thesaucecat

Just an autistic 30-year-old hanging out with my cat

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

52%

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

15%

85%

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

33%

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

85%

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Ministaxx

Fiction of Hitler

I heard ages ago that there was a piece of sci-fi fiction about Hitler. The premise was similar to Orphan Black. Hitler was cloned, and the people who did it watched over them.

Apparently, Hitler only became horrific based on the upbringing he had within this book.

I just tried to find it, but when you search up Hitler Sci-fi, you only really get Iron Dream, and Hitler Fiction comes up with things like Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

I'm not even sure if this is a real thing at this point; if it was a fever dream, someone misremembering or imagining if Orphan Black was about Hitler (though I feel like I heard about it before Orphan Black).

If anyone knows anything, I'd be grateful. As long as it's not some pro-fascism propaganda, I kinda wanna find it and read it (if it even exists, aha)

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Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel

Ilan Pappé

Even before he wrote his bestselling book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine , historian Ilan Pappe was a controversial figure in Israel. In Out of the Frame , he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Here he traces his journey of discovery from the whispers of Palestinian classmates to his realisation that the 'enemy's' narrative of the events of 1948 was correct. After completing his thesis at Oxford University in the early 1980s, he returned to Palestine determined to protect the memory of the Nakbah. For the first time he gives the details of the formidable opposition he faced in Israel, including death threats fed by the media, denunciations by the Knesset and calls for him to be sacked from his post at Haifa university. This revealing work, written with dignity and humour, highlights Israel's difficulty in facing up to its past and forging a peaceful, inclusive future in Palestine.

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Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel

Ilan Pappé

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

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notyetread

History Book Recs

Hi everyone!

I’m getting reallllll nervous watching AI companies chop up our books and destroy them, and I’m worried we’re entering a new era of book burning and mass censorship. I’ve never been into nonfiction, but I want to preserve our knowledge before they put it behind a paywall or distort it.

Do any of you have history book recommendations? I am open to anything that hasn’t been turned into a propaganda tool by the right. Open to US history or world history & interested in women’s history as well.

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

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I’m Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

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I’m Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I’m Glad My Mom Died , Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

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justagoose

How do you sort your bookshelf?

I've been giving a lot of thought to the best way to sort my bookshelf and I'm curious, how do other people set theirs up?

Right now I have separated my books by format and then alphabetically by author. Separated by hard covers, paperbacks and mass market paper backs. I have my hardcovers on a riser and the mass market paperbacks go in front because they're short.

Also opinions on stacks? If I have a bunch of books by one author, in the same format I turn them on their side and stack them to save space

I've done other set ups in the past, I've organized by genre and then by author and I've even organized by height

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

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Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

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Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

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bookwyrm25

Yikes - Audiobook

Starting the audiobook because of a reading slump... those who've read the audiobook... does it get better or does the narrator make this story absolutely impossible to listen to?

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