Here’s my review of My Husband by Maud Ventura, 2021, tr. Emma Ramadan, a novel with a deliciously unhinged character who was brilliantly brought to life in the audiobook #bookstodon #reading #BookReview #audiobook #Storygraph @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/876a656c-45a2-46a7-9943-310f08fdb872
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📚 The Pumpkin Spice Café by: Laurie Gilmore
When Jeanie's aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job.
Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor's gossip at all costs. But Jeanie's ar...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-pumpkin-spice-caf
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Deadly Night Shade by Keirston Harding is an interesting read. Dariel Matador is attempting to get closer to his choice of victims, Serena Kyle. His obsession with her is absolutely dark.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1438991134?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_2BA824M7SY1QHWMJ6SAD&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_2BA824M7SY1QHWMJ6SAD&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_2BA824M7SY1QHWMJ6SAD&bestFormat=true&previewDoh=1
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📚 Flip by: Ngozi Ukazu
SENIOR YEAR BUCKET LIST? SWITCH BODIES WITH YOUR CRUSH.
Chi-Chi Ekeh has one huge problem: She keeps having crushes on rich white boys who have no idea she exists. Enter Flip Henderson, the most popular boy at school, who receives Chi-Chi’s private video proposal to go to senior prom.
But when Flip rejects Chi-Chi in front of their entire class, what happens...
📚 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by: V. E. Schwab
This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. Wh...
https://bookblabla.com/book/bury-our-bones-in-the-midnight-soil
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📚 We Love You, Bunny by: Mona Awad
In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark...
"And all of us, looking up, suddenly understood what lightness was. We understood what life could be like for someone who really did whatever he wanted, who believed in nothing and obeyed no one; we understood what it would be like to be such a person, and we understood that we would never be such people."
~~ from 'Tyll' by Daniel Kehlmann, trans. Ross Benjamin
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比例一样的情况下，牛奶里加茶和茶里加牛奶是一样的吗？
竟然……不是。牛奶里有疏水性的脂肪和蛋白质，倒进茶的时候分子会改变形状“蜷缩”起来形成小球，也就改变了味道，会有种轻微的焦糖味。当奶被倒进茶里，头几滴奶被热水包围，更有可能有明显的变化。而茶倒进奶不存在几滴奶被孤立的情况，这种变化就较少。从而这两种制作奶茶的方法即便比例一样味道也会不同。
当然，味道的偏好较为主观，比如 1920 年代的英国就分成了两派激烈讨论（颇似中国的咸甜豆花……）。Ronald Fisher，一位英国数学家，在给另一位生物学家 Muriel Bristol 提供茶的时侯 Bristol 拒绝了，因为她只喝先茶后奶的，并且能尝出区别。Fisher 认为这是无稽之谈比例一样怎么会有区别，于是两人决定盲测 8 杯茶，并且引来一众其它科学家围观。出乎 Fisher 意料的是，Bristol 每一杯的盲测都“猜”对了。
当众丢了面子的 Fisher 不敢相信有味道区别（当时的科学还无法解释）觉得 Bristol 是蒙的，但稍稍计算发现全靠猜的话只有 1/70 的概率能猜对。只要把盲测数量提升到 12 杯就能很大程度提升准确的信心。随后几年里他受到这个小实验的启发，总结出了许多现代仍在使用的科学实验概念与方法，如 null hypothesis, statisitical significance （互联网公司做 A/B test 的应该很熟悉），以及用小样本的不准确风险，深刻影响了现代科学实验方法。书里点评道：Not bad for a guy who couldn’t make proper tea.
（看到的时候我内心吐槽道 Not bad for a guy who tried to mansplain what’s proper tea. 就 mansplain 不可怕要是能深刻反思自己学点什么那也不错 🤣）
- 昨天在 How to win friends and influence fungi 里读到的很有意思的知识 （不过书一般也就几篇有意思的建议感兴趣的借下就好了）
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📚 You Weren't Meant to Be Human by: Andrew Joseph White
Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. A fresh start. It’s an offer that none refuse.
Crane is grat...
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Via Bookstore Romance Day, here's a great conversation between genre romance authors: the promise and peril of magic lost or found in fictional worlds.
Sign up at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-found-magic-tickets-1762356127619?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Great news from Suz Brockmann!
--new book
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--sale on Suz's two paranormal books
...did I mention NEW BOOK?
