April's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:05:52 -0700 60 April's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]> 6493208
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored� ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia � a land of wooden quarters for enslaved people, faith healings, and voodoo � to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality� until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family � past and present � is inextricably connected to the history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.]]> 370 Rebecca Skloot 1400052173 April 0 4.12 2010 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
author: Rebecca Skloot
name: April
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2010
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]]> Sharp Objects 66559
Sent to investigate the disappearance of two little girls, Camille finds herself reluctantly installed in the family mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and a precocious thirteen-year-old half-sister she barely knows. Haunted by a family tragedy, troubled by the disquieting grip her young sister has on the town, Camille struggles with a familiar need to be accepted.

But as clues turn into dead ends, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims and realises: she will have to unravel the puzzle of her own past if she's to survive this homecoming.]]> 254 Gillian Flynn 0307341542 April 5 3.89 2006 Sharp Objects
author: Gillian Flynn
name: April
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto]]> 60382737
From the founder and creator of The Nap Ministry,Rest Is Resistanceis a battle cry, a guidebook, a map for a movement, and a field guide for the weary and hopeful. It is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice, all delivered in Hersey's lyrical voice and informed by her deep experience in theology, activism, and performance art,Rest Is Resistanceis a call to action and manifesto for those who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture.]]> 224 Tricia Hersey 0316365211 April 5 audiobooks, non-fiction 4.06 2022 Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
author: Tricia Hersey
name: April
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/06
date added: 2025/03/06
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]]> <![CDATA[Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book]]> 227570 64 Terry Jones 1857933362 April 5 mystery-etc 4.02 1994 Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
author: Terry Jones
name: April
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/04
date added: 2025/03/04
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]]> <![CDATA[In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial]]> 57693411
Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed?

Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society’s seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct descendants to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions.

With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who live their lives on their own terms.]]> 320 Mona Chollet 125027141X April 2 3.86 2018 In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
author: Mona Chollet
name: April
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2018
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/16
date added: 2025/02/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection]]> 220341389 John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.]]> 208 John Green 0525556575 April 0 to-read 4.55 2025 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
author: John Green
name: April
average rating: 4.55
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Chronicles of the Unexplained: True Stories of Haunted Houses, Bigfoot & Other Paranormal Encounters]]> 23364547 216 Gary Gillespie 0738745383 April 3 mystery-etc, non-fiction 3.28 2015 Chronicles of the Unexplained: True Stories of Haunted Houses, Bigfoot & Other Paranormal Encounters
author: Gary Gillespie
name: April
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/12
date added: 2025/02/12
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]]> <![CDATA[Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness]]> 31450861
Glenn Close " Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I’ve read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw’s story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It’s a masterpiece."

A deeply personal memoir calling for an end to the dark shaming of mental illness

Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for 18 years within his family―that his father’s mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, during Hinshaw’s first spring break from college, he knew his life would change forever.

Hinshaw calls this revelation his “psychological birth.� After years of experiencing the ups and downs of his father’s illness without knowing it existed, Hinshaw began to piece together the silent, often terrifying history of his father’s life―in great contrast to his father’s presence and love during periods of wellness. This exploration led to larger discoveries about the family saga, to Hinshaw’s correctly diagnosing his father with bipolar disorder, and to his full-fledged career as a clinical and developmental psychologist and professor.

In Another Kind of Madness , Hinshaw explores the burden of living in a family “loaded� with mental illness and debunks the stigma behind it. He explains that in today’s society, mental health problems still receive utter castigation―too often resulting in the loss of fundamental rights, including the inability to vote or run for office or automatic relinquishment of child custody. Through a poignant and moving family narrative, interlaced with shocking facts about how America and the world still view mental health conditions well into in the 21st century, Another Kind of Madness is a passionate call to arms regarding the importance of destigmatizing mental illness.]]> 288 Stephen P. Hinshaw 1250113369 April 4 audiobooks, non-fiction 3.86 2017 Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
author: Stephen P. Hinshaw
name: April
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone #1)]]> 58750487
She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose. "You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it.

She answered, "Yes."

---

Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger.

Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist.

After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows―a love that is both captivating and forbidden.]]> 379 Scarlett St. Clair 1728258456 April 0 to-read 3.87 2019 A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone #1)
author: Scarlett St. Clair
name: April
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache]]> 1108654 368 Paula Kamen 0738209031 April 5 non-fiction 3.79 2005 All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
author: Paula Kamen
name: April
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Witch's Door: Oddities and Tales from the Esoteric to the Extreme]]> 207567631
Enter at your own risk …]]> 304 Ryan Matthew Cohn 1797229583 April 3 mystery-etc, non-fiction 3.70 2024 The Witch's Door: Oddities and Tales from the Esoteric to the Extreme
author: Ryan Matthew Cohn
name: April
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/01
date added: 2025/02/01
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]]> <![CDATA[Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father]]> 207294155 The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the “Sweetheart Murders� cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father’s dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history. In her unflinching memoir, Balascio bravely reveals an astonishing tale of a lifetime of manipulation, unexplained upheavals, and silent fear. Some part of her had always known what her father was capable of, but the full truth of how she came to these revelations is as riveting as it is quietly terrifying. Through searing storytelling, dedicated research, and intimate insight, Raised by a Serial Killer is a gripping, courageous memoir unlike any other.]]> 352 April Balascio 1982177039 April 5 audiobooks, non-fiction 3.84 2024 Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
author: April Balascio
name: April
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/28
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]]> <![CDATA[The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand]]> 220377457 An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!

Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel—generations of writers have been impacted by its dark yet ultimately hopeful vision of the end and new beginning of civilization, and its stunning array of characters.

Now for the first time, Stephen King has fully authorized a return to the harrowing world of The Stand through this original short story anthology as presented by award-winning authors and editors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. Bringing together some of today’s greatest and most visionary writers, The End of the World As We Know It features unforgettable, all-new stories set during and after (and some perhaps long after) the events of The Stand—brilliant, terrifying, and painfully human tales that will resonate with readers everywhere as an essential companion to the classic, bestselling novel.

