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The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)

The Nanny's Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes

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Can I Tell You Something? (Snowbound Secrets, #1)

53%

The Antiquarian's Object of Desire (Love's Academic, #3)

11%

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

34%

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Thoughts from 56%

"her brain released a thought she didn't know she'd been holding" God I love this book.

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Stress and Reading

Hey friends!

I haven't been reading as much lately, mainly because I'm nervous about a big scary stressful, but exciting thing coming up soon.

I was thinking, whenever I feel really overwhelmed, or stressed, I don't read. In fact, I want to but I seem to actively avoid it whenever I get a second, favouring TV and video games. I love reading so much, it's like I don't want to tarnish it with the feeling of stress or feel like I'm supposed to be disconnecting but can't quite get there.

I was wondering, what's your relationship between reading and stress? Do you have rituals? Does it help you? Do you avoid it?

Lady_of_the_Library is interested in reading...

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-Joo

A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old “millennial everywoman,” she has recently left her white-collar desk job—in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time—as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women—alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist. In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung’s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist—a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around her—from the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the women’s restroom and post their photos online. In her father’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s fault that men harass her late at night; in her husband’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their child—to put them first. Jiyoung’s painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons “family planning” birth control policies and passes new legislation against gender discrimination. But can her doctor flawlessly, completely cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? Rendered in minimalist yet lacerating prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 sits at the center of our global #MeToo movement and announces the arrival of writer of international significance

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Stress and Reading

Hey friends!

I haven't been reading as much lately, mainly because I'm nervous about a big scary stressful, but exciting thing coming up soon.

I was wondering, what's your relationship between reading and stress? Do you have rituals? Does it help you? Do you avoid it?

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Best Bookshops

Hey!

Anyone that has good recommendations for great, pretty or interesting bookshops to visit, drop it in the list below!

Bonus if they are in Europe! I'd love to visit!

Bonus Bonus if they have a lil special something or have a great romance novel selection!

Drop the recommendations so people visiting anywhere can consult!

Pls include the name of the shop, city, country, what makes it special, etc. the basic info ❤️

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The Antiquarian's Object of Desire (Love's Academic, #3)

India Holton

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Stress and Reading

Hey friends!

I haven't been reading as much lately, mainly because I'm nervous about a big scary stressful, but exciting thing coming up soon.

I was wondering, what's your relationship between reading and stress? Do you have rituals? Does it help you? Do you avoid it?

Lady_of_the_Library is interested in reading...

Hopeless Necromantic

Shiloh Briar

Sticks and stones may break their bones, but he'll just resurrect them.Four years ago, Sikras 'Catseye' Nikabod had it all: a beautiful wife, friends and family, and the endless luxuries that came with being the all-powerful necromancer to the queen.Now, his brother-in-law is a walking corpse, he's wanted for tax evasion, his oldest friend, Vessik, has slaughtered thousands of the queen's people with a skeleton army, and his wife is dead. Sort of.With the kingdom under threat, it's only natural for the queen to task Sikras with the totally normal, not-at-all-cruel chore of brutally murdering his dearest friend. Sure. Great. It's not like he already failed to stop Vessik's reign of terror twice or anything.Turns out, it's hard to kill a monster when you can't stop remembering the good man he used to be. Harder still when you're pretty sure his descent into madness is kind of, sort of, hypothetically ... all your fault.Raise a glass. Raise the dead. Just don't raise your hopes.

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Stress and Reading

Hey friends!

I haven't been reading as much lately, mainly because I'm nervous about a big scary stressful, but exciting thing coming up soon.

I was wondering, what's your relationship between reading and stress? Do you have rituals? Does it help you? Do you avoid it?

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Lady_of_the_Library

Stress and Reading

Hey friends!

I haven't been reading as much lately, mainly because I'm nervous about a big scary stressful, but exciting thing coming up soon.

I was wondering, what's your relationship between reading and stress? Do you have rituals? Does it help you? Do you avoid it?

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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)

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