Happy Samhain everyone.
#Samhain #Halloween #TurningOfTheWheel #CelticNewYear #FireFestival

THE GRAPHIC NOVEL US HERE!!! So many mixed feelings about this, but it is, admittedly, fun to unpack everything.
#GoodOmensOfficalAndIneffableGraphicNovel #GraphicNovel #GoodOmens #TerryPratchett #ColleenDoran #official #ineffable

A truly beautiful book. This is a stunningly wonderful work of scholarship. The photograph around which the book is centred is utterly heartbreaking, and a real human look into what is often forgotten amongst the unfathomable horror of the holocaust. A breathtaking look at what history scholarship can and should be.
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I‘m really enjoying this so far. Such wonderful and vital historical work done with this book.
#WenddyLower #TheRavine #audiobook #WOMENALSOKNOWHISTORY

This book is so cute, and such a quick read. It‘s cheerful and inclusive. The illustrations are fun and engaging (and sometimes downright funny). This is such a great book for everyone. I firmly believe everyone knows a they, but might not be a safe person to know about it. This book is definitely a step toward that safety and inclusivity everyone needs.
#StuartGetty #BrookeThyng #HowToTheyThem #nonbinary #genderfluid #inclusive #LGBTQIA+

I felt so seen reading this! I relate to so much of it, and even managed to find words for certain experiences I‘ve never been able to describe. From the discomfort of tights and dresses, and not liking them letting down our mothers to the let down and struggle of puberty. I know some people felt this book was disjointed and confusing. This is what the inside of my head is like, so this made total sense to me.
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That moment when you‘ve been looking for the words to describe this weird feeling and doesn‘t make sense, but does, that doesn‘t make sense to other people who have never felt it. 🤯🤯🤯 Thanks Elliot.
#ElliotPage #Pageboy #audiobook #ReadsByTheAuthor #nonbinary

This feels right.
#ElliotPage #Pageboy #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

4.5⭐️
Definitely uplifting for the vast majority of us. The truth about the history of the SAT and ACT were shocking. I think there is still a certain privilege to his claims because not everyone has the ability to just move out change jobs. I think he does acknowledge some of this, but just barely.
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Fingers crossed this isn‘t insufferable!
#RichKarlgaard #LateBloomers #audiobook

10% in and this is beyond insufferable. Tell me you‘re a privileged white man without telling me you‘re a privileged white man. Face book is a catastrophe, but you still have stock in it (so you‘re still profiting off of the catastrophe). You wrote this book while J&J was swamped by lawsuits over harm done, but you cite them as how this catastrophe should be handled.
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This isn‘t starting well. You see this catastrophe at Facebook, but you STILL have stock in Facebook. 🙄 So I guess it‘s not so bad to you after all.
#RogerMcNamee #Zucked #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

I just want to hug Brian so bad!!!
#BrianBroome #PunchMeUpToTheGods #audiobook

I am way late to this game, but here we go.
#BrianBroome #PunchMeUpToTheGods #audiobook

If all christians were like Pope Francis, they would not have to proselytise. If all people were like Pope Francis, we wouldn‘t have wars, abused children, hunger, or poverty. I am baffled that this man was so controversial as a pope when all he preached was what Jesus preached. He had love and compassion for all. What a sorry state we live in that love and compassion are controversial.
#PopeFrancis #Hope #autobiography

Not sure why I‘m here… but here it goes.
#PopeFrancis #Hope #autobiography

A better title for this book would be “Why I Needed to Find Reasons to Stay Alive.” There was one section of reasons, but they were from twitter so it was annoying. This isn‘t what I was hoping it would be when I started, but it was pretty good anyway. I think the title is just a bit of a misrepresentation. I would have chosen to read this on more of a high than a low, personally; but your mileage may vary.
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I guess this is happening today.
#MattHaig #ReasonsToStayAlive #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

I have some questions. Very thought provoking theory. I look forward to discussing this with my philosophy group.

What a wonderful, heart warming, and encouraging read. It‘s so wonderful to hear her voice, especially toward the end when she talked about the greatest adventure there could possibly have was finding out what came after death. Listening, it‘s hard not to find oneself suddenly hoping for a better future for the world and all its inhabitants, no matter how bleak things may feel. This is definitely going to be a go to, feel good book.

A great beginners guide. Not a huge fan of the outdated use of “codependent” or that healing comes from forgiveness, but it I do like the emphasis on letting go of shame. My only real question is how do people keep all of this information in their heads at once? This is definitely a work in progress for me. The box set is great. It‘s nice having a good set to go along with the book.
#StephanieCaponi #GuidedTarot #tarot #psychology #history

This is so cute! The interesting quandaries about veganism really just kicked it up even more. So funny. I absolutely adored the high school bullies getting what was coming to them, too!
#AmyAward #TheCockDownTheBlock #audiobook

This is all @julesG fault!
#AmyAward #TheCockDownTheBlock #audiobook #LitsyMadeMeDoIt

30% in and it‘s nothing but piss, pustules, belching, and dog shite. Who wrote this, two twelve year olds? Was it written for twelve year olds? There is no discernible story. I literally have no clue what kind of create the MC is, and I‘ve given up caring. This is nothing like I thought it would be, and I have zero will to continue.
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Three chapters in, and I like each one has been its own thing. WTF is going in with this book? And how old are these authors that there is almost a paragraph on the MC‘s urine (piss in the book)? I‘m not sure I‘m going to make it with that one. The narrator is great, but even he can‘t save this so far.

