kitchenmystic

Writer, baker, and Stardew Valley enthusiast. Mildly obsessed with medieval mystics, robots who make me think about being human, and weird girl lit fic.

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Katabasis

The Cartographers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

Sourdough

Remember You Will Die

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The Cross and the Lynching Tree

The Subtle Art of Folding Space

Chain of Ideas: Great Replacement Theory and the Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

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Weird & Scary Workplace Fiction

by kitchenmystic

14 books

Do you enjoy reading about bad bosses and horrible workplaces? Are you anxiously awaiting the next season of Severance? Do you feel a delightful rush of goosebumps at the mention of workplace horror, technothrillers, technocratic dystopia, and tales of dysfunctional late-stage capitalism run amok? This may be the list for you!

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The Cross and the Lynching Tree

James H. Cone

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk.

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Intersectional feminist texts that explore the complexity of feminism, centering voices from communities that are often the most excluded.

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Craving "once-upon-a-time" with a twist? These modern retellings conjure the classics & fill them with fresh magic! Mix of grim, cozy, & in-between. 💫

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Timeless works of literature written in Modern & Early Modern English that have shaped the literary heritages of Britain & Ireland. (This quest will not include children’s classics).

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space

John Chu

The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics. Ellie’s universe, and this one, is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Chinese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it’s supposed to. Daniel, Ellie's cousin, has found an illicit device in the skunkworks—one that keeps Ellie's comatose mother alive while also creating destabilizing bugs in the physics of this universe. It's not a good day. If she can confront her mother’s legacy and overcome her family’s generational trauma, she just might find a way to preserve the skunkworks and reconcile with her sister…but digging into her family’s past is thornier than it seems, and the secrets she uncovers will force Ellie to choose between her family and the universe itself.

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Hot Desk

Laura Dickerman

Younger meets Writers and Lovers in this rollicking, sparkling, and funny romantic comedy that spans decades and generations of family in the publishing industry. In the post-pandemic publishing industry, two rival editors are forced to share a “hot desk” on different days of the week, much to their chagrin. Having never set eyes on each other, they begin leaving passive-aggressive Post-it notes on the pot of their shared (and reviled) cactus. But when revered literary legend Edward David Adams (known as “the Lion”) dies, leaving his estate up for grabs, their banter escalates as both work feverishly to land this career-making opportunity. Their fierce rivalry ultimately forces them to make decisions about what role they want to play in the Lion’s legacy, as well as in each other’s lives. As their battle for the estate gets more heated, we go back in time and are introduced to Jane and Rose, two strong, talented best friends trying to gain entry and make a mark of their own in the publishing world of 1980s New York at a time when art, the written word, and creative expression were all at their height and nearly within reach. But one fateful night during the blizzard of 1982 will change the course of one of their lives forever… Set in both the nostalgic and electric vibrancy of 1980s Manhattan and contemporary New York’s post-pandemic high-rises, Hot Desk is a funny, sexy, unexpectedly moving novel that weaves a contemporary workplace romance with a gripping historical narrative and tackles important questions about appropriation, sexism, and who has the right to tell their story.

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