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Dark Academia
Gothic Literature
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My Taste
Bad Science
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Yours Always: Letters of Longing
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Шакалиный восьмидневник (Дом, в котором..., #2)
16%
Katabasis
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The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
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Hamnet
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Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
14%
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
43%
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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  • The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
    Thoughts from 25% (page 61)

    Besides the wit and the anecdote and the brilliant descriptions of masquerades and midnight revelries his friends drew from him something superficial yet profound, something changing yet entire - himself shall we call it in default of one word for that which friends elicit but the public kills? From that sprang his immortality. For a self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

    Love this observation of public writing vs private letters. Being a famous author is sometimes viewed as a path to "immortality," being remembered by the public (temporarily) after you die, but being famous for a book might be closer to a premature death than immortality, being stuck at a certain point in time whereas private correspondence allows for more spontaneity and growth - more life, in other words.

    It's striking that Woolf is nostalgic about all the letter writing of the 19th century before phones were invented, since her generation was still quite prolific at writing letters. It does feel like a loss that we no longer have paper trails of a person's life. Emails and texts are faster, but they lack the vivacity of letters treasured by Woolf (and me).

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  • The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, 1)
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    I'm Dutch and can confirm that we plug our dams with chewed-up bubblegum.

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  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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    Supercomputing for Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Architectures, and Scaling Deep Learning Workloads

    Supercomputing for Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Architectures, and Scaling Deep Learning Workloads

    Jordi Torres

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    DNF Reviews

    Disclaimer: I searched through the club and dorouu's awesome master list to see if anyone asked this before and didn't find anything, but please redirect me if I missed it!

    I'd love to know what y'all's opinions are on leaving star reviews for books you've DNF'ed. Personally, if I've read less than 50% of a book (really more like 100%), I don't feel qualified to leave an actual review on the quality of the book, or even my overall enjoyment of it (because what if I had pushed through and all of a sudden loved it!). Typically when I DNF a book I will write some notes just to myself so that if I revisit it in the future I can remember why I put it down the first time.

    I don't necessarily think there's a right or wrong way to go about it, I'm just interested in hearing what other people think as I've been seeing more DNF reviews lately.

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  • The Bell Jar
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    Een magisch en bezield leven

    Een magisch en bezield leven

    Britt Nelissen

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  • Which book in someone's top 5 is an immediate red flag for your personal taste? Can

    Just to be clear, I'm not judging anyone who reads them. Everyone has their own taste and that's wonderful.

    For me it would be: Red rising, Persépolis and Throne of glass🤔

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  • Non fiction faves

    My nonfiction people!!

    What's a nonfiction book you strongly believe that everyone should read?

    Bonus points if it made you cry/changed your life

    For me it's Educated by Tara Westover and Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. (I have way more)

    (Also I just wanna yoink some books because I love nonfiction)

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    When We Lost Our Heads

    When We Lost Our Heads

    Heather O'Neill

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    Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

    Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

    Eliza Chan

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    Hamnet

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    A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)

    A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)

    George R.R. Martin

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  • Slaughterhouse-Five
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  • The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
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