Featuring an introduction by Stephen King, a foreword by Christopher Golden, and an afterword by Brian Keene. Contributors include Wayne Brady and Maurice Broaddus, Poppy Z. Brite, Somer Canon, C. Robert Cargill, Nat Cassidy, V. Castro, Richard Chizmar, S. A. Cosby, Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Meg Gardiner, Gabino Iglesias, Jonathan Janz, Alma Katsu, Caroline Kepnes, Michael Koryta, Sarah Langan, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Josh Malerman, Ronald Malfi, Usman T. Malik, Premee Mohamed, Cynthia Pelayo, Hailey Piper, David J. Schow, Alex Segura, Bryan Smith, Paul Tremblay, Catherynne M. Valente, Bev Vincent, Catriona Ward, Chuck Wendig, Wrath James White, and Rio Youers.]]> 800 Christopher Golden 1668057557 April 0 to-read 4.46 2025 The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
author: Christopher Golden
name: April
average rating: 4.46
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]]> <![CDATA[Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng]]> 218185743
These days nobody can reach Cora: not her aunt, who wants her to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival; not her weird colleagues; and especially not the slack-jawed shadow lurking around her door frame. After all, it can't be real—can it? After a series of unexplained killings in Chinatown, Cora believes someone might be targeting East Asian women, and something might be targeting Cora herself.]]> 304 Kylie Lee Baker 0778368459 April 0 to-read 4.29 2025 Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
author: Kylie Lee Baker
name: April
average rating: 4.29
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]]> Witchcraft for Wayward Girls 207611566 There’s power in a book�

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood.

In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master� (NPR).]]> 482 Grady Hendrix 0593548981 April 0 to-read 4.02 2025 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
author: Grady Hendrix
name: April
average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence]]> 61885057 From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them.

Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger’s family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard.

But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding—a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the unspoken family rule: never talk about it.

While You Were Out begins as the personal story of one family’s struggles then opens outward, as Kissinger details how childhood tragedy catalyzed a journalism career focused on exposing our country’s flawed mental health care. Combining the intimacy of memoir with the rigor of investigative reporting, the book explores the consequences of shame, the havoc of botched public policy, and the hope offered by new treatment strategies.

Powerful, candid and filled with surprising humor, this is the story of one family’s love and resilience in face of great loss.]]> 320 Meg Kissinger 1250793777 April 5 audiobooks, non-fiction
Naturally, since this book is about mental illness and its toll, please take care if reading this, as a general trigger warning. If you’re in a rough place, this book can wait until you’re okay.

The author’s life and story resonated so deeply with me, and although hard to listen to at times, it has made me feel like I’m not alone. The audiobook is read by the author, which is a format I appreciate for memoirs in particular.

It’s such an emotional book, and I’m thankful to the author and her family for being so vulnerable about such a difficult range of topics. ]]> 4.26 2023 While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
author: Meg Kissinger
name: April
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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What an incredible, raw, honest book.

Naturally, since this book is about mental illness and its toll, please take care if reading this, as a general trigger warning. If you’re in a rough place, this book can wait until you’re okay.

The author’s life and story resonated so deeply with me, and although hard to listen to at times, it has made me feel like I’m not alone. The audiobook is read by the author, which is a format I appreciate for memoirs in particular.

It’s such an emotional book, and I’m thankful to the author and her family for being so vulnerable about such a difficult range of topics.
]]> The Garden Party 25167837 'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration.]]> Katherine Mansfield April 0 to-read 3.70 1921 The Garden Party
author: Katherine Mansfield
name: April
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1921
rating: 0
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]]> Dark Places 5886881
Since then, she has been drifting. But when she is contacted by a group who are convinced of Ben's innocence, Libby starts to ask questions she never dared to before. Was the voice she heard her brother's? Ben was a misfit in their small town, but was he capable of murder? Are there secrets to uncover at the family farm or is Libby deluding herself because she wants her brother back?

She begins to realise that everyone in her family had something to hide that day... especially Ben. Now, twenty-four years later, the truth is going to be even harder to find.

Who did massacre the Day family?]]> 424 Gillian Flynn 0307341569 April 5 audiobooks 3.95 2009 Dark Places
author: Gillian Flynn
name: April
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/16
date added: 2025/01/16
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]]> Spent: A Comic Novel 217896244
Meanwhile, Alison’s first graphic memoir about growing up with her father, a taxidermist who specialized in replicas of Victorian animal displays, has been adapted into a highly successful TV series. It’s a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group (recognizable as characters, now middle-aged and living communally in Vermont, from Bechdel’s beloved comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For).

As the TV showDeath and Taxidermyracks up Emmy after Emmy—and when Alison’s Pauline Bunyanesque partner Holly posts an instructional wood-chopping video that goes viral—Alison’s own envy spirals.Why couldn’t she be the writer for a critically lauded and wildly popular reality TV show…likeQueer Eye...showing people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?

Spent’s rollicking and masterful denouement—making the case for seizing what’s true about life in the world at this moment, before it’s too late—once again proves that “nobody does it better� (New York Times Book Review) than the real Alison Bechdel.]]> 272 Alison Bechdel 0063278928 April 0 to-read 3.95 2025 Spent: A Comic Novel
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name: April
average rating: 3.95
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]]> The Grownup 26025580
“The Grownup,� originally appeared as “What Do You Do?� in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology.]]> 64 Gillian Flynn 0804188971 April 0 audiobooks, short-stories 3.55 2014 The Grownup
author: Gillian Flynn
name: April
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously]]> 39296124

Adam’s comics deal with weightier topics like seasonal affective disorder and struggles with self-esteem, while also touching on the silly and absurd—like his brief, but intense obsession with crystals. With a bright, positive outlook and a sense of humor, Super Chill tells a story that is both highly relatable and intensely personal.]]> 120 Adam Ellis 1449491553 April 0 to-read 3.93 2018 Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously
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name: April
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
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]]> Horrid 50358142 From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores themes of mental illness, rage, and grief, twisted with spine-chilling elements of Stephen King and Agatha Christie.

Following her father's death, Jane North-Robinson and her mom move from sunny California to the dreary, dilapidated old house in Maine where her mother grew up. All they want is a fresh start, but behind North Manor's doors lurks a history that leaves them feeling more alone . . . and more tormented.

As the cold New England autumn arrives, and Jane settles in to her new home, she finds solace in old books and memories of her dad. She steadily begins making new friends, but also faces bullying from the resident "bad seed," struggling to tamp down her own worst nature in response. Jane's mom also seems to be spiraling with the return of her childhood home, but she won't reveal why. Then Jane discovers that the "storage room" her mom has kept locked isn't for storage at all—it's a little girl's bedroom, left untouched for years and not quite as empty of inhabitants as it appears . . .

