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Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

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The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

leowiththecat

Neil the ragebaiter

Neil is a professional ragebaiter and i respect his job

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pykora

Thoughts from 32% (Chapter Eleven)

He’d embroiled her in his emotions without her consent.

her saying this after larran clearly wanted to drop the topic of his parents and she kept pushing him about it… something needs to be done about this woman’s emotional constipation

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Thoughts from 15% - Chapter 5

Well....I don't like Kiala at all. She's just rud, people are being nice and friendly and she keeps just being bitchy. I fear like this is going to get old and more annoying fast.

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Thoughts from 34% (beginning of ch12)

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Thoughts from 46% (page 292)

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writing about suffering of marginalized groups when authors come from privilege

i watched a video recently of someone who was talking about the tropification of the suffering of marginalized communities by authors who do not identify with those marginalized groups (ex: straight authors writing about queer suffering, white authors writing about slavery, etc.) because they cannot fully do it justice, instead end up contributing to the romanticization or tropification of these topics. how often have you come across books where you've seen this happen (feel free to shout it out, esp if it's a well known title)?

i am reminded of the reason why i dnf'd the women by kristin hannah - the book was about the vietnam war and the experience of a nurse among the american soldiers. i felt that not only did this book not bring attention the atrocities that were committed by the american soldiers, it failed to acknowledge the reason for which this war was started (quite frankly, barely a reason beyond entitlement and wanting power). (to me) it felt like the war was being used as a background to allow the main character to uphold her family's military legacy.

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Ship of Theseus

J.J. Abrams

One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears. S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.

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Do we still lend books? 🥵

Hey, page-turners 🤗 So, I used to lend out my physical books without even a second thought (now I only read ebooks and audiobooks, which means I don't have that problem anymore). But, man, not everyone’s in a rush to give them back, are they?

There was this one time I bought an absolutely beautiful art book when I was at the Louvre (felt super fancy, not gonna lie), and I let a friend borrow it. He loved art as much as I did, or so I thought. Yeah, that book never made its way back to me. The worst part? I barely even got to look through it myself. Ugh, talk about regret. 🤦‍♂️

What about you? Are you cool with lending your books out, or do you kind of feel like you’re just saying goodbye forever? 📖😊

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The Overstory

Richard Powers

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There’s something you need to hear."

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The Primal of Blood and Bone (Blood and Ash, #6)

KnightOwl

POBAB x mayonnaise collab???

please tell me someone besides me has gotten ads for the POBAB x HELLMANN'S MAYONNAISE COLLABORATION??? like.....literally an official collaboration between this book and a mayo brand??? they're selling a special edition of the book that's GARLIC SCENTED and there's also special garlic aioli you can buy??? please tell me someone else has seen this i'm losing my goddamn mind

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Thoughts from 30% (page 109)

"I wanted to change the subject, to get away from the things that I might’ve once been good at but wasn’t anymore. Which, as it turned out, happened to be everything."

I felt that🥲 imposter syndrome is a bitch when it hits🫠

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asdgety

White lady being white lady.

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Thoughts from 46% (page 288)

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