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I've given people that look, it doesn't work 😂
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Via Dr Laura Vivanco, genre romance scholar: "Amy Krug from the University of Dayton got in touch about their library's popular romance novel collection, which is being created by her students"
Given Ohio's general political fuckery, this is truly great.
https://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2025/10/romance-at-university-of-dayton.html
📚 The Compound by: Aisling Rawle
Lily, a bored, beautiful twenty something wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for l...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-compound-a-gma-book-club-pick
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![Lily, a bored, beautiful twenty something wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door.
Cameras are catching all her angles, good and bad, but Lily has no desire to leave: why would she, when the world outside is falling apart? As the competition intensifies, intimacy between the players deepens, and it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between desire and desperation. When the unseen producers raise the stakes, forcing contestants into upsetting, even dangerous situations, the line between playing the game and surviving it begins to blur. If Lily makes it to the end, she’ll receive prizes beyond her wildest dreams but what will she have to do to win?
Addictive and prescient, The Compound is an explosive debut from a major new voice in fiction and will linger in your mind long after the game ends.
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
Nothing to lose. Everything to gain. Winner takes all.
“Every bit as addictive as your favorite guilty pleasure binge-watch, but with all the substance of a literary classic.”—Oprah Daily
It’s fun to watch hot people do psychotic things in this novel... Smart and provocative [and] so damn ad](/proxy/post_attachment/926557/e2d4301c04.jpg "Lily, a bored, beautiful twenty something wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door.
Cameras are catching all her angles, good and bad, but Lily has no desire to leave: why would she, when the world outside is falling apart? As the competition intensifies, intimacy between the players deepens, and it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between desire and desperation. When the unseen producers raise the stakes, forcing contestants into upsetting, even dangerous situations, the line between playing the game and surviving it begins to blur. If Lily makes it to the end, she’ll receive prizes beyond her wildest dreams but what will she have to do to win?
Addictive and prescient, The Compound is an explosive debut from a major new voice in fiction and will linger in your mind long after the game ends.
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
Nothing to lose. Everything to gain. Winner takes all.
“Every bit as addictive as your favorite guilty pleasure binge-watch, but with all the substance of a literary classic.”—Oprah Daily
It’s fun to watch hot people do psychotic things in this novel... Smart and provocative [and] so damn ad")
📚 The Android's Dream by: John Scalzi
A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most . . . unusual . . . way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: a type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony.
To find the sheep, the government t...
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📚 Brave New World by: Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and pe...
![Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization.
Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit
"A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal](/proxy/post_attachment/876087/c2bbc977eb.webp "Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization.
Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit
\"A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works.\" —Wall Street Journal")
📚 Mate by: Ali Hazelwood
Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries-long rift between species. Instead, it made her a target, prey to the ruthless political machinations between Weres, Vampyres, and Humans. With her enemies closing in on her...
https://bookblabla.com/book/mate
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New on my #YouTube channel: "The Internet Con: an Under 5 Review."
https://youtu.be/Ix2nqGrT7Sg?si=EVVEYZv4_OS0L8jo
#Under5Reviews: where I tell you about a book and help you decide if you want to read it or not in under 5 minutes.
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Silas Morlock is a book written by a reader for readers to read about readers reading, by Mark Cantrell. Despite a somewhat silly underpinning, it takes itself so seriously that the reader will find themselves hooked, and in the end it turns out to be an entertaining romp over well-worn science fiction tropes, with plenty of action.
https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=silas-morlock
I am re-reading one of my favorite #books: "The Snow Leopard" by Peter Matthiessen. It is a #travel book set in 1973 in #Nepal as the author accompanies a #science expedition into the #Himalayas. It is a book about #nature and a #Buddhist introspection on grief and change.
The cool thing is that I am #reading the chapters on the day they were set. A really nice experience if you have never read such a book like that before.
📚 The Last Family in England by: Matt Haig
Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their Labrador.
Prince is an earnest young dog, striving hard to live up to the tenets of the Labrador Pact (Remain Loyal to Your Human Masters, Serve and Protect Your Family at Any Cost). Other dogs, led by the Springer Spanie...
📚 Circle of Days by: Ken Follett
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape...
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📚 A Sudden Light by: Garth Stein
Twenty-three years after the fateful summer of 1990, Trevor Riddell recalls the events surrounding his fourteenth birthday, when he gets his first glimpse of the infamous Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of gi...
https://bookblabla.com/book/a-sudden-light
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Fascinating. #grickledoodle #horror #dead #halloween #reading #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
📚 Mr. Wrong Number by: Lynn Painter
Things get textual when a steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relationship in this hilarious rom-com by Lynn Painter.
Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall...or maybe she's just the screw-up her family thinks she is. But when a "What are you wearing?" text from a ra...
https://bookblabla.com/book/mr-wrong-number
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