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📚 Reading Roundup: Chill Fiction Edition

Mini reviews of books that don't mess with my postpartum emotions. Think overpowered protagonists, slice of life stories, & underpants jokes.

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💰 Some stuff I'm surprisingly happy I bought

A bunch of stuff nobody is paying me to tell you I liked.

💰 Some stuff I'm surprisingly happy I bought
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📚 Review: The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz

Lessons in persistence from food porn science fiction

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📚 The Value of Philosophical Rants in Fantasy Stories

Reflections on the rants of Ursula Vernon, L. E. Modesitt Jr., & Naomi Novik

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📚 On Legacy: In the Context of Lowry's The Giver

What The Giver can teach us about the fine line between caste systems and functioning families.

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📚 A 10-year retrospective on 10th grade English

A review of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn & The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

📚 A 10-year retrospective on 10th grade English
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Birds, Bows, & Bangin' Books

Ritual uses & toys

Birds, Bows, & Bangin' Books
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Domestic Storage Behavior

The relationship between food storage & complex government

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Ten Species that Changed Our World

Book Review: Tamed by Alice Roberts

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Early Pastoral Economies of the Eurasian Plains

Debates about horse domestication

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