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cattyren

hi i’m cat! 29 | she/her | 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈 a later in life mood reader from tx ☆ searching for my tastes in fiction

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Where I End
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Nana, Vol. 1
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A Man Called Ove
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The Iliad
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    Flatiron Books giveaway

    Reparenting the Inner Child: The New Science of Our Oldest Wounds and How to Heal Them

    Reparenting the Inner Child: The New Science of Our Oldest Wounds and How to Heal Them

    Nicole LePera

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work and How to Be the Love You Seek comes a groundbreaking guide to healing our childhood wounds and rediscovering our full potential As adults, we often fall into patterns that feel irrational or out of character—shutting down, lashing out, people-pleasing, or self-sabotaging. Beneath those reactions lies our inner child, a younger part of us still trying to get its needs met the only way it knows how. We all carry the imprint of our earliest years. Childhood is brief, yet its impact is lifelong. Some parts of us were met with love while other parts were met with silence, criticism, or disapproval. To survive, we learned to adapt—learning to over perform, to hide, or stay small. Most of us made it through with a mix of love and lack. And many of us still protect the parts of ourselves that once felt unsafe. While we can’t change what happened, we can change how it lives within us and impacts our lives today. Reparenting the Inner Child offers a clear, compassionate path to self-integration, combining practical exercises, somatic tools, and guided reflections to help us create the safety, love, and boundaries we've always needed. Through her holistic framework that models individual development, Dr. LePera explains how we can cultivate the emotional maturity and regulation to respond calmly instead of reacting, to embrace desire instead of shame, and to question the stories we've long believed about who we have to be. Enlightening, empowering, and clarifying, Reparenting the Inner Child is a book that will stand the test of time as a comprehensive guide for personal development and healing, and a resource that will forever change the way we understand ourselves.

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  • when do you dnf?

    i can usually tell when i’m not going to get along with a book right off the bat (be it the writing style, the content, the characters, etc.), but my partner often encourages me to keep reading to see if i’ll like things more because historically, i struggle with expositions and as a new reader, if i’m not hooked within the first page or two, well…

    so, when do you dnf a book? when is too early to dnf a book?

    i find it basically impossible to make it halfway through a book if i’m already trudging my feet one chapter in. maybe i need to work on this, or maybe life isn’t that serious 😭

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    Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being

    Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being

    Manoush Zomorodi

    From the award-winning journalist and NPR TED Radio Hour host comes a timely investigation into how screens and sitting are reshaping our bodies—and how a simple shift can change everything. In today’s world, a normal day means sitting in front of a screen for eight to ten hours. Meeting after meeting. Email after email. We leave our desks drained, overstimulated and unfocused, only to go home, sit down again, and scroll some more. The result? Headaches, back pain, restless sleep, and rising rates of preventable disease. We know technology is breaking us down—so why can’t we break away? It’s a question that Manoush Zomorodi has always wanted to answer. As the host of the NPR's TED Radio Hour and Body Electric podcast, she has interviewed experts, conducted citizen experiments, and sought out research about how our digital lives are changing the way we think, learn, and feel. Now, in Body Electric, she presents an eye-opening investigation into the impact technology and sedentary living has had on our bodies and brains, from breath and eyesight to blood pressure, posture, and productivity, and shares what science (and tens of thousands of participants in a groundbreaking study with Columbia University Medical Center) have taught her—it’s the small shifts, not the digital detoxes, that will make us healthier. And all we need is five minutes. Filled with perspective-shifting data and real-life applications and tools, Body Electric is the next must-read for fans of Four Thousand Weeks and The Anxious Generation, and anyone else feeling trapped by their technology.

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  • when do you dnf?

    i can usually tell when i’m not going to get along with a book right off the bat (be it the writing style, the content, the characters, etc.), but my partner often encourages me to keep reading to see if i’ll like things more because historically, i struggle with expositions and as a new reader, if i’m not hooked within the first page or two, well…

    so, when do you dnf a book? when is too early to dnf a book?

    i find it basically impossible to make it halfway through a book if i’m already trudging my feet one chapter in. maybe i need to work on this, or maybe life isn’t that serious 😭

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  • Strange Pictures
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    Apr 22, 2026
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 1.5Characters: 1.5Plot: 2.5

    tldr: was not a fan.

    i don’t know if the matter-of-fact, devoid of description, feeling, and lyrical diversity writing style is simply due to the japanese to english translation—but it sure did make for a monotonous “thriller” reading experience for me.

    what starts out as mildly interesting turns into something (i think) is convoluted for convolution’s sake, all while telling you exactly what’s happening at every turn, like being guided through a maze.

    only didn’t dnf bc my gf got the book for me 😭

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    i was vibing with this book at first but i’m starting to struggle through it. the book so far is too “this happened, and then this, then this, and this”. very matter-of-fact with little to no thrill or suspense or tact to it.

    it’s almost as if my hand is being held the entire time—i’m growing bored and careless for where the story goes 😭

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    Thoughts from 71% (page 167)

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    i was vibing with this book at first but i’m starting to struggle through it. the book so far is too “this happened, and then this, then this, and this”. very matter-of-fact with little to no thrill or suspense or tact to it.

    it’s almost as if my hand is being held the entire time—i’m growing bored and careless for where the story goes 😭

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