and Germany.  It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we’re undergoing a shift in the so-called ‘rules-based order,’ a generation that understands the west can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar’s own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11. This book is his heartsick breakup letter with the west. It is a breakup we are watching all over the U.S., on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the west has served up. This is the book for our time.

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This or That: Single Perspective or Ensemble?

I’ve been reading a lot of epic fantasy lately and I’ve found they tend to fall in one of these two camps, and I am finding that I vastly prefer the singular POV. I can understand why an ensemble is appealing from a worldbuilding perspective, but I just get significantly more invested when I am limited to one or two primary perspectives. The Way of Kings has 3 and that seems to be the limit of my preference (and even then I spent the time with one of those characters waiting for the other 2 to come back oops).

That being said, I can appreciate a prologue/epilogue/interlude that briefly pulls back from the main character’s perspective and shows a different part of the world, as long as it does return to the MC when the story picks back up (thinking about the prologues/epilogues of The Broken Earth and The Poppy War trilogies here). There’s a bit more novelty to the lore drops that way for me personally, I think.

What about y’all? Which do you prefer?

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

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"It is not just the symbols we use in our language that are arbitrary-it is what we choose to signify with them. We give words only to the things that matter to us as a society. The things that make no difference to US are erased from our world by never becoming a part of language in the first place. In this way, each language organizes the world into a pattern. Each language decides what has meaning-and what does not. As native speakers, we are born inside this pattern, this semiotic cosmos." I think this is really interesting to think about. It's like when you hear a word from another language that has no direct translation to your language but has a very specific definition. I always think those words are fun. Sometimes I hear them and think about how I wish English had a word for it. I think one of the most popular examples is probably schadenfreude, which is a German word that describes the feeling of joy from seeing failures of others.

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Exposed

My secret is out. My parents came over to supervise me fixing the toilet supply line (aka I asked dad to come watch me fix it so I knew what the hell I was doing and also so he’d feed me lunch after) and mom saw my crafting and book room.

“You have quite a few books!” She says and gestured to my two-level deep, stacked, and genre-organized shelves.

“Yes,” I said, deliberately not telling her I have 400 more on my Kobo.

How may physical books do you guys own? Do you selectively curate or just dragon hoard?

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Do you ever just💭

Do you ever just finish a fantastic book and then dive right into something completely different?

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