rissdoesstuff
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The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
Samira Mehta
An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgroundsIn this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, scholar and essayist Samira Mehta reflects on many facets of being multiracial.Born to a white American and a South Asian immigrant, Mehta grew up feeling more comfortable with her mother’s family than with her father’s—they never carried on conversations in languages that she couldn’t understand or blamed her for finding the food was too spicy. But in adulthood, she realized that some of her Indian family’s assumptions about the world had become an indelible part of her.From this vantage point, Mehta tackles several topics in 7 essays around mixed-race identity:· Where Are You Really From? A Triptych· The Racism of People Who Love You
· Failing the Authenticity Test· Meat Is Murder· Mentorship· Assimilation· Another Face of American RacismPopular belief assumes that mixedness gives you the ability to feel at home in more than one culture, but the flipside shows you can feel just as alienated in those spaces.The Racism of People Who Love You lays bare the pain and the love, the blending of practices, assumptions, and the creation of a culture of hybrid identity.
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The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
Samira Mehta
An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgroundsIn this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, scholar and essayist Samira Mehta reflects on many facets of being multiracial.Born to a white American and a South Asian immigrant, Mehta grew up feeling more comfortable with her mother’s family than with her father’s—they never carried on conversations in languages that she couldn’t understand or blamed her for finding the food was too spicy. But in adulthood, she realized that some of her Indian family’s assumptions about the world had become an indelible part of her.From this vantage point, Mehta tackles several topics in 7 essays around mixed-race identity:· Where Are You Really From? A Triptych· The Racism of People Who Love You
· Failing the Authenticity Test· Meat Is Murder· Mentorship· Assimilation· Another Face of American RacismPopular belief assumes that mixedness gives you the ability to feel at home in more than one culture, but the flipside shows you can feel just as alienated in those spaces.The Racism of People Who Love You lays bare the pain and the love, the blending of practices, assumptions, and the creation of a culture of hybrid identity.
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Seasons of Desire
C.C. Gedling
The Desire Genie is a sexy, tattooed Dom with a gift for uncovering your deepest desires. At his club, all your wishes will come true.An introduction to bondage by the Master of Pain.A spooky threesome with your husband and a masked Dom.Secret Santa gifting you a night with two men in red.A chase through the woods with two masked Doms.Or be the guest at a kinky midsummer garden party on the lawn.Find all that and more in Seasons of Desire, a six-part collection of short stories with the Desire Genie in charge. He’ll guide your filthy journey through the seasons, and all you’ll need to say is, “Yes, Sir!”
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I really really wanted to love this but it was just good. Not great. Not spectacular. Things I think went well: Covering the two viruses that spread rapidly during the 2020 pandemic. The first being Covid-19, the second being loud, violent white supremacy. The fact that those of East Asian descent are lumped together as "Bat-Eaters" regardless of them being Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese etc The nuances between being biracial, ABC, and being born in mainland China and how those of Chinese descent embrace their culture and how they view others of the Chinese diaspora. Now the things I think could have gone better: The hungry ghosts plotline and the serial murder plot seemed very disconnected. While they were happening simultaneously they weren't really connected until the last 10% of the book so it made it hard to stay engaged to the point I questioned a DNF most of the time. Mentioning things in passing that were never brought up again. I ended the book with a lot of unanswered questions particularly surrounding Harvey's past and Cora's mental health issues. Overall I do not regret spending my time reading this as it is important to me to hear other stories surrounding marginalized communities and their experiences but I do think the story itself could have been better.
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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic.
Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train.
Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater.
So the bloody messes don’t really bother Cora—she’s more bothered by the germs on the subway railing, the bare hands of a stranger, the hidden viruses in every corner, and the bites marks on her coffee table. Of course, ever since Delilah was killed in front of her, Cora can’t be sure what's real and what’s in her head.
She pushes away all feelings and ignores the advice of her aunt to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. But she can't ignore the dread in her stomach as she keeps finding bat carcasses at crime scenes, or the scary fact that all her recent cleanups have been the bodies of East Asian women.
As Cora will soon learn, you can’t just ignore hungry ghosts.
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Outdrawn
Deanna Grey
It isn’t always lonely at the top.
Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way to the top of the charts with her webcomic, she’s garnered enough attention to earn a full-time position at a comic company re-launching their cult classic comic: Queen Leisah.
Queen Leisah is predicted to be an instant bestseller with movie deals already in the making. Things are falling into place. There’s nowhere to go but up…as soon as she gets one person out of her way.
Sage Montgomery has always been the best artist in every building she’s stepped foot in. Raw talent’s gotten her webcomic to the top of the charts every month for the past eight years. She’s been the best for as long as she can remember. Sure, her career has plateaued but that can be fixed with a big, mainstream comic.
She was promised full creative control over Leisah. Instead, she got a shared credit with the one artist who’s been breathing down her neck since college. The one artist who has a fighting chance of being better than her. Sage and Noah have to work as a team — or, at least appear to work as a team. They thought the hardest part of the relaunch would be drawing together. But that’s easy in comparison to resisting their feelings for each other.
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Lois Lowry
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
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Lights Out
Navessa Allen
The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?
I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.
Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.
I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.
Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.
Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.
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Lights Out
Navessa Allen
The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?
I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.
Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.
I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.
Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.
Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.
