#a. t. qureshi

[reni-reads]

Reni's Read Along: The Baby Dragon Café

only click "read more" if you don't care about spoilers please!

So this book is about a café owner training a hot guy's baby dragon. That's the plot.

I went into this with the expectation of the book being garbage (because my best friend Janchei told me it's garbage and I fully trust her judgement) but holy shit it's so bad, "garbage" doesn't even summarize it properly. It's garbage that's set on multiple fires, caused someone's house (or café, haha, get it?) to burn down and now their souls are haunting me.

So anyway let's get into it, shall we?

Day 1 of Reading The Baby Dragon Café

• So we're introduced to Saphira, our quirky female lead who starts out by complaining about her job. Okay, been there done that. Hating your job is relatable, I guess. So...

• then she rants about her sad backstory of having no family left since her grandma, who raised her, passed away. RIP granny, you died to make FL look deep for our sins and you'll be missed. Not by me, but you know. Someone's gonna miss her.

• Okay so FL runs her own café, doesn't fireproof it because "where's the fun in that?", SIGNS A WAIVER and then complains that the baby dragons destroy her café and she doesn't get insurance money??? GIRL what the fuck is wrong with you???

• I can already tell the lore is about to be good. So apparently, only special "Drakkon" families can own dragons, yet somehow every single customer has one lol? And none of them are trained?

• Oh great it's a double POV and Aiden is the average r/NiceGuy who's just too shy and awkward to be liked by anyone 👉👈

• Pheeeew the physical descriptions read like a fanfic I wrote when I was 11. Everyone is hot, naturally, and everyone shines and glitters and is radiant and smells like roses (FL) or wood (ML). Eeeek.

• Their "meet cute" was definitely not cute. But it was a meet, I guess, so it got the job done.

• LMFAO she changes her mind FAST lol. So she's like "I hate getting up early!" and then Aiden is like "I like getting up early because everything is calm" and she's then like "Omg I've never seen it that way you're totally right". Talk about being desperate or a people pleaser? The getting up early thing should have changed gradually and then be a nice callback maybe?

• The author is plugging her next books hard lol, get your bag girl

(The second book will be like "The Baby Dragon Bakery" starring FL's coworker/bestie (SHE'S LITERALLY INTRODUCED LIKE THAT!) Lavinia and her childhood friend Theo in a ✨️Childhood Friends to Lovers✨️ story and the third book will be "The Baby Dragon Coffee Roast Battle" starring Emmeline (Aiden's cousin) and her nemesis Luke in a ✨️Enemies to Lovers✨️ scenario. Amazing. Can't wait. Actually yes I can.)

• How can you open a business without knowing math??? Girl what are you doing????

• Drakkon families look down on poachers... uh yeh, because poaching is bad? Am I supposed to be in favor of poaching here?

• My last note for today is: Saphira is damn annoying with baby talking Sparky (the baby dragon) all the time. She's generally super cringey and irritating with her "I'm so cute and sweet and wanna hug everyone!"-attitude.

Jeeez I need a break.

[lizabethstucker]

The Baby Dragon Cafe by A. T. Qureshi

3 out of 5.

The Baby Dragon 1

Saphira Margala loves dragons, but know she will never own one. Instead she opens The Baby Dragon Cafe, a coffee shop where adorable baby dragons can accompany their owners. Unfortunately the dragons are much like human toddlers, causing chaos and attracting trouble while still looking cute. It leads to Saphira draining her savings with the amount of repairs to be done.

When Aiden Sterling stumbles into her shop, following his own baby dragon, Sparky, the attraction in mutual. He sees how differently Sparky interacts with Saphira and hires her to train the little devil to behave and, if possible, get him to stop biting him.

sigh The month started so wonderfully with interesting reads. And this had everything that should've appealed to me, from dragons to romance and fantasy (I will NOT use that ridiculous term "romantasy") and fake marriage and touted as a cozy read. Not to mention having an awkward hero, which is a particular favorite of mine in a romance. Yeah, no. I found myself only enjoying the baby dragon bits and fast reading through everything else. Even the ending was a disappointment, although not for the hero and heroine's HEA.

The dragons are the only thing that saved this book from a 2.5 stars.

At least when I preordered this it was only $2US, so I don't feel like I wasted any money.

[nzbookwyrm]

January 2025

When Saphira opens her cafe welcoming pet baby dragons, she isn’t expecting it to be quite so hard to keep the fires burning. But her young dragon patrons keep incinerating her furniture, which means selling coffee isn’t covering all her costs.

Local heart-throb Aiden is a gardener, though his disobedient baby dragon is a major distraction from his beloved plants. However, Saphira’s café gives him an idea – he’ll ask Saphira to train his dragon, and pay her enough to keep the cafe afloat.

They know they’re the answer to each other’s problems, but happy-go-lucky Saphira and gorgeous-but-grumpy Aiden couldn’t be more different. Can they find a way to work together – and maybe even ignite some fire of their own?

[ijustkindalikebooks]

Review: The Baby Dragon Cafe by A. T. Qureshi.

