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Keith Thomas: Religion and the Decline of Magic (2003, Penguin Books, Limited)

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Gail Lukasik: White Like Her (AudiobookFormat, 2018, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks)
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future (2020)
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Adair: The Art of Creative Thinking (Paperback, 1989, Gower Publishing Limited)

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, J. R. Moehringer: Spare (2023, Penguin Random House)
Helen Joyce: Trans (Hardcover, 2021, Oneworld Publications)
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Joan Acocella: Creating hysteria : women and multiple personality disorder (1999, Jossey-Bass)

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started reading Spare by J. R. Moehringer

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, J. R. Moehringer: Spare (2023, Penguin Random House)

Spare is a memoir by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex which was released on 10 …

This has amazing reviews by so many but I'm 40% of the way through and find the writing style so grating. Probably I'm wrong. It reads like fiction and I don't read a lot of that, so what do I know?

finished reading Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce

Helen Joyce: Trans (Hardcover, 2021, Oneworld Publications)

I read this book because I think you should always challenge your positions. If you're reading books where you agree with everything you are reading the wrong books. While I do not agree with everything in the authors position I did change my position on some things and it gave me a lot to consider around my own privileged position, the challenge with activists not correctly advocating for those most in need within the communities they represent and the sometimes conflicting positions or needs of culture and science

finished reading Creating hysteria : women and multiple personality disorder by Joan Acocella

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Joan Acocella: Creating hysteria : women and multiple personality disorder (1999, Jossey-Bass)

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This was a crazy read. I thought satanic panic was a hype with ultimately no convictions but then from this book I learned peoples lives really were ruined. You ask yourself how this could have happened, how people were on-board with such outlandish tales but you can see in the book how.