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The Monstrous Feminine 🫀🪞🔪

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Embracing the body and reclaiming otherness, these books use horror to redefine notions of womanhood and monstrosity.

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Reality is overrated! These surreal and absurd fiction books remove logic to reveal their truths. Here the impossible is inevitable, the strange is necessary, and Kafkaesque is only the beginning.

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Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst

Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I’d lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice. Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the Hadlows, the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school where their son Giles is his contemporary. For Dave this weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to Giles’s envy and violence. As Our Evenings unfolds over half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically, Dave a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician. Our Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security; but it is also, very movingly, the story of his hard-working widowed mother, whose own life takes an unexpected new turn after her son leaves home. Both dark and luminous, poignant and wickedly funny, Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel gives us a portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from the finest writer of our age.

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starrybunny

what’s that one book you can’t stop thinking about???

i wanna know what’s that one book you read recently or a long time ago that’s still stuck in your head!! one that you keep thinking about and coming back to even after reading more books!!!

a few days ago i finished reading It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey and it’s still on my mind!!! it was so spooky and intriguing in the perfect way. beautifully written and the audiobook was read by Joey Batey himself and i adored it!!!

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Jun 25, 2026

Mere

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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Queer, sapphic and utterly bleak and beautiful, this had the descent into despair and madness I was looking for from The Starving Saints.

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Wandering Souls

Cecile Pin

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Wandering Souls

Cecile Pin

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a sweeping meditation on love, ancestry, and the power of storytelling. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies—everything in between is speculation. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment. Anh works in a clothing factory to pay their bills. Minh loiters about with fellow unemployed high school dropouts. Thanh, the youngest, plays soccer with his British friends after class. As they mature, each sibling reckons with survivor’s guilt, unmoored by their parents’ absence. With every choice they make, their paths diverge further, until it’s unclear if love alone can keep them together. Told through lyrical narrative threads, historical research, voices from lost family, and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart their fate, Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by war and loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision, it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves, establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice.

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Netgalley readers

How does are y’all getting your requests for books?

As a new to netgalley reader, my review rate is at 0% due to only having one book I have started but have not reviewed as I haven’t finished the book or chosen to DNF.

Because of my low review rate, other books I have requested to read are being denied, and I do get the feedback that they prefer readers with a review este of at least 50%

Is this one of those cases where I will have a better chance at getting the books I request after I finally finish my first book and review it? Additionally, what type of feedback or reviews do you all leave on netgalley?

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Doodle.Self

Fear of big books

So I've wanted to read Burry our bones in the midnight soil(currently the biggest book I own) for a long while. I've never read a book that big and even if I want to start reading it I'm so scared of starting it. Idk what to do 😭

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stainedglasswings

Tell me about a book you struggled to remember & find for years!

For the past year, I've been thinking about a book that I read as a young teen but I haven't been able to remember enough about it. I could only remember a couple vague details at a time.... fantasy girl, antiheroine, dark powers, not nice dad, a prince? Sometimes I kept getting details mixed up with Veronica Roth's Carve the Mark, so I kept getting confused.

I FINALLY FOUND IT JUST NOW! I finally put enough details together and had enough luck in a google search to realize I've been looking for The Young Elites by Marie Lu 😭😭

Has this ever happened to you?? Tell me about a book that you forgot about, didn't remember enough details to ask for help, but finally found again 🤧

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starrybunny

what’s that one book you can’t stop thinking about???

i wanna know what’s that one book you read recently or a long time ago that’s still stuck in your head!! one that you keep thinking about and coming back to even after reading more books!!!

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Jun 25, 2026

Mere

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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Queer, sapphic and utterly bleak and beautiful, this had the descent into despair and madness I was looking for from The Starving Saints.

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Mere

Danielle Giles

The mere has fingers.Clever fingers to reach through the marsh and wrap around little ankles.Strong arms to pull poor sinners downwards.And a great gaping belly that can never be filled . . .Mere by Danielle Giles is a strikingly beautiful historical novel about fear and survival, power and position, and a love that takes hold in the darkest of places.Norfolk, 990 AD. Deep in the Fens, isolated by a vast and treacherous mere, an order of holy sisters make their home. Under the steely guidance of Abbess Sigeburg they follow God’s path, looking to their infirmarian, Hilda, to provide what comfort and cures she can.But when the mere takes a young servant boy, Sigeburg’s grip falters and Hilda quickly realises this place holds secrets darker and more unholy than she can fathom.Then proud Sister Wulfrun, a recent arrival to the convent, has a a curse is upon them and change must be brought. Is she saint or serpent? To Hilda, Wulfrun is a signal bolder and brighter than any fire set – one she cannot help but follow . . .

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Beartown (Beartown, #1)

Fredrik Backman

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The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

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Jun 24, 2026

Maiden

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 5.0

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There's a dragon, but it's not about him.

A multi POV with a lot of characters to keep up with, I felt this story handled the different characters well, without making me feel confused as to who knew who, or who was speaking. Each character felt distinct, with their own history.

This is heavy on the female rage, and light on the romance, which I preferred. I do wish the story has shown more diversity is my only gripe, so the lack of (as far as I could tell) did make the story feel a little more dated.

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Maiden

Georgia Leighton

THIS PRINCESS IS GOING TO SAVE HERSELFDiscover a world of forbidden magic, court politics and sacrifice in this enchanting new myth retelling, perfect for fans of Katherine Arden and Naomi Novik.The small, land-locked nation of Corfuia is known for its strict customs, historic battles and mountainous borders. And for its dragons.On the first day of Spring each year, a young woman chosen by lot from the towns and villages is sacrificed to the dragons in a legendary treaty known as the Maiden Sacrifice.As spring approaches, and the Maiden Sacrifice with it, the fates of three women are called into question. Between them, Maelle, Cressyda and Alinore hold the key to breaking free of the centuries-old treaty that hangs over Corfuia.But first, they must face the dragons...

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The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

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