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Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)

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Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader

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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

Donald Cohen

America's leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian show us how to prevent the private takeover of our cherished public resources As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods--free education, public health, open parks, clean water, and many others--that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other. The Privatization of Everything, by the founder of In the Public Interest, an organization dedicated to shared prosperity and the common good, chronicles the efforts to turn our public goods into private profit centers. Ever since Ronald Reagan labeled government a dangerous threat, privatization has touched every aspect of our lives, from water and trash collection to the justice system and the military. However, citizens can, and are, wresting back what is ours. A Montana city took back its water infrastructure after finding that they could do it better and cheaper. Colorado towns fought back well-funded campaigns to preserve telecom monopolies and hamstring public broadband. A motivated lawyer fought all the way to the Supreme Court after the State of Georgia erected privatized paywalls around its legal code. The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a broad spectrum of issues and raises larger questions about who controls the public things we all rely on, exposing the hidden crisis of privatization that has been slowly unfolding over the last fifty years and giving us a road map for taking our country back.

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Hazelthorn

C.G. Drews

CG Drews, acclaimed author of Don't Let the Forest In, returns with another deeply unsettling and yet hauntingly beautiful tale of murder and botanical body horror, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, when he was a child. For his safety, Evander has been given three ironclad rules to follow: He can never leave the estate. He can never go into the gardens. And most importantly, he can never again be left alone with Byron's charming, underachieving grandson, Laurie. That last rule has been in place ever since Laurie tried to kill Evander seven years ago, and yet somehow Evander is still obsessed with him. But when Byron suddenly dies, Evander inherits Hazelthorn’s immense gothic mansion and acres of sprawling grounds, along with the entirety of the Lennox-Hall family's vast wealth. There’s just one caveat: He must choose a new guardian from amongst Laurie's scheming, backstabbing relatives to help manage the estate until he turns eighteen. Except Evander's sure his guardian was murdered, and Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer before they come for Evander next. Perhaps even more concerning is how the overgrown garden is refusing to stay behind its walls, slipping its vines and spores deeper into the house with each passing day. As the family’s dark secrets unravel alongside the growing horror of their terribly alive, bloodthirsty garden, Evander needs to find out what he’s really inheriting before the garden demands to be fed once more.

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Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Tourmaline Tourmaline

Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQIA+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy. “She is the preeminent and foremost scholar on Marsha P. Johnson. . . . To us, Tourmaline is the expert.”—Janet Mock, Allure “Thank god the revolution has begun, honey.” Rumor has it that after Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, she picked up a shard of broken mirror to fix her makeup. Marsha, a legendary Black transgender activist, embodied both the beauty and the struggle of the early gay rights movement. Her work sparked the progress we see today, yet there has never been a definitive record of her life. Until now. Written with sparkling prose, Tourmaline’s richly researched biography Marsha finally brings this iconic figure to life, in full color. We vividly meet Marsha as both an activist and She performed with RuPaul and with the internationally renowned drag troupe The Hot Peaches. She was a muse to countless artists from Andy Warhol to the band Earth, Wind & Fire. And she continues to inspire people today. Marsha didn’t wait to be freed; she declared herself free and told the world to catch up. Her story promises to inspire readers to live as their most liberated, unruly, vibrant, and whole selves.

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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity  Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives. Before We Were Trans  illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans  transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century  Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures. 

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Nov 28, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.5

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3.75 🌟 I really enjoyed the narrative of this book, there were some banger one lines but it did not give me the emotional gut punch I anticipated like I should have been harrowed, entranced or kicking my feet at some of the plot points but I wasn’t. I think it was a little hindered by the dual pov, and it meant we didn’t connect really deeply to any characters and their inner world. A lot of the pacing felt a little weird, it could have benefitted from being a longer book I reckon - some tendrils of the narrative felt unfinished to me. I did really like how people’s relationships and way they related to eachother shifted as tales unfolded and were retold, and the use of extracts from texts and letters at the start of chapters were a great way to situate the political climate of the empire tales were used to build. It was such an interesting story, and had a lot of whimsy and really fun structure but just didn’t quite live up to my expectations. I swapped maybe 30% in from audio to physical which really upped my enjoyment as I think I was able to read it at a better pace?

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DNF

minsuni

Nov 28, 2025

DNF

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

I mostly dnfed this cause I was just bored while reading it and didn’t feel invested in the plot or the romance between the two characters, but I also had some problems with the writing and development of the romance that didn’t really help with my lack of enjoyment.