Is it grief? Mental illness? Or something more . . . horrid?]]> 327 Katrina Leno 0316537241 April 5 audiobooks 3.54 2020 Horrid
author: Katrina Leno
name: April
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/12
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]]> We Were Stars: Poems 221607705 72 Ashly Lynne April 5 5.00 We Were Stars: Poems
author: Ashly Lynne
name: April
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A beautifully written, moving collection of poems. The combination of words, syntax, formatting, and punctuation convey emotional rhythms throughout the book. These poems spoke to me in many ways; if you’ve ever felt misunderstood, read this, and you’ll feel recognized in these words and feelings.
]]> <![CDATA[Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness]]> 63221207 New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen.]]> 300 Susannah Cahalan 1451621396 April 4 audiobooks, non-fiction 4.20 2012 Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
author: Susannah Cahalan
name: April
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> The Amityville Horror 293101
In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their dream home, the same home where Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers and sisters just one year earlier.

The psychic phenomena that followed created the most terrifying experience the Lutz family had ever encountered, forcing them to flee the house in 28 days, convinced that it was possessed by evil spirits.

Their fantastic story, never before disclosed in full detail, makes for an unforgettable book with all the shocks and gripping suspense of The Exorcist, The Omen or Rosemary's Baby, but with one vital difference...the story is true.]]> 315 Jay Anson 0553116606 April 3 3.85 1977 The Amityville Horror
author: Jay Anson
name: April
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1977
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/08
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]]> <![CDATA[“You Just Need to Lose Weight�: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People]]> 60808740 The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice

The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy—calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We’re in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance “glorifies obesity.� The BMI is an objective measure of size and health. Yet, these myths are as readily debunked as they are pervasive.

In “You Just Need to Lose Weight,� Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ to not only counter these pernicious myths, but to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.

As conversations about fat acceptance and fat justice continue to grow, “You Just Need to Lose Weight� will be essential to ensure that those conversations are informed, effective, and grounded in both research and history.

]]> 205 Aubrey Gordon 0807006475 April 5 non-fiction 4.34 2023 “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
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name: April
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma]]> 18693771 A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing.

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.]]> 464 Bessel van der Kolk 0670785938 April 3 audiobooks, non-fiction 4.36 2014 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
author: Bessel van der Kolk
name: April
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk (Nancy Drew, #17)]]> 8140734 200 Carolyn Keene 1101077182 April 5 4.15 1940 Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk (Nancy Drew, #17)
author: Carolyn Keene
name: April
average rating: 4.15
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Loch Ness Monster and Others]]> 36189026 228 Rupert Gould April 0 4.50 The Loch Ness Monster and Others
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name: April
average rating: 4.50
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]]> Holly 65916335 Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.� � BILL HODGES

Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.]]> 480 Stephen King 1668014947 April 0 to-read 4.00 2023 Holly
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]]> <![CDATA[The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker]]> 195853528 592 Amy Reading 1328595919 April 0 to-read 4.10 The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
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]]> <![CDATA[Maintenance Phase: The Hidden History of the Weight Loss and Wellness Industries―and the Lies They Sold Us]]> 199743721 320 Aubrey Gordon 0063264781 April 0 to-read 4.40 Maintenance Phase: The Hidden History of the Weight Loss and Wellness Industries―and the Lies They Sold Us
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]]> 'Salem's Lot 5413 Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot. For standalone novel see ISBN 9780450031069.

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.

When Stephen King’s classic thriller 'Salem's Lot hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'Salem's Lot reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.

While the original edition of 'Salem's Lot will forever be a premier horror classic, 'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King’s archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right and a must-have for all Stephen King fans. In this edition, the hair-raising story of Jerusalem’s Lot, a small town in Maine whose inhabitants succumb to the evil allure of a new resident, is told as the author envisioned it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem’s Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition brings the story to life in words and pictures as never before.

No library will be complete without this ideal collector’s item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great 'Salem's Lot.]]> 594 Stephen King 0385516487 April 5 4.28 1975 'Salem's Lot
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name: April
average rating: 4.28
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rating: 5
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]]> Grimm's Fairy Tales 11093132 320 Jacob Grimm April 0 to-read 4.15 1812 Grimm's Fairy Tales
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]]> The Call of Cthulhu 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft April 5 3.97 1928 The Call of Cthulhu
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name: April
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1928
rating: 5
read at: 2016/07/09
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]]> <![CDATA[Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays]]> 449173 96 Unknown 0486287262 April 3 read-for-a-class 3.28 1485 Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays
author: Unknown
name: April
average rating: 3.28
book published: 1485
rating: 3
read at: 2011/09/07
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]]> <![CDATA[A Sunny Place for Shady People]]> 203956643 A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors� (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women.

Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.

Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”]]> 257 Mariana Enríquez 0593733258 April 0 to-read 3.80 2024 A Sunny Place for Shady People
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name: April
average rating: 3.80
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]]> Waiting 943406 303 Frank M. Robinson 0312866526 April 5 3.10 1999 Waiting
author: Frank M. Robinson
name: April
average rating: 3.10
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2013/06/20
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Really good book. Interesting plot and really got me to think. There was only one thing that was kind of predictable(for me, anyway), but compared to the rest of the book it wasn't a big deal that it was. Definitely recommend it.
]]> Women: A Novella 200307455
Sometimes I wonder what it is I could tell you about her for my job here to be done. I am looking for a short­cut. . . .But that would be asking too much from you. It wasn’t you who loved her.

A young writer moves from the country to the city and falls in love with another woman for the very first time. From the start, the relationship is doomed; Finn is nineteen years older, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile . . . and a long-term girlfriend.

With startling clarity and breathtaking tenderness, Chloe Caldwell writes the story of a love in of nights spent drunkenly hurling a phone against a brick wall; of early mornings hungover in bed, curled up together; of emails and poems exchanged at breakneck speed. In Women, Caldwell lays bare the feverish obsession of addictive love, and asks the what, if anything, can who we love teach us about who we are?

In this beautiful, transcendent, bracingly sexy novella, Caldwell tells a lust-love story that will bring you to your knees. Capturing the feverish heartbreak of Sapphic romance, painting a stark picture of an identity in crisis, and illuminating the exploratory possibilities of queer life, Women is an incandescent novella that brands the heart and sears the soul.]]> 160 Chloé Caldwell 0063387077 April 0 to-read 4.01 2014 Women: A Novella
author: Chloé Caldwell
name: April
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession]]> 62873378 One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.

In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.

In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.

