PerchedCrow

26 ♈️ She/They Dream💫: Live in a cottage in the middle of nowhere so I can read in peace. I do try and be mindful of the authors I read. Safe space🌈

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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PerchedCrow

YouTuber Recommendations

Hey guys!

I am currently trying to find some youtubers to watch but most that I come across promote authors such as Sarah J Maas, J.k Rowling, Rebecca Yarros, and Chloe Walsh to name a few. I am very active in politics and don't want to support those authors or those who platform them. I am very much a reading is political person and get extremely frustrated what people try to say that it isn't.

And before anyone tries to tell me that some of them bought the books before knowing how problematic the authors are, I totally understand that but when they have a platform and record in front of the books they don't need them on display. Especially those ugly neon coloured books (on a complete side note even if the author wasn't horrible those covers are awful)

OH and another side note if anyone if looking for a new search engine that isn't google chrome I highly recommend Ecosia, they even plant trees if you use their search engine!! :)

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Want

Gillian Anderson

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous? When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet for many reasons – some complicated, some not – so many of us don't talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key. Here's the key. In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter). Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous.

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Luce00

Short Stories✨

Hello all🤗

I am currently on a bit of a short story kick, can anyone reccommend me their favourites? 🙈

Bonus points if they’re weird, uncomfortable, or make no sense (think “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol) 🧚‍♀️

Thank you in advance🤗

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The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

redheadedknight1

Thoughts from 100%

I wasn’t sure if I was going to want to read the next book when I hit about the 50% mark but I need the next book asap.

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rikumikuri

Thoughts from 59% (page 483)

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

JustALilGhost

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chris

Thoughts from 75%

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Grief Eater

Emma Osborne

Visceral, gritty, and unforgiving, GRIEF EATER is a zombie story like you’ve never read before. When Kristina rises from her violent death, she’s not the same fragile woman her family once abandoned. She’s rageful, powerful, and hungry—for the blood of the ones who were supposed to love her. With a newfound craving to see vengeance and grief served, she launches into a once-in-an-undead-lifetime journey across blood-slicked highways to the scorched Australian bush and her hometown. As her body fails and her mind fractures, she’s left with one final question: Is she here to forgive, or to feed? A transgressive, gory examination of queer identity and found family, GRIEF EATER sinks its teeth into trauma and what it means to be devoured by grief. Advance Praise for Grief Eater “Grief Eater is a scathing rebuke. And yet it has so much heart. Every line of Osborne’s gorgeous prose is a knife that cuts like a balm. Lyrical, constantly surprising, essential—Grief Eater takes a familiar genre and transforms it into something entirely new.” —Cadwell Turnbull, award-winning author of the Convergence Saga “This story will not spare you. It will reach into your chest and eat your heart. Osborne writes with brutal clarity about abuse and betrayal, about the queer joy and chosen family that will help you survive it. About how love and a quest for vengeance can be strong enough to move the dead. I’ve never read anything like it.” —K Tidbeck, author of Amatka and Jagannath. “Grief Eater is an embodied, sensory experience: screaming, snarling grief; monstrous hunger; the desire for answers that can only be found in blood. Horror at its finest, as glorious, gory relief and release.” —Angela Meyer, author of Moon Sugar “Soaked in blood and loss, Grief Eater is a bittersweet tale that is redolent with the transformative closure that comes after confronting painful trauma. A visceral and unflinching read!” —Suzan Palumbo, author of Skin Thief: Stories and Countess

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore

The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark dangerThe Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive—until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come.Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

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PuckBunnyReads

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Lights out!

Imagine ,books didn't exist, and the power went off for 24 hours or more, and you lived in the middle of nowhere. No friends , nothing to play with outside , just a plain of nothing as far as your human eye could see . Edit: The sun doesn't do its normal thing anymore and rarely shines near you. The closest sunlight is 10000 km away. Sorry, I'm Canadian, and i dont know that in american

What would you do if you don't work , can't read , just the lights went out? Would you sit in the dark for 24 hours , sleep ? What would you do to spend the 24 hours or more in pitch black?

I personally would try to sleep because the sleep schedule is usually messed up thanks to reading or daylight savings or cats

Do people like my random questions to get people interacting with their minds and possibly other people

Sorry for making people think right away

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Languidsnail

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An author you just can't, and why?

I know a lot of people will say JKR, Colleen Hoover or other very big problematic authors for obvious reasons, but if there're any more niche ones or weird reasons why you can't or refuse to read them, tell me.

Mine would be Mia Ballard bc whether the allegations that she is assisted with A.I are true or false, I saw the counter of how many times the word 'sharp' was in Shy Girl and....I cannot handle that.

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Redlikeroses

Recs for books like Iron Lung

What the title says, I loved the eldritch monsters, the worldbuilding and confined setting of the movie and would love to read more books that have the same feel!

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The Luminous Dead

Caitlin Starling

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck—enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother—meant she’d get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane. Instead, she got Em. Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre’s body with drugs or withholding critical information to “ensure the smooth operation” of her expedition. Em knows all about Gyre’s falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash—and a lash. And Em has secrets, too . . . As Gyre descends, little inconsistencies—missing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em’s motivations—drive her out of her depths. Lost and disoriented, Gyre finds her sense of control giving way to paranoia and anger. On her own in this mysterious, deadly place, surrounded by darkness and the unknown, Gyre must overcome more than just the dangerous terrain and the Tunneler which calls underground its home if she wants to make it out alive—she must confront the ghosts in her own head. But how come she can't shake the feeling she’s being followed?

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I Don't Wish You Well

Jumata Emill

A teen investigative podcaster decides to dig into the truth behind a grisly murder spree that rocked his hometown five years ago, but soon discovers that this cold case is still hiding deadly secrets—in this chilling thriller perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.Five years ago, the infamous Trojan murders turned the small town of Moss Pointe, Louisiana into a living nightmare. Four teen boys—all star players on Moss Pointe High's football team—were murdered one after the other by a Trojan-mask wearing killer. Eventually, the murderer was unmasked. But the community has never forgotten—and some folks in town still wonder whether the police got it right.Eighteen-year-old Pryce Cummings is one of them. An aspiring journalist, Pryce is pretty sure he just stumbled upon evidence that throws the killer's guilt into question. It's the perfect story for his own podcast, and a reason to go back to the hometown he's avoided since coming to terms with his sexuality while at college.But in Moss Pointe, digging into the past is anything but welcome. There's so much more to what happened in there five years ago, and Pryce is ready to crack it all wide open . . . if he lives to tell the tale.

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PerchedCrow

YouTuber Recommendations

Hey guys!

OH and another side note if anyone if looking for a new search engine that isn't google chrome I highly recommend Ecosia, they even plant trees if you use their search engine!! :)

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