When Saphira opened up her café for baby dragons and their humans, she wasn’t expecting it to be so difficult to keep the fires burning. It turns out, young dragons are not the best magical animals to keep in a café, and replacing all that burnt furniture is costing Saphira more than she can afford from selling dragon-roasted coffee. Aiden is a local gardener, and local heart-throb, more interested in his plants than actually spending time with his disobedient baby dragon. When Aiden walks into Saphira’s café, he has a genius idea – he'll ask Saphira to train his baby dragon, and he'll pay her enough to keep the café afloat. Saphira’s happy-go-lucky attitude doesn’t seem to do anything but irritate the grumpy-but-gorgeous Aiden, except that everywhere she goes, she finds him there. But can this dragon café owner turn her fortunes around, and maybe find love along the way?

Honestly, this whole move towards cosy fantasy is very much something I am here for especially when we get books like these.

A warm fuzzy feeling of a book, The Baby Dragon Cafe is the perfect read for Winter and cosying up somewhere with a big mug of something and a blanket - it makes you also want a baby dragon with you for this no matter the dangers to items of your clothing.

A cute romance, well developed characters and a setting you wish you could visit, this book is just so lovely to drop back into whenever you feel like a pick-me-up. I read it over a busy Christmas time, and I am so glad I had this to look forward to at the end of the day. Part romance, part slice of life in a fantasy cafe, this book warms your heart to such wonderfully written characters.

I really did enjoy this one, and really look forward to the next book in this series, as this left me wanting to know so much more about the place, the people and of course the dragons!

(Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC for review!)

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 41, 2023

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Independent effects of emotional arousal and reward anticipation on episodic memory formation. Gieske, A., & Sommer, T. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(8), 4527–4541.

Molecular encoding of stimulus features in a single sensory neuron type enables neuronal and behavioral plasticity. Harris, N., Bates, S. G., Zhuang, Z., Bernstein, M., Stonemetz, J. M., Hill, T. J., … Sengupta, P. (2023). Current Biology, 33(8), 1487-1501.e7.

The temporal and contextual stability of activity levels in hippocampal CA1 cells. Hayashi, Y., Kobayakawa, K., & Kobayakawa, R. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(17), e2221141120.

Accounting for endogenous effects in decision-making with a non-linear diffusion decision model. Hoxha, I., Chevallier, S., Ciarchi, M., Glasauer, S., Delorme, A., & Amorim, M.-A. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 6323.

A model for transforming egocentric views into goal‐directed behavior. LaChance, P. A., & Taube, J. S. (2023). Hippocampus, 33(5), 488–504.

Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements. Lin, Y.-C., Intoy, J., Clark, A. M., Rucci, M., & Victor, J. D. (2023). Current Biology, 33(8), 1606-1612.e4.

Environmental context-dependent activation of dopamine neurons via putative amygdala-nigra pathway in macaques. Maeda, K., Inoue, K., Takada, M., & Hikosaka, O. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 2282.

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Danger Changes the Way the Brain Consolidates Neutral Information; and Does So by Interacting with Processes Involved in the Encoding of That Information. Qureshi, O. A., Leake, J., Delaney, A. J., Killcross, S., Westbrook, R. F., & Holmes, N. M. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(16), 2934–2949.

Neural Index of Reinforcement Learning Predicts Improved Stimulus-Response Retention under High Working Memory Load. Rac-Lubashevsky, R., Cremer, A., Collins, A. G. E., Frank, M. J., & Schwabe, L. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(17), 3131��3143.

Proprioception gates visual object fixation in flying flies. Rimniceanu, M., Currea, J. P., & Frye, M. A. (2023). Current Biology, 33(8), 1459-1471.e3.

Cross-stage neural pattern similarity in the hippocampus predicts false memory derived from post-event inaccurate information. Shao, X., Li, A., Chen, C., Loftus, E. F., & Zhu, B. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 2299.

Superficial‐layer versus deep‐layer lateral entorhinal cortex: Coding of allocentric space, egocentric space, speed, boundaries, and corners. Wang, C., Lee, H., Rao, G., Doreswamy, Y., Savelli, F., & Knierim, J. J. (2023). Hippocampus, 33(5), 448–464.

Dendrites help mitigate the plasticity-stability dilemma. Wilmes, K. A., & Clopath, C. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 6543.

Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others. Woo, B. M., & Spelke, E. S. (2023). Child Development, 94(3), 734–751.

Plastic and stimulus-specific coding of salient events in the central amygdala. Yang, T., Yu, K., Zhang, X., Xiao, X., Chen, X., Fu, Y., & Li, B. (2023). Nature, 616(7957), 510–519.

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Monster High 2

Monster High 2 (2023) #ToddHolland #MiiaHarris #NayahDamasen #CeciBalagot #CaseWalker #JyPrishkulnik Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 Genre: Action / Abenteuer / Fantasy Regie: Todd Holland Hauptrollen: Miia Harris, Nayah Damasen, Ceci Balagot, Case Walker, Jy Prishkulnik, Salena Qureshi, Steve Valentine, Marci T. House, Scotch Ellis Loring, Justin Derickson, Lina Lecompte, Kyra Leroux, Lilah Fitzgerald … Filmbeschreibung: Während sie in ihr zweites Jahr an der Monster High gehen, sehen sich Clawdeen Wolf,…

[anxiousnerdwritings]

Part 2 of Marvel comics characters list:

Cloud 9 (Abigail "Abby" Boylen)

Kid Kaiju (Kei Kawade:a boy and his monsters)

Ziggy pig and silly seal

Howard the duck

Aero (Lei Ling)

