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So many books - so little time. Spooky stuff, fantasy, romance, adventure, travel, dystopia, classics, Chaos 🦐

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William Gibson, William F. Gibson: Neuromancer (2017, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)
DisCO: If I Only had a Heart: a DisCO manifesto (EBook, 2019, DisCO.coop; the Transnational Institute; Guerrilla Media Collective)
Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

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Sten Nadolny: Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit (Paperback, German language, 1994, Piper Verlag)
Mary D. Esselman, E V?lez Bestselling authors of The Hell With Love, Elizabeth Ash Velez: Kiss Off (Grand Central Publishing)
Gabriel García Márquez: Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit (Hardcover, German language, 1997, Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

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Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain: Please Kill Me (2016, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated)
Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett: Wahre Helden (Hardcover, German language, 2001, Goldmann)
E. M. Forster: La Machine s'arrête (French language, 2020)

2024 Reading Goal

46% complete! velvet_shrimp has read 23 of 50 books.

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reviewed Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez

Caroline Criado-Perez: Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (2020) 5 stars

Imagine a world where...

· Your phone is too big for your hand · Your …

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.

quoted A General History of the Pyrates, from Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present Time. by Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe: A General History of the Pyrates, from Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present Time. (Hardcover, 1724, Andesite Press) No rating

Plates facing pp. 70, 157 and folded plate facing p. 259.

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