em :)'s bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:18:33 -0700 60 em :)'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 388848 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet, en cinq actes en prose.

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme nous raconte l'histoire comique d'un riche bourgeois qui essaye d'imiter la façon de vivre et le comportement des nobles.]]> 192 ˛Ń´Ç±ôľ±Ă¨°ů±đ 2011679613 em :) 0 3.15 1670 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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]]> <![CDATA[Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)]]> 49432728
� Enjoy a drunken night out.
� Ride a motorbike.
� Go camping.
� Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
� Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
� And... do something bad.

But it's not easy being bad, even when you've written out step-by-step guidelines. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job: Redford 'Red' Morgan.

With tattoos and a motorbike, Red is the perfect helper in her mission to rebel, but as they spend more time together, Chloe realises there's much more to him than his tough exterior implies. Soon she's left wanting more from him than she ever expected . . . maybe there's more to life than her list ever imagined?]]> 284 Talia Hibbert 0349425205 em :) 2 something with red was so off?? i just had a really hard time liking his character it was just weird]]> 3.84 2019 Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
author: Talia Hibbert
name: em :)
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2021/09/05
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just,,no. i had high expectations for this but it really wasn’t for me
something with red was so off?? i just had a really hard time liking his character it was just weird
]]> A Little Life 29408433 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship� (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST � MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST � WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE �

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.]]> 723 Hanya Yanagihara 1447294831 em :) 0 4.36 2015 A Little Life
author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: em :)
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Raybearer (Raybearer, #1) 50634348 Nothing is more important than loyalty.

But what if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy?

Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the Crown Prince’s Council of 11. If she’s picked, she’ll be joined with the other Council members through the Ray, a bond deeper than blood. That closeness is irresistible to Tarisai, who has always wanted to belong somewhere. But The Lady has other ideas, including a magical wish that Tarisai is compelled to obey: Kill the Crown Prince once she gains his trust. Tarisai won’t stand by and become someone’s pawn—but is she strong enough to choose a different path for herself?

With extraordinary world-building and breathtaking prose, Raybearer is the story of loyalty, fate, and the lengths we’re willing to go for the ones we love.]]> 496 Jordan Ifueko 1471409279 em :) 0 to-read, gotcha 4.23 2020 Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)
author: Jordan Ifueko
name: em :)
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> Lou! Sonata 2 93405033 144 Julien Neel 2344049746 em :) 0 4.22 Lou! Sonata 2
author: Julien Neel
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> Milk Fed 54304105 The Pisces and So Sad Today.

Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.

Early in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam—by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family—and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche—both sacred and profane.]]> 304 Melissa Broder 1982142499 em :) 3 3.56 2021 Milk Fed
author: Melissa Broder
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average rating: 3.56
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rating: 3
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]]> 47 Cordes - Première partie 59558237
Caractéristiques :
- Couverture originale
- Dossier de 16 pages dont 8 pages de création BD
- Tirage limité à 600 exemplaires
- Frontispice signé et numéroté à 600 exemplaires

Résumé :
Un jour, une métamorphe tombe amoureuse d’un jeune homme nommé Ambroise. Elle peut changer de forme à volonté, mais des questions finissent par la hanter : quel visage doit-elle incarner pour se faire aimer ? Qui doit-elle être pour conquérir sa proie ?

Inconscient de l’obsession dont il est l’objet, ignorant la vraie nature de la créature, Ambroise cherche à acquérir une légitimité au sein de l’orchestre qu’il vient d’intégrer en tant que harpiste. C’est alors qu’il rencontre Francesca Forabosco � cantatrice aussi excentrique que renommée � qui va le prendre sous son aile. Elle lui propose un marché. S’il veut obtenir la harpe de ses rêves, Ambroise devra relever 47 défis. Un seul échec, et l’instrument lui échappe...

47 Cordes est l’œuvre la plus dense et ambitieuse de Timothé Le Boucher. Conçue en deux parties, ce premier tome expose sur près de 400 pages un univers hypnotique, plein de tensions sensuelles et de personnages incarnés. Timothé Le Boucher construit une nouvelle fois un thriller psychologique singulier qui aborde l’obsession et le rapport à l’autre tout en évoquant les travaux de conteurs majeurs tels que Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Naoki Urasawa ou Suehiro Maruo...]]> 400 Timothé Le Boucher 234405233X em :) 4 4.22 2021 47 Cordes - Première partie
author: Timothé Le Boucher
name: em :)
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/13
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]]> Genderqueer - en selvbiografi 180565457
Med sin egen personlige historie som utgangspunkt, tar Kobabe oss med på en reise gjennom sin oppdagelse av sin egen kjønnsidentitet. Boken er et intimt og modig portrett av en kunstners kamp for å finne seg selv og akseptere sin egen unike identitet.

Genderqueer har blitt hyllet av kritikere og lesere over hele verden for sin åpenhet, ærlighet og sitt kraftfulle budskap. The Guardian beskrev boken som en viktig, smertefull og dypt personlig bok, mens Publisher's Weekly kalte den modig og rørende. For boken ble Kobabe tildelt Stonewall Book Award og Alex Award. Kobabe har også blitt nominert til flere prestisjetunge priser, inkludert Eisner-prisen og Lambda Literary Award.

Nå er Genderqueer endelig tilgjengelig på norsk, og det er en glede å kunne introdusere denne unike og viktige boken til et nytt publikum. Boken er en sterk påminnelse om at alle fortjener å bli elsket og akseptert for den de er, uansett kjønn eller identitet.

Genderqueer er en bok som vil berøre og inspirere deg, og som vil forandre måten du tenker om kjønn og identitet. En bok som er både gripende og viktig, og som vil bli stående som en klassiker innenfor tegneseriebøker.]]> 240 Maia Kobabe 8269248827 em :) 0 4.34 2019 Genderqueer - en selvbiografi
author: Maia Kobabe
name: em :)
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Love Lessons 164221
Sent to a real school for the first time, Prue struggles to fit in. The only person she can talk to is her kindly, young � and handsome � art teacher, Rax. They quickly bond, and Prue feels more and more drawn to him. As her feelings grow stronger, she begins to realise that he might feel the same way about her. But nothing could ever happen between them - could it?]]> 272 Jacqueline Wilson 0552553522 em :) 0 currently-reading 3.50 2005 Love Lessons
author: Jacqueline Wilson
name: em :)
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> ł˘&˛ą±č´Ç˛ő;´ˇ°ů°ů˛ął¦łó±đ-ł¦˛ŐłÜ°ů 50250295 221 Boris Vian 2253006629 em :) 0 3.49 1953 L'Arrache-cĹ“ur
author: Boris Vian
name: em :)
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1953
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]]> Kiss 511689
But as they become teenagers, things are starting to change. They each have different friends. Sylvie would still rather spend all her time with Carl. But Carl has a new friend, Paul, who is taking all his attention. And he seems much less happy to be called Sylvie’s boyfriend. And in a game of spin the bottle, he avoids having to kiss her. Sylvie can tell his feelings have changed and that her plans for the future may be affected. But can she guess at the true reasons behind it all? A moving, compelling and delicately handled treatment of sexuality from the Children’s Laureate.]]> 247 Jacqueline Wilson 0385610106 em :) 3 3.76 2006 Kiss
author: Jacqueline Wilson
name: em :)
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2023/07/23
date added: 2023/07/23
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]]> The Canterville Ghost 45685 126 Oscar Wilde em :) 3 3.90 1887 The Canterville Ghost
author: Oscar Wilde
name: em :)
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1887
rating: 3
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]]> The Alchemist 18144590 The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, following our dreams.]]> 182 Paulo Coelho 0062315005 em :) 4 4.01 1988 The Alchemist
author: Paulo Coelho
name: em :)
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive, #1)]]> 56898248 Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.

Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.

As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.

In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch—an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.]]> 354 Alison Cochrun 1982170719 em :) 4 queer Also was the end à set up for a lesbian version of this ??? Cause if so ]]> 4.11 2021 The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive, #1)
author: Alison Cochrun
name: em :)
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2023/02/03
date added: 2023/02/03
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Some aspects kinda gave me the ick but overall it was really nice
Also was the end Ă  set up for a lesbian version of this ??? Cause if so
]]> Ancient Greek History 101 45727381
All four gospels were composed in Greek. The empire Alexander conquered and the culture his followers conveyed became the Roman territories in which Christianity first spread. Ancient Greek philosophers, particularly Aristotle, bequeathed to Christian theology a framework and method that profoundly shaped Christian faith down through the ages.

Now, you are invited to join award-winning historian Christopher Bellitto on this gripping journey through centuries of Greek history.

Ancient Greek History 101 is one of the most vital topics in history, and its influence is undeniable on Western philosophy, theology, and civilization. However, we often talk about ancient Greece and without really being able to place it in place, time, and context. Now, you can discover the fascinating legacy of ancient Greece through entertaining and enlightening lectures.

You'll begin by exploring how ancient Greece fits on a broad canvas of world history, geography, and chronology viewed from a wide-angle lens. You will move forward in time, stopping often to explore closely important moments, topics, and themes. You will cover the most essential events in ancient Greece as you travel through centuries of history. Along the way, you will gain a level of understanding that will help you better understand the factors that have so influenced Christian theology, democracy, and civilization.

You don't want to miss this essential and expertly taught course.]]> Christopher M. Bellitto em :) 5 Now will I remember any of it is a whole separate thing but it was fun ]]> 4.12 Ancient Greek History 101
author: Christopher M. Bellitto
name: em :)
average rating: 4.12
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Highly recommend this was so much fun
Now will I remember any of it is a whole separate thing but it was fun
]]> Under the Whispering Door 53205888 Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.

And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.]]> 376 T.J. Klune 1250217342 em :) 4 *spoiler*
I think it would’ve been a lot more meaningful if Wallace had actually gone through the door while the others took on the new task of guiding lost souls through the door. It would’ve made a lot more sense and we could’ve had an epilogue where Hugo is finally reunited with Wallace when his time to go through the door came
But other than that I enjoyed it a lot]]> 4.11 2021 Under the Whispering Door
author: T.J. Klune
name: em :)
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2023/01/22
date added: 2023/01/22
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À poignant story. Kinda wish the ending hadn’t been that way
*spoiler*
I think it would’ve been a lot more meaningful if Wallace had actually gone through the door while the others took on the new task of guiding lost souls through the door. It would’ve made a lot more sense and we could’ve had an epilogue where Hugo is finally reunited with Wallace when his time to go through the door came
But other than that I enjoyed it a lot
]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose the Time War]]> 43352954 Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.]]> 209 Amal El-Mohtar em :) 5 faves, queer i can’t wait to read it again so i can appreciate it fully in a deeper way]]> 3.86 2019 This Is How You Lose the Time War
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: em :)
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2022/10/08
date added: 2023/01/19
shelves: faves, queer
review:
the way i BAWLED and underlined every other sentence because it was all so beautifully written, this made me believe in love all over again and i did not see that ending coming
i can’t wait to read it again so i can appreciate it fully in a deeper way
]]> She Gets the Girl 58437812 She’s All That meets What If It’s Us in this swoon-worthy hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick.

Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand…not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally in control, except for her complete awkwardness with just about anyone besides her mom. She knows she’s in love with the impossibly cool Cora Myers. She just…hasn’t actually talked to her yet.

Alex and Molly don’t belong on the same planet, let alone the same college campus. But when Alex, fresh off a bad (but hopefully not permanent) breakup, discovers Molly’s hidden crush as their paths cross the night before classes start, they realize they might have a common interest after all. Because maybe if Alex volunteers to help Molly learn how to get her dream girl to fall for her, she can prove to her ex that she’s not a selfish flirt. That she’s ready for an actual commitment. And while Alex is the last person Molly would ever think she could trust, she can’t deny Alex knows what she’s doing with girls, unlike her.

As the two embark on their five-step plans to get their girls to fall for them, though, they both begin to wonder if maybe they’re the ones falling…for each other.]]> 384 Rachael Lippincott 1534493794 em :) 4 queer 4.09 2022 She Gets the Girl
author: Rachael Lippincott
name: em :)
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/01/16
date added: 2023/01/16
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Quite wholesome, and I need a movie of this right now (I know it ressembles Crush but STILL)
]]> No One Is Talking About This 55881555
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?"

Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.

Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.]]> 210 Patricia Lockwood 1526629763 em :) 0 non-fiction, to-read 3.35 2021 No One Is Talking About This
author: Patricia Lockwood
name: em :)
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)]]> 54756850
Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her.
Ěý
When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all.
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Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. Though they’ve known each other for years, they don’t really know each other—so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. When they’re forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations—including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiancé—Claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist Delilah’s charms. Even worse, she’s starting to think she doesn’t want to...]]> 375 Ashley Herring Blake 0593336402 em :) 4 queer
Very cute yes but also very cliché and cheesy ]]> 4.06 2022 Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)
author: Ashley Herring Blake
name: em :)
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/01/14
date added: 2023/01/14
shelves: queer
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*3.75*

Very cute yes but also very cliché and cheesy
]]> Kiss Her Once for Me 60321485 The author of The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister.

One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money.

Finding work at a local coffee shop, she’s just getting through the days—until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. They make a plan to spend the holidays together at his family cabin to keep up the ruse. But when Andrew introduces his new fiancée to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it’s Jack—the mysterious woman she fell for over the course of one magical Christmas Eve the year before. Now, Ellie must choose between the safety of a fake relationship and the risk of something real.

Perfect for fans of Written in the Stars and One Day in December, Kiss Her Once for Me is the queer holiday rom-com that you’ll want to cozy up with next to the fire.]]> 368 Alison Cochrun 1982191139 em :) 0 to-read 3.83 2022 Kiss Her Once for Me
author: Alison Cochrun
name: em :)
average rating: 3.83
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]]> This Winter (Solitaire, #0.5) 27264289 A short story, based on characters from Solitaire â€� praised as â€The Catcher in the Rye for the digital ageâ€� â€� The Times

I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now �

I’m not going to think about the past few months, about Charlie and me, and all of the sad. I’m going to block it all out. Just for today.

"Happy Christmas," I say.

The festive season isn't always happy for Tori and her brother Charlie. And this year's going to be harder than most.]]> 120 Alice Oseman 0008147884 em :) 3 4.08 2015 This Winter (Solitaire, #0.5)
author: Alice Oseman
name: em :)
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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]]> Nick and Charlie 25793458
NICK: “Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films. Sit in the same room on different laptops. Text each other from different rooms. Make out. Make food. Make drinks. Get drunk. Talk. Argue. Laugh. Maybe we're kind of boring. But that’s fine with us.�

Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie are the perfect couple â€� that they’re inseparable. But now Nick is leaving for university, and Charlie will be left behind at Sixth Form. Everyone’s asking if they’re staying together, which is a stupid question â€� they’re â€Nick and Charlieâ€�, for God’s sake!