Jubilee

American Kaiju (Todd Ziller)

Somnus (Carl Valentino)

Amulet (Fadi Fadlalah)

Nightmask (Adam Blackwell)

Ghost rider (Robbie Reyes)

Synch (Everett Thomas)

Misty Knight (Mercedes)

Dazzer

Lionheart (Kelsey Leigh Kirkland)

Gwenpool(Gwendolyn "Gwen" Poole)

Moon Girl(Lunella Lafayette)

Devil Dinosaur

Blue Marvel (Adam Brasher)

Jack of Hearts (Jack Hart)

Dust (Soorya Qadir)

Shang-chi

Elixir (Joshua Foley)

Kid Omega (Quentin Quire)

Legion (David Haller)

Speedball (Robbie Brown)

Silhouette

Ultraman

Justice

Night thrasher

Firestar

The Unstoppable Wasp(Nadia Van Dyne)

Armor (Hisako Ichiki)

Hurricane (Makoto)

Charade (Chloe)

Codec(Adi)

Twister(Bruno)

Diana Soar

Cloak(Tyrone Johnson)

Dagger(Tandy Bowen)

Vin Vision

Virginia Vision

Ant-man(Scott Lang)

Skin (Angelo Espinosa)

Husk

Broo

Eye Boy(Trevor Hawkins)

Moon Knight

Gentle(Nezhno Abidemi)

Prodigy(David Alleyne)

Danger

Pixie

Singularity

Captain Universe

Squid Boy(Samuel Paré)

Jocasta

Echo(Maya López)

Destiny(Irene Adler)

Iron Fist(Danny Rand)

White Tiger(Ava Ayala)

Power Man(Victor Alvraez)

Nova(Sam Alexander)

Luke Cage

Transonic(Laurie Tromette)

Snowguard(Amka Aliyak)

Sky(Kaila)

Martinez T,Naga

Vance Astrovik

Captain Charlie-27

Manon and Maxime

Idie Okonkwo

Surge(Noriko)

Triage(Chris Muse)

Anole

Wind Dancer(Sofia Mantega)

Magma(Amara Aquilla)

Bombshell(Lana Baumgartner)

Locust(Fernanda Rodriguez)

Pinpoint(Qureshi Gupta)

Domino

Shaman(Dr. Michael Twoyoungmen)

Alloy(Ramone Watts)

Giant-Man(Raz Malhotra)

Moondragon

Gorgeous George

Wiz Kid

Quicksilver

Scarlet Witch

Toad(Todd Talonsky)

Blob

Avalanche

Pyro

Sabertooth

Wave

Tempo

Jo-venn

N'kalla

Lila Rhodes

Priya Aggarwal

Xavin

Red Widow(Ava Orlova)

Ying Liu

Demolition man

Elsa Bloodstone

Stingray

Fantomex

Captain Ultra

This is the last part of the marvel comics characters list, I'll let you know if there are any other characters I overlooked

Take your time and Happy writing❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Awesome!☺️ Thank you again for going out of your way to put together these lists. You’ve definitely brought some new characters to my attention that I’m excited to look more into and write for at some point.

[christophe76460]

Une Semaine d'Expériences avec Dieu(SED N°192025)

Dimanche, 08 juin 2025

"Toute Écriture est inspirée de Dieu et utile pour enseigner la vérité, réfuter l’erreur, corriger les fautes et former à une juste manière de vivre,[...]"

2Timothée 3,16(BFC)

La Bible, un Livre vivant qui change des vies !

Mon ami(e), que représente la Bible pour toi ? Un livre d'histoires ? Un livre rempli d'idées utopiques ? Un recueil de principes moraux révolus ? Eh bien, non, la Bible n'est rien de tout cela. En voici une preuve:

Nabeel Qureshi était un Américain d’origine pakistanaise, élevé dans une famille musulmane très pratiquante. Il avait une foi forte dans l’islam, et connaissait bien le Coran. En tant qu’étudiant en médecine, il a rencontré un ami chrétien, David Wood, avec qui il a commencé à débattre sur la foi.

Pendant plusieurs années, Nabeel a étudié la Bible en profondeur, comparant les Évangiles avec le Coran, posant des questions difficiles et cherchant la vérité. Ce sont les Écritures elles-mêmes, notamment les paroles de Jésus dans les Évangiles, qui ont touché son cœur, particulièrement cette déclaration de Jésus: "Je suis le chemin, la vérité, et la vie. Nul ne vient au Père que par moi" (Jean 14,6).

Il a aussi été frappé par l’amour, le pardon et la grâce enseignés dans la Bible, en contraste avec ce qu’il avait connu.

Finalement, après des luttes intérieures profondes, il s’est converti au christianisme. Il raconte cette transformation dans son livre devenu un best-seller : "Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus" ( A la recherche d’Allah, j’ai trouvé Jésus).

La Bible l’a non seulement conduit à la foi, mais elle est devenue le fondement de toute sa vie, de son ministère et de sa paix, même face à la maladie qui l’a emporté (cancer de l’estomac) en 2017 à seulement 34 ans.

Mon ami(e), La Bible n’est pas un simple livre d’histoire ou de morale. Elle est la voix même de Dieu, transmise par des hommes mais inspirée par l’Esprit de Dieu. Chaque mot, chaque passage, chaque verset a pour but de nous former, nous transformer, et nous rapprocher de Lui.

