Lurdo

They/Them Former devourer of 12 books a week, now a frustrated slow reader because of my ouchie disabled brain 🙃 My reading list is basically a map of adhd, but somehow almost always 22 books 🤷

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The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition

The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare

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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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

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Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human

62%

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The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them

The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg (The Quantum Curators #1)

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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

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Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human

Rob Dunn

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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

John Kelly

A compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankindthe Great Irish Potato Famineconveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality.

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The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

Tim Pat Coogan

During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.

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Horror from authors outside English-speaking countries. Get a glimpse of the shadows that appear in other lands!

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Mouthfeel: How Texture Makes Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

Ole G. Mouritsen

Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz-less soda such a disappointment to drink, and why is flat beer so unappealing to the palate? Our sense of taste produces physical and emotional reactions that cannot be explained by chemical components alone. Eating triggers our imagination, draws on our powers of recall, and activates our critical judgment, creating a unique impression in our mouths and our minds. How exactly does this alchemy work, and what are the larger cultural and environmental implications? Collaborating in the laboratory and the kitchen, Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrb�k investigate the multiple ways in which food texture influences taste. Combining scientific analysis with creative intuition and a sophisticated knowledge of food preparation, they write a one-of-a-kind book for food lovers and food science scholars. By mapping the mechanics of mouthfeel, Mouritsen and Styrb�k advance a greater awareness of its link to our culinary preferences. Gaining insight into the textural properties of raw vegetables, puffed rice, bouillon, or ice cream can help us make healthier and more sustainable food choices. Through mouthfeel, we can recreate the physical feelings of foods we love with other ingredients or learn to latch onto smarter food options. Mastering texture also leads to more adventurous gastronomic experiments in the kitchen, allowing us to reach even greater heights of taste sensation.

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Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

Charles Spence

The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating and want to eat more. Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining with three? How do we explain the fact that people who like strong coffee drink more of it under bright lighting? And why does green ketchup just not work? The answer is gastrophysics, the new area of sensory science pioneered by Oxford professor Charles Spence. Now he's stepping out of his lab to lift the lid on the entire eating experience how the taste, the aroma, and our overall enjoyment of food are influenced by all of our senses, as well as by our mood and expectations. The pleasures of food lie mostly in the mind, not in the mouth. Get that straight and you can start to understand what really makes food enjoyable, stimulating, and, most important, memorable. Spence reveals in amusing detail the importance of all the off the plate elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the color of the plate, the background music, and much more. Whether we re dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the TV, he reveals how to understand what we re tasting and influence what others experience. This is accessible science at its best, fascinating to anyone in possession of an appetite. Crammed with discoveries about our everyday sensory lives, Gastrophysics is a book guaranteed to make you look at your plate in a whole new way."

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Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters

Gordon M. Shepherd

Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the belief that the sense of smell diminished during human evolution, Shepherd argues that this sense, which constitutes the main component of flavor, is far more powerful and essential than previously believed. Shepherd begins "Neurogastronomy" with the mechanics of smell, particularly the way it stimulates the nose from the back of the mouth. As we eat, the brain conceptualizes smells as spatial patterns, and from these and the other senses it constructs the perception of flavor. Shepherd then considers the impact of the flavor system on contemporary social, behavioral, and medical issues. He analyzes flavor's engagement with the brain regions that control emotion, food preferences, and cravings, and he even devotes a section to food's role in drug addiction and, building on Marcel Proust's iconic tale of the madeleine, its ability to evoke deep memories. Shepherd connects his research to trends in nutrition, dieting, and obesity, especially the challenges that many face in eating healthily. He concludes with human perceptions of smell and flavor and their relationship to the neural basis of consciousness. Everyone from casual diners and ardent foodies to wine critics, chefs, scholars, and researchers will delight in Shepherd's fascinating, scientific-gastronomic adventures.

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Dracula

Bram Stoker

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saikiiii20

Understanding and Retaining New Vocab while reading books

Hey everyone! I am so sorry if it feels like a dumb question 🩷 How do you deal with new words while reading books? English is my second language. Previously, I used to look up the meaning of the word in the dictionary on the spot while reading but it started to feel really irritating as it kept breaking the flow. As of now, I just underline them to find their meanings later. I try to correlate and understand what that particular word would mean by figuring out the context behind the line or scene in the book. But I still feel as if I am not really learning new words and also I always end up forgetting what they mean later.
I'd love to know if anyone has had a similar experience and how they read in their second language and retain new words. Also, I really can't stop translating the book in my head. It's like I will read a line or para in English and then automatically translate it into Hindi (🇮🇳 lang) in my mind to understand it😭

Ps: I am so sorry, the post got a bit longer than I expected. Also, I apologise if I made any grammatical errors or wrote something wrong. I understand that the problem lies in my vocab and comprehension skills and I promise I am trying to improve them. Thank youuuuu 💖

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Heated Rivalry

Rachel Reid

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Heated Rivalry

Rachel Reid

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thistle_bitch

Horse recs for decidedly Not A Horsethey

As many of us are, I'm gradually planning for and chipping away at my HRCYED and I am at an impasse that I need an assist on!

For the birthday challenge, I was born in a Year of the Horse. Here's the thing- I fuckin hate horses. They freak me out IRL, I've never understood the hype even as a child, they're too big and they're legit scary and people are too chill about them. I'm not a mean hater and they do have my respect- but from a distance because I don't fuck with them. So what book am I to read? I know if I leave it to figure out later, I'm going to put it off until the end and have to hate read a cowboy romance because I can't think of anything else.

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Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites

Dino J. Martins

Welcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites—some of the most misunderstood creatures with whom we share the Earth (and our bodies)."Astonishing, eye-opening, and inspiring." —Chloe Dalton, author of Raising HareThere is the tapeworm, which can grow 120 feet in length within the gut of a whale; the tsetse fly, a notorious vector of disease that can pierce the skin even of crocodiles with its needle-like mouth; and the most universal symbol of parasitic the leech. Long villainized as, well, parasitic, these creatures are actually a vital part of every ecosystem—and Dr. Dino Martins, an award-winning entomologist and biologist from Kenya, has made it his life’s mission to demystify these beguiling beings.Hidden Creatures is a journey around the world ten times over—from Martins’ home in the wilds of East Africa, to the rainforests of the Amazon, to cities and backyards across the globe—and along the way, we encounter the brilliant and eccentric experts who join Martins on his adventures to investigate not only parasites but their hosts, from hyraxes and hippos to, of course, humans. Immersive, driven by an utterly infectious curiosity, and sure to transform every reader’s understanding of these organisms, Hidden Creatures has the magnetic force of a David Attenborough documentary and introduces a monumental, charismatic new voice in science writing.

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Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites

Dino J. Martins

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remarkmd

Audiobook Performance Recommendations!!

Hello pagebound!! I want to hear your recommendations on the best audiobook performances. I don’t care the genre, I just want to experience some great audiobooks. I need to stop listening to the same music over and over again at work and instead expand my literary experience! For me, I will always recommend Andy Serkis narrating the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is just chefs kiss

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Let's Talk About Sharks Baby! ♫⋆𓂃𓂁𓂃♬ ﾟ

by sharky_97

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Romances featuring sharks (with and without claspers), people nicknamed shark, and people working for sharks. Always open to recommendations! Now, go swim and find your one true shark.

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