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JessTheMess

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Joined 11 months ago

Actually not reading much these days, but trying my best...

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Bruce Patton, Roger Fisher, William L. Ury: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Paperback, 1991, Penguin)
Thomas Piketty: Brief History of Equality (Hardcover, 2022, Harvard University Press)
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Niall Ferguson: The ascent of money (2008, Penguin Press)

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Christos Ikonomou: Warte nur, es passiert schon was (German language)
Margaret Atwood: Els Testaments (català language, 2020, Quaderns Crema)
Ronen Steinke: Verfassungsschutz (Hardcover, Deutsch language, 2023, Berlin Verlag)

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Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry: Heroes (2018, Penguin Books, Limited)
Stephen Fry: Mythos (Paperback, 2017, Michael Joseph)
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga, Volume 8 (2018, Turtleback Books)

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wants to read If You Can't Take the Heat by Geraldine DeRuiter

Geraldine DeRuiter: If You Can't Take the Heat (2024, Crown Publishing Group, The) No rating

Amy McCarthy (eater.com): "Inspired by her viral essay on Mario Batali’s less-than-lackluster apology, which bizarrely included a recipe for cinnamon rolls, Geraldine DeRuiter goes scorched-earth in this collection of essays that explore the complicated intersections between women, dining, food culture, and the ways that all of the above are portrayed in media. Whether writing about her affinity for Red Lobster or putting the pieces back together after a terrible kitchen fire, DeRuiter approaches the subject with both wry wit and a sharp tongue. And considering the often-depressing subject matter (service industry misogyny, most prominently), she manages to examine the ways that women are marginalized in the culinary world — and her own anxieties surrounding food — with refreshing candor and a big pinch of humor."