Dieu nous parle aujourd’hui encore, à travers sa Parole écrite. La lire, c’est écouter Dieu ; la méditer, c’est comprendre sa sagesse ; y obéir, c’est vivre selon sa volonté.

Ne laisse pas ta Bible fermée si tu veux que ta vie soit éclairée, transformée. Elle est la lampe de Dieu pour tes pas (Psaume 119,105), la boussole de ton cœur, et la nourriture de ton âme.

Amen !!!

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WEEK 27 ( MAIN MAGAZINE)

PRODUCTION

This week i decided to start clicking the pictures. I wanted to make the magazine very pop and funky. I made my artist wear the current trending clothes. Such as t shirts and hoodies by Nirvana.I used a digicam as a prop. Here are my reference pictures-

My friends Rehet Kaur and Alia Qureshi helped me with this as they allowed me to click their pictures. I dressed them in T shirts from Nirvana as well as Zara. This allowed the truth authenticity of the generation to come out . Here are the pictures I clicked-

Next week I will be editing the pictures. Gotten a lot of inspiration from Pinterest allowed me to gain a deeper insight into a true photography experience!

See you all next week!

[bookstamel]

Recensie Het baby dragon café van A. T. Qureshi

Hey, lieve lezer van Mel’s Day, Degene die mijn blog of sociale media al wat langer volgen weten inmiddels wel dat ik gek ben op draken. Als iemand mij vraagt waarom ik zou van fantasie hou, dan antwoord ik standaard vanwege de magische wezens. En dan zijn de draken toch wel het meest bijzonder voor mij. Als draken echt hadden bestaan dan was ik zeker weten een drakenrijder geworden. Toen ik dus…

[shallow-between-stars]

Aww shit I realised I didn't post my February Reading Roundup.

Heeeere we go!

Carissa Broadbent - Daughter of No Worlds Amanda Hampson - The Tea Ladies Emma Lord - Anomaly A. T. Qureshi - The Baby Dragon Cafe Aparna Verma - The Phoenix King Andy Weir- The Martian Rebecca Yarros - Onyx Storm (Yes, I know. It's bad. Shush. It's my hamburger book) Markus Zusak - Three Wild Dogs and the Truth

Total for the month: 8 Running Total: 26

A quarter of the way, baybeeeeee

[reni-reads]

Reni Reviews

The Baby Dragon Café by A. T. Qureshi

Finished: 27th March, 2025

Genre: Romance

May be for you if you like: Fantasy with modern settings, dual POV, dog training, fake marriage

Synopsis

When Saphira opens her cafe welcoming pet baby dragons, she isn’t expecting it to be quite so hard to keep the fires burning. But her young dragon patrons keep incinerating her furniture, which means selling coffee isn’t covering all her costs.

Local heart-throb Aiden is a gardener, though his disobedient baby dragon is a major distraction from his beloved plants. However, Saphira’s café gives him an idea – he’ll ask Saphira to train his dragon, and pay her enough to keep the cafe afloat.

They know they’re the answer to each other’s problems, but happy-go-lucky Saphira and gorgeous-but-grumpy Aiden couldn’t be more different. Can they find a way to work together – and maybe even ignite some fire of their own?

Review

Pheeew I really didn't like this book. I went into it with zero expectations because my best friend @janchei-reads hated it and I trust her judgement. She was completely right, this book was beyond terrible. So let's quickly go over the reasons why this book wasn't for me, shall we?

The Story

can be summarized in one word: pointless. So the premise is that Saphira is a struggling café owner alright, and that she's training a baby dragon for an aloof but handsome rider. Okay. All that is relevant for the first and last chapters, and then it isn't for the rest of the book. Saphira meets Aiden pretty quickly and the "training" ensues, but the training is just her babysitting the dragon while drooling over its owner. To make it seem like something is happening, Saphira sometimes trains Sparky in actual dog-like behaviors like sitting on command and stopping to bite people. Okay.

The café setting is relegated to background noise after chapter one - Saphira, though claiming she adores her café more than anything and working sooo hard, doesn't... actually work that much in the café. We get a few scenes of her making coffee (for Aiden) and the rest of the café-related works falls onto the side characters. So do we get some dragon action at least?

Well. We do get two dragon-related "rituals" - one of which is "throwing off the baby dragon off a mountain so he learns how to fly" and the other is "steal a gem from a dragon and sell it to me in a scam so you can become a dragon rider". They both happen towards the end of the novel. The first ritual isn't even focused on much because it's also the (I guess) emotional climax of the book, so. The second ritual is done in about two pages. A big disappointment.

The pacing was also really off - I felt like the rituals both should have happened earlier. The love story progressed way too slowly in the light of the characters' obvious feelings for each other. There were some attempts at "misunderstanding" plotlines but they were unbelievable and badly executed, so even the getting together of the leads felt dissatisfying.

The Characters

were just plain irritating. Saphira was supposed to be the "sunshine"-character, but she was just obnoxious. She left all the hard work to her best friend Lavinia, sometimes talked about how much she loves all her customers (while never actually interacting with them past the first chapter), and was condescending to her new part timers, especially Calahan. She was a terrible boss and business owner in general, making stupid decisions left and right while patting herself on the back for doing such a good job. She also had some self-image issues due to this whole "Drakkon Family" business but it didn't get resolved properly so I didn't care, honestly.

Aiden was supposed to be the "grumpy" guy, but since he was a POV character as well, the reader knows the entire time that his "being grumpy" is just him being extremely socially awkward. The combo just didn't land.

Sparky, the baby dragon, was inconsequential to the plot. He was basically a puppy with wings, and apart from being jealous and annoying there wasn't much to "Sparky-Poo" as Saphira calls him.

The only characters I remotely cared for were Lavinia and Theo - not because I liked them, but because I used to be a lawyer and I felt the urge to represent them in a civil court against Saphira. I also didn't appreciate the obvious plugging of them as the main characters of their own book - feels like a cheap cashgrab attempt to me.

The Worldbuilding

made absolutely no sense and I could rant about it forever, but I won't, because who cares.

I'll say though, the whole "Drakkon Family" issue made absolutely zero sense because as we learn in the end, there is nothing special about them. Basically anyone can choose to become a rider, so I don't understand all the fuss about this whole "Drakkon Family VS non-Drakkon Family" heritage thing. It was absolutely pointless. It was also weird how there are a few powerful families who own dragons, but ALL of the customers owned one?

I also don't get how there's a university that teaches things like Dragon History (one side character studies this) and Magical Creature Veterinary Medicine (which Lavinia studies) and yet Saphira continuously acts like knowledge about dragons is only for Drakkon family members.

This whole ritual thing also didn't make sense (both of them) and they honestly felt like one of these things people from a country make up for toursists to grab some coin. "Oh yeah we have the ancient Chinese Festival of uuuuh Ancestry! You gotta climb this mountain, pay me 50 bucks and bathe in this spring to uuuuuh talk to your ancestor! Totally legit!" Like that's what it felt like sorry lol.

Final Thoughts

I don't have final thoughts. This book decimated my braincells. Don't read it please. It wasn't even bad in a fun way.

Rating: ⭐️

Plot and Storylines: ⭐️

Characters and Relationships: ⭐️

Writing Style and Narration: ⭐️

Setting and Worldbuilding: ⭐️

Entertainment: ⭐️

Other Titles in the Series

The Baby Dragon Bakery

The Baby Dragon Bookshop

[victoriagleasuredesigns]

“Vultures are extremely sensitive to the dead. Particularly when the dead are doing things they shouldn’t be.” T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

We are starting a new month with a lot of rain, and rainy day reading! 📖 ☔️ In between all the amazing quilting projects of course. We have not found a project for all this fun fabric, but are always up for a new challenge.

What are you excited to read this month?

A new month also means a new reading challenge from @owlcrate @words.and.whimsy @owlcratethenest. Cooking Up Spells is all about magic, and good food. So here is my TBR:

Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

Redwall by Brian Jacques

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Cake and Punishment by Maymee Bell

Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione

The Baby Dragon Cafe by Aamna Qureshi

It is also a great time to get ready for Spring with some vibrant flower quilts! You can find ready to ship quilts in our Etsy shop at VictoriaGDesigns or Shopify at www.victoriagleasuredesigns.com 💜

[janchei-reads]

All the Books I read while I had this blog in one post for all of my three followers! Whoohooo :D

If you see a book on this list without a post or link: it was most likely a copy that I got early and is in queue until the official german release date.

2025

January:

January 3rd:

Die Drachengreif-Chroniken: Federsang by Michael Peinkofer and Pascal Nöldner

January 12th:

Once there Was by Kiyash Monsef

Flora Magica by Vanessa Walder

January 13th:

To Kill a Shadow by Katherin Quinn

January 24th:

The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest

February:

February 1st:

The Frugal Wizards Handbook for surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson

February 4th:

The lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

February 5th:

A language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson

February 6th:

Das kleine Café der zweiten Chancen by Shiori Ota

February 9th:

Tod auf der Elbe by Frank Goldammer

February 12th:

Baby Dragon Cafe by A. T. Qureshi

February 16th:

Before the Coffee gets Cold by Toshikawa Kawaguchi

I am a Cat Barista by Hiro Maijima

February 17th:

Ein Mädchen namens Willow by Sabine Bohlmann

Born as the Daughter of a Wicked Woman by Gammon and Suncy

February 19th:

The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

February 26th:

The Princess Swap: Cinderella and the Beast/Beauty and the Glass Slipper by Kim Bussing

February 28th:

The Princess Swap: Snow White and the Dragon/Sleeping Beauty and the Seven Dwarfs

March:

March 7th:

Cheering Up in the Underworld by Runa Hirai

March 8th:

The Fragrant Flower Bloomed with Dignity (Vol. 1 to 6) by Saka Mikami

Magilumiere inc. (Vol. 1 and 2) by Sekka Iwata and Yu Aoki

My Girlfriend's Child (Vol. 1 to 6) by Mamoru Aoi

March 13th:

Shy (Volume 1 - 2) by Bukimi Miki

Shy (Volume 3 - 4) by Bukimi Miki

Shy (Volume 4 - 9) by Bukimi Miki

March 21st:

Tears of the Wolf by Elisabeth Wheatley

March 23rd:

My sister's happy ending by Hanseol Myeong and Mongchere

I corrupted the good Male Lead by Yanbyeol

April

April 2nd:

Game of Noctis by Deva Fagan

April 4th:

Scurry 1 - Die Totgeweihte Kolonie by Mac Smith

April 7th:

The Male Lead Monster Lives Under my Bed by Jihe and Yeo Ro-Eun

April 15th:

Say Ah, the Golden Spoon is Entering! by Sin Yu Seong

April 22nd:

This love is Strawberry Sweet/Sono Koi wa Ichigo no Youni by Irono

May

May 10th:

The Father and the Daughter by Juwolrim

May 13th:

The End of this Fairytale is a Soap Opera (Season 1) by ??