This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.]]> 224 Michael Finkel 0525657320 April 4 audiobooks, non-fiction 3.92 2023 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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average rating: 3.92
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rating: 4
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]]> You Like It Darker 201242757 From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,� writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,� and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

“Two Talented Bastids� explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,� a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,� a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,� a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man� asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

King’s ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.]]> 512 Stephen King 1668037718 April 0 to-read 4.16 2024 You Like It Darker
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]]> Everything Is OK 60320130
Everything Is OK is the story of Debbie Tung’s struggle with anxiety and her experience with depression. She shares what it’s like navigating life, overthinking every possible worst-case scenario, and constantly feeling like all hope is lost.

The book explores her journey to understanding the importance of mental health in her day-to-day life and how she learns to embrace the highs and lows when things feel out of control. Debbie opens up about deeply personal issues and the winding road to recovery, discovers the value of self-love, and rebuilds a more mindful relationship with her mental health.

In this graphic memoir, Debbie aims to provide positive and comforting messages to anyone who is facing similar difficulties or is just trying to get through a tough time in life. She hopes to encourage readers to be kinder to themselves, to know that they are not alone, and that it’s okay to be vulnerable because they are not defined by their mental health struggles. The dark clouds won’t be there forever. Everything will turn out all right.]]> 189 Debbie Tung 1524863270 April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.29 2022 Everything Is OK
author: Debbie Tung
name: April
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World]]> 40539107 Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans� peculiar fascination with small things—and what small things tell us about our larger world.

“[Simon Garfield is] an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid.� �Sunday Times (London)

Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charms and eccentricities hiding in plain sight around us. After beguiling fans with books about everything from typography to time, from historic maps to the color mauve, he’s found his most delightful topic yet: miniatures.

Tiny Eiffel Towers. Platoons of brave toy soldiers. A doll’s house created for a Queen. Diminutive crime scenes crafted to catch a killer. Model villages and miniscule railways. These are just a few of the objects you will discover in the pages of In Miniature.

Bringing together history, psychology, art, and obsession, Garfield explores what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects among collectors, modelers, and fans. The toys we enjoy as children invest us with a rare power at a young age, conferring on us a taste of adult-sized authority. For some, the desire to play with small things becomes a desire to make small things. We live in a vast and uncertain world, and controlling just a tiny, scaled-down part of it restores our sense of order and worth.

As it explores flea circuses, microscopic food, ancient tombs, and the Vegas Strip, In Miniature changes the way we perceive our surroundings, encouraging all of us to find greatness in the smallest of things.]]> 336 Simon Garfield 1501199587 April 0 to-read 3.66 2018 In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
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]]> Heretic: A Memoir 60017803 A memoir of leaving the Evangelical church, reckoning with religious trauma while also interrogating just how much Evangelicalism has and continues to affect all Americans--via our power structures and pop culture--and how it drives our democracy towards fascism.

Jeanna Kadlec was a devout Evangelical and the wife of a pastor's son before she came to the double realization that she was queer and that she had to leave the church in order to survive. This is a memoir of growing up Evangelical--of indoctrination, family, and working poor middle America--and a sharp critique of how the tenets of conservative Christianity have built our power structures and political systems, in addition to how they've shaped our culture and our daily interactions with each other.

From writing about Lilith and celebrity purity rings, to coming out and discovering F/F fanfiction, finding community outside of Christianity in the face of millennial loneliness, to interrogating the liberal and academic stigma against faith, this memoir traces the damage Evangelicalism, with its demands for unquestioning obedience, has caused in individuals, communities, and our country, past to present--and also imagines how could we radically leave it behind: new methods of building community, finding meaning, and reintegrating concepts of fellowship and love into our everyday discourse.]]> 272 Jeanna Kadlec 0358581818 April 0 to-read 3.96 2022 Heretic: A Memoir
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name: April
average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years]]> 133388212 384 Elizabeth Wayland Barber 132407602X April 0 to-read 4.56 1994 Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years
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name: April
average rating: 4.56
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]]> Cryptid Club 60320162
Do you hatesocialgatherings? Dodgecameras? Enjoy staying up justalittletoo lateat night? You mighthavemore in common with yourlocal cryptid than you think! Enterthe worldofCryptid Club,alook insidetheadventuresof elusivecreatures rangingfromMothmantotheLoch Ness Monster. This humorous new series celebratestheunique qualities that makecryptidsso desperately soughtafterbymankind (tonoavail).Afterall, it'swhatmakes us different thatalso makes us beautiful.
]]> 112 Sarah Andersen 1524875546 April 5 4.29 2021 Cryptid Club
author: Sarah Andersen
name: April
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Freaky Folklore: Terrifying Tales of the World's Most Elusive Monsters and Enigmatic Cryptids]]> 199697295
Accompanied by illustrations of each beast, Freaky Folklore is your guide to the world’s most terrifying beings, from ancient times to today. Hosts from the leading horror podcast network, Eeriecast, present the most frightening—and entertaining—tales of these mysterious creatures, revealing everything you need to know.

This beautifully creepy collection is filled with wicked monsters,

Freaky Folklore has the stories, culture, and illustrations for you to be on the lookout for these beasts.Dive into the world of mythology and find what makes each creature unique.]]> 256 Darkness Prevails 157715441X April 0 to-read 3.72 Freaky Folklore: Terrifying Tales of the World's Most Elusive Monsters and Enigmatic Cryptids
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner #1)]]> 612963 214 Philip K. Dick 0575079932 April 5 3.94 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner #1)
author: Philip K. Dick
name: April
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1968
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Neurocomic: A Comic About the Brain]]> 17675119 you?�

Neurocomic is a journey through the human brain: a place of neuron forests, memory caves, and castles of deception. Along the way, you’ll encounter Boschean beasts, giant squid, guitar-playing sea slugs, and the great pioneers of neuroscience. Hana Roš and Matteo Farinella provide an insight into the most complex thing in the universe.]]> 144 Matteo Farinella 1907704701 April 3 3.61 2013 Neurocomic: A Comic About the Brain
author: Matteo Farinella
name: April
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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]]> The Dangers of Smoking in Bed 53215250 Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" ( New York Times Book Review ) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges.

Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly.

Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, this new collection from one of Argentina's most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.]]> 208 Mariana Enríquez 0593134079 April 0 to-read 3.78 2009 The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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name: April
average rating: 3.78
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]]> Our Share of Night 61111034
A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.

For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate?

Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America’s most original novelists, “a mesmerizing writer,� says Dave Eggers, “who demands to be read.”]]> 588 Mariana Enríquez 0451495144 April 5 audiobooks The story is engrossing, and the characters even more so.

Though maybe not important to every reader, I really appreciated the accurate descriptions and feelings of the characters� chronic migraines, as someone who has them myself. ]]> 4.07 2019 Our Share of Night
author: Mariana Enríquez
name: April
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/20
date added: 2024/04/20
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An absolutely incredible book.
The story is engrossing, and the characters even more so.

