ICYMI:The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray 
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https://booksofmyheart.net/2023/05/24/the-late-mrs-willoughby-by-claudia-gray/?fsp_sid=4764

3 of 5 stars for Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil: A Novel, by Oliver Darkshire

https://lordofthemoon.com/bookreviews/isabella-nagg-and-the-pot-of-basil-a-novel/

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I read Outsiders Vol 1 by Akira Kanou. A confusing story of a high school girl fighting vampires and werewolves. Out today.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7640922756

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I read Radio Storm, Vol. 1 by 팀S&S. A gloomy post-apocalyptic story with nothing to lighten it, but I found it interesting. Out today.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7640914021

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#BookReview for "The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb" by Sam Kean
Recommended
Fascinating look at some of the characters involved in the efforts to develop, or to stop, the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. Colorful characters!

ICYMI:The Burning Isle by Will Panzo 
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http://booksofmyheart.net/2016/11/10/the-burning-isle-by-will-panzo/?fsp_sid=4761

Book review: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan

⭐⭐⭐⭐

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2597320634

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We continue our #PrideMonth celebration with the award-winning picture book “STRONG,” by champion strongman Rob Kearney, author and activist Eric Rosswood, and fabulous illustrator Nidhi Chanani.

This charming story shows there are lots of ways to be strong and keep being true to yourself!

Learn more about what we do at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Volunteer, and Donate, and see the review of this book and more on our website Reviews page!

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In volume 9 of Kamome Shirahama's "Witch Hat Atelier" Coco and Tartah enjoy the festival ... until someone who embodies the kids' guilt over not learning healing magic (and the reason that witch law forbids it) crashes the party. There's sure to be trouble next time! 💙📚 #manga #comics #bookreview

Witch Hat Atelier 9

Jay reviews "An Embrace of Smoke and Steel" by Rowan Amaris and Theo Behr, Fallen for a Fae book 2:

"A fabulous follow up to An Embrace of Citrus and Snow... beautifully written, with vivid descriptions of fae, the fae kingdom, and the growing love between Declan and Antonio. Highly recommended."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2025/06/17/review-an-embrace-of-smoke-and-steel-rowan-amaris-and-theo-behr/

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An easy read, really exciting in the first three quarters. In the last quarter it slowly gets more boring and the ending is pretty rushed and also predictable. I haven't seen the movie, but my guess is that the book makes a solid movie script. 3.5/5.
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Review - Chef's Kiss, by Jarrett Melendez et al: a fun romance comic I read in 2022 for which the review is only getting posted now. I remember it being cute. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it").

Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2025/06/17/review-chefs-kiss/

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Book Review: Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/book-review-beyond-measure-the-hidden-history-of-measurement-by-james-vincent/

This is a charming travelogue through the confusing and contradictory world of measurement. It has a similar thesis to Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott and is infinitely easier to read than Inventing Temperature by Hasok Chang

Emanuele Lugli has noted, units of measurement are, for the powerful, ‘sly tools of subjugation’. Each time they’re deployed, they turn the world ‘into a place that continues to make sense as long as the power that legitimises the measurements rests in place’.

One thing that struck me was how often we squash measurements down into something human and usable.

As Kula notes, many historical studies of medieval metrology refer to the ‘primitivism’ and ‘crudity’ of elastic units, but in reality they are well fitted to the needs of the people who used them, embodying the relationship of humans to the land and capturing the necessities of their work.

Americans (wrongly) claim that Fahrenheit feels more natural. It doesn't; they're just used to it. But it does show that we have a bias for familiarity which stops the adoption of new forms and scales.

It dives into the human, social, and religious requirements for measurement. I particularly liked this little aside:

It’s perhaps due to this symbolic potency that the Bible mentions measurement more often than it does charity.

It is also a good compliment to A History of the World in 47 Borders - it shows how measurement lead to conquest, colonialism, and social upheaval.

Rather delightfully, the author goes a little gonzo and reports first-hand from various measurement sites. This isn't a dusty retelling of some encyclopædia article, it is a living exploration of the ritual around measurement. At times it appears that science and religion have an equal fervour for ceremony and obedience.

There is particular ire for the cultish weirdos of the Quantified Self movement, and it loops back to how measurement is a way for the uneasy to impose a sense of order on the world.

I found it a little too credulous about Zuboff's work on surveillance, but that's a minor criticism.

An excellent book for anyone interested in both the philosophy and practicality of measurement.

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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent”
★★★★⯪

This is a charming travelogue through the confusing and contradictory world of measurement. It has a similar thesis to Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott and is infinitely easier to read than Inventing Temperature by Hasok…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/book-review-beyond-measure-the-hidden-history-of-measurement-by-james-vincent/
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I highly recommend The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod #book #books #bookreview

https://reademall.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-ideological-brain-leor-zmigrod.html

ICYMI:Read-along & #Giveaway: Hunted by Kevin Hearne 
#BookReview #Giveaway #Readalong   #AudioBookReview #Challenge
https://booksofmyheart.net/2023/08/04/read-along-giveaway-hunted-by-kevin-hearne/?fsp_sid=4758

🎧 Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds by Allison Brennan 
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https://booksofmyheart.net/2025/06/17/%f0%9f%8e%a7-beach-reads-and-deadly-deeds-by-allison-brennan/?fsp_sid=4116

V článku čtenář najde recenzi detektivního románu Bretaňská idyla, který sepsal Jean-Luc Bannalec. Jedná se o desátý díl série o Dupinovi.

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https://www.iwikovaknihovna.cz/2025/06/17/jean-luc-bannalec-bretanska-idyla/

#BookReview: We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough @orionbooks #WeLiveHereNow #20BooksofSummer2025 #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

"If their new home doesn't break them, their secrets will... When Emily wakes from a coma following an accident that nearly kills her, she finds herself agreeing to move from London to the wild moors of Devon with her husband Freddie. A fresh start is exactly what their marriage needs. As their car pulls up to Larkin…

http://damppebbles.com/2025/06/17/bookreview-we-live-here-now-by-sarah-pinborough/