May 16th:

A Saint who was Adopted by the Grand Duke (Season 1) by Hwang Bino and Song Yiba

A Saint who was Adopted by the Grand Duke (Season 2) by Hwang Bino and Song Yiba

May 20th:

I ended up saving my crazy Stepfather! by Chon Hyerang

May 26th:

Beware the Villainess! By Blue Canna (Artist) and Berry (Author)

June

June 9th:

Blossoms of Fire by Cosima Lang

June 21st:

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

June 23rd:

Three Mages and a Margarita by Annette Marie

2024:

October:

October 11th:

Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin

The Girl who fell beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

October 22nd:

The Black Witch by Laurie Forest

October 27th:

The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim

Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell

November:

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December:

December 8th:

Stellar Witch Lips by Kagami Hana

December 9th:

Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood

December 20th:

Unico: Awakening by Tezuka, Sattin and Gurihiru

December 22nd:

Meine Schlimme Geschichte!!! Tagebuch einer Vampirjägerin Vampirin by Sina Flammang

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IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 32, Issue 10, October 2024

1) Context-Aware Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Based on Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling and User Preference Learning

Author(s): Song Chen, Jasper Kirton-Wingate, Faiyaz Doctor, Usama Arshad, Kia Dashtipour, Mandar Gogate, Zahid Halim, Ahmed Al-Dubai, Tughrul Arslan, Amir Hussain

Pages: 5400 - 5412

2) Deep Fuzzy Multiteacher Distillation Network for Medical Visual Question Answering

Author(s): Yishu Liu, Bingzhi Chen, Shuihua Wang, Guangming Lu, Zheng Zhang

Pages: 5413 - 5427

3) Explainable Fuzzy Deep Learning for Prediction of Epileptic Seizures Using EEG

Author(s): Faiq Ahmad Khan, Zainab Umar, Alireza Jolfaei, Muhammad Tariq

Pages: 5428 - 5437

4) FJA-Net: A Fuzzy Joint Attention Guided Network for Classification of Glaucoma Stages

Author(s): Dipankar Das, Deepak Ranjan Nayak

Pages: 5438 - 5448

5) FSCNN: Fuzzy Channel Filter-Based Separable Convolution Neural Networks for Medical Imaging Recognition

Author(s): Hao Huang, Sung-Kwun Oh, Zunwei Fu, Chuan-Kun Wu, Witold Pedrycz, Jin-Yul Kim

Pages: 5449 - 5461

6) Fuzzy Attention-Based Border Rendering Orthogonal Network for Lung Organ Segmentation

Author(s): Sheng Zhang, Yingying Fang, Yang Nan, Shiyi Wang, Weiping Ding, Yew-Soon Ong, Alejandro F. Frangi, Witold Pedrycz, Simon Walsh, Guang Yang

Pages: 5462 - 5476

7) Fuzzy Deep Learning for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: Approaches and Challenges

Author(s): M. Tanveer, M. Sajid, M. Akhtar, A. Quadir, T. Goel, A. Aimen, S. Mitra, Y-D Zhang, C. T. Lin, J. Del Ser

Pages: 5477 - 5492

8) Fuzzy Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Detection of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Author(s): Xiaotong Wu, Yan Ding, Xiaokang Zhou, Yanwei Xu, Shoujin Wang, Xiaolong Xu, Lianyong Qi

Pages: 5493 - 5507

9) Fuzzy-Centric Fog–Cloud Inspired Deep Interval Bi-LSTM Healthcare Framework for Predicting Yellow Fever Outbreak

Author(s): Prabal Verma, Tawseef A. Shaikh, Sandeep K. Sood, Harkiran Kaur, Mohit Kumar, Huaming Wu, Sukhpal Singh Gill

Pages: 5508 - 5519

10) Fuzzy Multiview Graph Learning on Sparse Electronic Health Records

Author(s): Tao Tang, Zhuoyang Han, Shuo Yu, Adil Bagirov, Qiang Zhang

Pages: 5520 - 5532

11) Hybrid Parallel Fuzzy CNN Paradigm: Unmasking Intricacies for Accurate Brain MRI Insights

Author(s): Saeed Iqbal, Adnan N. Qureshi, Khursheed Aurangzeb, Musaed Alhussein, Shuihua Wang, Muhammad Shahid Anwar, Faheem Khan

Pages: 5533 - 5544

12) MFISN: Modality Fuzzy Information Separation Network for Disease Classification

Author(s): Fengtao Nan, Bin Pu, Jiayi Pan, Yingchun Fan, Jiewen Yang, Xingbo Dong, Zhaozhao Xu, Shuihua Wang

Pages: 5545 - 5556

13) SLIDE-Net: A Sequential Modeling Approach With Adaptive Fuzzy C-Mean Empowered Data Balancing Policy for IDC Detection