I needed something relaxing to listen to before bed; and for whatever reason this seemed like it would fit the bill.
#JeffNoon #SteveBeard #Gogmagog #audiobook #fantasy #dragons #HereBeDragons

The electoral college has quite literally NEVER worked. This is a vitally important read. Every law maker should have to read this book, at every level of government. Every high school student should have to read this book. Every college student should have to read it again. The “American Experiment” failed when the first president was elected.
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The “founding fathers” had two basic views of having a single person in the presidency. Which do you think has worked out to be the most accurate, 239 years later?
#JesseWegman #LetThePeoplePickThePresident #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

Continuing with the scariest reading I can possibly imagine at the moment.
#JesseWegman #LetThePeoplePickThePresident #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

All this time I thought conservatives genuinely believed they were the majority. Turns out they are fully aware they are the minority and just believe that the minority should not be at the whim of the desires, concerns, and needs of the majority. So much for democracy. This even debunks the grand myth that the American constitution is this great document of democracy.
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This is what the Kock organisation has always said, but I think it‘s far more true for the majority of Americans. The fact the constitution is literally set up so that the least populace state is more representation and therefore power than the most populace state is proof that democrats need to stop playing it safe.
#NancyMacLean #DemocracyInChains #audiobook

This is the conservative movement… and it literally would take a supermajority to defeat it. Democrats REALLY need to get their crap together on this!!!
#NancyMacLean #DemocracyInChains #audiobook

This is why they are so excited to now have the highest court in the land!
#NancyMacLean #DemocracyInChains #audiobook

Conservatives really believe this. 🤯🤯🤯
#NancyMacLean #DemocracyInChains #audiobook

I don‘t know why I feel like this is the time for this, but after the J&J book, apparently I‘m ready to take on anything and be pissed off by abhorrent practices and people. Here goes nothing.
#NancyMacLean #DemocracyInChains #audiobook

I can‘t believe so many of the terms used for female anatomy within science and medicine are related to shame and literally translate as such. I loved her addressing the fact that as recently as the 1960s, when researchers (some of them women) recorded the first ever time a human had seen the moment of conception or the first split after conception, not one of them described it as witnessing the creation of life.
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TMI ALERT (keep scrolling if you don‘t want to know)

I got my first period in January. I skipped in February. In March, I was hoping for early menopause. I. Was. Over. It. I also didn‘t tell a soul until April when someone finally noticed. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Who are these lunatics wanting MORE of this madness? WTF is wrong with these people?!

In hind sight, I was struggling with my gender identity already. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Catholic school did NOT warn me about that

Thank god for this. I was starting to get gender normative vibes.
#RachelEGross #VaginaObscura #audiobook

I forget which book enticed me to purchase this, but why not?
#RachelEGross #VaginaObscura #audiobook

I loved the transparency of who got money from where in relation to therapies and methods discussed in the book. I loved their ideas about how schools and parenting need to change for ADHD children (and probably all children if we‘re being honest).
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🤣😂🤣 sounds about right!
#EdwardMHallowellMD #JohnJRateyMD #ADHD2.0
#audiobook #ADHD

Here we go!
#EdwardMHallowellMD #JohnJRateyMD #ADHD2.0 #audiobook #ADHD

I will never be buying or using anything made my J&J ever again after reading this. The final chapter‘s call to action is nothing new to anyone paying attention, but the rest of this book is absolutely mind blowing! Johnson & Johnson is a criminal enterprise. Acetaminophen IS factually dangerous, but not for the reasons that are in the headlines.
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@Hooked_on_books made me do it… here we go
#GardinerHarris #NoMoreTears #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

Somewhere, Jane Goodall is having the greatest adventure anyone can imagine… and who knows what adventure she‘ll find after that! RIP Jane! 🧡🧡🧡
#JaneGoodall #TheBookOfHope #ReadByTheAuthor #RIP

I love this!
#JaneGoodall #TheBookOfHope #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

It‘s lovely to hear her voice.
#JaneGoodall #DouglasAbrams #GailHudson #TheBookOfHope #ReadByTheAuthor

All. The. Stars.

I could not stop listening. Such a beautiful journey for a beautiful soul. This is a great discussion of religion, theology, gender, humanity, love. It has an interesting and lovely connection to “When God was a Woman.” Her description of her thought processes and her experiences really resonated with me and was refreshing to hear. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

I almost want to give this a pick. I don‘t know why. It has some problematic parts, some of which actually damage women (can we please burn “herstory” to the ground already! Actual women in the field are harmed by this term, thank you). She seems to have no clue what most people mean when referring to the “c-word” (she uses it when referring to the word crone). 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

After watching a few of her TEDtalks, I cannot wait to give this a listen.
#PaulaStoneWilliams #AsAWoman #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor