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Books about love, life and death. But also people, and the stuff in their heads.

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The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines

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El Error de Descartes: la emoción, la razón y el cerebro humano

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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

Karen Tang

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, menopause, fertility, sexual health, vaginal and urinary conditions, and overall wellbeing―from leading expert Dr. Karen Tang Reproductive healthcare, from abortion to gender-affirming care, is under siege. The onus continues to fall on patients to find and advocate for the care they need. Dr. Karen Tang is on a mission to transform how women engage with their bodies and their healthcare. Did you know that one in three women experiences menstrual abnormalities or pelvic issues, yet these conditions are overwhelmingly misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed? The root causes for these issues, such as polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and pelvic-floor muscle dysfunction, don’t receive the stream of funding for research and new treatments that other conditions do, despite the potential to affect up to half the population. It’s Not Hysteria is a comprehensive guide to common conditions and potential treatment options, with practical tools such as symptom prompts and sample questions to ask one's provider. In the face of uncertainty and misinformation, It’s Not Hysteria is destined to become a new classic that educates and empowers.

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Slow start, but I have faith - anyone feeling the same? (9%, page 32)

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Thoughts from 65% (the magic system)

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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. What Dr. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child—or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother’s footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school—were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face. Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Convincing each other to read THAT ONE BOOK

Inspired by a recent post by @LemonLime, share with us the one book you have been meaning to read for a long a time AND let us other users convince you to read it. You see a book you love here? Tell the boundling why they HAVE to read it asap. Do it in words, in GIFS, in quotes, however you want!

Additionally: You can also share with us your no. 1 book you want to recommend to everyone + the reason, and someone might see it and FINALLY be convinced to read it. :)

My book that I have been meaning to read for so long is The Will of the Many

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Post Apocalyptic with zombies (or zombie-lile things) books ?

Hi ! I'd like to read as many post Apocalyptic books as possible, especially if there are Zombies in it. I have obviously added "I am Legend" and "World War Z" on my tbr but I'd love your recs ! If you can also give a few reasons why (without spoilers) it would be perfect!

Thanks !

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Do you count dnfs towards your reading goal ?

I usally dont, but if ive read more than 70% of the book I will, I just wont review it. It stops me from drawing my feet thru a book i dont like. What about you ?

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Mar 22, 2026

Former Stripper, Part-Time Visionary

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: Plot:

I really loved it. It was raw, and inspiring and depressing and beautiful and hopefull... It's one of the most honest pieces of art I've engaged with in a while. I need to think about it before I write a proper review, but please read this. This book it's available for free on the author's website, but you can buy a physical copy and all of the profit goes to charity.

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The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the "Big Easy" of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power.

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Fictional(?) Dystopian Societies ✊🏛️🆘

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother, Hindley, sinks into bitter resentment. As Catherine and Heathcliff mature, and their affection blossoms into desire, Hindley’s resentment boils over into hatred, setting the stage for a tragic drama whose aftermath will shake the foundations of their world.

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Thoughts from 30%

I DNF'd this a couple of years ago. I don't know if I just wasn't in the mood for it or just wasn't getting along with reading it physically 🤷🏻‍♀️ however I seen it available on borrowbox for audiobook and I thought okay let's give it another go as I always hear people racing about Ashley Poston and I have to admit I am enjoying it quite a bit now.

I'm interested to see where this one goes.

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Thoughts from 27% (page 94)

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Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Near Futures)

Quinn Slobodian

How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold WarNeoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote.To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they articulated a philosophy of three hards—hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money—and forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists, and goldbugs that would become known as the alt-right.Following Hayek’s bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. This history of ideas shows us that the reported clash of opposites is more like a family feud.

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Audiobooks: Abridged vs Unabridged

I was looking into getting the audiobook of ‘The Princess Bride’ and saw the only copy is abridged. Why do people want shorter versions of the books they wanna read?? Or is it a popular opinion that abridged versions are meh.

I’m sad that there isn’t a full version of The Princess Bride 💔 although it’s interesting that the director of the movie adaption voices the abridged version. I personally think all audiobooks should be the full text, imagine buying a smaller version of a physical book with parts left out! It doesn’t make sense to me personally.

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Sky Daddy

Kate Folk

Linda is doing her best to lead a life that would appear normal to the casual observer. Weekdays, she earns $20 an hour moderating comments for a video-sharing platform, then rides the bus home to the windowless garage she rents on the outskirts of San Francisco. But on the last Friday of each month, she indulges her true passion, taking BART to SFO for a round-trip flight to a regional hub. The destination is irrelevant, because each trip means a new date with a handsome stranger—a stranger whose intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages, and powerful engines make Linda feel a way that no human ever could. . . . Linda knows that she can’t tell anyone she’s sexually obsessed with planes. Nor can she reveal her belief that it’s her destiny to “marry” one of her suitors, uniting with her soulmate plane for eternity. But when an opportunity arises to hasten her dream of eternal partnership, and the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of control, she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy and launching herself headlong toward the love she’s always dreamed of. Both subversive and unexpectedly heartwarming, Sky Daddy hijacks the classic love story, exploring desire, fate, and the longing to be accepted for who we truly are.

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