I am still hoping for the characters to get a break at some point, but it doesn't look promising. Mistrust, death and destruction everywhere.
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velvet_shrimp wants to read Crank by Ellen Hopkins (Crank Series #1)
Crank by Ellen Hopkins, E. Hopkins, Ellen Hopkins (Crank Series #1)
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to …
velvet_shrimp started reading Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that …
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velvet_shrimp rated Children of Blood and Bone: 4 stars
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us.
Now we rise.
Zélie Adebola remembers when …
velvet_shrimp finished reading Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us.
Now we rise.
Zélie Adebola remembers when …
velvet_shrimp wants to read Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
velvet_shrimp started reading Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us.
Now we rise.
Zélie Adebola remembers when …
velvet_shrimp rated Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit: 5 stars
Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit by Sten Nadolny
The Discovery of Slowness (original German title: Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit) is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a …
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Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit by Sten Nadolny
The Discovery of Slowness (original German title: Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit) is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a …
Everyone should read this
5 stars
Especially men, though I doubt many will. I didn't know most medical trials only include men "for simplicity" which results in medication not working as well or at all for women. Many other points are mentioned where women are disregarded in planning for transport, architecture, taxation systems etc. resulting in disadvantages that affect women's lives disproportionately. This is wild considering that this is half the population.
Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
Imagine a world where...
· Your phone is too big for your hand · Your doctor prescribes a drug that …
But 'twas all in vain, they were now told, it was their business to turn their Minds to another World, and sincerely to repent of what Wickedness they had done in this. "Yes", answered one of them, "I do heartily repent; I repent I had not done more Mischief, and that we did not cut the Throats of them that took us, and I am extremely sorry that you an't hang'd as well as we." "So do I", says another: "And I", says a third; [...]
— A General History of the Pyrates, from Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present Time. by Daniel Defoe