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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Eileen
The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)
The Trial
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Celebrating the Stitch: Contemporary Embroidery of North America
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Mr. X
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The Cook
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Saint Sebastian's Abyss
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
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  • The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
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  • Sky Daddy
    Books with similar voice/main character?

    I think I was only 10% of the way when when I slammed into my groupchat and told everyone they NEED to read this book.

    I adore her inner voice, how she's so factual and wordy and awkward, kind of observing things and stating them as though it's perfectly normal and not like she's saying the most unhinged shit. (like the thing about helicopters having the souls of mischievous children - girl what.)

    Does anyone else have recs that are similar in this kind of way? I love an unhinged woman, especially when it's not the typical "murder" way just, a little off, a little odd and awkward, making you cringe and go PLEASE GIRL PLEASE OH MY GOD I'M SO SCARED FOR YOU. Especially if it's first person so we hear her thoughts firsthand.

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  • Sky Daddy
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    After reading a bit I wanted to enjoy it with my gf who also loves planes and borrowed an audiobook copy as well. We kept joking this had the feeling of Chuck Tingle tinglers only for her to google it and find out it’s partly inspired by the tingler “I’m Gay for My Living Billionaire Jet Plane.”This book so far feels like Chuck Tingle ghost wrote it and I mean that as a compliment because that was everything I could ask for from this book. Can’t wait to see where it goes because what are they going to do for 300 pages‽

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  • Adult Accelerated Reading Prizes

    I saw someone on TikTok say that after every 5 books they read they're treating themselves to a personal size pizza and you know what.....hell yeah. I think they've got the right idea 😅

    Ngl I also wish I could be given quizzes about my books again sometimes just for fun

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    The Beheading Game: A Novel

    The Beheading Game: A Novel

    Rebecca Lehmann

    Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . .We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?“Nobody was surprised at Anne’s conviction. The world loves to put a woman in her place.”The Beheading Game begins in the hours after Anne Boleyn’s beheading, when she wakes to find herself unceremoniously in an arrow chest, her head wrapped in linen at her knees. Discarded by King Henry VIII for not being able to give him a male heir, reviled by Cromwell for being too smart for her own good, and executed based on trumped-up charges, Anne escapes the tower, sews her head back on, and sets out on a quest for vengeance.Traveling in the guise of a commoner, with the help of a prostitute, Anne navigates the London streets she never before walked and soon realizes how little she knew about life in the real world. If Kelly Link had teamed up with Hilary Mantel, the result might be The Beheading Game. An epic journey through the wilds of British royal history and a prescient reminder that “mouthy” women have always been punished, The Beheading Game finally allows one of history’s most maligned women a chance to tell her side of the story.

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    Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

    Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

    Katherine May

    An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season.

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