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I like to reward my brain getting thru non-fiction (mainly history, religion) with romance 💆🏽‍♀️💕 [she/her]

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

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)

The League of Gentlewomen Witches (Dangerous Damsels, #2)

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Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough

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Fae and Fare (The Wandering Inn, #2)

Pirateaba Pirateaba

Winter has come to the world, and still, Erin Solstice has no idea how she came to be an [Innkeeper]. Erin is running an inn outside the city of Liscor, but she’s no longer alone. Ryoka Griffin, the City Runner, has business in the south of Izril; she’s out on a dangerous delivery of her own. Yet while both young women have finally found their calling, more and more people are beginning to realize that these visitors from Earth don’t belong here. Erin must find new guests and old for her inn while expanding her tentative business. Staying safe would also be nice. At the same time, some pesky creatures have arrived to herald winter, and they bring mischief and danger unlike anything she’s ever seen. But as more and more children of Earth begin appearing, the cold of winter is the least of Erin’s worries.

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Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

Carla Valentine

Agatha Christie is one of our most beloved authors – a storyteller unparalleled in her clever plots and twisting tales. But Agatha was also a forensic expert; in each of her books she employs an expert weaving of human observation, ingenuity and genuine science of the era. In Murder Isn’t Easy Carla Valentine illuminates all of Agatha’s incredible knowledge, showing how she stayed at the cutting edge of forensics from ballistics to fingerprint analysis, as seen through much-loved characters such as Poirot and Miss Marple. From the glamour and grit of Agatha Christie’s stories, to the real-life cases that inspired them, Murder Isn’t Easy will immerse you in the forensics that influenced generations of writers and scientists alike. Carla will explore how Christie kept at the cutting edge of developments in forensics: How would Poirot have been so easily able to identify a bullet from a Mauser pistol? How would Miss Marple have knowledge of blood spatter patterns? While other children were devouring the works of Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter, Carla Valentine was poring through the pages of Agatha Christie novels. It was this early fascination that led to her job as a pathology technician, trained in forensics and working in mortuaries. Nearly every Agatha Christie story involves one - or, more commonly, several - dead bodies, and for a young Carla, a curious child already fascinated with biology, these stories and these bodies were perfect puzzles. Of course, Agatha herself didn't talk of 'forensics' in the way we use it now, but in each tale she writes of twists and turns with her expert weave of human observation, ingenuity and genuine science of the era. Through the medium of the 'whodunnit', Agatha Christie was a pioneer of forensic science, and in Murder Isn't Easy Carla illuminates all of the knowledge of one of our most beloved authors.

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Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers? WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

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Amazing Series?

Have yall read a series where every book was amazing? Like either four or five stars? I'm on book 7 of the Cowboy Colony Mail-Order Brides series and every single book has been amazing for me and I was wondering has happened to anyone else??

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Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx

Chris Harman

The author's concept is that Marxian capitalism explains how the present state of the world has developed over the past 150 years, and that 21st century capitalism is a defunct system that does not allow human achievement, often causing disruption of human achievement around the world. An interesting read.

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Half His Age

Jennette McCurdy

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

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Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains how we got here and imagines how we might create a more inclusive, stronger future. If a shared American creed still exists, it’s a belief that exercise is integral to a life well lived. A century ago, working out was the activity of a strange subculture, but today, it’s almost impossible to avoid exhortations to Walk 5K to cure cancer! Awaken your inner sex kitten at pole-dancing class! Sweat like (or even with) a celebrity in spin class! Exercise is everywhere. Yet the United States is hardly a “fit nation.” Only 20 percent of Americans work out consistently, over half of gym members don’t even use the facilities they pay for, and fewer than 30 percent of high school students get an hour of exercise a day. So how did fitness become both inescapable and inaccessible? Spanning more than a century of American history, Fit Nation answers these questions and more through original interviews, archival research, and a rich cultural narrative. As a leading political and intellectual historian and a certified fitness instructor, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is uniquely qualified to confront the complex and far-reaching implications of how our contemporary exercise culture took shape. She explores the work of working out not just as consumers have experienced it, but as it was created by performers, physical educators, trainers, instructors, and many others. For Petrzela, fitness is a social justice issue. She argues that the fight for a more equitable exercise culture will be won only by revolutionizing fitness culture at its core, making it truly inclusive for all bodies in a way it has never been. Examining venues from the stage of the World’s Fair and Muscle Beach to fat farms, feminist health clinics, radical and evangelical college campuses, yoga retreats, gleaming health clubs, school gymnasiums, and many more, Fit Nation is a revealing history that shows fitness to be not just a matter of physical health but of what it means to be an American.

