Kateryna's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:42:42 -0700 60 Kateryna's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants]]> 17465709 Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.]]> 408 Robin Wall Kimmerer 1571313354 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.52 2013 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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]]> <![CDATA[Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine (The Modern Jewish Experience)]]> 193552971
Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, examines how the role of Russian language and culture, memories of the Soviet political project, and Odesan's place in a Ukrainian national project have all been questioned in recent years.

Jewish Odesa reveals how a city once famous for its progressive Jewish traditions has become dominated by Orthodox Judaism and framed by the agendas of international Jewish organizations embedded in a religiosity that is foreign to the city. Russia's war in Ukraine has forced Jewish identities with ties to Odesa to change still further.]]> 374 Marina Sapritsky-Nahum 0253070104 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.00 Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine (The Modern Jewish Experience)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Democracy of Species (Green Ideas)]]> 55880709 In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and talk about the living Earth.

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the field to the deer in the woods.]]> 88 Robin Wall Kimmerer 0141997044 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.51 The Democracy of Species (Green Ideas)
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]]> <![CDATA['Mama, bitte lern Deutsch' Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft]]> 228308589 Social Media Star Tahsim Durgun alias tahdur erz辰hlt Anekdoten aus der K端che eines Migrantenkindes

Noch bevor Tahsim Durgun Fahrradfahren konnte, musste er f端r seine Mutter die Stromrechnung entziffern, begleitete sie als Dolmetscher zu Arztbesuchen und verlas Aldi-Kataloge am K端chentisch. Seine sp辰tere Karriere als Deutschlehrer war da bereits vorgezeichnet. Wie praktisch, dass er sich seitdem an der Uni zwischen dem BWL-Justus und der Iced-Coffee-Claudia油gut getarnt vor den Abschiebefantasien der AfD verstecken kann. Ein Privileg, das seiner kurdischen Mutter, an deren K端chentisch Tahsim jeden Abend zur端ckkehrt, verwehrt bleibt.油

So wie Tahsim geht es vielen jungen Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund, die fr端h Verantwortung f端r ihre Eltern 端bernehmen und gleichzeitig ihren Platz finden m端ssen in einem oft feindseligen Land. Schreiben sie die besten Noten, bekommen sie trotzdem nur eine Hauptschulempfehlung. Geht die Abifahrt nach Rom, d端rfen sie nicht teilnehmen, weil sie keinen deutschen Pass besitzen.

Mit messerscharfer Intelligenz, poetischer Sprachgewalt und gewohnt zynischem Internet-Star Tahsim Durgun reflektiert die Lebenswirklichkeit der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft. Als Vermittler zweier Welten und vor dem Hintergrund seiner eigenen油Lebensgeschichte in einer kurdisch-deutschen Familie verhandelt Tahsim, wie wir alle miteinander leben wollen � mit und ohne Migrationsgeschichte.

Tahsim Durgun ist Publikumspreistr辰ger des油赫姻庄馨馨艶-或稼鉛庄稼艶-粥敬温姻糸壊油2024 und des Blauen Panther 2024]]> 240 Tahsim Durgun 342656114X Kateryna 0 to-read 4.72 2025 'Mama, bitte lern Deutsch' Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
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]]> <![CDATA[Wenn Russland gewinnt: Ein Szenario]]> 218531158
Es ist nur ein hypothetisches Zukunftsszenario, das der renommierte Politikwissenschaftler und Milit辰rexperte Carlo Masala in seinem neuen Buch entwirft � aber es zeigt auf besonders drastische Weise, was heute auf dem Spiel steht.]]> Carlo Masala 3406824498 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.21 Wenn Russland gewinnt: Ein Szenario
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Harvest: A Novel of the Terror Famine in Soviet Ukraine]]> 82694146 144 Michael Cherkas 1681123207 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.04 2023 Red Harvest: A Novel of the Terror Famine in Soviet Ukraine
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]]> Five Stalks of Grain 61258790
Attempting to navigate a closed country, to stay together, and to stay alive, Nadia and Taras must face secret police, soldiers, and fellow citizens forced to abandon charity and sometimes even humanity in the face of impossible hunger. Unsure who to trust and unable to find refuge, they search for somewhere, anywhere, where they can be safe.

Historical fiction at its finest, Five Stalks of Grain is powerfully written and beautifully illustrated, drawing on Ukrainian artistic traditions to tell a story of loss, grief, and hardship with delicate strength. It is a record of a time of profound suffering and a reckoning with the human cost of a tragedy shaped by politics and policy.]]> 152 Adrian Lysenko 1773853759 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.04 Five Stalks of Grain
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]]> <![CDATA[Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World]]> 58340986 A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the worlds largest empires
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To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grainalong rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power.
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Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed much of Europe through the booming port of Odessa. But following the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign grain spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and the European scramble for empire. It was a crucial factor in the outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
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A powerful new interpretation, Oceans of Grain shows that amid the great powers� rivalries, there was no greater power than control of grain.
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]]> <![CDATA[Caf辿 Europa: Life After Communism]]> 227541 Drakulic's pungent and insightful ruminations not only describe life in her part of the worldshe makes us feel it as well.Publishers Weekly]]> 224 Slavenka Drakuli 0140277722 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.93 1996 Caf辿 Europa: Life After Communism
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]]> <![CDATA[丐舒仆亰亳仆舒 从仍舒 仗仂从仂仍仂仆舒仍仆舒 舒于仄舒]]> 220327992
丱仂 舒从亳亶 束仍亰亠損 于 从舒仆从亶 仍亠舒? 亊从 从舒仆从 舒于仂亳 仂从亠仍ﾑﾑ 束于仂ﾂ 于仂仗? 丼仂仄 仄亠亶仆 亠仗仂仗亠 2000- 舒ﾑ 仄亰亠礆亳 仗舒仄�? 仂 仂 仂亰仗仂于亟舒 丼仂仆仂弍亳仍? , 亰亠仂, 磻 从舒 弌亠亟ﾑ从舒 舒仍舒 亠仄弍仍亠仄仂 舒仆亰亳仆仂 从仍亳?

于仂从舒 舒仆舒仍亰 仗仂舒亟礌从亳亶 从仍仆亳亶 舒仆亰亳, 亠亠仆亳仄亠仆 仄亢亞亠仆亠舒亶仆 仗舒仄�, 仂亰亞仍磲舒 束仂舒仆仆 舒亟礌从亠 仗仂从仂仍仆仆晛, 磻亠 于亟于仂亶仂于 仗舒于仂 仆舒 仆舒仂仆舒仍仆 仂, 舒 舒仆舒仍亰 仗仂从仂仍仆仆 亠亰舒仍亠亢仆仂 磻 从仍仆亳亶 舒亠亳仗.]]> 272 丐舒仄舒舒 仆亟仂仂于舒 6178178840 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.62 2013 丐舒仆亰亳仆舒 从仍舒 仗仂从仂仍仂仆舒仍仆舒 舒于仄舒
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]]> <![CDATA[Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis]]> 75582857 as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don't know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part of the solution - what we eat - is being ignored.

Nutrition has more influence on what we feel, who we become and how we behave than we could ever have imagined. It affects everything from our decision-making to aggression and violence. Yet mental health disorders are overwhelmingly treated as 'mind' problems as if the physical brain - and how we feed it - is irrelevant. Someone suffering from depression is more likely to be asked about their relationship with their mother than their relationship with food.

In this eye-opening and impassioned book, psychologist Kimberley Wilson draws on startling new research - as well as her own work in prisons, schools and hospitals around the country - to reveal the role of food and nutrients in brain development and mental health: from how the food a woman eats during pregnancy influences the size of her baby's brain, and hunger makes you mean; to how nutrient deficiencies change your personality.

We must also recognise poor nutrition as a social injustice, with the poorest and most vulnerable being systematically ignored. We need to talk about what our food is doing to our brains. And we need decisive action, not over rehearsed soundbites and empty promises, from those in power - because if we don't, things can only get worse.]]> 282 Kimberley Wilson Kateryna 0 to-read 4.16 Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain]]> 50187795 A groundbreaking science-based guide to protecting your brain health for the long term.

