jennjennjennreads

📍toronto, canada. 📖 can be found reading/writing on her front porch in the summer and under a big orange cat in the winter.

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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

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Ladiesread

Books vs. Water

I know reading in baths is super popular but im honestly scared to do it because i fear i would drop my book in the water. Has that happened to anyone or is it actually rare? Because i do think it sounds super relaxing im just terrified of damaging my book.

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When We Lost Our Heads

Heather O'Neill

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history. Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly, and brilliant, moves to the neighborhood. Marie and Sadie are immediately united by their passion and intensity, and they attract and repel each other in ways that light each of them on fire. Marie with her bubbly charm sees the light and sweetness of the world, whereas Sadie's obsession with darkness is all consuming. Soon their childlike games take on a thrill of danger and then become deadly. Forced to separate, they spend their teenage years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity--until a singular event unites them once more, with dizzying effects. And after Marie inherits her father's sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city's gritty underworld, a revolution of the working class begins to foment. Each of them will have unexpected roles to play in events that upend their city--the only question is whether they will find each other once more. Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal's wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can't let someone go.

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neuro_monster

What’s everyone’s job?

Without doxing yourself plzzz

Some of you are reading so much with full time jobs😭 I gotta know what y’all do and how many hours you’re doing it. I know a few people are lucky enough to get to read on the job! That’s the dream.

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Krasue

Shower thought

I finished this book a couple of days ago but I was thinking: Dauntless is only for able-bodied people then? Lol. You can't jump off a train in a wheelchair. 🤔

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The Ogress and the Orphans

Kelly Barnhill

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow who promises he alone can help. After all, he is a famous dragon slayer. (At least, no one has seen a dragon in his presence.) Only the clever children of the Orphan House and the kindly Ogress at the edge of town can see how dire the town’s problems are.Then one day a child goes missing from the Orphan House. At the Mayor’s suggestion, all eyes turn to the Ogress. The Orphans know this can’t be: the Ogress, along with a flock of excellent crows, secretly delivers gifts to the people of Stone-in-the-Glen. But how can the Orphans tell the story of the Ogress’s goodness to people who refuse to listen? And how can they make their deluded neighbors see the real villain in their midst?

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MoDos_thrill

Underdog Authors

I was wondering how people search for the Not that well known authors. I do follow some people on insta for queer recs and get some good ones there. But when it comes to not especially queer books I more or less always see the same names. Don’t get me wrong, I do read for example Stephen King a lot and love them. But I’d like to read more independent or smaller authors too.

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startripper

what’s the strangest object you’ve used as a bookmark? 👀

we’ve all used a variety things to mark our place in books, right? like a receipt, a ponytail, or a wrapper—but what’s something really weird you’ve used before? i’d say my most random bookmark was an orange peel…it’s a long story, but let’s just say desperate times, desperate measures 😭😭

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Kaysee

Book and Places

You know I have read a lot of books set in England and just realized this weird village names and places can be someones actual house or origin. Sooo this makes me ask What are some book that are set in your birthplace?Or maybee a place you know and were shocked to see that was mentioned in a book?

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The Wild Folk Rising

Sylvia Linsteadt

The magical Wilf Folk of Farallone are in desperate trouble. The City Brothers have discovered that the Country is full of stargold and so they've invaded, hell-bent on destruction. Country girl Comfrey and City Boy Tin are the only humans the Wild Folk trust. They must venture deep underground and to the highest mountains in their quest to save this beautiful world from devastation.

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Award Nominated Fiction from Indie Publishers

by jennjennjennreads

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Trying to support indie publishers and read more diverse fiction! I’m starting with the Booker Prize and hopefully adding more when I can. Add your recs in the comments!

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The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

Kim Fu

An eerie, spellbinding novel of grief, ghosts, apocalyptic rain, and slowly splintering reality, from an author who “writes with a pen as sharp and precise as a lancet.” —PEN/Hemingway Award judges’ citation In the aftermath of her mother's death, Eleanor is unmoored. For years, her mother orchestrated every detail of her life—from meals, to laundry, to finances—as Eleanor focused on her career as an online therapist. Left to navigate the world on her own, Eleanor clings to her mother’s final directive: use her inheritance to buy a house. Desperate to obey her mother one last time, Eleanor impulsively buys a model home in a valley-turned-construction site, a picturesque development steeped in a shadowy history. It feels like a fresh start, until the rain comes—an endless, torrential downpour. As water seeps in through the house’s cracks, the line between what is real and what is not begins to blur. Haunted by the stories of her clients, a stream of workmen and bureaucrats she can’t trust, and visions of ghosts from her past and present, Eleanor’s reality unravels, and she is forced to reckon with the secrets she’s buried and the choices she’s made.