Though maybe not important to every reader, I really appreciated the accurate descriptions and feelings of the characters� chronic migraines, as someone who has them myself.
]]> Pat the Bunny 13532212
For generations, Pat the Bunny has been creating special first-time moments between parents and their children. One of the best-selling children’s books of all time, this classic touch-and-feel book offers babies a playful and engaging experience, all the while creating cherished memories that will last a lifetime.]]> 20 Dorothy Kunhardt 0307120007 April 5 childhood-books 4.08 1940 Pat the Bunny
author: Dorothy Kunhardt
name: April
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 5
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]]> The Pit and the Pendulum 206173 22 Edgar Allan Poe 1860920195 April 5 read-for-a-class 3.94 1842 The Pit and the Pendulum
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: April
average rating: 3.94
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]]> Sync 202774973 From #1 NYT bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreaking young adult novel in verse about twins separated in the foster care system and the different paths their lives take.

Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have always been in perfect sync. They faced the worst a parent could do and survived it together. In the wake of their mother’s rejection, they’ve spent the last five years moving from foster home to foster home—sometimes placed together, sometimes apart.

After being separated from his sister once again, Storm is devastated. He’s the older brother and promised to always take care of Lake. But after a stint in juvie, his newest placement has him feeling almost hopeful. His foster dad is kind, and his girlfriend, Jaidyn, is the first person other than Lake he feels he can trust. But when Jaidyn is sexually assaulted by a violent ex, it pushes Storm over the edge. He retaliates and lands back in lockup—and he fears this time it will be for good. He wishes he could talk to Lake, but he doesn’t know where she is, and he' s now feeling more alone and out of sync than ever before.

Lake, like Storm, has found her own happiness in a relationship with someone new—her fellow foster, Parker. Life with Parker is never boring, but Parker has her own scars. She can be withdrawn and unpredictable, and that can be dangerous, especially after Parker convinces Lake to run away from their Bible-thumping fosters after they are caught in a compromising position. With no money, shelter, or ID, they’re living on the streets. Lake thinks of Storm and his promise to take care of her, and wonders where he could be now.

Told in dual perspectives through unsent letters, at turns heartbreaking and always honest, this latest novel in verse from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins is a searing and unforgettable account of two teens caught in the teeth of the foster care system, fighting their way out and back to each other.]]> 448 Ellen Hopkins 0593463242 April 0 to-read 4.26 Sync
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]]> Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 204736837 From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, a passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of #MeToo, and of the link between genius and monstrosity.

In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss? She explores the audience's relationship with artists from Woody Allen to Michael Jackson, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.]]> 288 Claire Dederer 0525564187 April 0 to-read 3.77 2023 Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
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name: April
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]]> <![CDATA[Oddball (Sarah's Scribbles, #4)]]> 50898151 The newest Sarah's Scribbles collection from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Andersen

The fourth book in the enormously popular graphic novel series, the latest collection of Sarah's Scribbles comics explores the evils of procrastination, the trials of the creative process, the cuteness of kittens, and the beauty of not caring about your appearance as much as you did when you were younger. When it comes to humorous illustrations of the awkwardness and hilarity of millennial life, Sarah's Scribbles is without peer.]]> 105 Sarah Andersen 1449489796 April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.22 2021 Oddball (Sarah's Scribbles, #4)
author: Sarah Andersen
name: April
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> The Girl from the Sea 54776523 From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first love.

Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl.

Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore.

But Keltie has some secrets of her own. And as the girls start to fall in love, everything they're each trying to hide will find its way to the surface...whether Morgan is ready or not.]]> 256 Molly Knox Ostertag 1338540580 April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.13 2021 The Girl from the Sea
author: Molly Knox Ostertag
name: April
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> Gender Queer: A Memoir 42837514 Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.]]> 240 Maia Kobabe 1549304003 April 5 4.25 2019 Gender Queer: A Memoir
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name: April
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Teen Titans: Raven (Teen Titans, #1)]]> 38452813
Starting over isn’t easy. Raven remembers how to solve math equations and make pasta, but she can’t remember her favorite song or who she was before the accident. When strange things start happening—things most people would consider impossible—Raven starts to think it might be better not to know who she was in her previous life.

But as she grows closer to her foster sister, Max, her new friends, and Tommy Torres, a guy who accepts her for who she is now, Raven has to decide if she’s ready to face what’s buried in the past...and the darkness building inside her.

From the #1 New York Times best-selling co-author of Beautiful Creatures Kami Garcia and artist Gabriel Picolo comes this first graphic novel in the Teen Titans series for DC Ink, Teen Titans: Raven.]]> 171 Kami Garcia April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.01 2019 Teen Titans: Raven (Teen Titans, #1)
author: Kami Garcia
name: April
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe]]> 127280424
It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened to him during the three missing days before he was found, delirious and “in great distress� on the streets of Baltimore, wearing ill-fitting clothes that were not his own?

Mystery and horror. Poe, who remains one of the most iconic of American writers, died under haunting circumstances that reflect the two literary genres he took to new heights. Over the years, there has been a staggering amount of speculation about the cause of death, from rabies and syphilis to suicide, alcoholism, and even murder. But many of these theories are formed on the basis of the caricature we have come to associate with the gloomy-eyed grandfather of Goth, hunched over a writing desk with a raven perched on one shoulder, drunkenly scribbling his chilling masterpieces. By debunking the myths of how he lived, we come closer to understanding the real Poe―and uncovering the truth behind his mysterious death, as a new theory emerges that could prove the cause of Poe’s death was haunting him all his life.

In a compelling dual-timeline narrative alternating between Poe’s increasingly desperate last months and his brief but impactful life, Mark Dawidziak sheds new light on the enigmatic master of macabre.]]> 304 Mark Dawidziak 1250792517 April 0 to-read 3.73 2023 A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
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]]> <![CDATA[The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle]]> 40914164
There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.

We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.

Understood? Then let's begin . . .

Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others . . .