Whatever your age, having a healthy brain is the key to a happy and fulfilled life. Yet, for both young and old, diseases of the brain and mental health are the biggest killers in the 21st century. We all know how to take care of our physical health, but we often feel powerless as to what we can do to protect our mental well-being too.

How to Build a Healthy Brain is here to help. Written by a passionate advocate for the importance of mental health, Chartered Psychologist Kimberley Wilson draws on the latest research to give practical, holistic advice on how you can protect your brain health by making simple lifestyle choices. With chapters on Sleep, Nutrition, Exercise and Meditation, Kimberley has written an empowering guide to help you look after both your physical and mental well-being.

]]> 256 Kimberley Wilson Kateryna 0 to-read 4.32 2020 How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain
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]]> Healthy Brain, Happy Life 22635869
What could she possibly be missing? Everything else.

Suzuki was overweight. She was tired. She was lonely, had strained work relationships, and for the first time in her life, completely without direction. So she resolved to change her life. The first step--get moving.

Everyone knows that exercise makes you feel betterthat when you hit the gym despite the dread, you leave in a better mood. Healthy Brain, Happy Life offers the real science of how exercise effects your mind.

Using Wendys journey from frumpy, fat and frustrated to fit and fabulous as a guide, Healthy Brain offers not just the HOWS of making exercise an important part of life, but the WHYS of the benefits it brings. But movement is just the first step to being Brain Healthy. Once you get your body and mind hooked on exercise, you bring in practices in mindfullness to calm stress and allow your minds to wander to unlock creativity. As your brain begins to change (something called neuroplasticity), the benefits build--you get fitter, improve your memory, increase your ability to work quickly and move from task to task easily.

Along with Dr. Suzukis 4 minute Brain Hacks, Healthy Brain, Happy Life offers a simple program for changing your life, straight from a leading scientists personal experience.]]> 320 Wendy Suzuki 0062366785 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.59 2015 Healthy Brain, Happy Life
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]]> City of Laughter 128713487 A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years.

An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence,油 City of Laughter announces Temim Fruchter as a fresh and assured new literary voice. The tale of a young queer woman stuck in a thicket of generational secrets, the novel follows her back to her familys origins, where ancestral clues begin to reveal a lineage both haunted and shaped by desire.

Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious strangerbringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need, and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming century.

In the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father, struggles to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local funeral home. A student of Jewish folklore, Shiva seizes an opportunity to visit Poland, hoping her familys mysteries will make more sense if she walks in the footsteps of her great-grandmother Mira, about whom no one speaks.

What she finds will make her question not only her past and her future, but also her present. Electric and sharply intimate,油 City of Laughter zigzags between our universe and a tapestry of real and invented Jewish folklore, asking how far we can travel from the stories that have raised us without leaving them behind.]]> 384 Temim Fruchter 0802161286 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.75 2024 City of Laughter
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]]> Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and familybut especially lovefrom the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirtiessuccessful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fathers death, hes medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different womenhis enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interludea period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Kateryna 0 currently-reading 3.88 2024 Intermezzo
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]]> Dream Count 209166121 A publishing event ten years in the making�a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists�the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until � betrayed and brokenhearted � she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamakas bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamakas housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America � but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.

In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations on the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichies status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.]]> 320 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 0593803477 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.96 2025 Dream Count
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]]> <![CDATA[Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary]]> 211003691
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the countrys literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of thousands of war crimes and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, and Yulia, a librarian who helped uncover the abduction and murder of a childrens book author.

Everyone in Ukraine knew that Amelina was documenting the war. She photographed the ruins of schools and cultural centers; she recorded the testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses to atrocities. And she slowly turned back into a storyteller, writing what would become this book.

On the evening of June 27th, 2023, Amelina and three international writers stopped for dinner in the embattled Donetsk region. When a Russian cruise missile hit the restaurant, Amelina suffered grievous head injuries, and lost consciousness. She died on July 1st. She was thirty-seven. She left behind an incredible account of the ravages of war and the cost of resistance. Honest, intimate, and wry, this book will be celebrated as a classic.]]> 320 Victoria Amelina 1250367689 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.48 Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
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]]> Greek Lessons 61686012 Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night.�

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, its the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguishthe fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to each other. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unitytheir voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to breath and expression.

Greek Lessons is the story of the unlikely bond between this pair and a tender love letter to human intimacy and connectiona novel to awaken the senses, one that vividly conjures the essence of what it means to be alive.]]> 192 Han Kang 0593595270 Kateryna 5 3.54 2011 Greek Lessons
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]]> The Self and its Disorders 195084050 effects of torture and solitary confinement. It also explores a variety of issues that relate to therapeutic approaches, including deep brain stimulation, meditation-based interventions, and the use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.]]> 368 Prof Shaun Gallagher 0198873069 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.75 The Self and its Disorders
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]]> <![CDATA[Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy]]> 216090210 A bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self

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Beyond Personhood provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, and the relationship between gender and identity. Until now, trans experience has overwhelmingly been understood in terms of two reductive trans people are either trapped in the wrong body� or they are oppressed by the gender binary. Both accounts misgender large trans constituencies while distorting their experience, and neither can explain the presentation of trans people as make-believers and deceivers or the serious consequences thereof. In Beyond Personhood, Talia Mae Bettcher demonstrates how taking this phenomenon seriously affords a new perspective on trans oppression and trans dysphoriaone involving liminal states of make-believe� that bear positive possibilities for self-recognition and resistance.

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Undergirding this account is Bettchers groundbreaking theory of interpersonal spatialitya theory of intimacy and distance that requires rejection of the philosophical concepts of person, self, and subject. She argues that only interpersonal spatiality theory can successfully explain trans oppression and gender dysphoria, thus creating new possibilities for thinking about connection and relatedness.油

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An essential contribution to the burgeoning field of trans philosophy, Beyond Personhood offers an intersectional trans feminism that illuminates transphobic, sexist, heterosexist, and racist oppressions, situating trans oppression and resistance within a much larger decolonial struggle. By refusing to separate theory from its application, Bettcher shows how a philosophy of depth can emerge from the everyday experiences of trans people, pointing the way to a reinvigoration of philosophy.]]> 312 Talia Mae Bettcher 1517902576 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.71 Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy
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]]> The Emperor of Gladness 219848315 Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hais relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.

Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Vuongs writing � formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness � are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of lifes most fleeting mercies: a second chance.]]> 416 Ocean Vuong 059383187X Kateryna 0 to-read 4.34 2025 The Emperor of Gladness
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]]> The Details 63313297 An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past, her memories laid bare in vivid detail as her body temperature rises.

A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a get-well-soon message from Johanna, an ex-girlfriend who is now a famous television host. As she flips through the book, pages from the woman's own past begin to come alive, scenes of events and people she cannot forget.

There are moments with Johanna, and Niki, the friend who disappeared years ago without a phone number or an address and with no online footprint. There is Alejandro, who gleefully campaigns for a baby even though he knows their love has no future. And Brigitte, whose elusive qualities mask a painful secret.

The Details is a novel built around four portraits; the small details that, pieced together, comprise a life. Can a loved one really disappear? Who is the real subject of the portrait, the person being painted or the one holding the brush? Do we fully become ourselves through our connections to others? This exhilarating, provocative tale raises profound questions about the nature of relationships, and how we tell our stories. The result is an intimate and illuminating study of what it means to be human.]]> 144 Ia Genberg 0063309718 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.94 2022 The Details
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]]> <![CDATA[Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice]]> 61111247 A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murder, from one of Mexico's greatest living writers (Jonathan Lethem).

Can you enjoy yourself while you are in pain? The question, which is not new, arises over and over again during that eternity that is mourning.



In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice.

In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsome--but possessive and short-tempered--man, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.

