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Trying to get back into reading more Reading mostly fantasy and lit fic (in German/ English)
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Oh I definitely have been there as well! Once I am interested I really need the details as well. The “curse” of being a bio student. Btw, I really it’s cool that you have a MSc in immunology!
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
Rob Dunn
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone , biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us -- prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.
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Ship of Magic
Robin Hobb
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will.... From the Paperback edition.
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I have been very anxious for this election to come because the outcome, unfortunately, was very very clear beforehand. Now we can only hope that the other parties still obtain enough votes to ally against AfD. Now we all need to step up for democracy even though it seems dire and support each other. Divide can only further fuel fascism and doomerism will never change anything for the better. Staying hopeful is also a way of prostest!
this is mostly for my german people but to anyone reading this: today, for the first time since 1932 a far-right party in germany got over 40% of votes in a state. i am ashamed that we have learned nothing. i am scared to what this means for every marginalised person and everyone fighting with them. this is absolutely horrifying even though we knew it was going to happen. i am honestly at loss for words. to anyone reading this, i hope we can stand loud and proud together. even if you’re not german, this definitely isn’t the only country thats struggling right now and i hope we can overcome this. love is always stronger than hate. take care.
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I have to be honest, the writing was really dull and put me off way too much unfortunately
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The Baby Dragon Café
Aamna Qureshi
***Pre-order this cosy romance now!*** The perfect read for fans of Pumpkin Spice Café and Legends and Lattes! When Saphira opened up her café for baby dragons and their humans, she wasn’t expecting it to be so difficult to keep the fires burning. It turns out, young dragons are not the best magical animals to keep in a café, and replacing all that burnt furniture is costing Saphira more than she can afford from selling dragon-roasted coffee. Aiden is a local gardener, and local heart-throb, more interested in his plants than actually spending time with his disobedient baby dragon. When Aiden walks into Saphira’s café, he has a genius idea – he'll ask Saphira to train his baby dragon, and he'll pay her enough to keep the café afloat. Saphira’s happy-go-lucky attitude doesn’t seem to do anything but irritate the grumpy-but-gorgeous Aiden, except that everywhere she goes, she finds him there. But can this dragon café owner turn her fortunes around, and maybe find love along the way?
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The Baby Dragon Café
Aamna Qureshi
***Pre-order this cosy romance now!*** The perfect read for fans of Pumpkin Spice Café and Legends and Lattes! When Saphira opened up her café for baby dragons and their humans, she wasn’t expecting it to be so difficult to keep the fires burning. It turns out, young dragons are not the best magical animals to keep in a café, and replacing all that burnt furniture is costing Saphira more than she can afford from selling dragon-roasted coffee. Aiden is a local gardener, and local heart-throb, more interested in his plants than actually spending time with his disobedient baby dragon. When Aiden walks into Saphira’s café, he has a genius idea – he'll ask Saphira to train his baby dragon, and he'll pay her enough to keep the café afloat. Saphira’s happy-go-lucky attitude doesn’t seem to do anything but irritate the grumpy-but-gorgeous Aiden, except that everywhere she goes, she finds him there. But can this dragon café owner turn her fortunes around, and maybe find love along the way?
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I love your list ideas, especially the magic is accessibility! I just recently had an idea for a list about modern legends/ urban legends collections from around the world but this seems to be too niche of a theme as I found very few books and most not yet being in the PB database
Does anyone else have a list of List ideas? I tend to be very much in my own world when it comes to reading books, so my ideas of lists don’t really go anywhere. 😬
I just thought it’d be nice to share some ideas of lists that I’ve been sitting on but would love to read more about:
- Waste Disposal is the main character (fiction) - Books that focus on waste disposal and how we’re not watching the items we consume. (Inspired by Gachiakuta and the influence of Japanese cultures 🔗 Tsukumogami in its storyline.)
- Pick your mount. No, not that one - Books with unusual mounts, not including dragons or horses. (Inspired by The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor series where the MC rides a bull.)
- When I Stopped Singing - a list of books where the main character just doesn’t want to talk anymore, I guess voluntary mutism or took a vow of silence (Personal interest)
- Magic is Accessibility - a list of books where the world has magic and accessibility, people can be magic, disabled and not want to be “fixed.” (Inspired by the disability reps in the Witch Hat Atelier mangas by Kamome Shirahama)
- Ripping at the Roots - books about people fixing their community, I think kind of like being a terrible person in their youth, or having left without mending old relationships. Basically about rebuilding burnt bridges. (Inspired by my last reread of The Losers by Harley Laroux.)
I view Lists as a group project (but if people don’t want it to be, it doesn’t have to be), so I’m putting these out there incase people have recs.
So, do you have any ideas for lists? If you’ve already put out the list, what inspired it?
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Omg I did not know that the end of Das Känguru Manifest references the beginning of this book! I really love having discovered this🥳
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.
