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punkerella

Slowly piecing together how the entire world works

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Critically Acclaimed Memoirs
Memoir & Biography Starter Pack Vol I
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My Taste
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
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Waking the Tiger: Healing TraumaDutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War IIThe Wealthy Franchisee: Game-Changing Steps to Becoming a Thriving Franchise SuperstarYour Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform UsBecomingPoverty, by AmericaThe Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real WorldFascism: A WarningGéopolitique de l'Afrique (French Edition)Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

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Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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  • Percentage Update for CR

    Tbh… I’m not a fan of the percentage update while reading. I don’t get the hype 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think it’s more work than necessary. I totally get the reading list updates, or reading goal updates. What does everyone else think?? What am I missing??

    I’m curious why it was important enough to be added

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  • Share your latest book haul

    i'm always excited whenever i get my hands on new books and equally just as excited to share them. i didn't see a general thread dedicated to just book hauls so if you're seeing this and recently picked up some books (whether from a bookstore, secondhand, the library, online, a garage sale, literally anywhere) feel free to share what you hauled!

    today i stopped by a secondhand bookstore and got the following: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, and The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden.

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  • love-hating book rec

    hey all :)

    does anyone have any book recs for a book where the characters genuinely hate love? like they were so wronged that the book is just filled with spite and vengeance without a love story happening at the end lmao

    I usually read romcoms, but I want to read the exact opposite of a romcom rn 😂

    I asked this in the Love Haters book discussion section, but I want to get the whole community's input 🙃

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  • Calling All My Greek Mythology Besties

    Every year I try to read one intimidating (or lengthy or dense or “difficult”) book to not only try to better improve my reading skills, but because there are also just a lot of books I’ve been wanting to read and have been a lil too scared to jump in.

    I’ve been thinking about next year and what book I might choose, and I’ve been wanting to get into reading more Greek lit, especially the epics, for a long time. I own both The Iliad and The Odyssey, but not sure which one is best to start with. What would you guys recommend? Anything I should know before diving in? Any tips?

    Also, I’m not the most…advanced or “intellectual” reader (hence the whole trying to read more challenging books thing) and a part of me is a bit intimidated and worried I’ll have a hard time understanding what’s going on. So any tips or thoughts on that would be much appreciated too! . . . Some background if it’s helpful: I read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology and a couple of excerpts from The Odyssey 10ish years ago for high school. I have a pretty good general understanding of the events that occur in The Odyssey (thanks to a “dumbed” down middle grade book version I read not too long ago and EPIC: The Musical [I know quite a few liberties were taken with the latter]). I know next to nothing about the Iliad.

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  • What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
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    Ohh I hadn't connected the dots from the title to the way trauma is stored in the body. Even lasting as far as 3 (!!) generations?? Would this mean you could do everything right as a parent and still pass on the trauma you endured to your children? That's a sad thought...

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  • The Outsiders
    Read The Classics Even If You Know The Ending

    Why am I just now reading this book? It's so good! The us vs them mindset is still relevant all these years later. This might end up being a book I re-read annually.

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  • What is the Plan section?

    I was poking around the app and I seen a thing that said Book Plan. (Cant remember the exact wording now). The thing with the calendar icon. How are we supposed to use it? Is it for adding books we want to read later? If so, can we add just one or several? (Sorry, im still learning lol)

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    Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

    Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

    Liz Wiseman

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    Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

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  • Fascism: A Warning
    Thoughts from 54% (page 137)

    The content in this book is so important but I am really struggling with the writing style. It's not only mostly dry passages, the organization jumps around a lot; I feel like I'm trying to read six different textbooks simultaneously. I think with a stronger editor this book could've been a lot more compelling than it is. Sorry, Albright.

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  • Poverty, by America
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    Already obsessed with this book. Incredibly well written and researched and Desmond is a gifted storyteller. While there is a lot of familiar information in this book I've picked up over the years, there's also a lot of new information as well. I particularly enjoyed the analysis that challenges the common belief that Reagan has had a much more significant impact on social programs than he did.

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    Poverty, by America

    Poverty, by America

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    Fascism: A Warning

    Fascism: A Warning

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    Poverty, by America

    Poverty, by America

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    The Anatomy of Prose: 12 Steps to Sensational Sentences (Better Writers Series)

    The Anatomy of Prose: 12 Steps to Sensational Sentences (Better Writers Series)

    Sacha Black

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