But as the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie question whether their love is strong enough to survive being apart. Or are they delaying the inevitable? Because everyone knows that first loves rarely last forever…]]> 120 Alice Oseman 0008147876 em :) 4 Cute 4.15 2015 Nick and Charlie
author: Alice Oseman
name: em :)
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2023/01/10
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Cute
]]> « Arrête avec tes mensonges » 33786141 194 Philippe Besson 2260029884 em :) 0 to-read 4.37 2017 « Arrête avec tes mensonges »
author: Philippe Besson
name: em :)
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n� roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 em :) 4 Most of the book was slow and just full of things that maybe didn’t have a lot of impact, I think you could easily fit this story in a 300 pages book
And I was gonna rate it 3 stars but the last 80 pages really did it for me
I also like the format of the writing a lot !

Tldr, my least favourite of TJR’s books so far, but still a good read]]> 4.20 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: em :)
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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*3.75*
Most of the book was slow and just full of things that maybe didn’t have a lot of impact, I think you could easily fit this story in a 300 pages book
And I was gonna rate it 3 stars but the last 80 pages really did it for me
I also like the format of the writing a lot !

Tldr, my least favourite of TJR’s books so far, but still a good read
]]> Nightcrawling 58537371
One night, what begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. Her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department.]]> 277 Leila Mottley 0593318935 em :) 0 to-read 3.95 2022 Nightcrawling
author: Leila Mottley
name: em :)
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2022
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]]> We Had to Remove This Post 58146427
Kayleigh needs money. That’s why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It’s grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing terms of service while a supervisor sits behind them, timing and scoring their assessments. Yet Kayleigh finds a group of friends, even a new love—and, somehow, the job starts to feel okay.

But when her colleagues begin to break down; when Sigrid, her new girlfriend, grows increasingly distant and fragile; when her friends start espousing the very conspiracy theories they’re meant to be evaluating; Kayleigh begins to wonder if the job may be too much for them. She’s still totally fine, though—or is she?]]> 136 Hanna Bervoets 0358622360 em :) 0 to-read 2.85 2021 We Had to Remove This Post
author: Hanna Bervoets
name: em :)
average rating: 2.85
book published: 2021
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]]> Bonjour tristesse 61672
La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. Cécile a dix-sept ans. Elle ne connaît de l'amour que des baisers, des rendez-vous, des lassitudes. Pas pour longtemps. Son père, veuf, est un adepte joyeux des liaisons passagères et sans importance. Ils s'amusent, ils n'ont besoin de personne, ils sont heureux. La visite d'une femme de cœur, intelligente et calme, vient troubler ce délicieux désordre. Comment écarter la menace ? Dans la pinède embrasée, un jeu cruel se prépare.
C'était l'été 1954. On entendait pour la première fois la voix sèche et rapide d'un « charmant petit monstre » qui allait faire scandale. la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle commençait. Elle serait à l'image de cette adolescente déchirée entre le remords et le culte du plaisir.

Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences.

Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.

The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.]]> 154 Françoise Sagan 2266127748 em :) 0 to-read 3.76 1954 Bonjour tristesse
author: Françoise Sagan
name: em :)
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1954
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]]> <![CDATA[Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth]]> 59941727
First-time lovers make mistakes; brothers and sisters try to forgive one another; and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true. Quiet revolutions happen in living rooms, on river banks, in packed pubs and empty churches, and years later we wonder why we ever did the things we did.

Set between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in Hearts and Bones , Niamh Mulvey's debut collection, look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that we’ve brought the old gods down. Witty, sharply observed and deeply moving, these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent.]]> 224 Niamh Mulvey 1529079918 em :) 0 to-read 3.45 Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth
author: Niamh Mulvey
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]]> The Marble Queen 57130693 The Marble Queen is a YA Fantasy graphic novel that’s the political drama of Nimona meets the heartfelt romance of The Prince and the Dressmaker, but this time in a sapphic romance surrounded by a mist of magic.

Princess Amelia’s kingdom, Marion, is in shambles after months of their trade routes being ravaged by pirates, and now the only seemingly option left is for her to save it through a marriage alliance. When she gets an exorbitant offer from the royalty of Iliad—a country shrouded in mystery—Amelia accepts without question and leaves her home to begin a new life.

But she lands on Iliad’s shores to find that her betrothed isn't the country’s prince, but the recently coronated Queen Salira.
�
Shocked, Amelia tries to make sense of her situation and her confused heart: Salira has awakened strange new feelings inside her, but something dark hides behind the Queen's sorrowful eyes. Amelia must fight the demons of her own anxiety disorder before she can tackle her wife's, all while war looms on the horizon.]]> 336 Anna Kopp 150672812X em :) 0 to-read 3.62 2024 The Marble Queen
author: Anna Kopp
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average rating: 3.62
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]]> Lesbian Love Story 56150014 For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love

When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world’s largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. But these stories rarely featured lesbians who could become her role models, in romance as in life.

This is the story of Possanza’s journey into the archives to recover the stories of lesbians in the 20th Century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, Possanza’s hunt takes readers from a Drag King show in Bushwick to the home of activists in Harlem and then across the ocean to Hadrian’s Library, where she searches for traces of Sappho in the ruins. Along the way, she discovers her own love—for swimming, for community, for New York City—and adds her own record to the archive.

At the heart of this riveting, inventive history, Possanza asks: How could lesbian love help us reimagine care and community? What would our world look like if we replaced its foundation of misogyny with something new, with something distinctly lesbian?]]> 288 Amelia Possanza 1646221052 em :) 0 to-read 3.78 2023 Lesbian Love Story
author: Amelia Possanza
name: em :)
average rating: 3.78
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]]> <![CDATA[The Missing Piece (The Missing Piece, #1)]]> 30122 From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment.

"It was missing a piece. And it was not happy."

What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told. This inventive and heartwarming fable can be read on many levels, and Silverstein’s iconic drawings and humor are sure to delight fans of all ages.

"So it set off in search
of its missing piece.
And as it rolled
it sang this song�
'Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
Hi-dee-ho, here I go,
Lookin' for my missin' piece."

And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns (2017), the new book from Shel Silverstein!]]> 112 Shel Silverstein 0060256710 em :) 5 4.28 1976 The Missing Piece (The Missing Piece, #1)
author: Shel Silverstein
name: em :)
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1976
rating: 5
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 169182 0099466732


'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.]]> 307 Harper Lee em :) 3 4.29 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
author: Harper Lee
name: em :)
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1960
rating: 3
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tell me WHY it took half of the book for a plot to start taking place and for things to be interesting
]]> Idylles (Lou!, #4) 2312554 48 Julien Neel 2723458695 em :) 5 faves such a comfort read 4.49 2007 Idylles (Lou!, #4)
author: Julien Neel
name: em :)
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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date added: 2022/11/06
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such a comfort read
]]> Homesick for Another World 32726388 A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time

"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris

Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel.

