Review - Everything Is Tuberculosis, by John Green: I am very enthusiastic. If you're looking for a book to educate yourself about why TB is still important as a disease of poverty and inequity, this is perfect. And if you're not, maybe you should be. Rating: 5/5 ("loved it").

Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2025/03/20/review-everything-is-tuberculosis/

we say that making mistakes is human. but when they do happen, we’re quick to point fingers and hope we’re not somehow held responsible.
why is this?
'being wrong’ & ‘mistakes were made (but not by me)’ explore error in all its glory - ranging from funny to grotesque & bewildering to outrageous

full review: https://idealistatheart.com/being-wrong-mistakes-were-made/

Read MODEL HOME by Rivers Solomon if you love quintessential queer black literature, haunted houses, fractured families, sprawling suburbs, loving cups of tea, gut-punching prose, late night sanctuary diners, Jenny Holzer's Abuse of Power, Mothers, dissociating, running away & the unexplainable.

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Book Review: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
Stick it to the trillionaires with the debut heist novel Hammajang Luck says @Pheebsdw
at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/03/book-review-hammajang-luck-by-makana.html

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I review The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, Vol. 3 (light novel) by Yatsuki Wakatsu. This was the last volume, which I didn't know, so the ending came as an upsetting surprise, but otherwise a good book.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-other-worlds-books-depend-on-bean.html

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https://niklas.reviews/csaba-szabo-unreliable

I've just reviewed Csaba Szabo's ''Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'.

It's a tour-de-force through how most biomedicine research results are impossible to reproduce, how the field is corrupted by fraud, and what some real scientists are doing to counter all of this.

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TENSE, THOUGHTFUL THRILLER centers on the disappearances and murders of young Indigenous women—the new and cold cases handed to a disgraced cop newly appointed as tribal marshal on her late father’s former reservation lands. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mask-of-the-deer-woman-laurie-l-dove/1145469236?ean=9780593816103

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Fresh on my #blog: Book Review — Dark as Night by Lilja Sigurdardóttir
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thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-dark-as-night-lilja-sigurdard%C3%B3ttir/

https://open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p/between-lives-an-artist-and-her-world-f83?r=jo10o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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'the perfectionist’s guide to losing control’ by k.m. schafler explores how perfectionism isn’t the problem—how you live it is. powerful, deeply affirming & feel good roller-coaster read.

full review: https://idealistatheart.com/the-perfectionists-guide-to-losing-control/

My autumn bulb list has just got longer and I'm blaming Naomi Slade!

I've been reading her latest book and it's all about one of my favourite plants, the daffodil. (Given review copy by
Pavilion Books not paid.)

A lively read and far too tempting, you can read my full review on the blog: https://bit.ly/4iCGpBU

New sapphic book review: For Love and Blood and Fury: a sapphic paranormal romance (Lilith's Legacy Book 1)

https://judeinthestars.com/2025/03/18/for-love-and-blood-and-fury-liliths-legacy-book-1/

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Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon is a difficult book to read, but powerful and informative. Journalist Amir Tibon survived the October 7 attack on Nahal Oz with his wife and two little children. This is his firsthand account, along with extensive background and survivor accounts from others he interviewed. Tragically, his friend and neighbor Tsachi Idan was murdered by Hamas since the publishing of the book, and his friend Omri Miran is still in captivity. It has been 529 days. #October7 #Books #BookReviews #Bookstodon #Israel #BookReview

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f7e98093-832c-4fca-b4d9-946302adfd94

A FEMINIST SURVIVAL THRILLER captures the tough existence of off-the-grid life in the Arizona desert, and the ways people of integrity stand up against brutality. Grim and cathartic. SOLID B

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1719322

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#BookReview for "The Spy Wore Red" by "Aline, Countess of Romanones"

Interesting true story of a female WW2 spy.
Except... it isn't true. At least, not according to some media sources and spy historians. Apparently the author did work for the OSS, but there's no evidence anything exciting happened. She apparently "was only a code clerk who had worked her way into a low-level intelligence job". The parts of the book that make it seem like a spy novel seem likely to be completely made up. According to spy historian Rupert Allason , "Although Aline had served as a cipher clerk in Madrid … her supposedly factual accounts were completely fictional."

Library books returned March 16, 2025

My books: The Pairing. This book is a beautiful love letter to food, Europe, and sex. I was very much not the target audience and nearly didn't finish it, but it's good just meant for someone who doesn't look at wine and cathedrals and feel vaguely sick.

Games: Snow White - a logic puzzle game for kids. Too easy for my kid but he enjoyed finishing all the master levels in like 5 minutes.

Kid books: I didn't read the easy readers with him and most of the dog books were beloved repeats. The new ones:

Stella Unleashed - a poetry collection from the view of the dog. Delightful.

Dashing Dog - also poetry but an adventure story!

Invisible Leash - this one is about pet loss and kiddo decided that was too sad to read it. It looked sweet but kind of wordy.

Here’s my review of Anything is Possible, 2017, by Elizabeth Strout, a touching and poignant book of linked short stories about the rural community Lucy Barton, one of Strout’s favourite characters, grew up in #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #audiobook @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/84f84725-802c-4a11-a431-93aa131bd7ec

https://open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p/dreamtigers-by-jorge-luis-borges?r=jo10o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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[Review] We not only learn about Michelle Tea’s life, but also how those experiences shaped her practice, how her practice evolved, and how she evolved as a person as well. However, there is none of that holier than thou attitude that some might expect. Quite the opposite, in fact.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/review-michelle-teas-modern-magic.html