catoochie

i’m cat, 28, ny, feminist writer and book lover. biased towards thrillers & crime novels but i dabble in fantasy, dystopian, and horror.

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My Taste

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

Reading...

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solarpunk

Apple account on browser?

Hey there, loving the platform so far! I signed up on the app using my Apple login. Is there a way to see my account on the browser?

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catoochie

following tab?

hello!

i’m new to this app. i’m loving it so far, it’s super cute and i love the discussions. i’ve followed a few people that i overlap with and i was wondering if there was a following tab? it’d be nice to see updates only from people i follow instead of books on my shelves. is this a feature that i’m missing / are there plans for one in the future?

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catoochie

following tab?

hello!

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eminesque

Performative Activism disguised as reading?

A big head scratcher for me. László Krasznahorkai won this year's Nobel for literature and I have seen a lot of people talking more about him being a "zionist" than his work in literature. I sincerely understand the severity of the Israel Palestinian conflict and I do believe what Israel is doing is a genocide but I've seen so many people brushing an author or their career's work aside just because they happen to be Jewish or have a zionist view. László Krasznahorkai's work is staple in human pessimism and gives one a deeper look in how it takes root in everyday life but half of the people who wish to be on the "right side of history" wouldn't engage with those ideas or books just because this one reason.

I see these communities which, rather than being based on the quality of books or the topics discussed, are based on "Non-Zionist bookclub". I've seen people showing disinterest in books they actually were about to read because "oh, he's zionist now I have to get ride of everything I wanted to read." I do not understand this performative behavior and I do not think that these people care for reading literature but about being considered as morally right.

I want to have a discussion because if I stayed in my own brain's echo chamber I might miss upon any other sincere answer to why it's not performative.

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing. Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.

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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780307588371 Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

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Fates and Furies

Lauren Groff

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

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An introduction to the Thriller genre, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.

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Champion: Finished 5 Side Quest books.

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The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

R.F. Kuang

When Rin aced the Keju — the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies — it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard — the most elite military school in Nikan — was even more surprising. But surprises aren’t always good. Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power — an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive — and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school. For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away. Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity ... and that it may already be too late.

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The Kept Woman (Will Trent, #8)

Karin Slaughter

Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him. With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t found. Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers—a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away. But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case . . . and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends—and even the suspects he pursues. Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller -- a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.

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thedimpledteacher

Multiple Books + Mediums

For those who read multiple books with multiple mediums, do you have a specific ✨thing✨ you read for each medium? For example, for me it’s:

🎧 Audiobook: light, fluffy romance (can’t be high fantasy) and/or book club book
📱 Kindle: books borrowed from Libby
📖 Physical Books: books in my personal library that I haven’t finished yet (I stopped buying books for a while to lower my TBR lol)

Just wondering if others out there do something similar. 😁

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catoochie

thoughts after finishing

this book stressed me the hell out. it’s one of the scarier horror books i’ve read in recent years. i enjoyed the characters and the story. i have mixed feelings on the ending but overall fun read for my book club.

lessons: men are useless. take that birth control.

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