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hello! i'm a pre-med student and aspiring surgeon with a love for reading anything horror, mystery, or sci-fi/fantasy

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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Ruby Hamad

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women and all colonized women. It offers a long-overdue validation of the experiences of women of color. Taking us from the slave era—when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves—through the centuries of colonialism—when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics—to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars</i< tells the story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. Examining subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and nineteenth-century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad builds a powerful argument about the entrenched systems of white supremacy that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.

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Arboreality

Rebecca Campbell

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell’s astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change. A novella expansion of the Sturgeon Award winning short story “An Important Failure.”

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

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frivolous and fun bookish & writerly activities~

(yeah writers i know you're on here. me too. dw i won't tell) so i have 1 question for writers and 1 for readers, feel free to answer both. or none! im not your mom!!

writers: what are random, frivolous writing-adjacent stuff you wish somebody would just do for you? e.g. i LOVE moodboards omg i could commission a zillion: one per character, one per plot point, one per SCENE, forget about it. or fake covers?? you could draw it in MS Paint and i would fall down about it. i love when authors have playlists for their books, yes i DO scan that QC code!! ofc I love commissioning art but that takes money. i'm just talking like, what are the small joys of writing your WIP and how do you share creatively in community around that?? book tropes? character slides? google presentations? snippet images??

DIFFERENT QUESTION TO READERSSS!! as someone who enjoys books an abnormal amount, what are some book-related tasks you wish you could OFFLOAD? book recs? discovering new books in the genre you love? finding authors that aren't being introduced to you to support, like indie, debut, marginalized writers? do you care abt reading long vs short reviews? do u like tracking ur books on an app or do u make ur own database on notion, trello, your paper and pen, etc???

i wanna know bc a) as a writer i want cheap fun things to do for times i can't write to keep my WIP top of mind & maybe they'd make fun services to add to my ko-fi shop? and b) as a reader what is it about the books you read that appeals to you and what ways do you engage in reading outside of just you, your reading tool and your text? i wanna intentionally create a cozy community of thoughtful readers, and i know what EYE enjoy, but i wanted to know other peoples thoughts, esp thoughtful readers like YOU 🫵

if you hate this post i'm sorry, feel free to downvote, no need to explain i understand completely and go with God! but if you wanna yap about fluffy frivolous writing & reading-adjacent activities pls yap with me :)

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The Last Contract of Isako

Fonda Lee

A battle-worn corporate samurai undertakes one last mission on a merciless planet where death is always a mere breath away, in this standalone dystopian epic from the author of the modern fantasy classic Jade City. Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend must come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow—to walk out into the frozen wasteland of their planet with her head held high and her family enriched by her death. But when she’s offered a final mission, she can’t refuse, especially when she realizes who lies at the center of it all: Martim, her last—and worst—apprentice, who’s somehow made his way to the top. As she’s thrust into a world of corporate espionage and shadowy secrets, what she uncovers could forever change humanity’s existence among the stars. The Last Contract of Isako is epic science fiction like only Fonda Lee can write it—set in a world where money trumps loyalty, the elite have the power to extend life or end it, and one woman in the twilight of her calling must decide what’s ultimately worth living—or dying—for.

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The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin

A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes. The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.

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Victorian Psycho

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Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0

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Well, that was a story. I never really knew what was happening and I’m pretty sure that was intentional. A great book if you love gore and a female character that is certifiably insane. Short little read, sometimes the descriptions went a little overboard and there wasn’t really any character development whatsoever. The writing was pretty though, the author definitely achieved the gothic aesthetic. Drusilla surprised me, but because it’s in Winifred’s POV I’ll never really understand why she made the decisions she did. This is labeled as horror but I’d argue it could be read as a dark comedy, Winifred is actually really funny sometimes. I know it’s being made into a movie but I’m curious how successfully it’ll be adapted, there are certain things in there I’m almost positive a movie couldn’t get away with without an X rating.

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Victorian Psycho

Virginia Feito

From the devious author of Mrs. March comes a gruesome and gleeful new novel that probes the psyche of a bloodthirsty governess. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines, and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan. Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past. When her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning, Winifred is finally ready to deliver on her generous gifts. Wielding her signature sardonic wit and a penchant for the gorgeously macabre, Virginia Feito returns with a vengeance in Victorian Psycho.

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