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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You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

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Hum

Helen Phillips

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wife and mother who—after losing her job to AI—undergoes a procedure that renders her undetectable to surveillance…but at what cost? In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance. Seeking some reprieve from her recent hardships and from her family’s addiction to their devices, she splurges on passes that allow them three nights’ respite inside the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where forests, streams, and animals flourish. But her insistence that her son, daughter, and husband leave their devices at home proves far more fraught than she anticipated, and the lush beauty of the Botanical Garden is not the balm she hoped it would be. When her children come under threat, May is forced to put her trust in a hum of uncertain motives as she works to restore the life of her family. Written in taut, urgent prose, Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities. As New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer says, “Helen Phillips, in typical bravura fashion, has found a way to make visible uncomfortable truths about our present by interrogating the near-future.”

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Hum

Helen Phillips

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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I don’t know how to say this, without offending anyone hahaha but… I really don’t care about this book 😮‍💨 and it’s so sad because it’s been on my TBR for years and I wanted to read it so bad, I read amazing things about it and in my mind I thought “I’M GOING TO LOVE IT” and it’s not like I hate it, but so far I really don’t care about it 🤔 I feel like that can absolutely change, I’m still open to it and I’m enjoying enough not to DNF it (I also never DNF books so.. 😹), honestly I just need it to get more weird and disturbing because so far, it’s not weird and shocking enough to me (very little things actually shock me) haha but that’s very obviously a ME problem. 😹

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i don’t know if i should read this in public

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Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism

Rochester Public Library

Crafting Fiber Arts and Activism calls upon craft, during an era of political disruption, as a creative force to voice dissent, express hope, critique the curtailment of civil rights, and to restore dignity to the human experience. The essays and artwork featured in this exhibition catalogue are framed within the context of American democracy and disclose how we, as individuals and as a culture, "craft democracy" and ultimately question what democracy means today. This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at Harold Hacker Hall, Central Library of Rochester [New York] & Monroe August-October, 2019. Juilee Decker is associate professor of museum studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her publications include the 3rd edition of Museums in An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (2017) and the four-volume series Innovative Approaches for Museums (2015). HInda Mandell is associate professor in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology and is a co-editor of Nasty Women and Bad Gender and Race in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (University of Rochester Press, 2018). She is editor of Crafting Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield).

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles truly changed the world” (Wall Street Journal)The story of humanity is the story of textiles—as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo’s David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world’s most influential commodity. “We are taken on a journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself.… [The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine and an accurate representation of the whole cloth." —New York Times “Textile-making hasn’t gotten enough credit for its own sophistication, and for all the ways it undergirds human technological innovation—an error Virginia Postrel’s erudite and complete book goes a long way toward correcting at last.” —Wired

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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods—methods she herself helped to fashion.

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catsano

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Woah there!!! Calm down girlie pop!

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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Kate Crawford

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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Kate Crawford

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Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Zahra Hankir

From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic From the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes. The aesthetic trademark of figures ranging from Nefertiti to Amy Winehouse, eyeliner is one of our most enduring cosmetic tools; ancient royals and Gen Z beauty influencers alike would attest to its uniquely transformative power. It is undeniably fun—yet it is also far from frivolous. Seen through Zahra Hankir’s (kohl-lined) eyes, this ubiquitous but seldom-examined product becomes a portal to history, proof both of the stunning variety among cultures across time and space and of our shared humanity. Through intimate reporting and conversations—with nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, drag queens in New York, and more— Eyeliner embraces the rich history and significance of its namesake, especially among communities of color. What emerges is an unexpectedly moving portrait of a tool that, in various corners of the globe, can signal religious devotion, attract potential partners, ward off evil forces, shield eyes from the sun, transform faces into fantasies, and communicate volumes without saying a word. Delightful, surprising, and utterly absorbing, Eyeliner is a fascinating tour through streets, stages, and bedrooms around the world, and a thought-provoking reclamation of a key piece of our collective history.

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2026 nonfiction challenge

I'm already planning my 2026 reads, and I decided to do an A-Z non-fiction challenge. I know a lot of folks have mentioned wanting to read more non-fiction, and if that's your goal for the next year, I suggest trying this challenge! Since 26 books (and non-fiction nonetheless) is a big feat, you can just do a list and select a book from there as you see fit, or if you want to add a little whimsy, put papers in a jar and select your book blindly. What I did was get all the dopamine from the get-go and open a random picker to plan my year.

My recommendations for people who want to get started reading nonfiction are:

Start with memoirs or autobiographies. They are easy to read, feel like gossip or talking to a friend, and you can pick someone you already want to know more of. Paris by Paris Hilton was an incredible read.
You don't have to pick topics that you are not interested in. No one is better just because they read nonfiction, we are all readers and have different interests. There are no rules or expectations, it should be fun!
Doing a buddy read or being active on the forums allows you to digest the book, share your thoughts and socialize in PB, which can be a great motivator. I added Ten Tomatoes that Changed History because I'm getting FOMO from the Tomato Wars.
You can DNF at any time. Sometimes, the topic is interesting, but the writing style is not captivating. You can always find another option, this should not be a chore.