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Matcha Made in Heaven Vol. 10
Umebachi Yamanaka
The national temomi-cha processing competition has finally begun! Jin and Yabuki are running late because Futaba suddenly falls ill, leaving Isshin to struggle on his own. Chako earnestly asks the chairman and gets permission to join the competition as a last-minute participant to support Isshin, who has an injured arm. However, Hananoki-en is disqualified from the evaluation because Chako isn't an official team member. Despite this, Isshin and Chako continue to work hard on making temomi-cha… How will the competition with Roa turn out?! And can they keep their lie about the lucky couple?! It's the climax of the national competition episode! Also, Chako finds herself in a tight spot when Isshin's xxx appears!!
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Seasons of Desire
C.C. Gedling
The Desire Genie is a sexy, tattooed Dom with a gift for uncovering your deepest desires. At his club, all your wishes will come true.An introduction to bondage by the Master of Pain.A spooky threesome with your husband and a masked Dom.Secret Santa gifting you a night with two men in red.A chase through the woods with two masked Doms.Or be the guest at a kinky midsummer garden party on the lawn.Find all that and more in Seasons of Desire, a six-part collection of short stories with the Desire Genie in charge. He’ll guide your filthy journey through the seasons, and all you’ll need to say is, “Yes, Sir!”
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Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1)
Katee Robert
Sail the magical high seas with this first book in a new sexy fantasy romance series from Katee Robert, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash-hit Neon Gods.
Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she’s fished out of the waters by a band of seafarers and their telekinetic captain. She’s immediately given a choice—join their group or die.
Bowen has no memory of his life before he became one of the Cŵn Annwn. He and his pirate crew are bound by vow to patrol through Threshold, the magical sea in between realms, keeping the portals to other worlds safe. When he rescues Evelyn, he doesn’t expect to be attracted to the unflappably brassy pickpocket. The longer he spends in her presence, the more he begins to question if his heart is the next thing she’ll steal.
But as tension heats up between Bowen and Evelyn, danger escalates as well. Because Evelyn has no intention of keeping her vows to the Cŵn Annwn, and if she betrays the crew, both she and Bowen will pay the ultimate price....
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Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1)
Katee Robert
Sail the magical high seas with this first book in a new sexy fantasy romance series from Katee Robert, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash-hit Neon Gods.
Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she’s fished out of the waters by a band of seafarers and their telekinetic captain. She’s immediately given a choice—join their group or die.
Bowen has no memory of his life before he became one of the Cŵn Annwn. He and his pirate crew are bound by vow to patrol through Threshold, the magical sea in between realms, keeping the portals to other worlds safe. When he rescues Evelyn, he doesn’t expect to be attracted to the unflappably brassy pickpocket. The longer he spends in her presence, the more he begins to question if his heart is the next thing she’ll steal.
But as tension heats up between Bowen and Evelyn, danger escalates as well. Because Evelyn has no intention of keeping her vows to the Cŵn Annwn, and if she betrays the crew, both she and Bowen will pay the ultimate price....
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Every Holly Wilde book I read makes me question why I continue to read them, but they're literally so hysterical I can't help it. This one kinda made me want to bleach my eyes though. Egg puns on point though.
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This is not a serious book. It's absolutely unhinged, and filled with terrible penis jokes. It's not particularly well written but I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it was hilarious.
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I didn't find any of the characters particularly enjoyable and the character development was minimal. I would say I enjoyed Marta's story the most. I just couldn't get myself to really care about Linda and Celia.
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Womb City
Tlotlo Tsamaase
WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which begs the question: how far must one go to destroy the structures of inequality upon which a society was founded? How far must a mother go to save the life of her child?
Nelah seems to have it all: wealth, fame, a husband, and a child on the way. But in a body her husband controls via microchip and the tailspin of a loveless marriage, her hopes and dreams come to a devastating halt. A drug-fueled night of celebration ends in a hit-and-run. To dodge a sentencing in a society that favors men, Nelah and her side-piece, Janith Koshal, finish the victim off and bury the body.
But the secret claws its way into Nelah's life from the grave. As her victim's vengeful ghost begins exacting a bloody revenge on everyone Nelah holds dear, she'll have to unravel her society's terrible secrets to stop those in power, and become a monster unlike any other to quench the ghost's violent thirst.
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It Is Wood, It Is Stone
Gabriella Burnham
With sharp, gorgeous prose, It Is Wood, It Is Stone takes place over the course of a year in São Paulo, Brazil, in which two women’s lives intersect.
Linda, an anxious and restless American, has moved to São Paulo, with her husband, Dennis, who has accepted a yearlong professorship. As Dennis submerges himself in his work, Linda finds herself unmoored and adrift, feeling increasingly disassociated from her own body. Linda’s unwavering and skilled maid, Marta, has more claim to Linda’s home than Linda can fathom. Marta, who is struggling to make sense of complicated history and its racial tensions, is exasperated by Linda’s instability. One day, Linda leaves home with a charismatic and beguiling artist, whom she joins on a fervent adventure that causes reverberations felt by everyone, and ultimately binds Marta and Linda in a profoundly human, and tender, way.
An exquisite debut novel by young Brazilian American author Gabriella Burnham, It Is Wood, It Is Stone is about women whose romantic and subversive entanglements reflect on class and colorism, sexuality, and complex, divisive histories.
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