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1984 meets Orange is the New Black in this dystopian masterpiece centered around female protagonists.
If you’re looking for the intersection between futuristic government surveillance and the immigrant experience, look no further.
Inspirational, tragic, horrifying, and slightly close to home for anyone who could be seen as a ‘high-risk’ individual by the governing body.
Laila Lalami spells out the consequences and overlap between casual racism, unchecked capitalism, and the industrial prison complex.
10/10 Best read of 2025 so far, hopefully not a deeply troubling prediction of the future.
Inspirational, tragic, horrifying, and slightly close to home for anyone who could be seen as a ‘high-risk’ individual by the governing body.
Laila Lalami spells out the consequences and overlap between casual racism, unchecked capitalism, and the industrial prison complex.
10/10 Best read of 2025 so far, hopefully not a deeply troubling prediction of the future.
Jul 7, 2025
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📚Luster by Raven Leilani - Edie starts hooking up with a married middle aged white man and moves in with his wife and daughter. HBO needs to hurry up with that adaptation they announced.
Severance by Ling Ma - Candance Chen grapples with her unfulling life and job as a virus begins to spread and turns people into these zombie-like indivuals. Released in 2018 but somehow encapsulates a lot of that COVID quarantine panic.
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews - Sneha is struggling out here with jobs, evictions, and complicated relationships but she has plans to fix everything.
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews - Sneha is struggling out here with jobs, evictions, and complicated relationships but she has plans to fix everything.
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📚dystopian novel, a smog has settled over the planet and mostly all crops and animals have been wiped out. ppl live on a mung bean protein flour. a chef gets hired at a tech entrepreneur’s private compound in Italy where she’s able to indulge in all pleasures she’s been denied for so long… but isn’t able to find the desire…. at first ;-)
lots of lush descriptions of food and sex (i’m rly reading a lot ab these two things lately….hmm), and themes of power, privilege, belief, and DESIRE!!!……..
lots of lush descriptions of food and sex (i’m rly reading a lot ab these two things lately….hmm), and themes of power, privilege, belief, and DESIRE!!!……..
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🐎Most effective when they’ve clearly done this before but still seem to be struggling
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🧿You don’t need to suffer to prove that you’re a good person. You don’t have to stay with the job that makes you question yourself and you don’t have to keep dating that person you’re not quite clicking with. If something feels off then it probably is. I’m not advocating for immediately abandoning your responsibilities and throwing caution to the wind; but in our hearts we know when something is working and when it isn’t.
That thing called intuition is your soul, and you can trust it.
That thing called intuition is your soul, and you can trust it.
Dec 31, 2024
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If you’re unsure what something means, like, learn! Aquire full context of what words mean, because then you can improve your vocabulary, and know more!
Knowledge is power!!
Knowledge is power!!
Jun 18, 2025