And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.]]> 283 Ottessa Moshfegh em :) 3 not my cup of tea 3.70 2017 Homesick for Another World
author: Ottessa Moshfegh
name: em :)
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2017
rating: 3
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not my cup of tea
]]> <![CDATA[Le Petit Guide De La Masturbation FĂ©minine: Au bout des doigts]]> 52943804
Le petit guide de la Masturbation Féminine, c’est quoi?
C’est un beau livre illustré que tu vas adorer ! Un peu plus de 100 pages à la faveur de l’extase féminine. C’est un cri d’amour, une ode à la sororité pour que chaque Femme puisse se réapproprier sa sexualité sans complexe. Avec les illustratrices @JouissanceClub & Gwladys Leroy.
Basé sur plus de 6000 témoignages. Nous partageons nos habitudes, nos techniques, nos doutes, nos histoires magiques� sur la masturbation féminine. Et vous savez quoi ? Nous avons de l’or au bout des doigts !
Libérer le sujet de la masturbation féminine c’est faire avancer le monde. Une femme qui se masturbe et se donne du plaisir sans culpabiliser est une femme libre.
C’est un livre pour toutes les Femmes, pour toutes les jeunes filles qui arrivent après nous et pour tous les Hommes qui nous aiment. Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui ont témoigné et participent au changement.
Déclarons ouverte la révolution du clitoris !
Un livre a offrir pour changer le monde !

"J’écris ce livre pour aider à libérer le sexe des Femmes, pour démocratiser la véritable anatomie du clitoris, pour que l’on ne parle plus à notre place, pour casser le mythe de l’orgasme vaginal, pour encourager toutes les Femmes à se masturber, pour ébranler l’érotisation de la Masturbation Féminine dans le porno, pour raconter un plaisir solitaire qui ne s’avoue pas, pour démolir les idées reçues sur la frigidité, pour que les Femmes se réapproprient leur Sexualité, pour balancer l’imposture de nos manuels scolaires, pour anéantir les carcans qui pèsent sur la sexualité des Femmes, pour broyer Freud et sa conception de l’orgasme féminin, pour déchiqueter les croyances phallocentrées, pour dénoncer l’existence de l’excision en Europe jusqu’en 1930, pour protéger les nouvelles générations de Femmes qui arrivent, pour aider à l’émancipation des Femmes, pour embrasser le rapport à notre propre corps, pour défendre la véritable histoire de notre plaisir intime, pour décomplexer toutes les vulves, pour populariser les recherches d’Odile Buisson et dénoncer l’énorme retard en médecine sexuelle féminine." Julia Pietri

]]> 0 Julia Pietri em :) 4 4.11 Le Petit Guide De La Masturbation FĂ©minine: Au bout des doigts
author: Julia Pietri
name: em :)
average rating: 4.11
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very informative and liberating
]]> <![CDATA[How to Make Friends with a Ghost]]> 33414849
A whimsical story about ghost care, Rebecca Green's debut picture book is a perfect combination of offbeat humor, quirky and sweet illustrations, and the timeless theme of friendship.]]> 40 Rebecca Green 1101919019 em :) 4 why was it this so adorable 4.32 2017 How to Make Friends with a Ghost
author: Rebecca Green
name: em :)
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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why was it this so adorable
]]> <![CDATA[Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men]]> 41104077
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women�, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.]]> 448 Caroline Criado Pérez 1419729071 em :) 3 and don’t get me started on the trans erasure and how cis centered this book is ]]> 4.35 2019 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
author: Caroline Criado PĂ©rez
name: em :)
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2022/10/10
date added: 2022/10/10
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this book is important and all, but there was way. too. much. data. and like i get that’s the whole point, to show how the world is fucked up for women and to back it up with data, but there was so much of it that it was literally drowning the point and making it so hard to read. i feel like there could’ve been a better way to write that book
and don’t get me started on the trans erasure and how cis centered this book is
]]> I'm Glad My Mom Died 60406379
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.]]> 7 Jennette McCurdy 1797147943 em :) 5 i dont even have the words 4.44 2022 I'm Glad My Mom Died
author: Jennette McCurdy
name: em :)
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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i dont even have the words
]]> How to Cure a Ghost: Poems 43908903
Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I , Fariha Róisín’s poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.]]> 160 Fariha Róisín 1419737562 em :) 3 3.5 3.56 2019 How to Cure a Ghost: Poems
author: Fariha RĂłisĂ­n
name: em :)
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2022/10/03
date added: 2022/10/03
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3.5
]]> Boy Parts 49083140
Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention�

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.]]> 304 Eliza Clark 1910312649 em :) 0 to-read 3.74 2020 Boy Parts
author: Eliza Clark
name: em :)
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[Last Night at the Telegraph Club]]> 35224992 A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare.

“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.� And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?�

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.]]> 409 Malinda Lo 0525555250 em :) 4 gotcha 4.21 2021 Last Night at the Telegraph Club
author: Malinda Lo
name: em :)
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2022/10/02
date added: 2022/10/02
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so so good, and heartfelt and raw
]]> Pride and Prejudice 15994711 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ...'

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.]]> 396 Jane Austen 0141199075 em :) 0 to-read, gotcha 4.30 1813 Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
name: em :)
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1813
rating: 0
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]]> Carrie Soto Is Back 60435878 Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.

By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.

But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.

At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.

In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.]]> 384 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0593158687 em :) 0 to-read 4.19 2022 Carrie Soto Is Back
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: em :)
average rating: 4.19
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]]> One Last Stop 54860443
But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train.

Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.

Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.]]> 418 Casey McQuiston 1250244498 em :) 3
so well done on the found family trope and the romance was really cute
but i felt like it dragged on for so long sometimes and i can’t really put my finger on it but something wasn’t clicking for me ]]> 3.90 2021 One Last Stop
author: Casey McQuiston
name: em :)
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/09/16
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3.75

so well done on the found family trope and the romance was really cute
but i felt like it dragged on for so long sometimes and i can’t really put my finger on it but something wasn’t clicking for me
]]> <![CDATA[Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)]]> 60224365 The latest novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following four new customers in a little Tokyo café where customers can travel back in time.

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the CafeĚýcomes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of CafĂ© Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some familiar faces from Kawaguchi's previous novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister, and a lover, each with something they wish they had said differently.

With his signature heartwarming characters and immersive storytelling, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?]]> 220 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 0369722698 em :) 0 to-read 3.90 2018 Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)
author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
name: em :)
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2018
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 15804129 Dorian Gray is a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity.

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.]]> 241 Oscar Wilde 0141199490 em :) 4 same with Lord henry (harry henry ??? who tf names their kid that) because he has some very interesting povs and opinions but he’s also a misogynistic douchebag with a superiority complex
dorian gray…�. you’re a dumbass but reading about you was very fun
basil ily]]> 4.14 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
author: Oscar Wilde
name: em :)
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1890
rating: 4
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hate love feelings towards the writing because it’s very beautiful but it did take me a week to get through a 240 pages book i thought i’d be done with in two days. so.
same with Lord henry (harry henry ??? who tf names their kid that) because he has some very interesting povs and opinions but he’s also a misogynistic douchebag with a superiority complex
dorian gray…�. you’re a dumbass but reading about you was very fun
basil ily
]]> Mooncakes 44774415
Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers' bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town.

One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. As a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place for years, unable to call any town home.

Pursued by dark forces eager to claim the magic of wolves and out of options, Tam turns to Nova for help. Their latent feelings are rekindled against the backdrop of witchcraft, untested magic, occult rituals, and family ties both new and old in this enchanting tale of self-discovery.]]> 243 Suzanne Walker 154930304X em :) 4 3.82 2019 Mooncakes
author: Suzanne Walker
name: em :)
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2022/08/15
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extremely cute and sweet, though the art was sometimes floppy and why was the end just the line art ?? and the chapter pages sketches ??
]]> Take my mask, I'm home now 56941566 695 Melui em :) 4 this was soooooooooo unnecessarily long and repetitive
other than that, very good plot, very good execution, very good smut :) but yeah the repetitiveness of it all really fucked it up for me]]> 4.41 Take my mask, I'm home now
author: Melui
name: em :)
average rating: 4.41
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2022/08/10
date added: 2022/08/11
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3.5
this was soooooooooo unnecessarily long and repetitive
other than that, very good plot, very good execution, very good smut :) but yeah the repetitiveness of it all really fucked it up for me
]]> Late to the Party 44581495
She’s never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She’s never even been kissed. And it’s not just because she’s gay. It’s because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more time in her basement watching Netflix than engaging with the outside world.

