missjane

Intersectional feminist, mom of two. I love dogs, food, animation, and well crafted stories with interestingly imperfect characters.

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The Books of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1-6)

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)

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You Have No Country! Workers' Struggle Against War

Mary E. Marcy

A leading figure in the Left Wing of the Socialist Party during the First World War, Mary E Marcy (1877-1922) was managing editor f the International Socialist Review, the most popular and influential revolutionary journal of the period. Collected here for the first time art articles detailing Marcy's penetrating analysis of the social/economic causes of war, and her libertarian socialist perspective on the struggle against war. Largely because of the articles in this book, the International Socialist Review was suppressed by the US government in 1918. As a summary of the revolutionary Marxist view of war, You Have No Country! is unexcelled. Written three quarters of a century ago, Marcy's hard-hitting critique is still as fresh as today's headlines. Edited and introduced by Franklin Rosemont.

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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Carol J. Adams

First published in 1990, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a landmark text in the ongoing debates about animal rights. In the two decades since, the book has inspired controversy and heated debate.Praise for The Sexual Politics of Meat:CAROL J. ADAMS is the author of The Pornography of Meat (Continuum, 2004), and co-author of Beyond Animal Rights (Continuum, 2000), and The Bedside, Bathtub, and Armchair Companion to Jane Austen (Continuum, 2008). She has toured as a speaker throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. More information can be found at her website: http://www.triroc.com/caroladams

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Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy

Madeline Lane-McKinley

A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care. We live in a world that is profoundly against children—evident in the genocide in Palestine, the fascist targeting of trans children, and the blatant disregard for the lives of migrant children crossing borders and oceans. It is a world in which climate catastrophe has become the new normal, in which children’s futures are by no means assured.What we need, feminist writer and scholar Madeline Lane-McKinely argues, is a politics of solidarity with children, one that sees children as comrades in our struggle for a better future. Blending personal and political reflection with cultural analysis, Lane-McKinley examines the history of childhood as a system of private property in capitalism, showing how the idea of the child has been weaponized in the service of white supremacy and empire. She disentangles motherhood from the act of caregiving, tracing the possibilities of revolutionary mothering. And she critiques the parents’ rights movement and imagines what education might look like outside schools, considering how we might center children as we challenge the strictures of the nuclear family. Elegantly written and provocative, Solidarity with Children is a book for anyone who cares about children and the struggle for a better world.

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More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and provocative prose, Cowan explains how the modern conveniences—washing machines, white flour, vacuums, commercial cotton—seemed at first to offer working-class women middle-class standards of comfort. Over time, however, it became clear that these gadgets and gizmos mainly replaced work previously conducted by men, children, and servants. Instead of living lives of leisure, middle-class women found themselves struggling to keep up with ever higher standards of cleanliness.

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Lavender and Hemlock

Lili Wilkinson

A housemaid's quiet life is disrupted when the arrival of a mysterious visitor causes her to question the nature of her seemingly-charming cottage home in this sweet, cozy romantasy with a dark heart. Step into the Oubliette and forget your troubles.... Housemaid Tansy’s days are all the same. Her only duties are to tend to her charge, old Lady Aster, and take care of their quaint cottage home. The seaside house is charming, peaceful, and above all, isolated. Tansy can't remember the last time she left...or when she arrived. Merit is a Carrion Knight. A servant of the dark entity the Unmaker, she has been raised to be a monster. But when she's wounded during a routine raid, she stumbles through a mysterious door… and finds herself tumbling into the Oubliette. When the two meet, an instant connection forms, and a crack appears in Oubliette's perfect façade. As the bond between Merit and Tansy grows and powerful feelings rise to the surface, Tansy must question not only what she wants, but who she is. Because the origins of this charming world are darker than she could imagine—and the key to uncovering them might lie with Tansy herself.

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I love the interested tag on this app, but I wish it prompted me to add a comment about why I’m interested in the book when I marked it. Right now I’m navigating to my activity feed and writing why I wanted to read the book under that post.

I just think it would be fun to see the reasons behind all your friends putting a book on their TBRs.

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The Song of the Lark

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HarmanHoney

Is this it!? 😮‍💨

20% in on audio and I’ve got to know if this gets better!? I’m finding all of these characters boring and I’m not invested. Is this ship going to turn around or should I give this up?

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Kidnapped by the Pirate

Keira Andrews

Will a virgin captive surrender to this pirate’s sinful touch? Nathaniel Bainbridge is used to hiding, whether it’s concealing his struggles with reading or his forbidden desire for men. Under the thumb of his controlling father, the governor of Primrose Isle, he’s sailing to the fledging colony, where he’ll surrender to a respectable marriage for his family’s financial gain. Then pirates strike and he’s kidnapped for ransom by the Sea Hawk, a legendary villain of the New World. Bitter and jaded, Hawk harbors futile dreams of leaving the sea for a quiet life, but men like him don’t deserve peace. He has a score to settle with Nathaniel’s father—the very man whose treachery forced him into piracy—and he’s sure Nathaniel is just as contemptible. Yet as days pass in close quarters, Nathaniel’s feisty spirit and alluring innocence beguile and bewitch. Although Hawk knows he must keep his distance, the desire to teach Nathaniel the pleasure men can share grows uncontrollable. It’s not as though Hawk would ever feel anything for him besides lust… Nathaniel realizes the fearsome Sea Hawk’s reputation is largely invented, and he sees the lonely man beneath the myth, willingly surrendering to his captor body and soul. As a pirate’s prisoner, he is finally free to be his true self. The crew has been promised the ransom Nathaniel will bring, yet as danger mounts and the time nears to give him up, Hawk’s biggest battle could be with his own heart. This May-December gay romance from Keira Andrews features classic tropes including: a tough alpha pirate too afraid to love, a plucky virgin captive half his age, enemies to lovers, first-time sexual discovery, and of course a happy ending. 85,000 words.

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The Song of the Lark

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This book tries so hard to be smart, it is genuinely killing me. Their post sx talk is about the political and economic state of the world. Really? Like wow. Look at these two hot, smart, almost flawless people who have sex every few pages. What a book! This can't be real. This can't be how Sally Rooney writes. It's so pretentious and performative the book feels like it wears a fedora. The characters are flat, boring, and deeply uninteresting. But at least Marianne is skinny and white!! This book is booktok slop that wears secondhand clothes and eats vegan due to ethical concerns. (Due to annoying people, the PR team has decided to revise and release a statement): Marianne and Connell have a complex relationship which is whatever yall what me to say here. It is a very good book that does not suck. They are insert opinion from Tiktok together but if the Hive Mind thinks they are blank, we will revise again! I think whatever the majority thinks and I am a bot. Please leave me be to recharge!

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The Song of the Lark

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