Using her remarkable talents as a scholar, novelist, and poet, Cristina Rivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence--handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, architectural blueprints--in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of their childhood and adolescence in central Mexico, through the painful and confusing years after Liliana's death, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is--and what she fights for--today.]]> 320 Cristina Rivera Garza 0593244095 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.98 2021 Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
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]]> Human Acts 30091914 A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian.

In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.

The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-hos best friend, who meets his own fateful end, to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, both suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother, their collective heartbreak and acts of hope tell the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of a historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.]]> 218 Han Kang 1101906723 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.26 2014 Human Acts
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]]> The Power of Words 52692571
The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipulation of language by the powerful, the obligations of individuals to one another and the needs - for order, equality, liberty and truth - that make us human.

One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.]]> 128 Simone Weil 0241472903 Kateryna 4 3.53 The Power of Words
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]]> <![CDATA[The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World]]> 62790909 Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israels occupation-enforcing technologies.

For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an enemy� population, the Palestinians. Its here that they have perfected the architecture of control, using the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world.

The Palestine Laboratory shows in depth and for the first time how Israel has become a leader in developing spying technology and defence hardware that fuels some of the globes most brutal conflicts � from the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezoss and Jamal Khashoggis phones, and the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas, to the drones being used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown.

In a global investigation that uncovers secret documents, based on revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting, Antony Loewenstein shows how, as ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate tools for despots and democracies.]]> 320 Antony Loewenstein 1922310409 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.46 2023 The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction]]> 57862361 A provocative exploration of photographys relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.

Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engelss The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays collected here investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalisms violenceand if so, how?

Drawn together in productive disagreement, the essays in this collection explore the relationship of photography to resource extraction and capital accumulation, from 1492 to the postcolonial; the cameras potential to make visible critical understandings of capitalist production and society, especially economies of class and desire; and the ways the camera and the image can be used to build cultural and political counterpublics from which a democratic struggle against capitalism might emerge.

With essays by Ariella A誰sha Azoulay, Siobhan Angus, Kajri Jain, Walter Benn Michaels, T. J. Clark, John Paul Ricco, Blake Stimson, Chris Stolarski, Tong Lam and Jacob Emery.]]> 320 Kevin Coleman 183976080X Kateryna 0 to-read 3.33 Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction
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]]> <![CDATA[Poor but Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West]]> 19360013 ,

,]]> 309 Agata Pyzik 1780993943 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.12 2014 Poor but Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West
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]]> <![CDATA[Ukraine Lab: Global Security, Environment, and Disinformation Through the Prism of Ukraine (Ukrainian Voices)]]> 136343791
After Russias full-scale invasion has compromised the global system of security, the value of Ukrainian knowledge and experience can no longer be dismissed. The urgency to learn with and from Ukraine is now existential for the rest of the world.

This unique collection presents creative nonfiction essays by emerging authors from Ukraine and the UK which employ cross-cultural dialog and the art of storytelling to open up Ukrainian perspectives on the challenges facing humanity worldwide.]]> 130 Sasha Dovzhyk 3838218051 Kateryna 0 to-read 0.0 2023 Ukraine Lab: Global Security, Environment, and Disinformation Through the Prism of Ukraine (Ukrainian Voices)
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]]> <![CDATA[Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World]]> 138505710
Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experienceshe was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?

Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt usand that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.

Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel nowand an intellectual adventure story for our times.]]> 416 Naomi Klein 0374610320 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.21 2023 Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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]]> <![CDATA[The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think]]> 144355339
Welcome to 2011.

Google and Facebook are already feeding you what they think you want to see. Advertisers are following your every click. Your computer monitor is becoming a one-way mirror, reflecting your interests and reinforcing your prejudices.

The internet is no longer a free, independent space. It is commercially controlled and ever more personalised. The Filter Bubble reveals how this hidden web is starting to control our lives - and shows what we can do about it.]]> Eli Pariser Kateryna 0 to-read 3.75 2011 The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
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]]> <![CDATA[Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity]]> 1598516 200 Robert Jensen 089608776X Kateryna 0 to-read 3.68 2007 Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins]]> 25510906 In ihrem faszinierenden kaleidoskopischen Essay geht die Anthropologin Anna Lowenhaupt-Tsing den Spuren dieses Pilzes sowie seiner biologischen und kulturellen Verbreitung nach und begibt sich damit auch auf die Suche nach den M旦glichkeiten von Leben in einer vom Menschen zerst旦rten Umwelt. Sie erz辰hlt Geschichten von Pilzsammlern, Wissenschaftlern und Matsutake-H辰ndlern und 旦ffnet einen neuen und ungewohnten Blick auf unsere kapitalistische Gegenwart. Denn eigentlicher Gegenstand ihrer preisgekr旦nten und in viele Sprachen 端bersetzten Erz辰hlung ist die kologie des Matsutake, das Beziehungsgeflecht um den Pilz herum, als pars pro toto des Lebens auf den Ruinen des Kapitalismus, das ein Leben in Beziehungen sein � oder aber nicht sein wird.]]> 331 Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 0691162751 Kateryna 0 3.98 2015 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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]]> 亊从 弍亟 仂仗仂于亟舒仆仆 45997291 丶亠亶 仗舒从亳仆亳亶 仗仂舒亟仆亳从 亰 仆舒仗亳舒仆仆 仆仂于亠仍, 仂仗仂于亟舒仆 舒 仆仂 从仂仂从仂 仗仂亰亳 弍亟亠 从仂亳仆亳亶 舒于仂舒仄-仗仂舒从于礆 舒 于仄, 仂 仂亠 从舒亠 仂亰仄亳 仗亳仆亳仗亳 仍亠舒仆仂亞仂 仗仂亠.


丐:
舒亶从 仂亞舒仆亠仆 (1895�1937) � 从舒仆从亳亶 仗仂亠, 仗仂亰舒从, 仗亠亠从仍舒亟舒, 从亳亳从, 仍仆亞于, 亠仆舒亳. 亟亳仆 亰 仆舒亶从舒于亳 仗亠亟舒于仆亳从于 亟仂弍亳 束仂亰仍礌仂亞仂 于亟仂亟亢亠仆仆晛. 亟亳仆 亰 亰舒仆仂于仆亳从于 仍亠舒仆仂亞仂 仂弍亟仆舒仆仆� 丐. 亠于舒 舒仍仆从亳 亠仗亠亶.

于 仗仂亠亰, 于 仗仂亰 仂亞舒仆亠仆 亰弍亠亞舒于 于仂 仆亟亳于亟舒仍仆. 丼舒仂 于亟舒于舒于 亟仂 亠从仗亠亳仄亠仆于 � 仗仂亟仆于舒于 仗仂亰 亶 仗仂亠亰 于 仂亟仆仂仄 于仂, 亟仂 仄亳从舒亶. 舒 仄仆舒亟 仂从于 于仂仂 亟磿仆仂 于亳亟舒于 于仄 从仆亳亞 于于, 亟亠 从仆亳亞 仗仂亰亳, 仂亳亳 从仆亳亢从亳 亟仍 亟亠亶 舒 亟于 亰 仍亠舒仂亰仆舒于于舒. 丕 亶仂亞仂 仗亠亠从仍舒亟舒从仂仄 亟仂仂弍从 于仂亳 个亟舒 丿亳仍仍亠舒, 仍礆舒 丿亠从仗舒, 亟舒舒 仍仍舒仆舒 仂 舒 仆.