So when Maritza and JaKory suggest crashing a party, Codi is highly skeptical. Those parties aren’t for kids like them. They’re for cool kids. Straight kids.

But then Codi stumbles upon one of those cool kids, Ricky, kissing another boy in the dark, and an unexpected friendship is formed. In return for never talking about that kiss, Ricky takes Codi under his wing and draws her into a wild summer filled with late nights, new experiences, and one really cute girl named Lydia.

The only problem? Codi never tells Maritza or JaKory about any of it.

From author Kelly Quindlen comes a poignant and deeply relatable story about friendship, self-acceptance, what it means to be a Real Teenager. Late to the Party is an ode to late bloomers and wallflowers everywhere.]]> 304 Kelly Quindlen 1250209137 em :) 0 to-read 4.00 2020 Late to the Party
author: Kelly Quindlen
name: em :)
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1)]]> 1934 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,� including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book� her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

]]> 449 Louisa May Alcott em :) 0 to-read 4.16 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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name: em :)
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1868
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]]> Jane Eyre 10210 Alternate editions can be found here and here.

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.]]> 532 Charlotte Brontë 0142437204 em :) 0 to-read 4.14 1847 Jane Eyre
author: Charlotte Brontë
name: em :)
average rating: 4.14
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]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen 0141439580 em :) 0 to-read 4.05 1815 Emma
author: Jane Austen
name: em :)
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1815
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Please Remind Me (Who I Really Am)]]> 51805658
AKA a SuperCorp version of Notting Hill; I love the film, and it needed to be gay, so here we are!
-----------------------------------------
Fandom: Supergirl (TV 2015)
Relationships: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor
Words: 78,941
Chapters: 15/15]]> 270 Melui em :) 0 to-read 5.00 Please Remind Me (Who I Really Am)
author: Melui
name: em :)
average rating: 5.00
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]]> Everything Leads to You 60408271 A love letter to the craft and romance of film and fate in front of—and behind—the camera from the award-winning author of Hold Still.
Ěý
A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world.
Ěý
Emi is a film buff and a true romantic, but her real-life relationships are a mess. She has desperately gone back to the same girl too many times to mention. But then a mysterious letter from a silver screen legend leads Emi to Ava. Ava is unlike anyone Emi has ever met. She has a tumultuous, not-so-glamorous past, and lives an unconventional life. She’s enigmatic�. She’s beautiful. And she is about to expand Emi’s understanding of family, acceptance, and true romance.
Ěý]]> 336 Nina LaCour em :) 5 queer, faves and the writing is as beautiful as ever and i am convinced that emi and i are the same]]> 3.77 2014 Everything Leads to You
author: Nina LaCour
name: em :)
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2022/08/03
date added: 2022/08/03
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SOBBING. the few last chapters hit way too far from home, the entire last part actually
and the writing is as beautiful as ever and i am convinced that emi and i are the same
]]> Our Wives Under the Sea 58724816 Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife, Miri, knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was the crew was supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.

By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us and the love that compels us, nevertheless, toward one another. Fathomlessly inventive and original, Julia Armfield’s debut novel is a portrait of marriage as we’ve never seen it before.]]> 228 Julia Armfield 1250229898 em :) 0 to-read, queer 3.69 2022 Our Wives Under the Sea
author: Julia Armfield
name: em :)
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Colorblind 29105720 That means that Chloe doesn’t have twelve months to live. She doesn’t even have six.
She is going to be dead by the end of the summer, unless Harper can find a way to stop it.]]> 220 Siera Maley em :) 0 to-read, queer 4.11 2016 Colorblind
author: Siera Maley
name: em :)
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Convenience Store Woman 36605525
Sayaka Murata brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is so much part of life in Japan. With some laugh-out-loud moments prompted by the disconnect between Keiko’s thoughts and those of the people around her, she provides a sharp look at Japanese society and the pressure to conform, as well as penetrating insights into the female mind. Convenience Store Woman is a fresh, charming portrait of an unforgettable heroine that recalls Banana Yoshimoto, Han Kang, and ´ˇłľĂ©±ôľ±±đ.]]> 176 Sayaka Murata em :) 3 3.65 2016 Convenience Store Woman
author: Sayaka Murata
name: em :)
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2022/07/31
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don’t know what to say besides that it is unsettling and i strongly dislike Shiraha
]]> Bunny (Bunny, #1) 42815544
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.]]> 307 Mona Awad 0525559736 em :) 0 to-read 3.53 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
author: Mona Awad
name: em :)
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Crying in H Mart 54814676
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band � and meeting the man who would become her husband � her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live.

It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Vivacious, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.]]> 243 Michelle Zauner 0525657746 em :) 0 to-read 4.25 2021 Crying in H Mart
author: Michelle Zauner
name: em :)
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Bloom 39073387
Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, in which the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow.]]> 368 Kevin Panetta 1626726418 em :) 3 3.91 2019 Bloom
author: Kevin Panetta
name: em :)
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2022/07/29
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kinda clumsy at times but cute
]]> Yerba Buena 57693648 The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other

When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner.

When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, pulls them apart again and again. When Sara's old life catches up to her, upending everything she thought she wanted just as Emilie has finally gained her own sense of purpose, they must decide if their love is more powerful than their pasts.

At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women finding their way in the world.]]> 304 Nina LaCour 1250810469 em :) 0 to-read 3.85 2022 Yerba Buena
author: Nina LaCour
name: em :)
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Writers & Lovers 55810331 Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures.

Recently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn’t going anywhere, her debt is soaring, and at thirty-one, with all her friends getting married and having kids, she feels too old for things to be this way.

Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar � older, fascinating, troubled � walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures. And she’s still got to write that book . . .]]> 324 Lily King 1529033136 em :) 0 to-read 3.80 2020 Writers & Lovers
author: Lily King
name: em :)
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> Not My Problem 58248117 276 Ciara Smyth 1787612139 em :) 3 besides that, the writing was okay, the humor nice and i liked Aideen’s character but overall i’m disappointed ]]> 4.27 2021 Not My Problem
author: Ciara Smyth
name: em :)
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/07/27
date added: 2022/07/27
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2.5, wtf was that ending ? and barely any wlw content? like everything is rushed at the last 10% of the book it’s so frustrating
besides that, the writing was okay, the humor nice and i liked Aideen’s character but overall i’m disappointed
]]> The Complete Maus 15195
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust� (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.]]> 296 Art Spiegelman 0141014083 em :) 4 tho he was a total dick sometimes lmao ]]> 4.57 1980 The Complete Maus
author: Art Spiegelman
name: em :)
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1980
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/23
date added: 2022/07/23
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i loved the concept of representing people with animals and hearing how it was directly from a survivor was hard but important
tho he was a total dick sometimes lmao
]]> On Connection 43345906 Beneath the surface we are all connected . . .