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Rhine Journey

Ann Schlee

It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. Charlotte may be a spinster aunt with a seemingly sparse life, but beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths.Boating down the Rhine one day, Charlotte sights a fellow traveller, who releases the hissing floodwaters of her subconscious. Dark and dangerous, they sweep Charlotte towards the watershed of her life, stretching her imagination to its limit.Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Ann Schlee's heady novel creates a tension that is as compelling as it is mysterious, forcing her characters to confront each other as well asthemselves over one hot summer abroad.

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The Old Fire

Elisa Shua Dusapin

From National Book Award–winning Elisa Shua Dusapin, a subtle yet powerful portrayal of family, secrets, and silence set against the backdrop of a crumbling house in the French countryside—perfect for readers of Katie Kitamura and Elena Ferrante.“A bewitching meditation on tenderness and violence, intimacy and estrangement, The Old Fire will transport you to an ancient and wild place, immersing you in its temperatures and rainfalls, its grief and grace and sound and silence. You won’t be the same when you leave it.” —Tess Gunty, National Book Award–winning author of The Rabbit Hutch Through the window, I can see a light inside. Agathe leaves New York and returns to her home in the French countryside, after fifteen years away. She and her sister Véra have not seen each other in all those years, and they carry the weight of their own complicated lives. But now their father has died, and they must confront their childhood home on the outskirts of a country estate ravaged by a nearby fire before it is knocked down. They have nine days to empty it. As the pair clean and sift through a lifetime’s worth of belongings, old memories, and resentments surface. Tender and tense, haunting and evocative, The Old Fire is Elisa Shua Dusapin’s most personal and moving novel yet. An exploration of time and memory, of family and belonging, it is also a graceful and profound look at the unsaid and the unanswered, the secrets that remain, and whether you can ever really go home again. “A touching, mysterious novel, imbued with the beauty and strangeness of a fairy tale.” —Aysegül Savas, author of The Anthropologists “Dusapin has a rare and ferocious gift for pinning the quick, slippery, liveness of feeling to the Her talent is a thrill to behold.” —Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

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Oooh what about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Small Things Like These

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Oooh what about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Small Things Like These

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alienshe

Is it just me or…

Do some of these books coming out look like they have the same graphic designer from Canva? I know, I know “don’t judge a book by its cover.” But it is really irking me how some of these books allllll look the damn same.

Can someone explain this to me?

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PuckBunnyReads

Spotify

Weird question, but ,

does anyone have book related podcasts or book related anything on spotify? I'm getting noise canceling , THX sound headphones soon . I only have spotify to listen to music usually but I think I need to get back into listening to podcasts that aren't true crime

I like hockey normally but down to start anything book related

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LucyVanPelt

Am I old? Yes I am. Are you?

Hi all! I'm new here and SO PLEASED I found this site. I've been dreaming of a book place like this.

I'm old enough to have been an avid reader for literal decades. Now I just wish to make sure there are others here too (age does not matter when it comes to reading, just curious).

Were you listening to Nirvana and reading The Secret History when it first came out?

Nice to meet you all!

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The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re-envision our own. Le Guin’s maps offer journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography, from the Rorschach-like archipelagos of Earthsea to the talismanic maps of Always Coming Home. Rather than remaining within known terrain, they open up paradigms of knowledge, exemplified by the map’s edges and how a map is read, made and re-made, together. The Word for World brings her maps together with poems, stories, interviews, recipes and essays by contributors from a variety of perspectives to enquire into the relationship between worlds and how they are represented and imagined. Contributors: Federico Campagna, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Daniel Heath Justice, Bhanu Kapil, Canisia Lubrin, Una McCormack, David Naimon, Nisha Ramayya, Shoshone Collective, Standard Deviation, Marilyn Strathern.

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