Lurdo

They/Them Former devourer of 12 + books a week, now a frustrated slow reader because of my ouchie disabled brain 🙃

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My Taste

The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

Canine Enrichment for the Real World: Making It a Part of Your Dog's Daily Life

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I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese

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The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers

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The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole

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The Day I Became a Runner: A Women's History of India through the Lens of Sport

Sohini Chattopadhyay

The Day I Became a Runner starts from a striking premise-that, since running is a solitary activity conducted in the public sphere, women who take up this sport pose a more direct challenge to patriarchy than those who play sports such as badminton, cricket and tennis. To support this thesis, award-winning journalist Sohini Chattopadhyay presents the compelling stories of eight athletes spanning the entire history of independent India and involving women from a wide range of social and geographical backgrounds. Whether it is Ila Mitra, who could have been the first Indian-origin woman at the 1940 Olympics, or Mary D'Souza, who ran and played hockey for India through the 1950s; Kamaljit Sandhu, a star hockey player who made history for India in Bangkok, 1970, or P.T. Usha, who redefined the 1980s and the decades that followed for women in sport across the country, each of the women in this book will inspire and encourage the women reading it to break barriers and chase their dreams. Written with remarkable insight and poignancy, The Day I Became a Runner is an alternative account of the Indian republic chronicled through the lens of its women athletes. In that sense, it is a women's history of India.

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. Patrick Radden Keefe writes an intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.

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The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India

Urvashi Butalia

Oral History Association Book Award 2001 The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five thousand women were abducted and raped. Countless children disappeared. Homes, villages, communities, families, and relationships were destroyed. Yet, more than half a century later, little is known of the human dimensions of this event. In The Other Side of Silence , Urvashi Butalia fills this gap by placing people—their individual experiences, their private pain—at the center of this epochal event.Through interviews conducted over a ten-year period and an examination of diaries, letters, memoirs, and parliamentary documents, Butalia asks how people on the margins of history—children, women, ordinary people, the lower castes, the untouchables—have been affected by this upheaval. To understand how and why certain events become shrouded in silence, she traces facets of her own poignant and partition-scarred family history before investigating the stories of other people and their experiences of the effects of this violent disruption. Those whom she interviews reveal that, at least in private, the voices of partition have not been stilled and the bitterness remains. Throughout, Butalia reflects on difficult questions: what did community, caste, and gender have to do with the violence that accompanied partition? What was partition meant to achieve and what did it actually achieve? How, through unspeakable horrors, did the survivors go on? Believing that only by remembering and telling their stories can those affected begin the process of healing and forgetting, Butalia presents a sensitive and moving account of her quest to hear the painful truth behind the silence.

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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Emma Southon

An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside Ancient Rome's darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life, death, and what it means to be human.

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The Tragedy of True Crime

John J. Lennon

In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he’s a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all. The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered the New York prison system with a sentence of 28 years to life but after he stepped into a writing workshop at Attica Correctional Facility, his whole life changed. Reporting from the cell block and the prison yard, Lennon challenges our obsession with true crime by telling the full life stories of men now serving time for the lives they took. These men have completely different backgrounds — Robert Chambers, a preppy Manhattanite turned true crime celebrity; Milton E. Jones, a seventeen-year-old coaxed from burglary into something far darker; and Michael Shane Hale, a gay man caught in a crime of passion — and all are searching to find meaning and redemption behind bars. Lennon’s reporting is intertwined with his own story, from a young man seduced by the infamous gangster culture of New York City to a celebrated prison journalist. The same desire echoes throughout the lives of these four men: to become more than murderers. A first-of-its-kind book of immersive prison journalism, The Tragedy of True Crime poses fundamental questions about the stories we tell and who gets to tell them. What essential truth do we lose when we don’t consider all that comes before an act of unthinkable violence? And what happens to the convicted after the cell gate locks?

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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268

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A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm

Dave Goulson

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Post from the A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm forum

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Lurdo

Thoughts from 74% - 13. The Disappearing Bees

"The results were striking. In most respects the treated nests were just a little smaller, with fewer pupae and adult bees, but in the most important respect they were dramatically different. The control nests produced, on average, about thirteen new queens. The treated nests produced an average of just two - an 85 percent reduction. These new queens are the only stage to survive the winter,"

Genuinely made me go "Wowe 😲". I was expecting it to be bad, but that was so much worse than I was ready for.