Award-winning poet, rapper and storyteller Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a meditation on the power of creative connection

'Powerful and merciful.' Ali Smith

'Tempest . . . doesn't just leap off the page, but leaps into your throat and demands to be shouted all the way out.' Marlon James

'[Kae's] language hits like lightning. It illuminates and it burns.' Guardian

Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity - however we choose to practise it - can cultivate greater self-awareness and help us establish a deeper relationship to ourselves and the world.

Personal, hopeful and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth.]]> 129 Kate Tempest 0571354025 em :) 4 4.17 2020 On Connection
author: Kate Tempest
name: em :)
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/22
date added: 2022/07/22
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a very interesting (and short) read. Honestly makes you think a lot about yourself and others
]]> Malibu Rising 53404195 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six.

A lifetime holding it together.
One party will bring it crashing down.

Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.

The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud-because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he's been inseparable since birth.

Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can't stop thinking about promised she'll be there.

And Kit has a couple secrets of her own-including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family's generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.]]> 369 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1786331527 em :) 5 faves, queer i had absolutely no expectations when i started this book and it blew me away !! i did cry all throughout the end though because ouchie that hit a little too close to home
also if daddy issues, family bonds are hollywood drama were a book it’d be this one ]]> 4.13 2021 Malibu Rising
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: em :)
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2022/07/21
date added: 2022/07/22
shelves: faves, queer
review:
this book is everything i can’t even write down how i feel rn
i had absolutely no expectations when i started this book and it blew me away !! i did cry all throughout the end though because ouchie that hit a little too close to home
also if daddy issues, family bonds are hollywood drama were a book it’d be this one
]]> <![CDATA[Never Ever Getting Back Together]]> 59808187 When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls—one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance—get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other instead in Never Ever Getting Back Together by nationally and internationally-bestselling and Indie Next Pick author Sophie Gonzales.

It’s been two years since Maya's ex-boyfriend cheated on her, and she still can’t escape him: his sister married the crown prince of a minor European country and he captured hearts as her charming younger brother. If the world only knew the real Jordy, the manipulative liar who broke Maya’s heart.

Skye Kaplan was always cautious with her heart until Jordy said all the right things and earned her trust. Now his face is all over the media and Skye is still wondering why he stopped calling.

When Maya and Skye are invited to star on the reality dating show Second-Chance Romance, they’re whisked away to a beautiful mansion—along with four more of Jordy’s exes� to compete for his affections while the whole world watches. Skye wonders if she and Jordy can recapture the spark she knows they had, but Maya has other plans: exposing Jordy and getting revenge. As they navigate the competition, Skye and Maya discover that their real happily ever after is nothing they could have scripted.]]> 384 Sophie Gonzales 1250819164 em :) 0 to-read 3.64 2022 Never Ever Getting Back Together
author: Sophie Gonzales
name: em :)
average rating: 3.64
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]]> Mistakes Were Made 59808269 Something To Talk About comes a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend’s mom.

When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school’s Family Weekend, she isn’t looking for a hookup—it just happens. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. But then the next morning rolls around and her friend drags her along to meet her mom—the hot, older woman Cassie slept with.

Erin Bennett came to Family Weekend to get closer to her daughter, not have a one-night stand with a college senior. In her defense, she hadn’t known Cassie was a student when they'd met. To make things worse, Erin’s daughter brings Cassie to breakfast the next morning. And despite Erin's better judgement—how could sleeping with your daughter’s friend be anything but bad?—she and Cassie get along in the day just as well as they did last night.

What should have been a one-time fling quickly proves impossible to ignore, and soon Cassie and Erin are sneaking around. Worst of all, they start to realize they have something real. But is being honest about the love between them worth the cost?]]> 352 Meryl Wilsner 1250841003 em :) 0 to-read 3.91 2022 Mistakes Were Made
author: Meryl Wilsner
name: em :)
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2022
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)]]> 51574372
Nick’s been feeling the same, but he’s got a lot on his mind � not least coming out to his dad, and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder.

As summer turns to autumn and a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick are about to learn a lot about what love means.]]> 384 Alice Oseman 144495279X em :) 5 queer 4.67 2021 Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
author: Alice Oseman
name: em :)
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2022/04/28
date added: 2022/07/15
shelves: queer
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this volume should be called heartbreaker
]]> Small Pleasures 51475209 Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and � on the brink of forty � living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape.

When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys: Gretchen is now a friend, and her quirky and charming daughter Margaret a sort of surrogate child. And Jean doesn't mean to fall in love with Gretchen's husband, Howard, but Howard surprises her with his dry wit, his intelligence and his kindness � and when she does fall, she falls hard.

But he is married, and to her friend � who is also the subject of the story she is researching for the newspaper, a story that increasingly seems to be causing dark ripples across all their lives. And yet Jean cannot bring herself to discard the chance of finally having a taste of happiness...

But there will be a price to pay, and it will be unbearable.]]> 352 Clare Chambers 1474613888 em :) 0 dnf 3.69 2021 Small Pleasures
author: Clare Chambers
name: em :)
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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dnf
]]> Lore 53375824 From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds comes a sweepingly ambitious, high-octane tale of power, destiny, love and redemption.

Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals, hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality.
Long ago, Lore Perseous fled that brutal world in the wake of her family's sadistic murder by a rival line, turning her back on the hunt's promises of eternal glory. For years she's pushed away any thought of revenge against the man--now a god--responsible for their deaths.

Yet as the next hunt dawns over New York City, two participants seek out her help: Castor, a childhood friend of Lore believed long dead, and a gravely wounded Athena, among the last of the original gods.

The goddess offers an alliance against their mutual enemy and, at last, a way for Lore to leave the Agon behind forever. But Lore's decision to bind her fate to Athena's and rejoin the hunt will come at a deadly cost--and still may not be enough to stop the rise of a new god with the power to bring humanity to its knees.]]> 480 Alexandra Bracken 1484778200 em :) 2 3.74 2021 Lore
author: Alexandra Bracken
name: em :)
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2022/07/15
date added: 2022/07/15
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this was so painfully boring to read i ended up skimming through the last 2/3 of the book and it STILL took me over a month to finish it
]]> Solitaire (Solitaire, #1) 57591955 The acclaimed debut novel from Alice Oseman, the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless. Solitaire features the characters that inspired the beloved webcomic and graphic novel series Heartstopper � now a major Netflix series.

“The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age� The Times

My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year � before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start talking to people � I had friends. Things were very different, I guess, but that’s all over now.

Now there’s Solitaire. And Michael Holden.

I don’t know what Solitaire are trying to do, and I don’t care about Michael Holden.
I really don’t.

This incredible debut novel by outstanding young author Alice Oseman is perfect for fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell and all unflinchingly honest writers.]]> 373 Alice Oseman em :) 2 3.90 2014 Solitaire (Solitaire, #1)
author: Alice Oseman
name: em :)
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2022/06/05
date added: 2022/06/05
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]]> Tender Is the Flesh 49090884
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.� Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he’s given a a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.]]> 209 Agustina Bazterrica 1982150920 em :) 0 to-read 3.75 2017 Tender Is the Flesh
author: Agustina Bazterrica
name: em :)
average rating: 3.75
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]]> Conversations with Friends 32187419 A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple.

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment.

Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth."]]> 304 Sally Rooney 0451499077 em :) 0 to-read 3.74 2017 Conversations with Friends
author: Sally Rooney
name: em :)
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2017
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]]> Willa & Hesper 36172787 For fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitonia, a soul-piercing debut that explores the ways that past and present intertwine, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times.

In WILLA & HESPER, two young women fall in love. When they fall apart, they unwittingly take the same path to heal from their breakup, seeking answers in the lands of their ancestors. From Tbilisi, Georgia to the war sites of Germany, they discover what can break and what can mend when you look to the past to understand your present.

Willa's darkness enters Hesper's light late one night in Brooklyn. Theirs is a whirlwind romance until Willa starts to know Hesper too well, to crawl into her hidden spaces, and Hesper shuts her out. She runs, following her fractured family back to her grandfather's hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia, looking for the origin story that he is no longer able to tell. But once in Tbilisi, cracks appear in her grandfather's history-and a massive flood is heading toward Georgia, threatening any hope for repair.

Meanwhile, heartbroken Willa is desperate to leave New York that she joins a group trip for Jewish twentysomethings to visit Holocaust sites in Germany and Poland, hoping to override her emotional state. When it proves to be more fraught than home, she must come to terms with her past-the ancestral past, her romantic past, and the past that can lead her forward.

Told from alternating perspectives, and ending in the shadow of Trump's presidency, WILLA & HESPER is a deeply moving, cerebral, and timely debut.]]> 304 Amy Feltman 1538712547 em :) 0 to-read 3.60 2019 Willa & Hesper
author: Amy Feltman
name: em :)
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)]]> 17347389 439 Maggie Stiefvater 0545424941 em :) 0 4.22 2013 The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: em :)
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)]]> 43449920
Meanwhile Tao and Elle will face their feelings for each other, Tara and Darcy share more about their relationship origin story, and the teachers supervising the trip seem� rather close�?]]> 384 Alice Oseman em :) 5 queer the way they’re so close to my heart i love them
also the tEATCHERS

28/04/2021
was not expecting the ed plot line but honestly it’s dealt with in a very realistic way and that’s the first time i’ve seen ed rep in graphic novels ]]> 4.55 2020 Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
author: Alice Oseman
name: em :)
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2022/04/27
date added: 2022/04/27
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27/04/2022 reread
the way they’re so close to my heart i love them
also the tEATCHERS

28/04/2021
was not expecting the ed plot line but honestly it’s dealt with in a very realistic way and that’s the first time i’ve seen ed rep in graphic novels
]]> <![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)]]> 43307358
But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family ... and himself.]]> 320 Alice Oseman 1444951408 em :) 5 queer comfort read vibes

26/04/2021
cant wait to see what’s next with the trip !!]]> 4.52 2019 Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
author: Alice Oseman
name: em :)
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2022/04/27
date added: 2022/04/27
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26/04/2022 reread
comfort read vibes

26/04/2021
cant wait to see what’s next with the trip !!
]]> <![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)]]> 40495957
Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore. Nick Nelson is in Year 11 and on the school rugby team. He's heard a little about Charlie - the kid who was outed last year and bullied for a few months - but he's never had the opportunity to talk to him.

They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and sometimes good things are waiting just around the corner...]]> 288 Alice Oseman 152722533X em :) 4 queer omg did i really do a re read exactly a year apart without even meaning to ??? what kind of sorcery
but oh my god i still love this so much. my babies

24-04-221
can’t believe how pure this is]]> 4.43 2018 Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
author: Alice Oseman
name: em :)
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2022/04/27
date added: 2022/04/27
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25-04-22
omg did i really do a re read exactly a year apart without even meaning to ??? what kind of sorcery
but oh my god i still love this so much. my babies

24-04-221
can’t believe how pure this is
]]> <![CDATA[The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)]]> 13449693
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them � not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He has it all � family money, good looks, devoted friends � but he's looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we've never been before.]]> 408 Maggie Stiefvater 0545424933 em :) 3 4.06 2012 The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: em :)
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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i had a blast listening to the book but oh my god i would’ve hated reading it, the writing is almost as bad as the voice acting
]]> Circe 32993458
When love drives Circe to cast a dark spell, wrathful Zeus banishes her to the remote island of Aiaia. There she learns to harness her occult craft, drawing strength from nature. But she will not always be alone; many are destined to pass through Circe's place of exile, entwining their fates with hers. The messenger god, Hermes. The craftsman, Daedalus. A ship bearing a golden fleece. And wily Odysseus, on his epic voyage home.

There is danger for a solitary woman in this world, and Circe's independence draws the wrath of men and gods alike. To protect what she holds dear, Circe must decide whether she belongs with the deities she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.]]> 336 Madeline Miller 1408890089 em :) 4 ngl the middle part was kinda boring but other than that it was great :) and the writing is chefs kiss ]]> 4.26 2018 Circe
author: Madeline Miller
name: em :)
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2022/04/14
date added: 2022/04/14
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*3.75*
ngl the middle part was kinda boring but other than that it was great :) and the writing is chefs kiss
]]> <![CDATA[500 000 euros d'argent de poche (Heure noire) (French Edition)]]> 53287367 Ěý]]> 160 RĂ©mi Stefani em :) 0 4.00 2013 500 000 euros d'argent de poche (Heure noire) (French Edition)
author: RĂ©mi Stefani
name: em :)
average rating: 4.00
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]]> Radio Silence 40119231 Fangirl. This is an utterly captivating and authentic new teen novel from the author of Solitaire.

Frances Janvier spends most of her time studying. Everyone knows Aled Last as that quiet boy who gets straight As. You probably think that they are going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and she is a girl. They don’t. They make a podcast. In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the course of one life-changing year.

Will they have the courage to show everyone who they really are? Or will they be met with radio silence?]]> 403 Alice Oseman 0007559240 em :) 0 to-read 4.26 2016 Radio Silence
author: Alice Oseman
name: em :)
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> La fille dans l'Ă©cran 43523957 192 Manon Desveaux 2501138775 em :) 4 queer 4.34 2019 La fille dans l'Ă©cran
author: Manon Desveaux
name: em :)
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2022/03/12
date added: 2022/03/16
shelves: queer
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]]> Fangs 54911057 A love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarah's Scribbles comics.

Elsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in all that time, she has never met her match. This all changes one night in a bar when she meets Jimmy, a charming werewolf with a wry sense of humor and a fondness for running wild during the full moon. Together they enjoy horror films and scary novels, shady strolls, fine dining (though never with garlic), and a genuine fondness for each other’s unusual habits, macabre lifestyles, and monstrous appetites.

First featured as a webcomic series on Tapas, Fangs chronicles the humor, sweetness, and awkwardness of meeting someone perfectly suited to you but also vastly different. Filled with Sarah Andersen’s beautiful gothic illustrations and relatable relationship humor, Fangs has all the makings of a cult classic.]]> 115 Sarah Andersen em :) 0 to-read 4.21 2020 Fangs
author: Sarah Andersen
name: em :)
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich to Live Rich]]> 42672465
Discover #1 New York Times bestselling author David Bach’s three secrets to financial freedom in an engaging story that will show you that you are richer than you think . Drawing on the author’s experiences teaching millions of people around the world to live a rich life, this fast, easy listen reveals how anyone—from millennials to baby boomers—can still make his or her dreams come true.

In this compelling, heartwarming parable, Bach and his bestselling coauthor John David Mann ( The Go-Giver ) tell the story of Zoey, a twenty-something woman living and working in New York City. Like many young professionals, Zoey is struggling to make ends meet under a growing burden of credit card and student loan debt, working crazy hours at her dream job but still not earning enough to provide a comfortable financial cushion. At her boss’s suggestion, she makes friends with Henry, the elderly barista at her favorite Brooklyn coffee shop.

