#books i recommend

[endlessly-ranting-antheia]

I felt personally targeted by this book the entire time I read it. The best way to describe it is like an enjoyable peaceful melancholy. Reading it feels the same way that the cover does. The characters all have a relatable but unique sense of being lost and unhappy with various factors of their lives and society. It’s really nice to go on this found family progression with them as they work through their individual problems and build the community of the bookshop. If you do check it out it may or may not be your thing but it definitely was mine

[whitneydaniell]

by: Jeneva Rose Published: Apr 26, 2022 Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction 272 Pages, Audio Book (HH:MM) 07:49

★★★

GoodReads Synopsis:

Opulence. Sex. Betrayal … Sometimes friendship can be deadly.

Meet the women of Buckhead—a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships.

My Review:

Let's run through the players:

Shannon -- Gretchen Wieners

Crystal -- Cady Heron

Olivia -- Regina George

Jenny -- Janis Ian

Initially, I thought the women were going to kill their respective husbands but I guess that was too obvious. Bryce and Dean are both caught up in some human trafficking or sex trafficking or God only knows. It was strange how Crystal was tied into the fold, seemingly maybe she was one of the humans that had been trafficked by Bryce and Dean but, that falls flat. But if it were true, might have made the story better.

All these rich women stir up shit and want to be the "Queen Bee" except for Jenny. She wants to work and be left out of the mess but the problem with that is, she's at the center of all the mess. Everyone knows that women confide in their beautician/hair stylist/nail tech, the same way men confide in their barbers.

Blackmail. A botched robbery. Lesbian sex. Oh my! The side stories really sell this for me.

Beware of a woman scored - or women.

One-Word Summary: Duh!

[lazylittledragon]

i read legends and lattes recently and now i just think karlach should have a coffee shop

[doctormori]

I love this book to death, so here's some things I noticed <3

[galedekarios]

karlach & gale + 📚

[iliothermia]

Hey y'all. It's International Holocaust Awareness day Both of these books changed me. Consider reading them or please share for someone else who might. It's never a bad thing to learn more.

Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Slomo Venezia This is one of the only books I've found that touches on the living conditions and viewpoint of a Jew from Greece. Reading it, the author felt like a friend. It was horrifying.

Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide this book explained people were taught to completely separate Jews from being human in people's minds in the years leading up to the Holocaust- especially in the medical field. It has interviews with some of the doctors who did these things. The site for the books also has an archive of images, films, objects, publications, recorded sounds and documents. You can find information on many communities. Thank you

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

[im-da-bronx]

Yes!!

Start off with bigger needles, and chunkier yarn.

Use a lighter colored yarn so you can easily see the stitches (DONT USE BLACK for your first project)

Don’t use an overly fuzzy yarn, that will make it harder to see your stitches, and make sure it has a consistent thickness.

If you can, I ABSOLUTELY recommend checking out this book:

Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of all Ages https://a.co/d/chKaP7t

This is how I learned to knit.

It’s got a ton of cute projects, a BUNCH of illustrated instructions that are SUPER clear to understand, it covers ALL the basics.

It includes:

what animals most fiber comes from,

how yarn is made,

different cultural knitting styles,

different knitting stitch patterns,

flat knitting,

circular needle knitting,

double pointed needle knitting,

increases,

decreases,

cast-on and bind-off,

weaving in ends,

sewing knit pieces together,

using a knitting gauge,

and how to make your own knitting needles!

Have fun on your knitting journey! May your projects be fun, your patience be plentiful, and your yarn never be tangled!

Alright yall I’m going to start learning how to knit properly!

Anyone have tips or suggestions for beginners?

[ghelgheli]

Often when trans women ask me when I'm performing next, and I tell them that it's a queer/trans event, they will tell me that they'd rather not go because they do not feel comfortable or safe in those spaces, that they have been dismissed or belittled at such events before. Even trans women who are dyke- or bisexual- identified often don't feel welcome or relevant in queer/trans spaces. And whenever a trans woman or ally points out aspects about the queer/ trans community that contribute to these feelings of irrelevancy and disrespect—such as the way our community coddles those who support trans-woman-exclusionist events or who make trans-misogynistic comments—we are described as being "divisive." This use of the word "divisive" is particularly telling, as it implies that "queer/trans" represents a uniform movement or community—a "oneness"—rather than an alliance where all voices are respected.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl. Published 2007.

[ministarfruit]

day 3: your life is mine ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[endlessly-ranting-antheia]

I don’t usually recommend books on here (because I haven’t really been reading for fun since I started college) but if you like the Percy Jackson series then you should check out A Thousand Beginnings and Endings.

It is a retelling of Asian myths and legends and it is exactly what I’ve been looking for since I plowed through the Percy Jackson series and it’s various sequels in middle school and high school. It is basically a bunch of short stories each followed by an explanation of the myth that they are based on.

I have tried plenty of books based on Greek myths that people have recommended saying that if I liked the Percy Jackson series I would like those books, but so far they have mostly been disappointing for me largely due to the authors writing voice or weak character work. I am loving a thousand beginnings and endings because the authors of that book do not have that problem. The characters are well written and the myths are incorporated naturally into the stories. Each story is only a few pages long but they draw you in and make you want to see what myth they adapt next. The main things that remind me of the Percy Jackson series in a thousand beginnings and endings are the authors’ writing voices and the respect that they have for the myths and cultures they are writing about. It is truly a fun read and you all should definitely check it out if you haven’t already

[whitneydaniell]

by: Jasmine Guillory Published: Jan 30, 2018 Genre: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary 317 Pages, E-Book

★★★★

GoodReads Synopsis:

A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a fun and flirty debut novel.

Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist.

My Review:

Stuck in an elevator with a stranger, Alexa decides to throw caution to the wind and accept an invite to be this stranger's date to a wedding. A wedding between his ex-girlfriend and a close friend of his. A wedding that is happing this weekend!

After the first whirlwind of a weekend with Drew, they are both smitten and this one-weekend stand turns into a 60-day romance where neither one of them can keep their hands off the other and they enjoy copious amounts of sex. Don't worry though, there are condoms in every sex scene.

Like I've said before about Guillory, she writes for the Disney Princess in us all. This story was no different. Both characters lack emotional intelligence, and the ability to have effective conversations, and neither one of them express their feelings to the other. They spend so much time having sex and no time at all, actually getting to know one another and finding commonalities with each other. Oh, they both like tacos from a local area.

Also, this ongoing thread of Drew and his misfortunes with other women is a huge red flag but go off Sis. In an effort to 'go with the flow' Alexa fails to address these red flags instead, she drinks too much and then embarrasses herself.

If this were more thought out, it could be a cute story. Of the Guillory books I've read, she rushes the romance but then lacks giving the couple a foundation to stand on for longevity. They don't know each other!

One-Word Summary: Immature

Other books by Jasmine Guillory I've reviewed: By The Book The Proposal

[nerds-in-wonderland]

💻🖊🖼Drawfee Fun🖼🖊💻

[maeamian]

This may just be the autism speaking, but I fucking hate when customer surveys ask me 'how likely are you to recommend this or that to a friend' because they are lying about what they're asking. I am 0% likely to recommend almost any product to any friend and especially not by brand if at all possible, but what they want to know is 'did you have a decent experience with the thing' and that's a whole other fucking question if you want that answered fucking ask that. Except if I answer the question they're asking instead of the secret question, they yell at their employees on my behalf which I never wanted either. Terrible system, would not recommend it to a friend.

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[jenijro]

My dumbass be like “oh give me more podcast recommendations” knowing damn well I have at least 500 other podcasts to listen to