Author(s): Abhinav Kumar, Harshit Tiwari, Rishav Singh, Amit Kumar Singh, Sanjay Kumar Singh

Pages: 5557 - 5570

14) ViTH-RFG: Vision Transformer Hashing With Residual Fuzzy Generation for Targeted Attack in Medical Image Retrieval

Author(s): Weiping Ding, Chuansheng Liu, Jiashuang Huang, Chun Cheng, Hengrong Ju

Pages: 5571 - 5584

15) TDEC: Evidential Clustering Based on Transfer Learning and Deep Autoencoder

Author(s): Lianmeng Jiao, Feng Wang, Zhun-Ga Liu, Quan Pan

Pages: 5585 - 5597

16) Dialectic Feature-Based Fuzzy Graph Learning for Label Propagation Assisting Text Classification

Author(s): Cherukula Madhu, Sudhakar M S

Pages: 5598 - 5612

17) Stochastic Sampled-Data Model Predictive Control for T-S Fuzzy Systems With Unknown Stochastic Sampling Probability

Author(s): Hong-Gui Han, Shi-Jia Fu, Hao-Yuan Sun, Zheng Liu

Pages: 5613 - 5624

18) Fuzzy Shared Representation Learning for Multistream Classification

Author(s): En Yu, Jie Lu, Guangquan Zhang

Pages: 5625 - 5637

19) Adaptive Event-Triggered Saturation-Tolerant Control for Multiagent Systems Based on Finite-Time Fuzzy Learning

Author(s): Xiaohui Yue, Huaguang Zhang, Jiayue Sun, Lei Wan

Pages: 5638 - 5647

20) Bounded and Saturation Control-Based Fixed-Time Synchronization of Discontinuous Fuzzy Competitive Networks With State-Dependent Switching

Author(s): Honglin Ni, Fanchao Kong, Quanxin Zhu, Chaoxu Mu

Pages: 5648 - 5659

21) Internal Purity: A Differential Entropy-Based Internal Validation Index for Crisp and Fuzzy Clustering Validation

Author(s): Bin Cao, Chen Yang, Kaibo He, Jing Fan, Honghao Gao, Pengjiang Qian

Pages: 5660 - 5673

22) Reinforced Fuzzy-Rule-Based Neural Networks Realized Through Streamlined Feature Selection Strategy and Fuzzy Clustering With Distance Variation

Author(s): Zheng Wang, Eun-Hu Kim, Sung-Kwun Oh, Witold Pedrycz, Zunwei Fu, Jin Hee Yoon

Pages: 5674 - 5686

23) A Robust Pseudo Fuzzy Rough Feature Selection Using Linear Reconstruction Measure

Author(s): Lin Qiu, Xingwei Wang, Yanpeng Qu, Kaimin Zhang, Fei Gao, Bo Yi, Keqin Li

Pages: 5687 - 5701

24) A Bayesian Network Inference Approach for Dynamic Risk Assessment Using Multisource-Based Information Fusion in an Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Set Environment

Author(s): Jintao Xu, Yang Sui, Tao Dai

Pages: 5702 - 5713

25) Fuzzy Neural Tangent Kernel Model for Identifying DNA N4-Methylcytosine Sites

Author(s): Yijie Ding, Prayag Tiwari, Fei Guo, Quan Zou, Weiping Ding

Pages: 5714 - 5727

26) Impulsive Formation Tracking of Nonlinear Fuzzy Multiagent Systems With Input Saturation Constraints

Author(s): Xiaowei Jiang, Le You, Ni Zhang, Ming Chi, Huaicheng Yan

Pages: 5728 - 5736

27) Data-Driven Decentralized Learning Regulation for Networked Interconnected Systems Using Generalized Fuzzy Hyperbolic Models

Author(s): Jian Liu, Jiachen Ke, Jinliang Liu, Xiangpeng Xie, Engang Tian, Jie Cao

Pages: 5737 - 5749

28) Observer-Based Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Networked Systems Under Multichannel Attacks With Indirectly Accessible Mode Information

Author(s): Shiyu Jiao, Shengyuan Xu, Ju H. Park, Jun Chen

Pages: 5750 - 5761

29) A Fuzzy Multigranularity Convolutional Neural Network With Double Attention Mechanisms for Measuring Semantic Textual Similarity

Author(s): Butian Zhao, Runtong Zhang, Kaiyuan Bai

Pages: 5762 - 5776

30) FuSVC: A New Labeling Rule for Support Vector Clustering Using Fuzzy Sets

Author(s): Ramiro Saltos, Richard Weber, Dayana Saltos

Pages: 5777 - 5790

31) Inverse Compensation-Based Global Fast Terminal Integral Sliding Mode Control With Lumped Uncertainty Fuzzy Estimation for Dielectric Electro-Active Polymer Actuator

Author(s): Yue Zhang, Yawu Wang, Jundong Wu, Chun-Yi Su

Pages: 5791 - 5801

32) Fuzzy-Based Control for Multiple Tasks With Human–Robot Interaction

Author(s): Yuwei Yang, Zhijun Li, Peng Shi, Guoxin Li

Pages: 5802 - 5814

33) Decentralized Periodic Dynamic Event-Triggering Fuzzy Load Frequency Control for Multiarea Nonlinear Power Systems Based on IT2 Fuzzy Model