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Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx

Chris Harman

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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Susan Faludi

A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyond Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • “Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, Backlash is, most of all, true.”— Newsday First published in 1991, Backlash made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women’s advances. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the “costs” of women’s independence—from the supposed “man shortage” to the “infertility epidemic” to “career burnout” to “toxic day care”—and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture. As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list “gender equality” among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women’s freedoms are still so demonized and threatened—and urges us to choose a different future.

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Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith

Rachel Held Evans

Braving the Truth has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith

Rachel Held Evans

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Half His Age

Jennette McCurdy

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What to look forward to!! Call Her Daddy podcast interview exerpts

I've had this book lightly on my radar (a couple weeks until release as of this writing) since reading the author's memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died, but I was mostly curious, not exactly chomping at the bit for it. I'm certainly chomping now - I just listened to an interview of Jennette McCurdy by Alex Cooper on her podcast Call Her Daddy that has shot it right to the top of my most anticipated list.

In McCurdy's words:

"I'm really interested in themes of desire and power and the things that we desire being confused for some form of power." "underneath, [this book is] really about desire, and loneliness, and why do we desire things that might not be good for us, and why do we so desperately paw at the things that we desire even if we know deep down they're not good for us, why do we still pursue them so relentlessly, so exhaustively, at the expense of, often times, our own self esteem, our own self worth?" "I hope it sparks conversations around desire and power [...] and also loneliness."

So basically, key themes here are desire, power, and loneliness, wrapped in the package of a high school senior relentlessly pursuing her teacher despite her own internal conflict. Okay Miss McCurdy, say less. I'm there.

She shares in the interview some of her personal experiences in an inappropriate age-gap relationship (which readers of the memoir did get a look into) as well as other unhealthy relationships, and says that despite being fiction, this book is very much infuses her own self into the narrative since her writing processes her lived experience. She says it "can't not be" a personal work. Some things she spoke to in particular where I expect to find echoes of herself in the MC (Waldo):

Going along with the discussion of desire and power and loneliness in the book, in her own experience of feeling insecure in relationships where her needs weren't being met, she says "I'd really crave sex, I'd really want sex. Sex for me was a means of finding commitment, was a misguided means of assuming I'd found commitment, a misguided means of assuming I'd found attachment, a misguided means of assuming I'd found safety, but the second that the two of us cum, it's gone. It's fucking gone."
She says Waldo is who she wishes she could have been at 18. Bolder and braver than herself. McCurdy can say and do things through her that she may not say or do herself because fiction gives her that opportunity.

The interview is phenomenal and I'd highly recommend it especially for those who have read her memoir already. There are plenty of other great peeks into her writing process, like discussions on when this idea first originated for her and her decision on whether to include an epilogue or not. Also - she wants and plans to keep writing fiction!!

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The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)

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the most hilarious thing i’ve read recently (page 153)

we all know, of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in anyway with electric devices ever. NEVER.

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Someone convince me🫠

Guys I’ve started this book like 3 separate times and have only ever made it like 6 chapters in. Idk what it is but I just can’t get in to it, and I usually love Emily Henry Someone convince me that I need to read this!

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