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Babygotbooks

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Finding People Who Hate the Same Books

I know I’ve seen posts occasionally about books people absolutely hate not just not like but I was thinking wouldn’t it be interesting if along with the Your Taste books there was Your Hate books category you could easily see if someone matches you there.

I’m not saying it should be a feature exactly I’m saying that I have definitely decided to follow someone if they hate a book I hate but it takes a little digging AND I know some people have started their shelves here from scratch so maybe the books you hated wouldn’t even be on your reviews or DNF shelf! Tragic

This came about because I was randomly talking about Divergent with someone and I remembered how much I despised the ending but like most super popular books it has tons of fans of course so I rarely have a conversation with someone who also was not a fan.

Like most I have many factors to following someone not just exact matching books tastes so this is just another criteria to consider.

If you’re a book lover you are also a book hater at some point!

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Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

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Thoughts from 17% (page 34): OUCH

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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.Growing up, Patricia Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley. A child who frequently felt out of place, too much of one thing or not enough of another, she found acceptance in these settings, among other amphibious beings. In snakes, snails, and, above all, fungi, she saw her own developing identities as a queer, neurodivergent person reflected back at her—and in them, too, she found a personal path to a life of science.In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness, literal and otherwise, of all the life around us. Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, which stumped scientists once dubbed “the eel question.” Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalized—and they have lessons for us all.Wide-ranging, richly observant, and full of surprise, Forest Euphoria will open your eyes and change how you look at the world around you.

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When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

Beronda L. Montgomery

How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine; sycamore trees were both havens and signposts for people trying to escape enslavement; poplar trees are historically associated with lynching; and willow bark has offered the gift of medicine. These trees, and others, testify not only to the complexity of the Black American narrative but also to a heritage of Black botanical expertise that, like Native American traditions, predates the United States entirely. In When Trees Testify, award-winning plant biologist Beronda L. Montgomery explores the way seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture. She reveals how knowledge surrounding these trees has shaped America since the very beginning. As Montgomery shows, trees are material witnesses to the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Combining the wisdom of science and history with stories from her own path to botany, Montgomery talks to majestic trees, and in this unique and compelling narrative, they answer.

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Oh Happy Place! : Pompeii in 1000 graffiti

Vincent Hunink

Il fenomeno dei graffiti non nasce nel XX o nel XXI secolo. Già nell'Antichità, per comunicare cose che avrebbero dovuto restare visibili almeno per un po', si utilizzavano i muri di edifici sia pubblici che privati. In questo libro risuonano le voci e i pensieri dei pompeiani del 79: donne e uomini, liberi e schiavi, giovani e vecchi. I loro pensieri raggiungeranno direttamente e senza alcuna necessità di commento il lettore dei secoli successivi più di quanto non riesca ai monumenti in pietra e muratura. Ciò non rientrava nei propositi degli autori di queste osservazioni e confessioni, che essi intendevano invece collocare solo nello spazio di un attimo, di un'ora, di una giornata, di una settimana e rivolgere inoltre solo a una certa persona o a una cerchia di persone. È questa la natura, anche sotto il profilo verbale, del paradosso e del miracolo di che, grazie alla sua caducità, è diventata eterna.

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d_nicolas

Your Most Niche Non-Fiction

I adore it when someone writes a book about something incredibly specific just because they're passionate about it.

Thought I'd ask and see what's the (in your opinion) book you own/have read with the most niche subject matter? I say non-fiction but I suppose fiction works too, I just would be less sure how to define it

I have a degree in a pretty obscure subject (not specifying to avoid doxxing myself lol) but I don't think anything I read for that comes close to 'The Construction of Race in Les Misérables Fanworks' by Dr Nemo Martin XD . Hopefully I'll be able to think of some others I know of...

I feel every book, no matter how obscure, has it's audience Does anyone have any niche non-fiction they like?

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SunnyBunny222

Books that start with J,Q,R,U,W,X,Y,Z

There is a alphabet challenge in my book journal, but I have nooo idea which book to pick for these letters :/ Has anyoner really good recommendations?🥰

PS…don’t like really like romance 🙈so maybe something else

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patricia.is.booked

From Enemies to Exhausted: Tropes You’re Over

It’s time. We’re saying it out loud.

What trope makes you immediately reconsider your life choices when you see it in a synopsis?

The chosen one? Love triangles? Amnesia? Insta-love? The "I can fix him" dynamic?

Confess your literary pet peeves below. This is your safe space to vent.

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