丶从舒于亳亶 舒从: 仂亞舒仆亠仆 亟亢亠 亟仂弍亠 亞舒于 弍仍亟. 亊从仂 于仆 于亳亞舒于 仗舒 仂仍仂亟亳仄亳舒 舒磻仂于从仂亞仂, 亰舒 仂 仂亶, 仗仂亞舒于亳, 仄亳于 亰舒仍亰亳 仗亟 仍 亟亠从仍舒仄于舒亳 于 从仆舒.]]> 128 Maik Yohansen 9669779049 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.00 1928 亊从 弍亟 仂仗仂于亟舒仆仆
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]]> Catch-22 168668
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemyit is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions hes assigned, hell be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Hellers masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Hellers personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.]]> 453 Joseph Heller 0684833395 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.99 1961 Catch-22
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]]> Catwings (Catwings, #1) 13664
Mrs. Jane Tabby can't explain why her four precious kittens were born with wings, but she's grateful that they are able to use their flying skills to soar away from the dangerous city slums where they were born. However, once the kittens escape the big city, they learn that country life can be just as difficult!]]> 40 Ursula K. Le Guin 0439551897 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.12 1988 Catwings (Catwings, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza]]> 45882
Writing in a lyrical mixture of Spanish and English that is her unique heritage, she meditates on the condition of Chicanos in Anglo culture, women in Hispanic culture, and lesbians in the straight world. Her essays and poems range over broad territory, moving from the plight of undocumented migrant workers to memories of her grandmother, from Aztec religion to the agony of writing.

Anzaldua is a rebellious and willful talent who recognizes that life on the border, "life in the shadows," is vital territory for both literature and civilization. Venting her anger on all oppressors of people who are culturally or sexually different, the author has produced a powerful document that belongs in all collections with emphasis on Hispanic American or feminist issues.]]> 260 Gloria E. Anzald炭a 1879960575 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.33 1987 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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]]> <![CDATA[Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods]]> 61388046
Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look like mental disorders. The self-help industry, determined to sell us the promise of a brighter future, can sometimes leave us feeling ashamed that we are not more grateful, happy, or optimistic. Night Vision invites us to consider a different approach to life, one in which we stop feeling bad about feeling bad.

In this powerful and disarmingly intimate book, Existentialist philosopher Mariana Alessandri draws on the stories of a diverse group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophers and writers to help us see that our suffering is a sign not that we are broken but that we are tender, perceptive, and intelligent. Thinkers such as Audre Lorde, Mar鱈a Lugones, Miguel de Unamuno, C. S. Lewis, Gloria Anzald炭a, and S淡ren Kierkegaard sat in their anger, sadness, and anxiety until their eyes adjusted to the dark. Alessandri explains how readers can cultivate night vision� and discover new sides to their painful moods, such as wit and humor, closeness and warmth, and connection and clarity.

Night Vision shows how, when we learn to embrace the dark, we begin to see these moodsand ourselvesas honorable, dignified, and unmistakably human.]]> 216 Mariana Alessandri 0691215456 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.90 Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods
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]]> Forest of Noise: Poems 211809097 A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives.油油Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are those poems. Uncannily clear, direct, and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime. Here are directives for what to do in an air raid; here are lyrics about the poets wife, singing to his children to distract them. Huddled in the dark, Toha remembers his grandfathers oranges, his daughters joy in eating them.油Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely livable occupation, Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imaginationeven as it is watched live. Abu油Toha's poems introduce readers to his extended family, some of them no longer with us. This is an urgent, extraordinary, and arrestingly whimsical book. Searing and beautiful, it brings us indelible art in a time of terrible suffering.]]> 96 Mosab Abu Toha 0593803973 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.73 2024 Forest of Noise: Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[A River Dies of Thirst: Journals]]> 6605134 Anton Shammas

This remarkable collection of Mahmoud Darwishs poems and prose meditations is both lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony and protest and play. Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.� As always, Darwishs musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; myth and dream are inseparable from truth. Truth is plain as day.� Throughout the book, Darwish returns frequently to his ongoing and often lighthearted conversation with death.

Mahmoud Darwish (1941�2008) was awarded the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom in 2001. He was regarded as the voice of the Palestinian people and one of the greatest poets of our time.]]> 153 Mahmoud Darwish 0981955711 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.26 2009 A River Dies of Thirst: Journals
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]]> <![CDATA[Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems]]> 130546 208 Mahmoud Darwish 0520237544 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.38 2002 Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defectors Story]]> 25362017
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal totalitarian regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told the best on the planet�?

Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. She could not have imagined that it would be twelve years before she was reunited with her family.

She could not return, since rumours of her escape were spreading, and she and her family could incur the punishments of the government authorities � involving imprisonment, torture, and possible public execution. Hyeonseo instead remained in China and rapidly learned Chinese in an effort to adapt and survive. Twelve years and two lifetimes later, she would return to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea, on one of the most arduous, costly and dangerous journeys imaginable.

This is the unique story not only of Hyeonseos escape from the darkness into the light, but also of her coming of age, education and the resolve she found to rebuild her life � not once, but twice � first in China, then in South Korea. Strong, brave and eloquent, this memoir is a triumph of her remarkable spirit.]]> 304 Hyeonseo Lee 0007554834 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.36 2014 The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defectors Story
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]]> <![CDATA[Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World]]> 196859667 448 John A. Powell 1503638847 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.16 Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World
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]]> <![CDATA[The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong]]> 203147399 A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell.We dont want to live in a society in turmoil. In the US, 93 percent of people want to reduce divisiveness, and 86 percent believe its possible to disagree in a healthy way. Yet with increasing political and social fragmentation, many of us dont know how to move past our differences. Civil rights scholar john a. powell presents an actionable path through bridging� that helps us communicate, coexist, and imagine a new story for our shared future where we all belong.With inimitable warmth and vision, powell offers a framework for building cohesion and solidarity between disparate beliefs and groups. He defines key concepts such as othering,� which primes us to see people as a threat; breaking,� which excludes people or sees them as threatening our belonging; and finally bridging,� which fosters acceptance both of those we might have othered and even aspects of ourselves. He shares personal reflections as well as practices to help you begin bridging wherever you arein your community, friendships, family, workplace, and even those with whom you might never have imagined you could find common ground. He calls upon us not just to engage with bridging but to become bridgers.Bridging is a salve for our fractured world,� powell says. We can overcome the illusion of separateness by honoring our differences, transcending the notion that difference divides us, and instead co-create a world where everyone belongs.]]> 240 John A. Powell 1649631650 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.19 The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong
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]]> <![CDATA[Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)]]> 28369185 Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.]]> 312 Donna J. Haraway 0822362147 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.04 2016 Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
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]]> I Love Dick 243991
Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.]]> 280 Chris Kraus 1584350342 Kateryna 0 3.53 1997 I Love Dick
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust]]> 16688319
The Book of Human Emotions is a gleeful, thoughtful collection of 156 feelings, both rare and familiar. Tiffany Watt Smith covers the globe and draws on history, anthropology, science, art, literature, music and popular culture to explore them. Each emotion has its own story, and reveals the strange forces which shape our rich and varied internal worlds. Youll discover feelings you never knew you had (like basorexia, the sudden urge to kiss someone), uncover secret histories of boredom and confidence, and gain unexpected insights into why we feel the way we do.]]> 308 Tiffany Watt Smith 1781251290 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.90 2015 The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
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]]> The Vegetarian 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one womans struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.61 2007 The Vegetarian
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]]> The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X Kateryna 0 to-read 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
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]]> Hellersdorfer Perle 8606412
Eine Kneipe am Rande der Stadt, die Hellersdorfer Perle. Eine Frau Mitte dreiig, die ihr Leben 辰ndern, die Gewissheiten hinter sich lassen will. Eine Begegnung mit einem Mann, der anders ist als alle, die sie bisher kennengelernt hat.
Katja Oskamp erz辰hlt von Sehnsucht und Leidenschaft, von Lust und Macht und von einer Welt am Rande der groen Stadt, die sich Normen und Mittelma widersetzt.