Here are the non-fiction quests and side quests so you can learn and earn some badges:

Feminism Without Exception by beautiful crybabybea
Freedom of Speech Essential by human sunshine Pipsy
Non-Fiction Starter Pack Vol I by the one an only PB creator jenniferPagebound
Memoir & Biography Starter Pack Vol I by lucyPagebound the other half of PB
Justice For All by PB icon notbillnye
Tiny but Mighty Nonfiction once again by notbillnye featuring the cutest badge ever
Critically Acclaimed Memoirs by once again, my most parasocial relationship, crybabybea

Here are some lists I have created or saved that might come in handy:

This is why we can't have nice things
Feminism: Theory, science & politics
It's all in your head...
Testimonies of collapse
The doctor will (not) see you now
It's Always That Deep by crybabybea
Living that Recession life by ChaosReader
All things wild and wonderful by ayzrules
"nothing about us without us" by lauraaaa.mercedes
Teach me something new and oddly specific by endless_tbr_list
Horror 🫱🏽‍🫲🏽 Non-Fiction by my fav polterbooks
non-fiction for every situation by lynnnn
Children's Liberation by sunnysunshine
How Democracies Die by Pipsy
Black Radicalism by crybabybea
health justice + critiquing the MIC by lauraaaa.mercedes
And all I got was trauma and student debt… by sailorsoftgirl
Walkability by clb2326
Fashion That Lasts: Books for Conscious Style by chelssicle
Trans & non-B Non-Fic by Pipsy
Women's Memoirs and (Auto)biographies by Storyteller

I'm sure there's plenty more. Feel free to share your book/list recommendations in the comments, and let's learn something new this 2026!!

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2026 nonfiction challenge

My recommendations for people who want to get started reading nonfiction are:

Start with memoirs or autobiographies. They are easy to read, feel like gossip or talking to a friend, and you can pick someone you already want to know more of. Paris by Paris Hilton was an incredible read.
You don't have to pick topics that you are not interested in. No one is better just because they read nonfiction, we are all readers and have different interests. There are no rules or expectations, it should be fun!
Doing a buddy read or being active on the forums allows you to digest the book, share your thoughts and socialize in PB, which can be a great motivator. I added Ten Tomatoes that Changed History because I'm getting FOMO from the Tomato Wars.
You can DNF at any time. Sometimes, the topic is interesting, but the writing style is not captivating. You can always find another option, this should not be a chore.

Here are the non-fiction quests and side quests so you can learn and earn some badges:

Feminism Without Exception by beautiful crybabybea
Freedom of Speech Essential by human sunshine Pipsy
Non-Fiction Starter Pack Vol I by the one an only PB creator jenniferPagebound
Memoir & Biography Starter Pack Vol I by lucyPagebound the other half of PB
Justice For All by PB icon notbillnye
Tiny but Mighty Nonfiction once again by notbillnye featuring the cutest badge ever
Critically Acclaimed Memoirs by once again, my most parasocial relationship, crybabybea

Here are some lists I have created or saved that might come in handy:

This is why we can't have nice things
Feminism: Theory, science & politics
It's all in your head...
Testimonies of collapse
The doctor will (not) see you now
It's Always That Deep by crybabybea
Living that Recession life by ChaosReader
All things wild and wonderful by ayzrules
"nothing about us without us" by lauraaaa.mercedes
Teach me something new and oddly specific by endless_tbr_list
Horror 🫱🏽‍🫲🏽 Non-Fiction by my fav polterbooks
non-fiction for every situation by lynnnn
Children's Liberation by sunnysunshine
How Democracies Die by Pipsy
Black Radicalism by crybabybea
health justice + critiquing the MIC by lauraaaa.mercedes
And all I got was trauma and student debt… by sailorsoftgirl
Walkability by clb2326
Fashion That Lasts: Books for Conscious Style by chelssicle
Trans & non-B Non-Fic by Pipsy
Women's Memoirs and (Auto)biographies by Storyteller

I'm sure there's plenty more. Feel free to share your book/list recommendations in the comments, and let's learn something new this 2026!!

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Women's Memoirs and (Auto)biographies

by Storyteller

78 books

I have been collecting (and reading) a long list of memoirs, autobiographies and biographies about women who had fascinating lives. I thought I might as well make it a list! A lot of them I have read and enjoyed, some are from my TBR. I am especially fascinated by 18th-19th century women's stories, so there will be a lot of those. And women from diverse backgrounds. Open to suggestions!

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