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my stargirl / courtney whitmore / star-spangled kid read recs!!
reading update: starting zodiac academy series today
All about love — bell hooks
Return of the goddess—Edward whitmont
Men who hate women and the women who love them—Susan forward
The crone—Barbara Walker
Female chauvinist pigs—Ariel levy
Bad feminist—Roxanne gay
When god was a woman—Merlin stone
The beauty myth—Naomi wolf
Cinderella complex—collete dowling
Reasonable creatures—katha pollitt
Born female—Caroline Bird
Femininity—Susan brown miller
Second sex—Simone de Beauvoir
The feminine mystique—Betty Friedman
The work of being watched—mark andrejevic
We are your sisters—Dorothy sterling
Gyn/Ecology—mary Daly
Toward a new psychology of women—Jean baker miller
Fasting girls—Joan Jacob’s brumberg
The prostitution of sexuality—kathleen barry
Women’s health, politics, and power: essays on sex/gender, medicine, and public health —Elizabeth fee
The seven daughters of Eve—Bryan Sykes
The baby business—deborah spar
Living dolls the return of sexism—Natasha Walter
Women’s spirituality—Charlene Spretnak
Goobies I present to you a fic that I need more people to read as it is consumes my thoughts and it's not even close to done uoghhhh (Not my fic!)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Being trapped in a dating sim... oh my goodness the stat gimmick.... The character developments ouagghhhh.... Take all my in game money please.
Do read the tags though. Nothing NSFW but it's gonna be somewhat dark :)
Books I've read so far this year:
January:
The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay (7/10 ending could've sucked less)
Woolly by Ben Mezrich (0/10 for unnecessarily glazing Peter Thiel)
Who Goes There? by John W Campbell (8/10, loses points for animal death but gains then back for inspiring The Thing)
February:
The King In Yellow by Robert Chambers (7/10 for inventing the cognitohazard but loses points for being lofty and dated)
The Mayor of Noobtown by Ryan Rimmel (3/10 I only read it for the 372 Pages podcast and I hated every stat-dumping minute)
The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas (10/10 read it good god read it)
Extraction by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (8/10 creepy little novella from their Pendergast series)
The Summer War by Naomi Novik (7/10 I wish it was longer, losing points for stinky fae romance)
The Coward by Stephen Aryan (9/10 brilliant and entertaining and tasty)
Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles (8/10 lovely Gothic novel but maybe a bit too by the books)
The Darkling Thrush by Josh Lanyon (6/10 what do you MEAN it's narrated by 2012 baby Max Miller?!!?! Cute gay fantasy mystery but it Lacks.)
Currently reading: Riptide by Preston and Child (the same two as above) it's okay so far, a bit dry.
Next up: Murder at Spindle Manor by Morgan Stang
2026 Completed Media List
Jan 20: Transit Love / Love Exchange S 4 - Dropped at ep 19 (only watched the first 18 eps cos I wanted to watch the Guests in ep 19 with full context. Zero interest in watching any more)
Jan 24: Percy Jackson S 2 - very happy to hear we're getting season 3 THIS YEAR!
Jan 28: Wayward Souls by Susan J. Morris - a nice continuation from book one but I am still not completely sold on the main romance. Still love the setting (especially with the added Irish folklore this time) and the inspirations for the characters though.
These eight queer heartache novels pair perfectly with popular indie anthems of the early aughts
interesting list