lizzyy

I enjoy reading fiction and non-fiction alike. I’m a big fan of memoirs, all the sciences and female authors💖

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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Thoughts from 50%

50% in and the secondhand embarassment is kicking my ass.

I'm taking a notice though with how June views everyone around her. To her, Athena was faking vulnerability and overly dramatic, and her sister, Rory is faking being affectionate and over compensating for being closed off in childhood? That's a lot of issues you need to address with yourself, Ms Juniper

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A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

S.T. Gibson

S.T. Gibson's sensational novel is the darkly seductive tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . . Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death.

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Vladimir

Julia May Jonas

A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students—a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession of her own... “When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me.” And so we are introduced to our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose charismatic husband at the same small liberal arts college is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extra-marital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both. And when our narrator becomes increasingly infatuated with Vladimir, a celebrated, married young novelist who’s just arrived on campus, their tinder box world comes dangerously close to exploding. With this bold, edgy, and uncommonly assured debut, author Julia May Jonas takes us into charged territory, where the boundaries of morality bump up against the impulses of the human heart. Propulsive, darkly funny, and wildly entertaining, Vladimir perfectly captures the personal and political minefield of our current moment, exposing the nuances and the grey area between power and desire.

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Horror 🫱🏽‍🫲🏽 Non-Fiction

by polterbooks

37 books

Non-fiction about horror, those is the horror industry, horror-adjacent subjects, and down-right terrifying books.

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Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys

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chelssicle completed their yearly reading goal of 60 books!

chelssicle's 2025 Reading Challenge

65 of 60 read

Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

The Sad Ghost Club Volume 1: Find Your Kindred Spirits

PJ Norris and the Town With the Butterfly Problem (Firewing Investigations)

Destined for an Early Grave (Night Huntress, #4)

Archangel's Ascension (Guild Hunter, #17)

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A collection of the pilot books for popular series, for those of us who love to follow a character's journey for as long as an author will let us! Some of the below series have heavily debated starting points and book read orders--in those cases the pilot was selected based on what seems to be the most popular approach.

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are “routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied” for speaking out. Contributions include essays from established and up-and-coming writers, performers, and critics, including actors Ally Sheedy and Gabrielle Union and writers Amy Jo Burns, Lyz Lenz, and Claire Schwartz. Covering a wide range of topics and experiences, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to first-person accounts of child molestation, this collection is often deeply personal and is always unflinchingly honest. Like Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, Not That Bad will resonate with every reader, saying “something in totality that we cannot say alone.” Searing and heartbreakingly candid, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that “not that bad” must no longer be good enough.

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo―because we are all implicated.

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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

Anne Harrington

In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds. But when the Freudians overreached, they drove psychiatry into a state of crisis that a new “biological revolution” was meant to alleviate. Harrington shows how little that biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science, and why the field has fallen into a state of crisis in our own time. Mind Fixers makes clear that psychiatry’s waxing and waning biological enthusiasms have been shaped not just by developments in the clinic and lab, but also by a surprising range of social factors, including immigration, warfare, grassroots activism, and assumptions about race and gender. Government programs designed to empty the state mental hospitals, acrid rivalries between different factions in the field, industry profit mongering, consumerism, and an uncritical media have all contributed to the story as well. In focusing particularly on the search for the biological roots of schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder, Harrington underscores the high human stakes for the millions of people who have sought medical answers for their mental suffering. This is not just a story about doctors and scientists, but about countless ordinary people and their loved ones. A clear-eyed, evenhanded, and yet passionate tour de force, Mind Fixers recounts the past and present struggle to make mental illness a biological problem in order to lay the groundwork for creating a better future, both for those who suffer and for those whose job it is to care for them.

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

Anne Harrington

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“Through the 1940’s and the 50’s, the typical schizophrenic patient has been confused, docile and regressed. By the late 1960’s however, new diagnostic criteria increasingly identified schizophrenia with violence and paranoia.” I can’t stop thinking of this, on how we have been leaving the mentally ill behind when they get “harder” to treat, when they are sedated it’s fine, but if they are “aggressive” we want to toss them aside, this book has been keeping me thinking on this vulnerable section of our society and I really hope that the perception on the mentally ill patients changes and we start to focus on how to actually help them and take care of them and not only seated them so we can be comfortable.

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This is not my first book about psychiatry, I know the good, the bad and the plain evil; nonetheless I still get baffled by reading the actual quotes from some of these doctors. Sometimes we think about these people like monsters, like entities so far away from ourselves than we forget that everyone is capable of ableism (and all the other isms).

One part that made me so angry was in the sections of sterilizations, I knew what was coming but reading “We might not be able to cure them, but we can stop them from reproducing” and “Three generations of imbeciles are enough,” took me by surprise. How can you be so vicious? Then when people refused, they said sane mother couldn’t love their disabled children, that that was in itself a sign of mental illness?! Like what? What do you mean loving your children and wanting the best for them is acting “crazy”?

And don’t get me started on how motherhood has been blamed for every single mental illness😡

Sometimes I forget that I’m not in my echo chamber of human rights, and that there are bigots in these world that would like me dead. But it’s so important to know your history, as a fellow scientist and current psychology major I own it to my clients to think critically and question where the knowledge we acquired came from. Whose blood and suffering was it built upon?

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Thoughts from 32% can we talk about the somatic therapeutic era?

I just want to start this post by saying that I understand that this was the 1930's, but why on earth this people were allowed to "treat" a really vulnerable sector of our society's? like, this so called doctors arrived and where like, "I'm going to cure schizophrenia transfusing malarian infected blood to patients so they have this massive fever and then cure it and after that they will be ok"... and people just sit back and said fair, that does sound like science ????

Also, what is wrong with Adolf Mayer and why did he supported every single treatment, he was like "Insulin shock, I'm in, Electric Shock Therapy, why not?, Lobotomy, sounds about right" tbh I don't know why we give medical credentials to this kind of people.

I guess my final conclusion is that, the ego surrounding the medical is so massive that it blind them on the whole propose of medicine, which is serving the people, specially the most vulnerable, but I guess they only wanted to pick their brains for possibilities of a nobel prize and not really to improve peoples lives, idk this just make me sad :(

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Advice for spine training??

Hi everyone! I have recently decided to spine train my books before reading them, but... Apparently I don't know how to it because the spine still cracks either during the spine training or during reading lol Do you have any tips?

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