"Dass es Katja Oskamp gelingt, dieses moderne M辰rchen von einem neuen Leben mitsamt seinen skurrilen Z端gen plausibel zu machen, ist ein kleines Wunder. In der 'Hellersdorfer Perle' geht es nicht cool oder lifestylig zu, sondern derb, schmuddelig, banal. Und eben das ist der Witz des Romans." Deutschlandradio Kultur]]> 218 Katja Oskamp 382186110X Kateryna 3 2.70 2010 Hellersdorfer Perle
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]]> <![CDATA[Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984�2021]]> 58722634
Whether hes describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder (Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse....�) or the installations of Barbara Kruger (Kruger compresses the telling exchanges of lived experience that betray how skewed our lives are�), Indiana is never just describing. His writing is refreshing, erudite, joyful.

Indiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; is unafraid to deliver the coup de gr但ce when someone needs to say the emperor has no clothes; speaks in the same breathin the same discerning, insolent, eloquent wayabout high art and pop culture. Few writers could get away with saying the things Gary Indiana does. And when the writing is this good, its also political, plus its a riot of fun on the page.

Here is Gary Indiana on Euro Disney resort park in Marne-la-Val辿e outside of Paris:
John Berger compares the art of Disney to that of Francis Bacon. He says that the same essential horror lurks in both, and that it springs from the viewers imagining: There is nothing else. Even as a child, I understood how unbearable it would be to be trapped inside a cartoon frame.]]> 448 Gary Indiana 1644211629 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.02 2022 Fire Season: Selected Essays 19842021
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]]> Do Everything in the Dark 220765
The novel follows several couples and solitary wanderers through the summer of 2001, as their internationally scattered vacations throw long-festering, glossed-over incompatibilities and resentments into exotic and unbearable relief. Indiana shows his large and terrifyingly credible cast of Americas cultural elite exhibiting their worst behavior, while sympathizing with their underlying fears and frailties and thwarted good intentions.

Do Everything in the Dark is Indianas darkest and funniest novel, but also his deepest exploration of our least manageable, most uncomfortable emotions.]]> 274 Gary Indiana 0312312067 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.94 2003 Do Everything in the Dark
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]]> <![CDATA[Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving]]> 20556323
I felt encouraged to write this book because of thousands of e-mail responses to the articles on my website that repeatedly expressed gratitude for the helpfulness of my work. An often echoed comment sounded like this: At last someone gets it. I can see now that I am not bad, defective or crazyor alone!

The causes of CPTSD range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grow up in houses that are not homes � in families that are as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous.

If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul and body.

This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life. It is copiously illustrated with examples of my own and my clients� journeys of recovering. This book is also for those who do not have CPTSD but want to understand and help a loved one who does.

This book also contains an overview of the tasks of recovering and a great many practical tools and techniques for recovering from childhood trauma. It extensively elaborates on all the recovery concepts explained on my website, and many more. However, unlike the articles on my website, it is oriented toward the layperson. As such, much of the psychological jargon and dense concentration of concepts in the website articles has been replaced with expanded and easier to follow explanations. Moreover, many principles that were only sketched out in the articles are explained in much greater detail. A great deal of new material is also explored.

Key concepts of the book include managing emotional flashbacks, understanding the four different types of trauma survivors, differentiating the outer critic from the inner critic, healing the abandonment depression that come from emotional abandonment and self-abandonment, self-reparenting and reparenting by committee, and deconstructing the hierarchy of self-injuring responses that childhood trauma forces survivors to adopt.

The book also functions as a map to help you understand the somewhat linear progression of recovery, to help you identify what you have already accomplished, and to help you figure out what is best to work on and prioritize now. This in turn also serves to help you identify the signs of your recovery and to develop reasonable expectations about the rate of your recovery.

I hope this map will guide you to heal in a way that helps you to become an unflinching source of kindness and self-compassion for yourself, and that out of that journey you will find at least one other human being who will reciprocally love you well enough in that way.]]> 376 Pete Walker Kateryna 0 currently-reading 4.55 2013 Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
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]]> <![CDATA[Species of Spaces and Other Pieces]]> 28297 Species of Spaces and Other Pieces is edited and translated from the French with an introduction by John Sturrock in Penguin Classics.

Georges Perec, author of Life: A User's Manual, was one of the most surprising and enjoyable of all modern French writers. The pieces in this volume show him to be at times playful, more serious at other, but writing always with the lightest of touches. He had the keenest of eyes for the 'infra-ordinary', the things we do every day - eating, sleeping, working - and the places we do them in without giving them a moment's thought. But behind the lightness and humour, there is also the sadness of a French Jewish boy who lost his parents in the Second World War and found comfort in the material world around him, and above all in writing.

This volume contains a selection of Georges Perec's non-fiction works, along with a charming short story, 'The Winter Journey'. It also includes notes and an introduction describing Perec's life and career.]]> 292 Georges Perec 0140189866 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.32 1974 Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
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]]> Poetik des Raumes 17316440 256 Gaston Bachelard 359627396X Kateryna 0 to-read 3.83 1957 Poetik des Raumes
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]]> Kairos 58877223 379 Jenny Erpenbeck 332860085X Kateryna 0 to-read 3.35 2021 Kairos
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]]> <![CDATA[The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman]]> 198483 A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.]]> 221 Angela Carter 0140235191 Kateryna 0 3.79 1972 The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
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]]> <![CDATA[舒仄舒 于仂仗亳. 仂 丕从舒仆亳 于亟 从从亳 于仂仆 亟仂 仆亠亰舒仍亠亢仆仂]]> 31563107 496 弌亠亞亶 仍仂亶 6171210560 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.66 2015 舒仄舒 于仂仗亳. 仂 丕从舒仆亳 于亟 从从亳 于仂仆 亟仂 仆亠亰舒仍亠亢仆仂
author: 弌亠亞亶 仍仂亶
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]]> Gravity and Grace 730139 Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition - by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 - this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of the controversial chapter on Israel. Also previously untranslated is Gustave Thibon's postscript of 1990, which reminds us how privileged we are to be able to read a work which offers each reader such 'light for the spirit and nourishment for the soul'. This is a book that no one with a serious interest in the spiritual life can afford to be without.]]> 224 Simone Weil 0415290015 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.32 1947 Gravity and Grace
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]]> Transit 29939363 The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Reviews ten best books of 2015.

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitionspersonal, moral, artistic, practicalas she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.

Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this precise, short, and yet epic cycle of novels, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.]]> 260 Rachel Cusk 0374278628 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.98 2016 Transit
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]]> Outline 21400742
Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry. The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.

Outline is a novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.]]> 249 Rachel Cusk 0571233627 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.68 2014 Outline
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]]> Radio Sarajevo 141318097
Dies ist die Geschichte meiner Kindheit und meines Kriegs.� Als im April 1992 der Krieg beginnt, ist Tijan Sila nur zehn Jahre alt, doch bis heute kann er sich an den Geruch von gez端ndetem Sprengstoff erinnern. W辰hrend Sarajevo in Flammen steht, wird aus dem Jungen, der er damals war, ein junger Mann. Er streift durch die Ruinen der ausgebombten Stadt und sammelt Dinge, die von den Geflohenen und Gestorbenen zur端ckgeblieben sind, um sie auf dem Schwarzmarkt gegen Essen zu tauschen. Er lernt zu 端berleben, und er akzeptiert die grausame neue Normalit辰t, doch zu welchem Preis?
Seine Geschichte ist eine Geschichte des Unerwarteten. Sie erz辰hlt davon, wie Dichter zu M旦rdern werden und M旦rder zu Helden. Sie erz辰hlt von Menschen, denen jede Menschlichkeit j辰h genommen wurde, und von den Spreieln, die der Krieg im Hirn jedes berlebenden hinterl辰sst.]]> 177 Tijan Sila 3446278893 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.43 2023 Radio Sarajevo
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]]> Unser Deutschlandm辰rchen 121133494 Unser Deutschlandm辰rchen ist eine Familiengeschichte in vielen Stimmen. Frauen mehrerer Generationen und der in Almanya geborene Sohn erinnern sich in poetischen, oft mythischen, kr辰ftigen Bildern und in Monologen, Dialogen, Tr辰umen, Gebeten, Ch旦ren. Din巽er G端巽yeter erz辰hlt vom Schicksal t端rkischer Griechen, von archaischer Verwurzelung in anatolischem Leben und von der Herausforderung, als Gastarbeiterin und als deren Nachkomme in Deutschland ein neues Leben zu beginnen.

