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Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine

One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn (One Piece, #1)

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A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner (Thinking Historically)

Steven Bednarski

This is the story of Margarida de Portu, a fourteenth-century French medieval woman accused of poisoning her husband to death. As Bednarski points out, the story is important not so much for what it tells us about Margarida but for how it illuminates a past world. Through the depositions and accusations made in court, the reader learns much about medieval women, female agency, kin networks, solidarity, sex, sickness, medicine, and law. Unlike most histories, this book does not remove the author from the analysis. Rather, it lays bare the working methods of the historian. Throughout his tale, Bednarski skillfully weaves a second narrative about how historians "do" history, highlighting the rewards and pitfalls of working with primary sources. The book opens with a chapter on microhistory as a genre and explains its strengths, weaknesses, and inherent risks. Next is a narrative of Margarida's criminal trial, followed by chapters on the civil suits and appeal and Margarida's eventual fate. The book features a rough copy of a court notary, a notorial act, and a sample of a criminal inquest record in the original Latin. A timeline of Margarida's life, list of characters, and two family trees provide useful information on key people in the story. A map of late medieval Manosque is also provided.

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A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner (Thinking Historically)

Steven Bednarski

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May 12, 2026

1.0

Enjoyment: 0.5Quality: 1.0Characters: 1.0Plot: 1.5

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i tried the audiobook, i tried the ebook, now i want to try a gun.... shoot me i've read a third of the book and i've skimmed the rest. I just found the characters SO ANNOYING and performative (ironically lmao). i just can't with monster smut recently, they have gotten me through tough time but i think it's time for me to say goodbye (after i finish the quest.....only 5 more books 🫠)

I don't even think the book was that bad :( I'm just so burnout and tired of the genre that all my experiences with monster romance/smut are negative :(((

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May 12, 2026

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I don't even think the book was that bad :( I'm just so burnout and tired of the genre that all my experiences with monster romance/smut are negative :(((

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Titan (Romancing His Stone, #1)

Jillian Graves

Living, breathing gargoyles shouldn’t exist. Julianna should be running for the door. But the way he looks at her… and touches her… awakens new desires. When former child star Julianna Novak loses everything to her shady managers, she’ll do whatever it takes to win her independence back, even if it means rushing to find a new sugar daddy. When Titan, a wealthy businessman, makes her an offer she can’t refuse, she soon realizes he may not be what he seems. His curved horns, massive wings, and ribbed prehensile tail are, however, more than she ever bargained for. Leader of the last surviving gargoyles, Titan knows what desperation looks like, and he recognizes it in Julianna. The heavy weight she carries is one he’s able to bear—and one he finds he wants to. Julianna needs a Daddy, and Titan is ready to be the firm hand—and more—she needs. When his missing supernatural artifact and her financial troubles unexpectedly align, Titan and Julianna find that a single night together won’t be enough. Confronted by old enemies, the diverging paths they once followed may no longer be the destiny their hearts desire.

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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

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May 11, 2026

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guys.....according to this author.....women......have BREASTS!!!! blade runner (i need to stop reading male authors)

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May 11, 2026

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guys.....according to this author.....women......have BREASTS!!!! blade runner (i need to stop reading male authors)

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner)

Philip K. Dick

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner)

Philip K. Dick

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In the Weeds (Lovelight, #2)

B.K. Borison

Evelyn St. James isn’t the kind of woman you forget. Beckett Porter certainly hasn’t. One incredible weekend in Maine, and he’s officially a man distracted. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh. Her hand pressed flat against his chest. Her smiling mouth at his neck. Also, her eyes. And her legs. So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he is … confused. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global phenomenon: social media influencer Evelyn St. James. When she disappears again, Beckett resolves to finally forget her and move on. But Evelyn St. James has a problem. Feeling disconnected from her work and increasingly unhappy, she’s trying to find her way back to something real. She returns to the last place she was happy, Lovelight Farms and the tiny town of Inglewild. It has absolutely nothing to do with the hot farmer she spent two incredible nights with. Nothing at all. In The Weeds is a sweet and steamy second-chance romance about finding your happiness. It features a grumpy farmer, a no-nonsense social media influencer, a small town of busybodies, and four very cute kittens. In The Weeds is a standalone romance and is part of the Lovelight series.