The way this book is written almost feels like it’s supposed to be a movie, where we’re not being told in detail what is happening and what actions the characters are doing, and we’re just meant to imagine what is happening and fill in the spaces. There’s a lot of inner monologue, what the characters are thinking and description of objects/explanations, but not enough telling what is actually happening in the moment and what the characters are doing while talking.

The romance was my favorite part of this book but still lackluster. The characters knew each other for less than 24 hours and were already talking and interaction has if they’ve been friends for years? Marlowe was kinda being held prisoner for infiltrating a spaceship, but walking around said spaceship with Tanisira as if it was the most normal thing ever? The way they behaved didn’t match the situation they were in. From Marlowe we got to see what she thought of Tanisira and how she started developing feelings for her, but there was a huge jump from Tanisira between being neutral and wanting Marlowe, even in her povs we barely get any feelings from her and then all of a sudden she “has always wanted” Marlowe? The proximity between them was too forced and not natural. Also didn’t love the spicy scenes at all. Again, not enough description about what was happening, they went from one moment to the other way too quickly, kinda of weird dialogue during it? Not even kinky, just genuinely weird, and everything happened too fast.

Something that bothered me a lot was the artificial intelligence assistant they had, called Kit. The presence of AI technology in this book was fine I guess, I understand it can be something common in sci-fi books, but I just didn’t like how it was always talked about in a way too positive way, as opposed to viewing it as neutral and something that they use because it helps them. There was the continuous mention of it being AI, the book would not let you forget that Kit was AI, even though we knew it had a name and the characters still used it. There’s a specific quote that really bothered me - Kit’s AI capabilities are another wildly inflated expense I’ve come to adore, and, lately, I’ve caught myself feeling something akin to affection for her. It’s a strange thing to experience”. Maybe this is me just being extremely hateful towards anything AI, but I don’t think there needed to be this much praise around it.

Thank you to TJ Williams for the ARC.

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robyn00

Nov 28, 2025

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

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Ah yes. The autistic urge to pop out one’s eyes with a spoon. Relatable?

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🎧 Thoughts from 72% [[Chapter 22]]

Ashley Herring Blake writes basically one trope and it's lack of communication. Not miscommunication. There is literally no talking to each other besides goading. 🤦‍♀😡 I swear this book would be so much better (and shorter but that's besides the point) if these two would just talk like normal, healthy adults. I fear this will be my last AHB novel.

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Tethered

T.J. Williams

One boy, his mother, and a captain with secrets from her crew. Amongst the stars, all things lost are found. Marlowe Rose has been fighting her ex, Dominik, for a decade. When he kidnaps their son, she sneaks onto his starship, planning to give him hell. Instead, she ends up caught, sequestered and questioned by the captain. But Tanisira Sekmith isn’t what Marlowe thought she was, and when it becomes clear that they’re all just puppets in Dominik’s eyes, Marlowe convinces the stoic captain to help rescue her son. Tanisira promised herself she’d make no waves, catch no one’s attention, and cruise under the radar. Misplacing her trust once changed the trajectory of her whole life. After the fallout from her last job, flying a pleasure yacht is supposed to be boring and easy—exactly what she wants. But finding Marlowe on the ship changes everything. Marlowe sees her, shadows and all, and it forces Tanisira to face things she tried to leave behind. Marlowe doesn’t expect to find, on this journey that she dreaded, something she’d given up. And Tanisira doesn’t know if she deserves happiness, but she doesn’t want to lose this: a kid with big, green eyes and his fierce, captivating mother. Described as Becky Chambers meets Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Tethered is a Sapphic, soft science-fiction romance. There are content warnings in the front matter and on my website.

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Tethered

T.J. Williams

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minsuni

Aug 06, 2025

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

Not rating this book cause I feel weird rating a book based on someone’s real life and events, and if I were to rate this book I feel like it would be mostly on the writing (which I did like, I feel like the author did a really good job of conveying feelings depending on her age in a really good way.).

This was my first non-fiction/memoir and I’m mind blown. It was raw, honest, heavy, very personal and, at times, triggering, but I’m still glad I got to read it. Even though I never watched iCarly and never payed much attention to Jennette McCurdy, I did like learning more about her life, but also the behind the scenes of fame and hollywood, which sometimes we think it’s all laughs and giggles, but these are real people with real lives. I’m just glad she got the help she needed and she’s finally taking control of her life.

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