The most inventive debut of the year twists together a mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave listeners guessing until the very last second.]]> 458 Stuart Turton 149267012X April 0 to-read 3.75 2018 The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
author: Stuart Turton
name: April
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]]> <![CDATA[The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History]]> 40872592 The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefine human civilization—from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole). She peoples her story with a motley cast of characters, including Xiling, the ancient Chinese empress credited with inventing silk, to Richard the Lionhearted and Bing Crosby. Offering insights into the economic and social dimensions of clothmaking—and countering the enduring, often demeaning, association of textiles as “merely women’s work”�The Golden Thread offers an alternative guide to our past, present, and future.]]> 336 Kassia St. Clair 1473659035 April 3 fiber-arts, non-fiction 4.10 2018 The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
author: Kassia St. Clair
name: April
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> Operation Sunshine #4 202565526 27 Henry Zebrowski April 4 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.25 Operation Sunshine #4
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]]> Operation Sunshine #3 200348700 26 Henry Zebrowski April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.32 Operation Sunshine #3
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]]> <![CDATA[Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)]]> 35924705 Adjusting to life as a world-famous cartoonist isn't easy. Terrifying deadlines, piles of junk-food wrappers under a glowing computer screen, and an ever-growing horde of pets....umm, never mind--it's pretty much the same.

With characteristic wit and charm, Sarah Andersen's third collection of comics and illustrated personal essays offers a survival guide for frantic modern life: from the importance of avoiding morning people, to Internet troll defense 101, to the not-so-life-changing futility of tidying up. But when all else fails and the world around you is collapsing, make a hot chocolate, count the days until Halloween, and snuggle up next to your furry beacon of hope.]]> 112 Sarah Andersen 1449489788 April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.13 2018 Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)
author: Sarah Andersen
name: April
average rating: 4.13
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah's Scribbles, #2)]]> 30754980 128 Sarah Andersen 1449479618 April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.21 2017 Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah's Scribbles, #2)
author: Sarah Andersen
name: April
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)]]> 50659471
Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, her concern for those dearest to her deepens. They have more wounds than she anticipated-scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.

Bridging the events of A Court of Wings and Ruin with the later books in the series, A Court of Frost and Starlight explores the far-reaching effects of a devastating war and the fierce love between friends.]]> 272 Sarah J. Maas 1635575621 April 0 currently-reading 3.69 2019 A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: April
average rating: 3.69
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]]> <![CDATA[Artful Alchemy: Physically Challenged Fiber Artists Creating]]> 36454694
Many of these women have websites and sell their work through the Internet sites, while others sell in galleries, exhibits, or through their teaching. Some create to speak to political and other social issues, while others use their quilts to educate the public about their physical challenges. If you have dreamed of expressing your own creativity, this book will provide the inspiration you need.]]> 238 Anne Copeland April 0 to-read 0.0 Artful Alchemy: Physically Challenged Fiber Artists Creating
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]]> Operation Sunshine #2 198672263 26 Henry Zebrowski April 4 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.19 Operation Sunshine #2
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]]> <![CDATA[Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)]]> 228296
Suppose that only after you became pregnant did you begin to suspect the building harbored a diabolically evil group of devil worshippers who had mastered the arts of black magic and witchcraft.

Suppose that this satanic conspiracy set out to claim not only your husband but your baby.

Well, that's what happened to Rosemary... Or did it...?]]> 308 Ira Levin 0451194004 April 5 4.04 1967 Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
author: Ira Levin
name: April
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 5
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]]> Coraline 1967070
But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and all the tools she can find if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

This beloved tale has now become a visual feast. Acclaimed artist P. Craig Russell brings Neil Gaiman's enchanting nationally bestselling children's book Coraline to new life in this gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation]]> 192 P. Craig Russell 006082543X April 5 4.07 2008 Coraline
author: P. Craig Russell
name: April
average rating: 4.07
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)]]> 25109947
Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned Atticus’s great grandmother—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of one black family, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.]]> 400 Matt Ruff April 4 audiobooks 3.99 2016 Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
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name: April
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> The Echo of Old Books 62060274
With no trace of how these mysterious books came into the world, Ashlyn is caught up in a decades-old literary mystery, beckoned by two hearts in ruins, whoever they were, wherever they are. Determined to learn the truth behind the doomed lovers� tale, she reads on, following a trail of broken promises and seemingly unforgivable betrayals. The more Ashlyn learns about Hemi and Belle, the nearer she comes to bringing closure to their love story—and to the unfinished chapters of her own life.]]> 431 Barbara Davis 1542038154 April 0 to-read 4.27 2023 The Echo of Old Books
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]]> Migraine: A History 42453226 292 Katherine Foxhall 1421429489 April 0 3.65 2019 Migraine: A History
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]]> Operation Sunshine #1 195660974 26 Henry Zebrowski April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 3.96 Operation Sunshine #1
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> The Mist 813214
The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project—the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands?

And what happens when the provisions have run out and you're forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?]]> 176 Stephen King April 5 short-stories 3.95 1980 The Mist
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name: April
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1980
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Comic Book on the Left Volume 3]]> 199122402
BEHOLD: Psychedelic Abductions of the Northeast!

DISCOVER: Secrets of the Hollow Moon!

COWER IN FEAR: From the one known only as ‘The S Man�!

Brought to you by the deranged minds of The Last Podcast on the Left and their ever-growing Rolodex of deliciously deviant creators, the latest volume of The Last Comic Book on The Left brings new tales of horror and hilarity right to your fingertips. Featuring work by Grim Wilkins (Mirenda, Prophet), Josh Simmons (Black River, Flayed Corpse), and an exclusive Deluxe edition cover by Matt Wagner (Grendel), Volume 3 is a must-read for sentient beings of this and any other dimension!]]> 102 Markus Parks April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.30 The Last Comic Book on the Left Volume 3
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name: April
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]]> The Colour Out of Space 10562201 H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil, monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable. At the heart of these three stories are terrors unthinkable and strange: a crash-landing meteorite, the wretched inhabitant of an ancient castle and a grave-robber's curse. This book includes The Colour Out Of Space, The Outsider and The Hound.]]> 57 H.P. Lovecraft 0141968540 April 5 4.01 1927 The Colour Out of Space
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This was such an intriguing read, capturing something like radiation poisoning through other words that give this story a supernatural feeling. I'm not sure what the scientific knowledge was like at the time this was written, but Lovecraft definitely captured the sense of the uncanny (the known with something a bit off about it). This story, to me, read like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and it makes me wonder if Rod Sterling got inspiration from any Lovecraft stories (something that I'm going to look more into).
]]> <![CDATA[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Graphic Classics)]]> 6492862 48 Robert Louis Stevenson 0764160583 April 2 3.55 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Graphic Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Sweeney Todd; or, The String of Pearls]]> 879685 256 Anonymous 1840224835 April 4 3.55 1847 Sweeney Todd; or, The String of Pearls
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book published: 1847
rating: 4
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]]> Dare to Lead 40109367 In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas, and developing that potential. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead.