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Mar 08, 2026

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the emojis are @maomi 's idea and i love it so much, it's soo funny 😭

me after finishing this book: freedom honestly not the worst monster smut i've read but it definitely had a LOT of issues. I would have been way more understanding if this was a debut, but it wasn't. The author has published at least 3 books before this one...... I think @maomi did a really good review on this, so pls read it! She explains more eloquently than I do here :) My biggest issue was definitely the dialogue/language of the characters. This is something I struggle a lot in books in general, I really hate cringe interactions, and awkward writing. (I do think this is a bit of a generational thing. Slang and casual language changes so much between each generation, that what I find normal when talking, can definitely be seen as cringe to millenniums and vice-versa.) I also didn't really understand the context of the book, was it in a dystopian present/future, in a historical setting, idk.... (UPDATE: I made a forum post about this and @ohsunnyaa explained the context SO well! i definitely encourage people who were confused like me to check that out :) also, this was WAYYY too long, 500+ pages is craaazy. There was also a lot of things that contradicted themselves or didn't make sense, and it made the story unpleasant to me.

ps.: i just said also four times in a row......i swear i usually write better than this! [insert rant on me putting the blame on the book for my own lazy writing]

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May 11, 2026

4.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

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the audiobook i listen to was so engaging i stayed up till 2am to finish it. I now have a headache, tears in my eyes, and a lot of hope for the future. I don't think this book was perfect but it did give me hope and boosted my will to join more protests.

I pray and fight with the people of Iran.

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The Lion Women of Tehran

Marjan Kamali

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.” But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives. Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences. Written with Marjan Kamali’s signature “evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful” (Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light) prose, The Lion Women of Tehran is a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, and the way love and courage transforms our lives.

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The Lion Women of Tehran

Marjan Kamali

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Thoughts from 0% (page 1) - CONTENT WARNING

Content warnings for this book according to Storygraph and my reading experience! I'm currently only half way through the book, so I don't know the actual intensity of some of these, and some might be wrong or not detailed enough. If any are missing or in the wrong category, please comment and i'll add details. I wanted to do this considering the upcoming summer readalong :)

The content is separated in GRAPHIC, MODERATE, and MINOR, where some have more detail on the content in parentheses. I tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible, but some of the details are spoiler-ish.

UPDATE: I finished the book! I tried my best with the content warning details, but some are still missing or inaccurate, so I would appreciate any help! I'm also not 100% sure for some of the content's category. I'm hesitating between Graphic, Moderate and Minor for some of these so I would love everyone's opinion :)

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Classism (One of the main themes of the story. Main character acts classicist and entitled sometimes.) Death (Death of a important side character. Mentions of mass murders and deaths.) Muder (Mass murder of civilians in a fire. Description of REAL LIFE EVENT Cinema Rex Fire.) Rape (Main character raped. Not described in details. I'm not sure if this could be considered graphic or only moderate/mentioned, so I would appreciate any help.) Religious bigotry (Implementation of religious government and forced religion onto characters.) Sexism (One of the main themes of the story. Scenes where the characters are victims of it.) Torture (Psychological torture in prison. Sexual torture alluded to only.) Violence (Sexual, physical, verbal violence suffered by the main characters and sometimes done by main characters.) War (War with Iraq. Bombing. Sirens. Rumbles.)

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Alcohol (Drinking. Underage drinking.) Child marriage (Teenager marries right after graduation to an older man. Mention of legalized marriage to children as young as 9 years old.) Death of parent (Mention of by side character dead parents. Death of a parent of a main character in the book's timeline.) Fire/Fire Injury (Mention of a premeditated fire that kills several people. Actual REAL LIFE EVENT of Cinema Rex Fire.) Grief (Death of a husband, friend, father.) Incarceration (Main character incarcerated for political activism. Mentions of parent incarcerated for political activism.) Infertility (Main character struggling with it.) Miscarriage (I don't remember how/when/in what context, it was presented in the book, so I would appreciate any help!) Police brutality (Kidnapping by secret police. Fast scene. Mentions of the morality police.) Sexual assault (Alluded to/Mentionned sexual assault in prison to torture main character.) Sexual violence (Alluded to/Mentionned sexual violence in prison to torture main character.)