Die Handlung, die sich vom Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts bis beinah in die Jetztzeit erstreckt, l辰sst nichts aus, keine Vergewaltigung, kein Missverst辰ndnis, keinen Konflikt am Arbeitsplatz, ganz gleich ob in der Schuhfabrik, beim Bauern auf dem Feld oder in der eigenen Kneipe. Und dann ist da noch die Erwartung der Mutter an den heranwachsenden Sohn, der ihr als starker Mann zur Seite stehen soll, selbst jedoch eine g辰nzlich andere Vorstellung von einem erf端llten Leben hat.]]> 213 Din巽er G端巽yeter 3948631166 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.20 2022 Unser Deutschlandm辰rchen
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]]> <![CDATA[When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress]]> 450534
When the Body Says No is an impressive contribution to research on the physiological connection between life's stresses and emotions and the body systems governing nerves, immune apparatus and hormones. With great compassion and erudition, Gabor Mat辿 demystifies medical science and, as he did in Scattered Minds , invites us all to be our own health advocates.]]> 320 Gabor Mat辿 0676973124 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.21 2003 When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
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]]> <![CDATA[The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture]]> 2218620 The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlants groundbreaking national sentimentality� project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural intimate public� in the United States, a womens culture� distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of a conversation that feels intimate and revelatory. As Berlant explains, womens� books, films, and television shows enact a fantasy that a womans life is not just her own, but an experience understood by other women, no matter how dissimilar they are. The commodified genres of intimacy, such as chick lit,� circulate among strangers, enabling insider self-help talk to flourish in an intimate public. Sentimentality and complaint are central to this commercial convention of critique; their relation to the political realm is ambivalent, as politics seems both to threaten sentimental values and to provide certain opportunities for their extension. Pairing literary criticism and historical analysis, Berlant explores the territory of this intimate public sphere through close readings of U.S. womens literary works and their stage and film adaptations. Her interpretation of Uncle Toms Cabin and its literary descendants reaches from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Toni Morrisons Beloved, touching on Shirley Temple, James Baldwin, and The Bridges of Madison County along the way. Berlant illuminates different permutations of the womens intimate public through her readings of Edna Ferbers Show Boat; Fannie Hursts Imitation of Life; Olive Higgins Proutys feminist melodrama Now, Voyager; Dorothy Parkers poetry, prose, and Academy Awardwinning screenplay for A Star Is Born; the Fay Weldon novel and Roseanne Barr film The Life and Loves of a She-Devil; and the queer, avant-garde film Showboat 1988The Remake. The Female Complaint is a major contribution from a leading Americanist.]]> 368 Lauren Berlant 0822342022 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.20 2008 The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
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]]> 亠于仂从亳 亳 亳仆亳亳亳 107142310 80 Darya Serenko 5604645095 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.08 2021 亠于仂从亳 亳 亳仆亳亳亳
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]]> <![CDATA[Ukrainian Science Fiction: Historical and Thematic Perspectives]]> 18570462 The initial part of the study focuses on the historical legacy of Ukrainian science fiction, with a special emphasis on the authors of the formative period and the 辿migr辿 authors who wrote after the Second World War, but were totally ignored during the Soviet political hegemony. It is followed by an analysis of the impact of Soviet ideology on the science fiction that prevailed in Ukraine from the 1920s to the late 1950s.
With the relaxation of political controls over literature, publications of Ukrainian science fiction after the 1960s were so numerous that it was not feasible to obtain and to examine all these items. However, the novels and stories that were utilized in this study do provide a representative sample of the themes that comprise the main thrust of Ukrainian science fiction from the early 1960s to the end of the 20th century.]]> 388 Walter Smyrniw 3034313233 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.40 2013 Ukrainian Science Fiction: Historical and Thematic Perspectives
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy]]> 42771901 232 Jenny Odell 1612197493 Kateryna 3 3.68 2019 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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]]> 亠仆舒 仆舒 35051122
丶亠 仗亠舒 从仆亳亢从舒 亰 束仄仆仂損 亳仍仂亞 豫仍 仆仂 � 仗仂亠从亳, 仗亳仄亠仆仆亳 舒 亟仂亢仆亳, 仂 仆舒仂亟亳仍舒 于 亳于, 亢亳仍舒 于 仂从于, 仆舒 仗仂舒从 1990- 仗亠亠舒仍舒 亟仂 仄亠亳仆亳, 亟亠 舒仍舒 仂亟仆 亰 于亟仂仄亳 舒仆亳 仗仂亰舒从于. 仗亳舒仆仆 仗仂于仆ﾑﾑ 亰 舒弍仂从仂于亳仄 舒从亠仂仄, 弍仂亞舒仆舒 束亠仆舒 仆舒 損 � 仗仂 亟仂仂仍舒仆仆 于 弍亠亢仆于从 仂从亳 于 仂仍亳 丕弌, 磻舒 亰舒仍亳舒 亟仍 舒于仂从亳 仗仂于仆亶仆亳仄 仗于亟亠仆仆亳仄 仄仂仄. 丐仂亢 亞亠仂仆 于仂, 仗亠亠弍于舒ﾑ亳 于 舒 仗亟仍从仂于仂亞仂 仆舒仆亳仍亰仄, 于亳亞舒亟 于亶 于仍舒仆亳亶, 仆亠 亞亳亶 亰舒 束仂亶仆亳亶損, 亠于. 仗仆仂仗舒仄'仆舒 束ﾐ勤出粧从舒 从仂仍舒損 于亟亞从 亳 亟仂于亳 仗亳舒仆仆 � 亳仍亳仆仂, 仗亳仂仍仂亞仆仂, 亟亠于仆仂.]]> 256 Julia Kissina 6170930675 Kateryna 0 4.00 2011 亠仆舒 仆舒
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]]> 仄舒亟仂从舒 51476901
仄舒亟仂从舒 � 仆舒亶弍仍亠 于 于仂仗 仂亰亠仂, 仂亰舒仂于舒仆亠 仆舒 亠亳仂 舒仆仂 丕从舒仆亳, 于仗亠亠 亰亞舒亟舒仆亠 亠仂亟仂仂仄 于仗仂亟仂于亢 从仍从仂 仂仍 于亟于仂ﾐ火夷出 仆舒 仄舒仗舒 亠亠亟仆仂于仆亳仄亳 从舒仂亞舒舒仄亳, 舒亢 亟仂 于仂亞仂 舒仗仂于仂亞仂 仍从仂于亳仂亞仂 亰仆亳从仆亠仆仆. 亊从亳仄 亳仆仂仄 弍亠亰仍亟仆仂 于亳仗舒仂于ﾑ 于亠仍亳从 仂亰亠舒, 磻 亰仆亳从舒ﾑ 仍 于亳, 仍 从仍亳 � 仂 亰舒仍亳舒 仆舒仂仄? 丼亳 仄仂亢亠 仆于舒亳 亰于磶仂� 仄亢 于亠亶从仂 舒舒仂仂 弌亟仆仂 于仂仗亳 亰仆亳亠仆仆礆 从舒仆从仂 仆亠仍亠仆 于 舒亳 舒仍仆从亳 亠仗亠亶? 丼亳 仄仂亢亠 亰舒弍 仂亟仆 仍ﾐ莞湖出 磪舒亳 仆舒 从仍从舒 仗仂从仂仍仆 仗亟 亰亠仄仍? 丼亳 仗仂于磶ﾑ� 仆舒 亰仆舒从亳 舒仄亳 仗仂仆于亠亠仆仂 仗舒仄�? 丼亳 亰亟舒仆 仍ﾐ頴笑 亠仗仆仆 亟舒亳 亰仄仂亞 仂从仆亳 于亟仂仄仂亳 仆仂 仍ﾐ莞湖出?]]> 832 Sofia Andrukhovych 6176796296 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.35 2020 仄舒亟仂从舒
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]]> 舒舒仆舒仆亠 213934602 224 Sofia Andrukhovych 617743858X Kateryna 0 to-read 3.85 舒舒仆舒仆亠
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]]> <![CDATA[The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way]]> 103489828 A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other peoples, to build a more just world油

Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companions sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so woke�? If so, you might be a feminist killjoyand this handbook is for you. In this book, feminist theorist Sara Ahmed shows how killing joy can be a radical world-making project.油

Presenting sharp analysis of literature, film, and influential feminist works, and drawing on her own experiences as a queer feminist scholar-activist of color, Ahmed reveals the invaluable lessons of the feminist killjoy, from the importance of asking questions to the power of the eye roll. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook offers an outstretched hand to feminist killjoys everywhere and an essential intellectual guide to the transformative power of getting in the way.油]]> 304 Sara Ahmed 1541603753 Kateryna 5 3.95 2023 The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
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]]> Every Day Is for the Thief 2320230 A young Nigerian writer living in New York City returns to Lagos in search of a subject-and himself.

