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Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
Major Labels by Kalefa Saneh
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
Bones and All by Camille DeAngelis
Music is History by Questlove
Valencia by Tea Michelle
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Lesbianaâs Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
Punks by John Keene
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena GarcĂa
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Owen
Shine Bright by Danyel Smith
My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
Major Labels by Kalefa Saneh
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
Bones and All by Camille DeAngelis
Music is History by Questlove
Valencia by Tea Michelle
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Lesbianaâs Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
Punks by John Keene
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena GarcĂa
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Owen
Shine Bright by Danyel Smith
Jan 21, 2024
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- Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
- Giovanniâs Room - James Baldwin
- Swing Time - Zadie Smith
- My Manservant and Me - Hervé Guibert
- Breast and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Years - Annie Ernaux
- The Coin - Yasmin Zaher
- The Idiot & Either/Or - Elif Batuman
- Purity - Andrzej Tichy
- Butter - Asako Yuzuki
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đAccording to one Mouse:
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - a magical, mysterious book unlike any other Iâve read and possibly my favourite of all time. A story told in journal entries of Piranesi, a man who lives in a huge labyrinth filled with statues.
Memorial by Bryan Washington - a gorgeous tender story of a gay couple told from both sides. Stunningly empathetic and just perfect in its humanity, and use of food as character and relationship device.
Milkfed by Melissa Broder - a weird bisexual masterpiece. Sex, food, obsession.
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli - a history of quantum physics written by the man known as âthe poet of physicsâ. written so as to be understood by anyone, mostly to tell us that even the physicists cannot fully grasp the reality of it.
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith - ghost story depicting a decade of Vietnamese folklore and history. Magical, powerful, mysterious. I couldnât believe it when I found out this was a debut novel and when I finished it I just sort of sat there for a while.
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - a womanâs wife comes back from sea, but she is changed, and continues to change. Gay, magical realism. A beautiful allegory that can be read in a day.
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Smith - surrealist retellings of fairytales by my all time favourite short story writer
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit - a memoir and potent exploration the silencing and erasure of women by men
Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh - all three of her books her 5 stars, sheâs not missed yet. Blue Ticket is like Margaret Atwood meets Angela Carter. Dystopian feminist speculative fiction told with an almost surreal minimalism at times and almost magical vibrancy at others.
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - a scientist born of immigrant parents studying addiction, after her brother died at its hands. Grapples with grief, faith, identity, religion and love with unparalleled skill and tenderness.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - a magical, mysterious book unlike any other Iâve read and possibly my favourite of all time. A story told in journal entries of Piranesi, a man who lives in a huge labyrinth filled with statues.
Memorial by Bryan Washington - a gorgeous tender story of a gay couple told from both sides. Stunningly empathetic and just perfect in its humanity, and use of food as character and relationship device.
Milkfed by Melissa Broder - a weird bisexual masterpiece. Sex, food, obsession.
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli - a history of quantum physics written by the man known as âthe poet of physicsâ. written so as to be understood by anyone, mostly to tell us that even the physicists cannot fully grasp the reality of it.
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith - ghost story depicting a decade of Vietnamese folklore and history. Magical, powerful, mysterious. I couldnât believe it when I found out this was a debut novel and when I finished it I just sort of sat there for a while.
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - a womanâs wife comes back from sea, but she is changed, and continues to change. Gay, magical realism. A beautiful allegory that can be read in a day.
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Smith - surrealist retellings of fairytales by my all time favourite short story writer
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit - a memoir and potent exploration the silencing and erasure of women by men
Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh - all three of her books her 5 stars, sheâs not missed yet. Blue Ticket is like Margaret Atwood meets Angela Carter. Dystopian feminist speculative fiction told with an almost surreal minimalism at times and almost magical vibrancy at others.
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - a scientist born of immigrant parents studying addiction, after her brother died at its hands. Grapples with grief, faith, identity, religion and love with unparalleled skill and tenderness.
