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Rated mental_floss: The Book: The Greatest Lists in the History of Listory 8/10

If nothing else, <i>Mental_Floss: The Book</i> is excellent material for the trivia nerd in your life, and I'm sure I will be using the site's future lists to badger unsuspecting relatives and Facebook/Twitter friends.<br><br>For super awesome facts and the use of an interrobang, my full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/12/mentalfloss-book-only-greatest-lists-in.html">Glorified Love Letters.</a>

Wants to read Mean

Rated As You Wake, Break the Shell 10/10

Very well done and the relationship between the two main characters is very realistic and also heartwarming. The rorqual is also interesting, an original kind of alien being and its relationship with one of the main human characters is an entertaining part of the book.

Wants to read Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation

Wants to read Hollywood, Ending

Rated Butterfly Effects 8/10

2025 Nobel Prize winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai writes about collapse, fear, absurdity, and the strange comedy of human behavior when the world feels close to breaking apart.
His novels are famous for their long hypnotic sentences.

A perfect place to start is Satantango or The Melancholy of Resistance.

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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.

Illuminating, concise, and chock-full of fascinating details— with images of pages and ephemera pulled from King's personal archives— this book provides a truly unique and one-of-a-kind window into the Writing World and Words of Stephen King. An absolute joy for any Constant Reader. (Hogarth)

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Wants to read Wolf Hour: A Novel

Added The Game Master's Book of Non-Player Characters: 500+ unique bartenders, brawlers, mages, merchants, royals, rogues, sages, sailors, warriors, weirdos ... RPG adventures

Rated Master! Nemesis Express 7/10

<div>Not the strongest of all the various Master offerings, but still a good one. Eric Roberts being the one American version of this character continues to amuse, and Vienna is growing on me.</div>

Finished reading Moxyland

Rated I, Davros: Innocence 8/10

I am very interested in seeing how this series progresses. I have the other installments, just need to get to them, but Davros is an interesting character, and this is a strong bit of extended universe storytelling.

Rated More Than Human 8/10

Old school writing style but it flows and has some twists and mystery to it, plus a neat concept that was new when this came out.

Finished reading The Keeper of Lost Causes

Books may do more than entertain us.

A large study using Health and Retirement Study data found that people who read #books had a survival advantage compared with non-book #readers, even after adjusting for factors like age, #education, health, and wealth.

Strong evidence that #reading is associated with living better and longer.

Source: A chapter a day: Association of book reading with #longevity.
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Finished reading The Iron Below Remembers

Finished reading All the Lovers in the Night

Added Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Added Kwaidan

Added Post Dykes to Watch Out For

Added Martial Power: A 4th Edition D&D Supplement

Added Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual

#Reading can support mental health too.

A systematic review of randomized clinical trials found that #bibliotherapy (structured reading used in treatment) can reduce depressive symptoms and may have lasting benefits.

#Books are not a replacement for care when someone needs help, but they can be a real part of healing.

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Finished reading The Scourge Between Stars