Henry soon reveals his “Three Secrets to Financial Freedom,� ideas Zoey dismisses at first but whose true power she ultimately comes to appreciate. Over the course of a single week, Zoey discovers that she already earns enough to secure her financial future and realize her truest dreams—all she has to do is make a few easy shifts in her everyday routine.

The Latte Factor demystifies the secrets to achieving financial freedom, inspiring you to realize that it’s never too late to reach for your dreams. By following the simple, proven path that Henry shows Zoey, anyone can make small changes today that will have big impact for a lifetime, proving once again that “David Bach is the financial expert to listen to when you’re intimidated by your finances� (Tony Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Master the Game ).]]> 144 David Bach 1982120231 em :) 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.79 The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich to Live Rich
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name: em :)
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]]> Upstream: Selected Essays 29358559 Upstream finds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonishment and admiration for the natural world and the craft of writing. Ěý

As she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, finding solace and safety within the woods, and the joyful and rhythmic beating of wings, Oliver intimately shares with her readers her quiet discoveries, boundless curiosity, and exuberance for the grandeur of our world.Ěý

This radiant collection of her work, with some pieces published here for the first time, reaffirms Oliver as a passionate and prolific observer whose thoughtful meditations on spiders, writing a poem, blue fin tuna, and Ralph Waldo Emerson inspire us all to discover wonder and awe in life's smallest corners.]]> 178 Mary Oliver 1594206708 em :) 0 to-read 4.17 2016 Upstream: Selected Essays
author: Mary Oliver
name: em :)
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating]]> 57827197 Hani and Ishu couldn't be less alike - and they definitely don't like each other. But when fates collide and they pretend to date each other, things start to get messy... A heart-warming queer YA love story for fans of Becky Albertalli.

Everyone likes Hani Khan - she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they don't believe her, claiming she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she's in a relationship... with a girl her friends can't stand - Ishu Dey.

Ishu is the polar opposite of Hani. An academic overachiever, she hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for university. Her only problem? Becoming head girl is a popularity contest and Ishu is hardly popular. Pretending to date Hani is the only way she'll stand a chance of being elected.

Despite their mutually beneficial pact, they start developing real feelings for each other. But some people will do anything to stop two Bengali girls from achieving happily ever after.]]> 267 Adiba Jaigirdar 1444962256 em :) 3 queer 4.01 2021 Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
author: Adiba Jaigirdar
name: em :)
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/03/01
date added: 2022/03/01
shelves: queer
review:
i thought i’d have some fun with this trop but there wasn’t that much pining or longing and the dialogues lacked depth and quality. It was alright but i expected better
]]> <![CDATA[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]> 39866294
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born � a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam � and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.]]> 190 Ocean Vuong 0525562036 em :) 4 i actually don't think i'm in the right mindset to read serious books rn cause i couldve enjoyed that way more]]> 4.08 2019 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
author: Ocean Vuong
name: em :)
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/19
date added: 2022/02/19
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*3.75*
i actually don't think i'm in the right mindset to read serious books rn cause i couldve enjoyed that way more
]]> Project Hail Mary 54493401
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?]]> 476 Andy Weir 0593135202 em :) 0 to-read 4.49 2021 Project Hail Mary
author: Andy Weir
name: em :)
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Aphrodite Made Me Do It 43819413 Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In this empowering retelling, she uses the mythology of the goddess to weave a common thread through the past and present. By the end of this book, Aphrodite make you believe in the possibility of your own healing.]]> 191 Trista Mateer em :) 3 poetry 3.95 2019 Aphrodite Made Me Do It
author: Trista Mateer
name: em :)
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2022/02/11
date added: 2022/02/11
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]]> The Complete Poems of Sappho 5945516
In the past, translators have taken two basic approaches to Sappho: either very literally translating only the words in the fragments, or taking the liberty of reconstructing the missing parts. Willis Barnstone has taken a middle course, in which he remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious. This edition includes extensive notes and a special section of “Testimonia�: appreciations of Sappho in the words of ancient writers from Plato to Plutarch. Also included are a glossary of all the figures mentioned in the poems, and suggestions for further reading.

]]> 256 Sappho 1590306139 em :) 4 poetry WHERE
ARE
THEY]]> 4.18 -550 The Complete Poems of Sappho
author: Sappho
name: em :)
average rating: 4.18
book published: -550
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/09
date added: 2022/02/09
shelves: poetry
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I WISH THERE WERE SO MANY MORE POEMS OF HERS
WHERE
ARE
THEY
]]> Blue Horses 20821239
Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming patience of oak trees, or the artworks of Franz Marc, Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how much can be contained within the smallest moments.



At its heart, Blue Horses asks what it means to truly belong to this world, to live in it attuned to all its changes. Humorous, gentle, and always honest, Oliver is a visionary of the natural world.]]> 79 Mary Oliver 1594204799 em :) 4 poetry favorites : stebbin’s gulch, blueberries, the hummingbirds, such silence]]> 4.28 2014 Blue Horses
author: Mary Oliver
name: em :)
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/08
date added: 2022/02/08
shelves: poetry
review:
that was so wholesome!
favorites : stebbin’s gulch, blueberries, the hummingbirds, such silence
]]> <![CDATA[Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver]]> 34272476
“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.� —The Washington Post

“It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.� —Chicago Tribune

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.]]> 456 Mary Oliver 0399563245 em :) 0 poetry, to-read 4.58 2017 Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
author: Mary Oliver
name: em :)
average rating: 4.58
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]]> Thirst 42632 Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of the love of her life and partner of over forty years, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades. In three stunning long poems, Oliver explores the dimensions and tests the parameters of religious doctrine, asking of being good, for example, "To what purpose? / Hope of Heaven? Not that. But to enter / the other kingdom: grace, and imagination, / and the multiple sympathies: to be as a leaf, a rose,/ a dolphin."]]> 88 Mary Oliver 0807068969 em :) 0 poetry, to-read 4.31 2006 Thirst
author: Mary Oliver
name: em :)
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead]]> 55711706
In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.]]> 256 Emily R. Austin 1982167351 em :) 3 3.86 2021 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
author: Emily R. Austin
name: em :)
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/02/04
date added: 2022/02/04
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no plot just vibes except the vibes are extreme anxiety and existential dread with a catholic and gay twist
]]> Breaking Legacies 31200332 443 Zoe Reed em :) 4 but i loved it ! and i loved that it was fast paced and so much happened and so many lovable characters they’re all babies except two. those two. you know which ones. yeah they can fuck off]]> 4.38 2016 Breaking Legacies
author: Zoe Reed
name: em :)
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/01
date added: 2022/02/01
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wrecked me at the end of part one like wtf
but i loved it ! and i loved that it was fast paced and so much happened and so many lovable characters they’re all babies except two. those two. you know which ones. yeah they can fuck off
]]> <![CDATA[The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)]]> 41454019
When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .

Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.]]> 527 R.F. Kuang 0062662589 em :) 0 4.30 2018 The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
author: R.F. Kuang
name: em :)
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2022/01/29
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]]> Panenka 55410610
But at night, Panenka suffers crippling headaches that he calls his Iron Mask. Faced with losing everything, he meets Esther, a woman who has come to live in the town to escape her own disappointments. Together, they find resonance in each other’s experiences and learn new ways to let love into their broken lives.]]> 164 Ronan Hession 1910422673 em :) 0 to-read 3.98 2021 Panenka
author: Ronan Hession
name: em :)
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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