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Part 10 It’s Going to Come Down to Semantics

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

Back Story by David Mitchell

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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Book 46: Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher Rough Review: 4 stars! It was already official but I’ll say it again – I’ll read anything by Kingfisher/Vernon. Her books are just comfort food to me at this point. Hemlock wasn’t my favourite (the Paladin books are what I discovered first and the world of the White Rat is my favourite Kingfisher place to be), but the concept was cool and intriguingly creepy, I love a neurodiverse-coded protagonist in her mid-30s who gets to have a […]

Part 9 Only Posting Already Done Review Now Let’s See How Many Are Left Over After That I Will Never Do This To Y’All Again

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment by Jessica Wapner

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht

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Book 41: Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll Rough Review: 5 stars. This is an interesting book. I’ve tagged it both as True Crime and Historical Fiction. Its relationship to the idea of “based on a true story” is fascinating. I’m not sure I’ve read a book quite like this before, and I think I appreciated it more than I enjoyed it. That’s not a knock against it, the subject matter is quite brutal and the fact that it’s based on a (n infuriating) true […]

Part 8

My Friends by Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith (Translator)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Book 36: My Friends by Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith (Translator) Rough Review: 5 stars. I have so many thoughts and feelings about this book. AND SPOILERS NO TIME TO REDACT. The first 70 pages or so were perfect. Just quirky and heartfelt and true, and SO funny, these sensitive, awkward little weirdos with too many feelings, lucky enough to find their people, for however brief a time. I thought there was no way he could keep it up for 400+ pages, and if he did, I would […]

Review Part 7 I Don’t Think I’m Going to Make It

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

Here After by Amy Lin

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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Book 31: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock Rough Review: 4 stars. I have so many thoughts about this one, but they’re all over the place and I’m afraid I won’t remember them all, but I’ll try to put them in some sort of order. This is the third book read for my genetic counselling book club in 2025, which is a book club I found through linked in when I was still researching and applying for GC master’s programs, […]

Reviews Part 6 45 Minutes Left

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Body by Bill Bryson

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

Dead Lions by Mick Herron

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Book 26: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry Rough Review: 4 stars. Let’s see, where does this go on my Emily Henry ranking list? I think 3rd, after Book Lovers (one of my favourite reads this year and maybe in many years; it’s been a remarkable first third of the year for reading and The Wedding People, The Nix, and Unruly are all also some of my absolute favourites, and that’s not even mentioning the eight or so really awesome and ten or so quite enjoyable […]

This One Features Almost No Annotations Because I Did My Job the First Time What A Concept Part 5

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Happy Place by Emily Henry

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency by Elizabeth Comen

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

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Book 21: Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Rough Review: 3 stars. I don’t know how to review this, or what notes to write to let my future self know how I felt or what I was thinking after reading it. TBA is a talented writer and quite brutally…funny isn’t the right word, maybe amusing? But I think for me, a lot of this reads as characters and situations in service of commentary, commentary that is miserable and true and not completely true and certainly […]



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