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Female Hormones and ADHD: The Impact on Brain and Body

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Cherry Baby

Rainbow Rowell

Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie... Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home. Tom is the creator of Thursday--a semi-autobiographical webcomic, turned bestselling graphic novel, turned international phenomenon. Semi-autobiographical. That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry... "Baby." Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby. Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page--let alone on the big screen. But there's no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store. While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the Internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in...and wondering who she's supposed to be without him. Cherry had promised to love Tom through thick and thin. She'd meant it. One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems, including Tom's overgrown puppy, at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album...and someone recognizes her from across the room. Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom. Russ knows Cherry. He likes Cherry. And best of all...he's never heard of Thursday.

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers working at the height of her powers.

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pykora

Mar 20, 2026

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as the great marie antoine once said, let them eat coochie

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Female Hormones and ADHD: The Impact on Brain and Body

Lotta Borg Skoglund

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Are you a ‘read to escape’ reader or a ‘read to feel’ reader?

Personally, I read to escape the real world - I pretty much refuse to read anything too heavy or heartbreaking! I suffer with terrible anxiety and OCD, so reading silly or happy books helps me cope.

Do you guys do the same or do you like books with heavy subjects?

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Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

Greta liked knowing people's secrets. That wasn't a problem. Until she met Big Swiss. Big Swiss. That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see her dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes. She's a including the heads of infants and dogs. Well that's how Greta imagines seeing her; they haven't actually ever met in person. Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland. Greta and Big Swiss are not in the same room, or even the same building. Greta is miles away, sitting at a desk in her own house, wearing only headphones, fingerless gloves, a kimono, and legwarmers, transcribing this disembodied voice. What Greta doesn't know is that she's about to bump into Big Swiss in the local dog park. A new - and not entirely honest - relationship is going to be born. A relationship that will transform both of their lives.

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Apr 20, 2026

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ZebaAli

What book started your love for a particular genre?

Okay, I'm a huge Romance fan and there was a time when I left that genre for good because of disappointment. Romance didn't feel good, the plot only contained smut without any good story.

But Sarah Adams revived my love for Romance. I read her When in Rome and that book pushed the love for the Romance genre in me again.

So I want to ask what's that one book that made you love [your fav genre] ?

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yall read at work?

can yall read at your job? i have two jobs. i bartend on saturday nights so obviously im not reading then but i also have a regular 9-5 in the social work field monday-friday. although i have busy days here sometimes there’s just absolutely no need for me to be here 8 hours a day so if my stuff is done… i read. i banged out a ton this week and since its friday i have basically nothing left to do (knock on wood… now that i say that it’ll be chaos 😭) but no seriously im hoping to plow my way through my current book today before i clock out. i even got an ereader so its more discrete (not that anyone would say anything, my stuff stays done but). but yea do yall read at work? if so, what days do you get the chance to read the most at work? fridays are usually pretty laid back for me.

sidebar: why does it feel more socially acceptable to be caught on your phone at work rather than reading? 😭😭

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The Ending Writes Itself

Evelyn Clarke

'Secrets don't stay secret for long in publishing' Six authors. One private island. Seventy-two hours to write the ending that will change their lives. ‘This is a house of novelists, not murderers. You dream up crimes. You don’t commit them.’ ‘But a writer has. And so, who better than a writer to catch them?’ World famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself. Fletch’s publisher, Merriweather Press, has invited six authors to Fletch’s private island in Scotland. Authors whose books have never had the big marketing budgets or publicity opportunities. In other words, midlist. And they’re about to be presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Whoever writes a worthy ending will receive one million dollars, and a further one million dollars for a new three-book contract. They have just seventy-two hours, with no access to the outside world, just a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write… Starting is often the hardest part. But getting to the end could be murder. ‘Smart, original and completely addictive…The Ending Writes Itself is both a great locked-room thriller and a brilliant satire on the publishing industry. An absolute must-read’ Karin Slaughter

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Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late. Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

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Sarahj_berry

What’s your book rating system?

This was discussed on My Wife Likes Books podcast and it’s made me so curious about other people’s because there’s was so varied. Here’s my system:

⭐️ - inherently flawed in style, plot, politics, etc. likely didn’t finish

⭐️⭐️ - I finished it but it was actively difficult and I enjoyable. Glad it’s over.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ - enjoyed it while reading but ask me in a month and I’ll remember nothing about it

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - a good book, both in terms of quality and enjoyment. I might recommend it to some people.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - like that crush I had in high school, I find myself looking for excuses to bring it up in conversation. Takes over my life, becomes my personality.

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