embeatrice

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

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Ajthecosmonaut

Book to Movie Adaptations

Does anyone have any books they absolutely DON’T want adapted? I always feel like a lot of adaptation discussion is about things people really want to see visually (which like same) but I’m wondering if anyone has any books they don’t want adapted. Either because it can’t be adapted in a way that would do it justice or just the way it’s played out in the book is too perfect to try for something in that medium. An example for me would be Piranesi.

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qhanqibe2

Any good fantasy books with no/very little romance?

Hii, I'm desperately looking for good fantasy books with no or very little romance. 🫡 It doesn't matter if it's ya or older characters, I'm just tired of romantasy rn. Idk if it's just me but I have the feeling that almost every new fantasy book is more romantasy/has a big romance plotline. Which is totally fine, but I miss fantasy without a focus on romance. 🤧

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CozyBeldamBunny90

Cozy Mysteries - Recommendations

What cozy mystery series would you recommend? It's my favorite subgenre and while I love culinary and bookish series but am wondering if there are any good crafting or pet themed ones I should check out?

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embeatrice

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Thoughts from 62%

Ugh, I love my complicated and yearning Chaol but they really do be eating him up right now.

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The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

Freida McFadden

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781538742570. Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of…

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embeatrice

Thoughts from 71% (page 400)

PART 2 BABYYYYYYY.

At this point, any man who is related to Celeana needs to be jailed.

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embeatrice

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Thoughts from 46%

Slowly starting to get more into this book. Abraxos just like me fr, I too wish to be sitting with the wildflowers and need more iron

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embeatrice

DNF

I was so excited to get this book from the library but I found it so hard to get into. The author really likes similes which I found kinda adds to the hilarious nature of the main character. I would love to listen to it as an audiobook one day maybe and finally finish it.

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A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both. But there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority. A satire of early foodieism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling, Chelsea G. Summers' A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world's most charming psychopath and an exciting new voice in fiction.

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embeatrice

Thoughts from 21% (page 120)

So far this is my least favourite of the series. I’m finding it a bit hard to really get into this book like I have with the others.

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Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

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A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers

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marissa

Pre-read thoughts from 1%

This one’s probably going to be tougher for me to understand than the LOTR trilogy or The Hobbit, since I don’t have any movies to fall back on for knowledge. Fingers crossed it’s not too hard to follow!

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Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)

Sarah J. Maas

Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?

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