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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White

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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its rotten guts to the world—as long as the school doesn’t break him first.

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Aug 15, 2026

Hungerstone

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

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Oh how I enjoyed this. Rarely have I been so satisfied at the ending of a book. It delivered all that was promised to me and more. I have never put so many tabs in a book because there are just so many sentences and scenes I want to read over and over again. I loved the theme of hunger, the yearning, the questioning of society's rules, the atmosphere. I understand what people mean who say that the first part feels repetitive and takes too long and while it is frustrating to watch Lenore struggle with accepting what is so obvious to us the readers that is just a part of the story and character development that makes complete sense to me. Have you ever had to help a friend understand that they're in a toxic/abusive relationship? That process takes time, sooo much time. And once Lenore actually has some agency oh is it juicy, couldn't put the book down at that point. While I don't consider myself an enjoyer of romance novels, I desperately need to read more sapphic stories. I am hooked now.

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Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

For what do you hunger, Lenore? Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage, the relationship has soured and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them out of London and to the imposing Nethershaw manor in the countryside, where Henry aims to host a hunt with society’s finest. Lenore keeps a terrible secret from the last time her husband hunted, and though they never speak of it, it haunts their marriage to this day. The preparations for the event take a turn when a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night; Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a bloody hunger. Torn between regaining her husband's affection and Carmilla's ever-growing presence, Lenore begins to unravel her past and in doing so, uncovers a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk . . . Set against the violent wilderness of the moors and the uncontrolled appetite of the industrial revolution, Hungerstone is a compulsive feminist reworking of Carmilla, the book that inspired Dracula: a captivating story of appetite and desire.

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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings, from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks. Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.Drawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.Gathering Moss will appeal to a wide range of readers, from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment, Native Americans, and contemporary nature and science writing.

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The Student Guide to Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'

Antonia Darder

Now in its 2nd edition, this book serves as companion to Freire's seminal work, supporting the application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today. The new edition includes a new chapter called Teaching Pedagogy of the Oppressed with additional dialogue questions and activities designed to support students and instructors. It also includes an updated Bibliography and further reading list. Antonia Darder closely examines Freire's ideas as they are articulated in P edagogy of the Oppressed , beginning with a historical discussion of his life and a systematic discussion of the central philosophical traditions that informed his revolutionary ideas. Darder explores Freire's fundamental themes and ideas, including issues of humanization, teacher/student relationship, reflection, dialogue, praxis, and his larger emancipatory vision. The book also includes a chapter-by-chapter close reading of the text with sample questions to prompt discussion and engagement with Freire's ideas, as well as a new interview with Freire's widow, Ana Maria Araújo Freire, and a preface by Donaldo Macedo.

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helping me with reading as an habit༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

so apparently I want to start reading again. I was not an avid reader in the past but I used to read books. But it's been a while The books are just lying on the bookshelf & I really want your help to get in touch with reading again as I tend to pick a book and read 1-2 pages and abandon them. I would really appreciate it if anyone has their way of reading or can help me with this situation 😭😭🫠

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Women Hungering: Appetite, Horror, and Consumption

by rachelnevada

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In these novels, women will do anything and everything to satiate their hunger. There's cannibalism, affairs, and everything in between!

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KnightOfThePort

Where my genderfluid monarchs at??

I came out a bit ago being genderfluid and a big thing for me and helping to accept myself better (because I'm not great at self love - peer love is easy and great though) is reading/watching films or books with characters going through similar struggles. Kaladin and his depression in Stormlight, Alice and her obsession with study in Katabasis, Terry being trans in the Dragon Prince show etc etc. But I haven't really come across anyone genderfluid or distinctly enby.

It might be my own fault where I almost exclusively read fantasy/horror/sci-fi but the world is hard enough so that gap of reality and fiction is better for me to enjoy with fantastical elements, and surely there's some characters in those genres out there identifying that way right? I'm aware of Loki just not a comic reader and didn't click with the show.

It's not a case where I need it central to the plot or anything but again it's like with Terry it's established through like two conversations max and it's so subtle but always there. Any recs?

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The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

India Holton

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that's beside the point. As someone highly educated in the ruthless discipline of ornithology, Beth knows trouble when she sees it, and she is determined to keep her distance from Devon. For his part, Devon has never been more smitten than when he first set eyes on Professor Beth Pickering. She's so pretty, so polite, so capable of bringing down a fiery, deadly bird using only her wits. In other words, an angel. Devon understands he must not get close to her, however, since they're professional rivals. When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, Beth and Devon are forced to team up to have any chance of winning. Now keeping their distance becomes a question of one bed or two. But they must take the risk, because fowl play is afoot, and they can't trust anyone else—for all may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology.

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Your favourite weird girl book

Hellooo! It's FRIDAY!! How are all you doing?? I need some recommendations! What are you favourite weird girl books? Feel free to interpret that however you want! I noticed that I tend to like books with female main characters more (which makes sense, because it's more relatable) and I honestly don't think I need to explain anything further. I want to read something unique. I am so excited!

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Murdle: Volume 1, 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction

G.T. Karber

G. T. Karber, the creator of the popular online daily mystery game Murdle, presents the first collection of 100 original murder mystery logic puzzles―a perfect gift for armchair detectives and puzzlers to hone their minds and solve a series of crimes. Who committed the ghastly deed? What weapon was used to dispatch the victim? Where did the calculated demise occur? Join Deductive Logico and investigate murders most foul in Volume 1 . The first of their kind, these humorous mini-mystery puzzles challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why. Examine the clues, interview the witnesses, and use the power of deduction to complete the grid and catch the culprit. Together, you’ll uncover a buried secret beneath all of the murders and a message that can only be decrypted when you’ve solved them all. Packed with illustrations, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue , Volume 1 is the must-have detective casebook for the secret sleuth in everyone.

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Bunnypanda

Let's find the most universally hated character

I'm reading Yesteryear, and I've noticed that the protagonist is really hated in the forum 🤣 So tell me, which character (and from which book) do you hate the most?

Mine, so far, is Corrine from Flowers in the Attic.

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