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I’m reading these books recently:

- The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene

Anyone reading them as well?

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I recently had a Matcha Tiramisu Sundae, and it was so yum! The coffeeshop had giant bears set up on tables for Valentines.

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Hey! I just converted this account into a page dedicated to mainly books and matcha.

I’d love to meet people with the same interests!

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Reading two twisted crowns and idk these two are just so much more interesting to me!!!

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I have to write this rant about the Shepherd King Duology. Because I re-read it and let me tell you; it's one of the best series I've read in ages. The characters, the world building and the writing just pulls you in. I finished both the books in one sitting. All the characters are just so damn loveable with their quirks and signs. And there are a few relationship dynamics that just tug at your heart.

Elm and Elspeth's love hate relationship.

Ravyn and Elspeth's passionate relationship, such that even distance and a king cannot dull it.

Elspeth's father giving her a yarrow every nameday and during the wedding

Elm saying he's better looking than Ravyn

The nightmare constantly thinking everyone is dumb

The nightmare caring for Elspeth like his own child

The nightmare choosing Elspeth over his own descendant

The nightmare saying something and then Ravyn being like "she didn't say that"

The rhymes that are sprinkled throughout the book

The shepherd king's Revenge

Ione's gentle determination and kindness

The shepherd king's kids begging him to come spend time with them

The way the nightmare describes every single character with their respective tree oof.

And this is just off the top of my head. The world building, the Providence cards, the magic system. It was so unique. And the plot twist was literally Chekhov's gun. And the quote "He has looked pain in the eye - and refused to let it make a monster of him". Rachel gillig, the woman you are.

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I’ve finished reading “Two twisted crowns” by Rachel Gillig, and I’ve been obsessively researching another book with the kind of romance and sensitivity shared by Ione and Elm. I had this same feeling between Matthias and Nina in Crooked Kingdom.

Please send me recommendations. I’m craving this kind of passionate romance, with female leads not over hating the male interest to the point of acting stupid and the male interest showing vulnerability or not being portrayed as the ultimate athlete powerful 6packs abs male alpha or whatever.

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DO NOT, AND I BEG OF YOU, DO NOT STAY SILENT. ISRAELI HAVE MASSACRED INNOCENT PALESTINIANS IN RAFAH, THEIR SAFE SPACE, THEIR CAMPS WHERE THEY WERE RESIDING. ITS A FUCKING MASSACRE. INNOCENT LIVES HAVE BEEN TAKEN, JUST LIKE THAT. MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE LOST THEIR LOVED ONES JUST LIKE THAT. AND IF YOURE STILL SILENT, SHAME ON YOU. SERIOUSLY.

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watch for this as you scroll social media this evening:

israel today dropped a bomb on a refugee camp located in rafah, which, as a reminder, had been sold as a safe zone.

remember that this camp is made of tents, not buildings. this strike was dropped directly on families in the dead of night, with no shelter to protect them. many people have become trapped by the burning tents. we don't have a death toll yet, but it's likely more than 50.

the images coming out from this attack are among the most graphic we have seen out of gaza. do not look them up unprepared.

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If you, for some reason, still have a subscription to the Atlantic, cancel it

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"Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."

― William Faulkner

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[ID: A video clip showing a Black person in a green coat interviewing an elderly white person holding up a flag, with more protesters in the background displaying Palestinian flags.

The interviewer asks, "Why is it important for you to be here today?"

The protester responds, "Well, uh, I'm Jewish, I'm Israeli, my parents were the only survivors of their families from the Holocaust. They both survived Auschwitz. I'm not going to support genocide am I?

"I'm here with the Palestinians, and we are here with Palestine, because we don't believe that what the British government is doing is correct. The British government is supporting this genocide! It's arming Israel, it's financing Israel.

"BBC and the other media here is supporting genocide. This is illegal. This is immoral. We don't agree with it, we will never agree with it, and as Jews -- and myself as Israeli -- I am totally against it, and we will continue to be against it.

There are now more than 60 such events in the whole of Britain, uh, people don't want to support this. They are against this government on so many other issues, but especially on this one."

Another elderly white protester next to the first joins in, leaning forward to add:

"And, also, this didn't start on October the 7th. In 1948, Palestinian villages, hundreds of them --"

Another elderly protester interjects specifically, "500 of them".

The second protestor nods and continues, "were demolished, thousands of Palestinians, innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered, and seven-hundred and fifty thousand Palestinian refugees were created. That's when it started, and it hasn't stopped since!"

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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Ayman Baalbaki's Anonymous, with Footnotes, #56

02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Ayman Baalbaki’s Anonymous, with Footnotes, #56

Ayman Baalbaki (LEBANON, BORN 1975)AnonymousAcrylic on carton laid on canvas70 x 50cm (27 9/16 x 19 11/16in).Private collection Ayman Baalbaki (born in 1975 in Adaisseh, Lebanon) is a Lebanese painter. He studied at the Lebanese University and at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. His large-scale expressionist portraits of fighters made him one of the most popular young…

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