When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don't see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it and work to align authority and accountability. We don't avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into the vulnerability that’s necessary to do good work.

But daring leadership in a culture that's defined by scarcity, fear and uncertainty requires building courage skills, which are uniquely human. The irony is that we're choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the same time we're scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines can't do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection and courage to start.

Brené Brown spent the past two decades researching the emotions that give meaning to our lives. Over the past seven years, she found that leaders in organisations ranging from small entrepreneurial start-ups and family-owned businesses to non-profits, civic organisations and Fortune 50 companies, are asking the same questions:

How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders? And, how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?

Dare to Lead answers these questions and gives us actionable strategies and real examples from her new research-based, courage-building programme.

Brené writes, ‘One of the most important findings of my career is that courage can be taught, developed and measured. Courage is a collection of four skill sets supported by twenty-eight behaviours. All it requires is a commitment to doing bold work, having tough conversations and showing up with our whole hearts. Easy? No. Choosing courage over comfort is not easy. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and work. It's why we're here.’]]> 332 Brené Brown 147356252X April 5 non-fiction 4.17 2018 Dare to Lead
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)]]> 75593498
But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake—going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven—the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent anti-royalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people.

Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for whatever springs from the alleys, graves, and shadows next.]]> 313 Josiah Bancroft 0316443301 April 0 to-read 3.83 2023 The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> <![CDATA[The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters]]> 59978434 Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond!

Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler of the strange J. W. Ocker uncovers the bizarre stories of these creatures and investigates the ways in which communities embrace and celebrate their local cryptids. Readers will learn about:

� Batsquatch of Washington, a winged bigfoot that is said to have emerged from the eruption of Mount Saint Helens
� Nain Rouge of Michigan, a fierce red goblin that has been spotted before every major city disaster in Detroit
� Flatwoods Monster of West Virginia, a robotic extraterrestrial that crash-landed in rural Appalachia
� Lizard Man of South Carolina, a reptilian mutant that attacked a teenager in the summer of 1988
� Glocester Ghoul of Rhode Island, a fire-breathing dragon that guards a hoard of pirate treasure
� And many more!

Whether you believe in bigfoot or not, this fully illustrated compendium is a fun, frightening, fascinating tour through American folklore and history, exploring the stories we tell about monsters and what those stories say about us.]]> 288 J.W. Ocker 1683693221 April 5 mystery-etc, non-fiction 3.88 2022 The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> Holly 65916344 Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.� � BILL HODGES

Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.]]> 449 Stephen King 1668016133 April 0 to-read 4.01 2023 Holly
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dead House (The Dead House, #1)]]> 22396591
Re-opened police records, psychiatric reports, transcripts of video footage and fragments of diary reveal a web of deceit and intrigue, violence and murder, raising a whole lot more questions than it answers.

Who was Kaitlyn and why did she only appear at night? Did she really exist or was she a figment of a disturbed mind? What were the illicit rituals taking place at the school? And just what did happen at Elmbridge in the events leading up to ‘the Johnson Incident�?]]> 440 Dawn Kurtagich 1780622341 April 0 to-read 3.68 2015 The Dead House (The Dead House, #1)
author: Dawn Kurtagich
name: April
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Rebels: City of Indra (The Story of Lex and Livia #1)]]> 16068755
Two cities� Two girls� A shared destiny�

In a world of the far future, the great city of Indra has two faces: a beautiful paradise floating high in the sky, and a nightmare world of poverty carved into tunnels beneath the surface of the earth.

Kendall and Kylie Jenner, the youngest sisters in the Kardashian dynasty, have written a gripping tale of air, fire, and a bond of blood.]]> 256 Kendall Jenner April 0 2.86 2014 Rebels: City of Indra (The Story of Lex and Livia #1)
author: Kendall Jenner
name: April
average rating: 2.86
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Modelland 9535351
But someone has plans for Tookie. Before she can blink her mismatched eyes, Tookie finds herself in the very place every girl in the world obsesses about. And three unlikely girls have joined her.

Only seven extraordinary young women become Intoxibellas each year. Famous. Worshipped. Magical. What happens to those who don’t make it? Well, no one really speaks of that. Some things are better left unsaid.

Thrown into a world where she doesn’t seem to belong, Tookie glimpses a future that could be hers—if she survives the beastly Catwalk Corridor and terrifying Thigh-High Boot Camp. Or could it? Dark rumors like silken threads swirl around the question of why Tookie and her new friends were selected . . . and the shadows around Modelland hide sinister secrets.

Are you ready? Modelland is waiting for you. . . .]]> 570 Tyra Banks 038574059X April 2 2.91 2011 Modelland
author: Tyra Banks
name: April
average rating: 2.91
book published: 2011
rating: 2
read at: 2023/07/28
date added: 2023/07/28
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I gotta give her credit for creativity
]]> <![CDATA[Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)]]> 36679274
Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but Kel knows that his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible.

Lin Caster is one of the Ashkar, a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. By law, they must live behind walls within the city, but Lin, a physician, ventures out to tend to the sick and dying of Castellane. Despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge.

After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the criminal ruler of Castellane’s underworld. He offers them each what they want most; but as they descend into his world of intrigue and shadow, they discover a conspiracy of corruption that reaches from the darkest gutters of Castellane to the highest tower of its palaces.

As long-kept secrets begin to unravel, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? Can forbidden love bring down a kingdom? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war—and the world into chaos?]]> 624 Cassandra Clare 0525619992 April 0 to-read 3.79 2023 Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: April
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)]]> 59612836

The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case.

But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake—going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven—the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent anti-royalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people.

Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for a case that will test every spell, skill, and odd magical artifact in their considerable bag of tricks.]]> 318 Josiah Bancroft April 0 to-read 3.79 2023 The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)
author: Josiah Bancroft
name: April
average rating: 3.79
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]]> The Silent Companions 35458733 When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting . . .

When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figure —a silent companion �-that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. The residents of The Bridge are terrified of the figure, but Elsie tries to shrug this off as simple superstition--that is, until she notices the figure's eyes following her.

A Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, this is a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expect--much like the silent companions themselves.]]> 305 Laura Purcell 014313163X April 4 3.86 2017 The Silent Companions
author: Laura Purcell
name: April
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2023/05/24
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]]> In Cold Blood 168642
As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.]]> 343 Truman Capote 0679745580 April 5 audiobooks, non-fiction 4.08 1966 In Cold Blood
author: Truman Capote
name: April
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1966
rating: 5
read at: 2023/04/21
date added: 2023/04/21
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]]> <![CDATA[House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films]]> 15766600 360 Kier-la Janisse April 0 to-read 4.47 2012 House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
author: Kier-la Janisse
name: April
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 61685822 From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, a passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of #MeToo, and of the link between genius and monstrosity.