Author(s): Shanling Dong, Genyuan Yang, Yougang Bian, Zheng-Guang Wu, Meiqin Liu

Pages: 5815 - 5826

34) Event-Based Adaptive Fuzzy Constrained Control for Nonlinear Multiagent Systems via State-Error Unified Barrier Function Approach

Author(s): Xiyue Guo, Huaguang Zhang, Xin Liu, Xiaohui Yue

Pages: 5827 - 5835

35) Command Filter-Based Finite-Time Constraint Control for Flexible Joint Robots Stochastic System With Unknown Dead Zones

Author(s): Yuanbao Dong, Hak-Keung Lam, Jiapeng Liu, Jinpeng Yu

Pages: 5836 - 5844

36) A Tree-Shaped Fuzzy Clustering Answer Retrieval Model Based on Question Alignment

Author(s): Qi Lang, Witold Pedrycz, Xiaodong Liu, Yan Fang

Pages: 5845 - 5857

37) Local Fuzzy-Basis-Dependent Stabilization of Interval Type-2 T–S Fuzzy Systems via an Improved Adaptive Memory-Based Event-Triggered Mechanism

Author(s): Gia Bao Hong, Sung Hyun Kim

Pages: 5858 - 5871

38) Fuzzy Boundary Sampled-Data Control for Nonlinear DPSs With Random Time-Varying Delays

Author(s): Zi-Peng Wang, Bo-Ming Chen, Junfei Qiao, Huai-Ning Wu, Tingwen Huang

Pages: 5872 - 5885

39) A Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Method Based on Fuzzy Attention Fusion

Author(s): Yuxing Zhi, Junhuai Li, Huaijun Wang, Jing Chen, Wei Wei

Pages: 5886 - 5898

40) Adaptive Fuzzy Resilient Decentralized Control for Nonlinear Large-Scale CPSs Under DoS Attacks

Author(s): Zhihong Zhao, Tong Wang, Feng Peng, Jinyong Yu

Pages: 5899 - 5909

41) Synergizing Two Types of Fuzzy Information Granules for Accurate and Interpretable Multistep Forecasting of Time Series

Author(s): Yuqing Tang, Fusheng Yu, Witold Pedrycz

Pages: 5910 - 5923

42) Robust Discriminant Embedding Projection Fuzzy Clustering With Optimal Mean

Author(s): Jingyu Wang, Xinru Zhang, Feiping Nie, Xuelong Li

Pages: 5924 - 5938

43) Tensor-Based Possibilistic C-Means Clustering

Author(s): Josephine Bernadette M. Benjamin, Miin-Shen Yang

Pages: 5939 - 5950

44) Physics-Informed Spatial Fuzzy System and Its Applications in Modeling

Author(s): Hai-Peng Deng, Bing-Chuan Wang, Han-Xiong Li

Pages: 5951 - 5962

45) Three-Way Approximations Fusion With Granular-Ball Computing to Guide Multigranularity Fuzzy Entropy for Feature Selection

Author(s): Deyou Xia, Guoyin Wang, Qinghua Zhang, Jie Yang, Shuyin Xia

Pages: 5963 - 5977

46) Adaptive Fuzzy Predefined-Time Tracking Control Design for Nonstrict-Feedback High-Order Nonlinear Systems With Input Quantization

Author(s): Shuai Sui, Lin Zhao, C. L. Philip Chen

Pages: 5978 - 5990

47) Bumpless Tracking Switching Control for Interval Type-2 Switched Positive T–S Fuzzy Systems

Author(s): Ying Zhao, Zhe Feng, Ben Niu

Pages: 5991 - 5996

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3 Idiots

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A popular comedy-drama from Bollywood that came out in 2009, it focuses on the journey of three engineering students, Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi, and Rancho, at the Imperial College of Engineering.

This movie has a lot of moral lessons on how to cope with problems and challenges. This movie shows the importance of friendship and comradeship. Farhan, Raju, and Rancho show their strong bond of friendship, even though their different backgrounds shape their experiences and decisions throughout their college lives. This also shows the personal desires and expectations of society. Farhan comes from a middle-class family. His father wants him to be an engineer, but Farhan wants to be a wildlife photographer. Raju comes from a poor family; his father is bedridden, so his mother works really hard to support her family's needs. Lastly, Rancho was originally a servant’s son; his true identity is revealed later in the movie. He loved learning and attended school in place of the real Ranchoddas. 

This movie is all about following your passion. This film shows the importance of pursuing one's passion rather than following what other people want you to be. This movie encourages viewers to take risks; overcoming fear will lead to personal growth and success. And lastly, the value of friendship shows the importance of having a supportive and understanding group of friends. Helping each other through personal and academic challenges shows that everything is possible when everyone is bonding.

In conclusion, enjoy every moment of your life. Problems, dilemmas, challenges, conundrums, etc. are part of our journey. Life is not just about achieving goals but also about enjoying the journey. Find friends that will help you achieve your goals without dragging you down. Life is short; make your life meaningful and filled with happiness and happy memories.

References:

Patwa, P. (2018, June 20). “3 Idiots” Is Finally Getting A Sequel & We Can’t Help But Yell “All Izz Well.” MensXP. https://www.mensxp.com/entertainment/bollywood/45648-lsquo-3-idiots-rsquo-is-finally-getting-a-sequel-we-can-t-help-but-yell-lsquo-all-izz-well-rsquo.html