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Ruth is starting Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Trying to process my feelings about Neil Gaiman.

— Dec 07, 2025 12:24PM Add a comment

Ruth is 68% done with A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

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Ruth is 40% done with A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

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Ruth is starting A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

34 HOUR FANTASY AUDIOBOOK PALATE CLEANSER AFTER INTENSE MONTH OF 11 NONFICTION READS YES LORD

— Nov 22, 2025 09:11AM Add a comment

Ruth is 42% done with The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

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Ruth is 10% done with The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

I can usually tell how much I am going to enjoy sometime by the introduction and this one was a slam dunk, loving it

— Nov 14, 2025 07:43AM Add a comment

Ruth is 45% done with Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

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Ruth is 50% done with Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

Not what I expected from the subtitle—so much better.

— Nov 09, 2025 09:00AM Add a comment

Ruth is 85% done with Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Stunned.

— Nov 09, 2025 04:41AM Add a comment

Ruth is 20% done with Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

This is the one. So important and well-written.

— Nov 08, 2025 04:28AM Add a comment

Ruth is 5% done with The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

Oh my god I am so conflicted about this one. The writing is clear and compelling, but the tone is giving me WHIPLASH. I can’t tell yet if it’s actually extremely well-balanced or if this is just another white guy who *thinks* he holds the objective truth.

— Nov 06, 2025 02:10AM Add a comment

The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

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It’s Native American Heritage Month. Pick up some good reads at your library! 🧡

— Nov 02, 2025 09:45AM Add a comment

Ruth is on page 154 of 256 of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

— Oct 24, 2025 04:51AM Add a comment

Ruth is 62% done with Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

So glad I picked this up.

— Oct 24, 2025 02:40AM Add a comment

Ruth is 45% done with The Silmarillion

Rereading this cracks me up because I think of my mom, who got the doesn’t-like-fiction brand of autism, for whom all fantasy sounds like this.

— Oct 24, 2025 02:36AM Add a comment

Ruth is 45% done with The Silmarillion

— Oct 16, 2025 08:58AM Add a comment

Ruth is 90% done with Babel

hmm

— Sep 04, 2025 01:41PM Add a comment

Ruth is 25% done with Babel

I’m hooked…

— Aug 30, 2025 07:29AM Add a comment

Ruth is 75% done with Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

SHE’S DENSE!

— Jul 31, 2025 09:11AM Add a comment

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Ruth is on page 133 of 424 of Orientalism

racist imaginary geography, paternalistic old British lords deciding the fate of “subject races”, and their American intellectual heir Henry Kissinger, what’s not to love :/

— Jul 06, 2025 01:33PM Add a comment

Ruth is 50% done with The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017

Oh, this should be required reading…

— Jun 23, 2025 08:00AM Add a comment

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017

Ruth is on page 20 of The Queen of the Damned

I’m going to be so honest, I might just get to the Devil’s Minion chapter (Armand x the interviewer, Daniel Molloy) then dip and call it a day.

— Jun 12, 2025 01:36PM 5 comments

Ruth is 70% done with The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)

Lestat canonically not knowing how to read is so funny to me.

— Jun 11, 2025 09:27AM Add a comment

The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)

Ruth is 55% done with When the Rose Speaks Its Name: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology

Reading from this about once a week has become my favorite pattern to mark this season of my life. Two hours, a pot of Earl grey with milk and honey and sometimes chocolate biscuits...

— Oct 04, 2024 10:16PM Add a comment

When the Rose Speaks Its Name: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology

Ruth is 50% done with Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes

Keen description of that manic quality: 'With Jeremy, when the wind was in the right direction, possibilities became certainties, thoughts became realities, and wishes were the truth.'

— Sep 21, 2024 06:28AM Add a comment

Ruth is 23% done with Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes

Babygirl...

— Sep 20, 2024 09:01PM Add a comment

Ruth is on page 150 of 363 of When the Rose Speaks Its Name: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology

I'm reading this only on mornings when I wake up early and have time to chill in bed and drink coffee with the window wide open. It's high pleasure. I love it so much.

— Sep 16, 2024 07:00PM Add a comment

Ruth is on page 50 of 363 of When the Rose Speaks Its Name: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology

*shouting from the top of a building* Johnlock in the public domain

— Sep 14, 2024 07:26AM Add a comment

Ruth is 55% done with This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

Beating oneself up for what really gets you excited is a masculine approach to women’s experiences.

— Aug 19, 2024 06:18PM Add a comment