Visiting Lagos after many years away, Teju Cole's unnamed narrator rediscovers his hometown as both a foreigner and a local. A young writer uncertain of what he wants to say, the man moves through tableaus of life in one of the most dynamic cities in the world: he hears the muezzin's call to prayer in the early morning light, and listens to John Coltrane during the late afternoon heat. He witnesses teenagers diligently perpetrating e-mail frauds from internet cafes, longs after a woman reading Michael Ondaatje on a public bus, and visits the impoverished National Museum. Along the way, he reconnects with old school friends and his family, who force him to ask himself profound questions of personal and national history. Over long, wandering days, the narrator compares present-day Lagos to the Lagos of his memory, and in doing so reveals changes that have taken place in himself.]]> 128 Teju Cole 978080515X Kateryna 0 to-read 3.68 2007 Every Day Is for the Thief
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]]> <![CDATA[The Future of Food Is Female: Reinventing the Food System to Save the Planet]]> 60490644
Reforming our food system is the single most important challenge facing humanity todayand women are leading the charge. With exclusive interviews and original insights, this collection features the never-before-told stories of fifteen CEOs, venture capitalists, scientists, and trailblazers, across continents and backgrounds, who are reinventing our food system and saving the planet.

From plant-based to cell-based innovation, artificial intelligence, and policymaking, women leaders are pushing to the forefront of this growing industry and disrupting the traditional ways we produce and think about food. Their stories reveal the exciting advancements and advocacy within food tech and empower a future generation to learn, innovate, and change the world.]]> 168 Jennifer Stojkovic Kateryna 0 to-read 3.69 The Future of Food Is Female: Reinventing the Food System to Save the Planet
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]]> <![CDATA[Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad--and Surprising Good--About Feeling Special]]> 23462637 Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the "narcissism epidemic," by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism, identifying ways to control the trait, and explaining how too little of it may be a bad thing.

"What is narcissism?" is one of the fastest rising searches on Google, and articles on the topic routinely go viral. Yet, the word "narcissist" seems to mean something different every time it's uttered. People hurl the word as insult at anyone who offends them. It's become so ubiquitous, in fact, that it's lost any clear meaning. The only certainty these days is that it's bad to be a narcissistreally badinspiring the same kind of roiling queasiness we feel when we hear the words sexist or racist. That's especially troubling news for millennials, the people born after 1980, who've been branded the "most narcissistic generation ever."

In Rethinking Narcissism readers will learn that there's far more to narcissism than its reductive invective would imply. The truth is that we all fall on a spectrum somewhere between utter selflessness on the one side, and arrogance and grandiosity on the other. A healthy middle exhibits a strong sense of self. On the far end lies sociopathy. Malkin deconstructs healthy from unhealthy narcissism and offers clear, step-by-step guidance on how to promote healthy narcissism in our partners, our children, and ourselves.]]> 256 Craig Malkin 0062348108 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.94 Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad--and Surprising Good--About Feeling Special
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]]> <![CDATA[The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss]]> 58007238 A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.

For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have written about the dark cloak of grief, the deep yearning, how devastating heartache feels. But until now, we have had little scientific perspective on this universal experience.

In The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD, gives us a fascinating new window into one of the hallmark experiences of being human. O'Connor has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain, and in this book, she makes cutting-edge neuroscience accessible through her contagious enthusiasm, and guides us through how we encode love and grief. With love, our neurons help us form attachments to others; but, with loss, our brain must come to terms with where our loved ones went, or how to imagine a future that encompasses their absence.

Based on O'Connor's own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain does what the best popular science books do, combining storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.]]> 236 Mary-Frances O'Connor 0062946234 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.13 2022 The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
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]]> <![CDATA[Imperfect Solidarities (Critics' Essay Series)]]> 211722770 116 Aruna d'Souza 3982389488 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.46 Imperfect Solidarities (Critics' Essay Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine]]> 24796225 from Refugee"

Remi Kanazi's poetry presents an unflinching look at the lives of Palestinians under occupation and as refugees scattered across the globe. He captures the Palestinian people's stubborn refusal to be erased, gives voice to the ongoing struggle for liberation, and explores the meaning of international solidarity.

In this latest collection, Kanazi expands his focus outside the sphere of Palestine and presents pieces examining racism in America, police brutality, US militarism at home and wars abroad, conflict voyeurism, Islamophobia, and a range of other issues.
]]> 100 Remi Kanazi 1608465241 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.49 2015 Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine
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]]> Cruel Optimism 11347563
Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theorywith its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinaryis not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.]]> 342 Lauren Berlant 0822351110 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.15 2011 Cruel Optimism
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]]> <![CDATA[The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture]]> 58537332 In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Mat辿 eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really normal� when it comes to health?

Over four decades of clinical experience, Mat辿 has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of normal� as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how todays culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Mat辿 brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of societyand offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Co-written with his son Daniel, The Myth of Normal is Mat辿s most ambitious and urgent book yet.]]> 576 Gabor Mat辿 0593083881 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.30 2022 The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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]]> The Arsonists' City 48930261
The Nasr family is spread across the globeBeirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, theyve always had their ancestral home in Beiruta constant touchstoneand the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new patriarch, has decided to sell.

The decision brings the family to Beirut, where everyone unites against Idris in a fight to save the house. They all have secretslost loves, bitter jealousies, abandoned passions, deep-set shamethat distance has helped smother. But in a city smoldering with the legacy of war, an ongoing flow of refugees, religious tension, and political protest, those secrets ignite, imperiling the fragile ties that hold this family together.
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In a novel teeming with wisdom, warmth, and characters born of remarkable human insight, award-winning author Hala Alyan shows us again that fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us� (NPR).]]> 464 Hala Alyan 035812655X Kateryna 0 to-read 4.31 2021 The Arsonists' City
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]]> My Cat Yugoslavia: A Novel 35952939 A love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat.

In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-day Finland, not just an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners, but a gay man in an unaccepting society. Aside from casual hookups, his only friend is a boa constrictor whom, improbably--he is terrified of snakes--he lets roam his apartment. Then, during a visit to a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat who moves in with him and his snake. It is this witty, charming, manipulative creature who starts Bekim on a journey back to Kosovo to confront his demons and make sense of the magical, cruel, incredible history of his family. And it is this that, in turn, enables him finally, to open himself to true love--which he will find in the most unexpected place.]]> 272 Pajtim Statovci 0525432450 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.69 2014 My Cat Yugoslavia: A Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[仂仍亠从亳于仆 舒仆舒亰 舒 于仂仂仆亠 亠]]> 123232310 48 舒亠亳仆舒 仍亶仆亳从 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.75 2023 仂仍亠从亳于仆 舒仆舒亰 舒 于仂仂仆亠 亠
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]]> <![CDATA[Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention� and How to Think Deeply Again]]> 57933306 Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back.