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A mix of classics and incredible recently published work
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine - Noura ErakatÂ
Slow Down - Kohei SaitoÂ
The Great Displacement - Jake BittleÂ
Reconsidering Reparations - OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
Losing Earth: A Recent History - Nathaniel RichÂ
All We Can Save - edited by Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson
As Long as Grass Grows - Dina Gilio Whitaker
The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Shock Doctrine- Naomi Klein
Orwellâs Roses - Rebecca Solnit
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex - edited by Matilda Bickers
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum - Françoise VergÚs
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance - Shourideh Molavi
The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina - Mercedes Biocca
Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice - edited by Cindy Barukh Milstein
And one extra for the season:
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror - edited by Joe Vallese
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine - Noura ErakatÂ
Slow Down - Kohei SaitoÂ
The Great Displacement - Jake BittleÂ
Reconsidering Reparations - OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
Losing Earth: A Recent History - Nathaniel RichÂ
All We Can Save - edited by Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson
As Long as Grass Grows - Dina Gilio Whitaker
The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Shock Doctrine- Naomi Klein
Orwellâs Roses - Rebecca Solnit
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex - edited by Matilda Bickers
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum - Françoise VergÚs
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance - Shourideh Molavi
The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina - Mercedes Biocca
Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice - edited by Cindy Barukh Milstein
And one extra for the season:
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror - edited by Joe Vallese
Oct 19, 2024
Top Recs from @paydayl0an
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đ„ȘCarmelize the damn onions in butter and beef broth.
Low heat, 45 fuckin minutes. Iâm not playin w you.
Use gruyere cheese
Make a compound butter with my girlies: thyme and rosemary and their dude garlic.
Slather that butter on two pieces of sourdough. Both sides, I shouldnât even have to tell you this.
Cook up some bacon!!!
Add a tomato.
If youâre feeling froggyâŠtruffle powder.
Get to work.
Low heat, 45 fuckin minutes. Iâm not playin w you.
Use gruyere cheese
Make a compound butter with my girlies: thyme and rosemary and their dude garlic.
Slather that butter on two pieces of sourdough. Both sides, I shouldnât even have to tell you this.
Cook up some bacon!!!
Add a tomato.
If youâre feeling froggyâŠtruffle powder.
Get to work.
Jan 25, 2024
Rec
Itâs black history month. Support your black friends and learn the origin of like every American popular musical genre everrr.
Once Iâm done with the 40 + genres, weâre diving into the diasporaaaa.
And then at some point Iâm talking cash shit about the summer of love and what was cooler than stinky trust fund kidsâŠI mean hippies in San Francisco... Iâll give you some hints, same time period but across the bridge in Oakland. Thereâs also 1980s Washington DC, fuck it even 1960s Detroit. I just really fucking hate the Grateful Dead fans. Sorry. Not sorry.
Perfect listening for cleaning the house and doing art projects.
Tell a friend.
Once Iâm done with the 40 + genres, weâre diving into the diasporaaaa.
And then at some point Iâm talking cash shit about the summer of love and what was cooler than stinky trust fund kidsâŠI mean hippies in San Francisco... Iâll give you some hints, same time period but across the bridge in Oakland. Thereâs also 1980s Washington DC, fuck it even 1960s Detroit. I just really fucking hate the Grateful Dead fans. Sorry. Not sorry.
Perfect listening for cleaning the house and doing art projects.
Tell a friend.
Feb 2, 2024
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đȘŽYou SHOULD be rinsing your rice before you cook it.
But if you arenât today is the PERFECT day to start.
Rinse your rice in cold water to get the starch off it, agitate the rice. save that milky colored water in a large container. Keep rinsing the rice until itâs clear.
Cook your rice and eat it.
Let the rice water sit overnight so that the hard minerals evaporate.
You can dilute the rice water with more reg water to dilute it (like if you have HELLA plants like I do) but stir it up bc it might settle.
(You can either add filtered water OR you can add more water before you let the hard minerals evaporate)
Now you have a natural and free fertilizer for your plants. Use it all in one day tho.
Repeat once a month, every other month or when your plant babies need some extra love especially during the winter months.
But if you arenât today is the PERFECT day to start.
Rinse your rice in cold water to get the starch off it, agitate the rice. save that milky colored water in a large container. Keep rinsing the rice until itâs clear.
Cook your rice and eat it.
Let the rice water sit overnight so that the hard minerals evaporate.
You can dilute the rice water with more reg water to dilute it (like if you have HELLA plants like I do) but stir it up bc it might settle.
(You can either add filtered water OR you can add more water before you let the hard minerals evaporate)
Now you have a natural and free fertilizer for your plants. Use it all in one day tho.
Repeat once a month, every other month or when your plant babies need some extra love especially during the winter months.
Jan 25, 2024