Sign in with Facebook
177 books
—
173 voters
to-read
(1866)
currently-reading (3)
read (243)
tbr-non-fic-essays-or-memoirs (1224)
tbr-mystery-thriller (338)
currently-reading (3)
read (243)
tbr-non-fic-essays-or-memoirs (1224)
tbr-mystery-thriller (338)
tbr-fantasy-slash-adventure
(248)
to-sample (148)
i-love-myself-too-much-to-finish (48)
awaiting-release (29)
sampled-not-interested (26)
to-sample (148)
i-love-myself-too-much-to-finish (48)
awaiting-release (29)
sampled-not-interested (26)
Kartik
is currently reading
progress:
(page 200 of 560)
"“The Nine Curves River” by R. F. Kuang - 3.5/5
This was pretty well written but the one thing that held it back was that the characters felt a little depthless and more just archetypes. Like, wow older woman who’s jealous of the younger girl who’s extremely beautiful? Hmm, now where have I heard that before…" — Nov 10, 2024 09:20AM
"“The Nine Curves River” by R. F. Kuang - 3.5/5
This was pretty well written but the one thing that held it back was that the characters felt a little depthless and more just archetypes. Like, wow older woman who’s jealous of the younger girl who’s extremely beautiful? Hmm, now where have I heard that before…" — Nov 10, 2024 09:20AM
“Perhaps the cultural obsession with ‘natural’ birth reflects the extent of our detachment from our bodies and from the Earth. We are so disconnected from the rest of the natural world that we don’t know what ‘nature’ is: bodies failing, cuckoos pushing eggs out of nests, a weirdly small human pelvis and a big infant head, illness and disease, shit and blood, ticks and cockroaches. ‘Natural childbirth’ in the ‘natural world’ often ends in infant or maternal death. ‘Natural’ childbirth can end in clitoral tears, sepsis, rectoceles, fistulas and psychosis.”
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
“Martin snorted. It shouldn’t be funny. There was nothing funny about what happened to Will, and only in his darker moods did Martin find much humor in his own predicament. But still he was laughing, and when he looked over, saw that Will was smiling, one hand over his mouth. It felt like —he couldn’t think of anything less theatrical than miracle—that they were standing here, alive, relatively well in mind and body, and laughing about everything that had happened.”
― Two Rogues Make a Right
― Two Rogues Make a Right
“Sleep deprivation even impacts DNA and learning-related genes in the brain involved in memory-making. Was that why other mothers didn’t talk about the reality of early motherhood or childbirth? Because they hadn’t made the memories?”
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
“His hair, which had been wheat blond during childhood, was now the dark ash blond of driftwood, and his eyes were the dangerous gray of the North Sea but sometimes, rarely, flecked with the shifting blues of sea glass. It seemed so strange that Will had only learned these things after traveling thousands of miles away from Martin, but now he couldn’t look at his friend without thinking of the ocean. It was as if his mind had taken the source of all his nightmares and mapped it onto the face of the person he loved best, as if to remind him that maybe the sea wasn’t all bad.”
― Two Rogues Make a Right
― Two Rogues Make a Right
“It’s being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas. We’re being asked to believe that the US marines are actually on a feminist mission. (If so, will their next stop be America’s military ally Saudi Arabia?) Think of it this way: in India there are some pretty reprehensible social practices, against ‘Untouchables’, against Christians and Muslims, against women. Pakistan and Bangladesh have even worse ways of dealing with minority communities and women. Should they be bombed? Should Delhi, Islamabad, and Dhaka be destroyed? Is it possible to bomb bigotry out of India? Can we bomb our way to a feminist paradise? Is that how women won the vote in the United States? Or how slavery was abolished? Can we win redress for the genocide of the millions of Native Americans, upon whose corpses the United States was founded, by bombing Santa Fe?”
― My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-Fiction
― My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-Fiction
Nonfiction November
— 2638 members
— last activity Oct 12, 2025 12:31PM
**Note** This event is no longer active. Thank you for 10 wonderful years! Please feel free to keep using this page as a resource. Welcome to Nonfict ...more
Kartik’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kartik’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,680 books
|
950 friends
2,904 books
|
105 friends
1,208 books
|
29 friends
1,733 books
|
513 friends
1,031 books
|
169 friends
1,300 books
|
2,061 friends
1,963 books
|
1,112 friends
1,505 books
|
313 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Kartik
Lists liked by Kartik