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity.

Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.]]> 357 Johann Hari 0593138511 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.22 2022 Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again
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]]> <![CDATA[亊 仗亠亠于仂ﾑﾑ... 乂仂亟亠仆仆亳从 仂从仗舒. 亳弍舒仆 于]]> 198189674 仂 从仆亳亢从亳 于亶仍亳 亠从亳 仂亟亠仆仆亳从舒 仂从仗舒, 于亳弍舒仆舒 仗仂亠亰 仂仍仂亟亳仄亳舒 舒从仍亠仆从舒-. 亟仍 亟亠亶 亟仂仂仍亳, 舒 舒从仂亢 仂 于亟 亟亰于, 从仂仍亠亞 舒 仂亠于亳亟于, 仂 亰舒仆 仂仆从 仗亠亳 仄于 仗仂于仆仂仄舒舒弍仆仂 于亶仆亳 仂 仗仂亳 丕从舒仆亳.


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仍舒亟亳仍舒于舒 舒仆仂仂从舒, 亠仂仆亟舒 仂亞于亳仆亠仆从舒, 舒从亳仄舒 弌亳仆从仂于舒, 束丱舒从于从亳亶 仍亠舒仆亳亶 仄亰亠亶損 舒 亰 舒于 仂亟亳仆亳 舒从仍亠仆从于.
仍ﾑ舒 舒仍亠 亰从舒]]> 192 仂仍仂亟亳仄亳 舒从仍亠仆从仂-. 6171701564 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.91 2023 亊 仗亠亠于仂ﾑﾑ... 乂仂亟亠仆仆亳从 仂从仗舒. 亳弍舒仆 于
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]]> <![CDATA[Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly]]> 56218232 Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with feral flora, Cardina shows how weeds have shaped--and are shaped by--the way we live in the natural world.

Weeds and attempts to control them drove nomads toward settled communities, encouraged social stratification, caused environmental disruptions, and have motivated the development of GMO crops. They have snared us in social inequality and economic instability, infested social norms of suburbia, caused rage in the American heartland, and played a part in perpetuating pesticide use worldwide. Lives of Weeds reveals how the technologies directed against weeds underlie ethical questions about agriculture and the environment, and leaves readers with a deeper understanding of how the weeds around us are entangled in our daily choices.]]> 296 John Cardina 1501758985 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.33 2021 Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
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]]> <![CDATA[Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses]]> 87040 Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings, from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks. Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.

Drawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.

Gathering Moss will appeal to a wide range of readers, from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment, Native Americans, and contemporary nature and science writing.

]]> 168 Robin Wall Kimmerer 0870714996 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.39 2003 Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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]]> <![CDATA[Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime]]> 176443741
What does a healthy relationship look like?

A good question, in theory, but expert couples therapist Julie Menanno wants you to what does a securely attached relationship feel like?

The answer to this question is the ultimate goal in Secure Love , a groundbreaking guide to understanding secure attachment in adult relationships. While attachment theory has grown in popularity to explain the relationship between children and their caregivers, its also the closest science has come to making sense of our adult romantic connections.

Julie Menanno is the couples therapist behind the popular Instagram account @TheSecureRelationship, whose valuable relationship advice from her expertise gained her over a million fans. In Secure Love , Menanno
- Why you and your partner have the same fight over and over ( its called a negative cycle, and underlying every fight, argument, silent treatment, or passive-aggressive comment is an unmet attachment need).
- The four attachment types, with exercises designed to help you understand you and your partners attachment style.
- How to improve communication, including staying connected during conflict by prioritizing vulnerability rather than protecting yourself.
- Instead of that, say this� suggested scripts of how to approach difficult situations in your relationship.
- Why insecure attachment negatively impacts a couples sex life and how to restore that sexual connection.

Secure Love is a crash course in understanding how you show up in a relationship and how to get out of negative cycles. Menanno teaches you how to establish a secure attachment with your partner to create the bond youve been longing for.]]> 336 Julie Menanno 1668012863 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.52 Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime
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]]> <![CDATA[The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life]]> 780672 384 Joseph E. LeDoux 0684836599 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.08 1996 The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
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]]> 亠于仗仂从亶 于 从仍 57796120 120 Sigmund Freud 617629665X Kateryna 4 4.04 1930 亠于仗仂从亶 于 从仍
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average rating: 4.04
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丕 仂仄舒仆 仗亠亠仗仍亠仍亳 从亳仄从仂舒舒从舒 从仍舒, 从舒仆从舒 仍亠舒舒 仂亟亳仆仆 舒仄仆亳. 舒亰仂仄 亰 亞仂仍仂于仆仂 亞亠仂仆亠 仗仂亟亞舒仄亳 从亳亳仄仍亳 仍 亶 从舒仆从仂 仍仂仆仂 亳舒 仗仂仂亟亳 亟仂于亞亳亶 仍 于亟 亟亳亳仆于舒 亟于舒 舒亢 亟仂 舒仆亠从 亳仄 仂.

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仂弍仂舒 仆舒亟 从仆亳亢从仂 亳于舒仍舒 亰 2012 仂从. 仗仂舒从仂仄 仂从仗舒 亳仄, 2014 仂, 从仂仆亠仗 亰仄仆亳仍舒. 舒 亠亶 舒 舒于仂从舒 于亰磿舒 弍仍亳亰从仂 200 仆亠于' 亰 弍仍 仆亢 50 从亳仄舒仆舒仄亳. 亠舒仍 仆 仂亰仗仂于亟亠亶 舒仍亳 舒亳仆仂 仂仄舒仆.]]> 392 仆舒舒 亠于从仂于舒 6178203810 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.59 2023 舒 亠亠从仂仗仂仄 亰亠仄仍
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]]> <![CDATA[Responsibility for Justice (Oxford Political Philosophy)]]> 9593753
In her long-awaited Responsibility for Justice , Young discusses our responsibilities to address "structural" injustices in which we among many are implicated (but for which we not to blame), often by virtue of participating in a market, such as buying goods produced in sweatshops, or participating in booming housing markets that leave many homeless. Young argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which she calls the "social connection" model. She develops this idea by clarifying the nature of structural injustice; developing the notion of political responsibility for injustice and how it differs from older ideas of blame and guilt; and finally how we can then use this model to describe our responsibilities to others no matter who we are and where we live.

With a foreward by Martha C. Nussbaum, this last statement by a revered and highly influential thinker will be of great interest to political theorists and philosophers, ethicists, and feminist and political philosophers.]]> 193 Iris Marion Young 0195392388 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.21 2006 Responsibility for Justice (Oxford Political Philosophy)
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]]> Vatermal 125083265 256 Necati ziri 3843730113 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.37 Vatermal
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]]> <![CDATA[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]> 41880609 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.]]> 246 Ocean Vuong 0525562028 Kateryna 5 4.05 2019 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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An emotionally moving, beautifully written collage of memories about mother, the Vietnam War, immigration, the process of finding a language and exploring one's own sexuality, as well as, to quote Jonas Mekas, "brief glimpses of beauty".
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Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appearand those that do notas signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserls Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological textsby Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanonwith insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions.]]> 223 Sara Ahmed 0822339145 Kateryna 0 4.32 2006 Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
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]]> <![CDATA[Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity]]> 239899 208 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 0822330156 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.16 2002 Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
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]]> The Wild Iris 76546 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gl端ck, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms

Bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Gl端ck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.]]> 65 Louise Gl端ck 0880013346 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.22 1992 The Wild Iris
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]]> <![CDATA[The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Paradigm)]]> 66651 100 Donna J. Haraway 0971757585 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.65 2003 The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Paradigm)
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]]> My Mother Laughs 45858815
Translated by Daniella Shreir

WIth an Introduction by Eileen Myles and Afterword by Frances Morgan]]> 230 Chantal Akerman 0995716234 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.29 2013 My Mother Laughs
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 128029
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.44 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
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