In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss? She explores the audience's relationship with artists from Woody Allen to Michael Jackson, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.]]> 257 Claire Dederer 0525655115 April 0 to-read 3.75 2023 Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
author: Claire Dederer
name: April
average rating: 3.75
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]]> <![CDATA[Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues]]> 61327450 An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs

According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires.

Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through sixty thousand years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the world’s major religions.

By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective past—and urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story.]]> 304 Jonathan Kennedy 0593240472 April 0 to-read 3.92 2023 Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> <![CDATA[Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough]]> 62337617
From the author of The Ungrateful Refugee—finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kirkus Prize�Who Gets Believed? is a groundbreaking book about persuasion and performance that asks unsettling questions about lies, truths, and the difference between being believed and being dismissed in situations spanning asylum interviews, emergency rooms, consulting jobs, and family life

Why are honest asylum seekers dismissed as liars? Former refugee and award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with this question, turning to shocking and illuminating case studies in this book, which grows into a reckoning with our culture’s views on believability. From persuading a doctor that she’d prefer a C-section to learning to “bullshit gracefully� at McKinsey to struggling, in her personal life, to believe her troubled brother-in-law, Nayeri explores an aspect of our society that is rarely held up to the light. For readers of David Grann, Malcolm Gladwell, and Atul Gawande, Who Gets Believed? is a book as deeply personal as it is profound in its reflections on morals, language, human psychology, and the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another.]]> 284 Dina Nayeri 1646220722 April 0 to-read 3.49 2023 Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough
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name: April
average rating: 3.49
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]]> <![CDATA[Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother]]> 61918857
In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still others—the vast majority, then and now—who fell somewhere in between.Modern women considering how and if children fit into their lives are products of their political, ecological, and cultural moment. But history also tells them that they are not alone.
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Drawing on deep research and her own experience as a woman without children, historian Peggy O’Donnell Heffington shows that many of the reasons women are not having children today are ones they share with women in the a lack of support, their jobs or finances, environmental concerns, infertility, and the desire to live different kinds of lives. Understanding this history—how normal it has always been to not have children, and how hard society has worked to make it seem abnormal—is key, she writes, to rebuilding kinship between mothers and non-mothers, and to building a better world for us all.]]> 256 Peggy O'Donnell Heffington 1541675576 April 0 to-read 3.72 2023 Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
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name: April
average rating: 3.72
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]]> <![CDATA[The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds]]> 61606704
One of Behavioral Scientist ’s Summer Books of 2023
One ofNext Big Idea Club’s "7 Books that Reveal the Wonders of Writing and Language"

This revolutionary book goes beyond any recent book on language to dissect how language operates in our minds and how to harness its virtually limitless power.

As Dr. Marian explains, while you may well think you speak only one language, in fact your mind accommodates multiple codes of communication. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin. Some speak poetry, some are fluent in math. The human brain is built to use multiple languages, and using more languages opens doors to creativity, brain health, and cognitive control.

Every new language we speak shapes how we extract and interpret information. It alters what we remember, how we perceive ourselves and the world around us, how we feel, the insights we have, the decisions we make, and the actions we take. Language is an invaluable tool for organizing, processing, and structuring information, and thereby unleashing radical advancement.

Learning a new language has broad lifetime consequences, and Dr. Marian reviews research showing that

· Enhances executive function—our ability to focus on the things that matter and ignore the things that don’t.
· Results in higher scores on creative-thinking tasks.
· Develops critical reasoning skills.
· Delays Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia by four to six years.
· Improves decisions made under emotional duress.
· Changes what we see, pay attention to, and recall.]]> 288 Viorica Marian 0593187075 April 0 to-read 4.10 2023 The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
author: Viorica Marian
name: April
average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat]]> 52011076 From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.

Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people's experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.

By sharing her experiences as well as those of others--from smaller fat to very fat people--she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious concern. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant; and in 48 states, it's legal--even routine--to deny employment because of an applicant's size.

Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike.]]> 197 Aubrey Gordon 0807041300 April 5 audiobooks, non-fiction 4.41 2020 What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
author: Aubrey Gordon
name: April
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2023/02/16
date added: 2023/02/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Last Comic Book on the Left Volume 2 (The Last Comic Book on the Left)]]> 61425959
RISE FROM YOUR GRAVES! Do you giggle in the face of ceaseless horror? Are you prepared to pry open history’s arcanum where the absurd and terrifying collide? Then welcome back, fearless hellions, for round two of THE LAST COMIC BOOK ON THE LEFT! Project Monarch hypnotize the masses for our lizard overlords! At a scribbling android! GET AROUSED (AGAIN): By a very sexy Mothman! This new volume of The Last Comic Book on The Left mixes cutting comedy and subversive horror, curated by the sick minds behind The Last Podcast on the Left and created by the equally sick (and sickeningly talented) comic writers, artists, and non-reptilian aliens in this dimension. The fatally funny and grotesque tales within The Last Comic Book on The Left will change your life…maybe even for the better . The Last Comic Book on The Left has not been funded by an underground Satanic cult. We the infernal old management is gone. Hail the new management and the advent of the purple moon born child.

Full Creator

Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, Courtney Menard and Josh Frankel

Associate Jasminne Saravia

Courtney Menard

Tyler Boss James Tynion IV Tom Neely Ian McGinty Eliot Rahal Bob Fingerman Lonnie Nadler Rick Veitch Brandon Montclare Logan Faerber Butch Mapa Masa Minoura]]> 120 Ben Kissel April 5 graphic-novels-and-comics 4.09 Last Comic Book on the Left Volume 2 (The Last Comic Book on the Left)
author: Ben Kissel
name: April
average rating: 4.09
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rating: 5
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date added: 2023/02/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions]]> 50915644
Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens shows you how to celebrate and cultivate the traits of these goddesses, drawing upon their strengths to empower your own life. In addition to offering a guided tour of the key goddesses of the African religious traditions, the book offers magical spells, rituals, potions, astrological correspondences, sacred offerings, and much more to help guide you on your own transformational journey.]]> 240 Lilith Dorsey 1578636957 April 5 mystery-etc, non-fiction 4.12 2020 Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions
author: Lilith Dorsey
name: April
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2023/02/11
date added: 2023/02/11
shelves: mystery-etc, non-fiction
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