Marith

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Albertine (1886)

Christian Krohg

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Albertine (1886)

Christian Krohg

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings

Marith

Nov 03, 2025

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: Plot:

It's really hard to review a collection of short stories with stories by different authors. They are all well written, and some of them I really liked (Supertoys last all summer, The Patchwork dolls, The mouse queen) and some of the others were not my cup of tea. So the rating is an average, I guess 🤷‍♀️.

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Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings

Elizabeth Dearnley

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Albertine (1886)

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Prostitute Laundry

Charlotte Shane

In the winter of 2014, writer and sex worker Charlotte Shane sent out her confessional letter to a small but devoted mailing list. In the months that followed, readership grew to over 4,500 subscribers who followed her candid, unstinting, sometimes heartbreaking meditations. Word spread quickly, garnering the project recognition from outlets such as The Washington Post and NPR. This intimate investigation is one young woman’s best attempt at understanding her own rich, conflicted life, and the forces that act upon it. The collection is a thoughtful serial memoir about love, sex, money, and identity—how those forces can break us, and how they can make us whole again.

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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Molly Smith

You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear that it's dangerous; that women get abused and killed. You often hear, "There should be a law against it!" Or, perhaps just against the buyers. What do sex workers want? That's not something you hear asked very often. In this accessible manifesto, the strong argument for full decriminalization of sex work is explored through personal experience and looking at laws around the world. In some places, like New York, selling sex is illegal. In others, like Sweden, only buying it is. In some, like the UK and France, it's legal to sell sex and to buy it, but not to run a brothel or solicit a sale. In New Zealand, it's not illegal at all. In What Do Sex Workers Want?, Juno Mac and Molly Smith - both sex workers - explain what each of these laws do in practice to those doing the work. Addressing each model in turn, they show that prohibiting the sex industry actually exacerbates every harm that sex workers are vulnerable to.

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Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings

Elizabeth Dearnley

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marianicollep

Swedish literature recommendations

Hello! I'm a girlie studying for a year in Sweden and I love to read local authors wherever I go. For this reason, I'm doing a spree of reading Swedish authors as much as I can while I'm here, and I am looking for recommendations by fellow readers.

Here's the thing. First of all, I am limited to books that have been translated to English because my grasp of the Swedish language is too basic for now. Also, there's of course the whole Scandi/Swedish noir genre that is very popular, but I cannot bring myself to read either thrillers, crime or horror, so it narrows down lots of recommendations online.

So far, I have read Fredrik Backman's work, Colony by Annika Norlin, Bloody awful in different ways by Andrev Walden, Stolen and Punished by Anne-Helén Laestadius and I have To Cook a Bear, The Sisters and When the Cranes Fly South on my TBR.

Any recommendations are welcome, thank youuuu :)

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Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings

Elizabeth Dearnley

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Appalachian horror

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These unsettling mountains

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juneandday005

october reading wrap up 🍁📚

I’d love to see everyone’s october wrap ups! Share anything about the books you read this month :)

personally: total books read: 14 books

•thornhedge •girls who play dead •blood over bright haven •what we did to survive •red city •in my mosque •half a soul •the octopus •mommy’s khimar •a party in ramadan •lailah’s lunchbox •a map for falasteen •the proudest blue •a very short history of Israel and Palestine conflict

favorite book: blood over bright haven

least favorite book: girls who play dead

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From psychedelic fever dreams to things that go bump in the night: all things queer and scary.

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Favorite info dump read

Okay so I read a lot of nonfiction, and whenever I find a really good book about a niche topic, I kind of upload it to my brain and then info dump on people very enthusiastically any chance I get. (Yes I'm neurodivergent why do you ask?) I was wondering if anyone else here has a niche topic (or five) that they like to ramble on about that they got from their favorite reads :)

Rigth now, a new one of mine is becoming Gef the Talking Mongoose. Upload in progress.

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A Mouth Full of Salt

Reem Gaafar

The Nile brought them life, but the Nile was not their friend.A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. It is the dry season. The men have places to go, the women have work to do, the children play at the place where the river runs over its own banks. Sixteen-year-old Fatima yearns to leave the village for Khartoum.In Khartoum, a single mother makes her way in a world that wants to keep girls and women back. As civil war swells, the political intrudes into the personal and her position in the capital becomes untenable. She must return to the village.A Mouth Full of Salt uncovers a country on the brink of seismic change as its women decide for themselves which traditions are fit for purpose – and which prophecies it's time to rewrite.

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Something Strange, Like Hunger: Short Stories

Malika Moustadraf

Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her uncompromising depiction of life on the margins. Something Strange, Like Hunger presents Moustadraf’s collected short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. Here, we tune into Casablanca’s unheard: a sex worker struggling to keep warm on the streets; a housewife flirting with strangers online; a kidney patient, priced-out of treatment, facing the harsh reality of his condition; and a mother scheming to ensure her daughter passes a virginity test. Something Strange, Like Hunger is a sharp provocation to patriarchal power, and a celebration of the life and genius of one of Morocco’s preeminent writers. *Translated from Arabic*

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River Spirit

Leila Aboulela

When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they’re taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for them, a vow that tethers him to Akuany through their adulthood. As a revolutionary leader rises to power—the self-proclaimed Mahdi, prophesied redeemer of Islam—Sudan begins to slip from the grasp of Ottoman rule, and everyone must choose a side. A scholar of the Qur’an, Yaseen feels beholden to stand against this false Mahdi, even as his choice splinters his family. Meanwhile, Akuany moves through her young adulthood and across the country alone, sold and traded from house to house, with Yaseen as her inconsistent lifeline. Everything each of them is striving for—love, freedom, safety—is all on the line in the fight for Sudan. Through the voices of seven people whose fates grow inextricably linked during the Mahdist War of nineteenth-century Sudan, Leila Aboulela’s latest novel illuminates a fraught and bloody reckoning with the history of a people caught in the crosshairs of imperialism. River Spirit is a powerful tale of corruption, coming of age, and unshakeable devotion—to a cause, to one’s faith, and to the people who become family.

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Ghost Season

Fatin Abbas

A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he’s fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles to connect to her unfamiliar homeland, and white midwestern aid worker Alex finds his plans thwarted by a changing climate and looming civil war. Dancing between the adults is Mustafa, a clever, endearing twelve-year-old, whose schemes to rise out of poverty set off cataclysmic events on the compound. Amid the paradoxes of identity, art, humanitarian aid, and a territory riven by conflict, William, Layla, Dena, Alex, and Mustafa must forge bonds stronger than blood or identity. Weaving a sweeping history of the breakup of Sudan into the lives of these captivating characters, Fatin Abbas explores the porous and perilous nature of borders—whether they be national, ethnic, or religious—and the profound consequences for those who cross them. Ghost Season is a gripping, vivid debut that announces Abbas as a powerful new voice in fiction.

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How To Adult

If you could recommend one book to every person entering adulthood (for the sake of this post, let's say that is their 18th birthday, even though I know this varies by culture), what would that book be, and why?

(Also, if you want to talk about cultural insights when it comes to becoming an adult, and a book you'd want all folks of that age/experience to have feel free to do that as well, or in lieu of the above question.)

I could make a case for Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think because it both points out somethings that we all get wrong and brings hope about the world.

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