scruffyket

ash | 32 | 🇸🇬 🏳️‍🌈 | songsforafuturepoet @ IG & substack. my current interests are grief, gender, violence, intimate labour, critical feminism, philosophy, scifi, politics, and climate

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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Dead Space

Kali Wallace

An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day.Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer maximize its profits. She's surprised to hear from an old friend and fellow victim of the terrorist attack that ruined her life—and that surprise quickly turns to suspicion when he claims to have discovered something shocking about their shared history and the tragedy that neither of them can leave behind.Before Hester can learn more, her friend is violently murdered at a remote asteroid mine. Hester joins the investigation to find the truth, both about her friend's death and the information he believed he had uncovered. But catching a killer is only the beginning of Hester's worries, and she soon realizes that everything she learns about her friend, his fellow miners, and the outpost they call home brings her closer to revealing secrets that very powerful and very dangerous people would rather keep hidden in the depths of space.

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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)

Donna J. Haraway

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.

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Ten Myths About Israel

Ilan Pappé

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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Judith Lewis Herman

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Ten Myths About Israel

Ilan Pappé

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman ) In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. The “ten myths” that Pappe explores—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, accepted without question by the world’s governments—reinforce the regional status quo. He explores the claim that Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration, as well as the formation of Zionism and its role in the early decades of nation building. He asks whether the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948, and whether June 1967 was a war of “no choice.” Turning to the myths surrounding the failures of the Camp David Accords and the official reasons for the attacks on Gaza, Pappe explains why the two-state solution is no longer viable.

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non fic recs please!

In 2025, I unexpectedly read a few non fictions and found that I really enjoyed just listening to a chapter or two while I made my breakfast in the morning, so I want to hear all about your favourites! I am particularly looking for a non fic on AI, but I will take any and all recommendations!

here are all of the non fiction books i read in 2025 and what i rated them

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist's Guide to a Happy Life by Dick Van Dyke ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire by Ashley Spencer ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The only other notable non-fiction I can remember reading in the past is Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, which I rated ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and would definitely read again.

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family epics

by scruffyket

20 books

epics or sagas around the family, intergenerational or otherwise. think complex, layered relationships, conflict spanning decades, familial trauma, and great love stories

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Strange Spiritual Extasis

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13 books

Mainly non fiction and women

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Maps of Flesh and Light: The Religious Experience of Medieval Women Mystics

Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture (Explorations in Medieval Culture, 1)

Ecstasy: A Devotional Guide to the Female Mystics

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Nimona

N.D. Stevenson

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic." Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel is perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and is sure to win Noelle many new ones. Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are. But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.

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south asian memoirs

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memoirs, anthologies, or essays from or about south asia or south asians

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The Sadness of Geography: My Life as a Tamil Exile

Ants among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

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spacekitty1

Newbie

Hi. Happy new year. I'm new here. I tried goodreads and didn't like it so here's to the future. Happy reading

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celinewyp

Note-taking While Reading

Do you do it? Does it help you remember details? Do you go for paper or record thoughts digitally?

I'm thinking it might help me with reading series (I have an awful memory) but my issue is that I'm not sure what would be important to me to note down in the moment. Do you have any advice for this?

TIA!

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how many books do you read at a time?

i used to read 2 books at a time, depending on my mood. one heavy, and one causal/cosy. but recently i’ve been struggling with that. when i do that i tend to forget about one book and focus on the other. so now i just stick to one. but i see some people can read multiple books at a time! i’m just curious, why/how you do this?

like i’m reading the city of brass and i am loving it so far, but i am also tempted to start reading mistborn too after hearing all about it so i bought it 😅 this addiction is real!

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anarchistghost

Thoughts from 22% (page 122)

It’s taken me three months to get through 122 pages HELP

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rootbeer

Dec 31, 2025

1.5

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

A miraculous feat to have pictures somehow convey less information than words

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Black Box

Shiori Itō

The internationally recognized sexual assault memoir that revolutionized a feminist movement around rape, stigma, and silence in Japan. In 2015, an aspiring young journalist named Shiori Ito charged prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi with rape. After meeting up for drinks and networking, Ito remembers regaining consciousness in a hotel room whilst being assaulted. But when she went to the police, Ito was told that her case was a "black box"—untouchable and unprosecutable. Upon publication in 2017, Ito’s searing account foregrounded the #MeToo movement in Japan and became the center of an urgent cultural and legal shift around recognizing sexual assault and gender-based violence. As international outlets covered every step of her story—even documenting it in the BBC film Japan’s Secret Shame—this book launched a societal reckoning. At the end of 2019, Ito won a civil case against Yamaguchi. With careful and quiet fury, Black Box recounts a broken system of repression and violence—but it also heralds the beginning of a new solidarity movement seeking a more equitable path toward justice.

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nightswim

Sep 22, 2025

5.0

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

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So short yet so brilliant.

EDIT: After a reread, I am still unwinding the threads of this novella. Something repeated by characters is that it is better to say nothing than to say something and be a fool. This haunts the narrative with the things that are in plain sight but going unsaid. The innocence of childhood is portrayed beautifully and the happiness is so short-lived yet profound.

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ClumsyWithWords

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I love this woman’s writing by style so much! It feels laser-sharp with its delivery, very minimal and focused, yet somehow descriptive at the same time.

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