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Why were there three naked demons in the circle?

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Why were there three naked demons in the circle?

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Why were there three naked demons in the circle?

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Why were there three naked demons in the circle?

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Why were there three naked demons in the circle?

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He must bring her under his roof, where his son already dreams of having her in his bed.

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Tough alien alphas, badass human women, and adorable hologram pets!

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I’m lost in a world of shadows and seduction…

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No one treads these dark waters...

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Browse the September Featured Reads!

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Check out Hot Girls Hunt Monsters and other books in the Spotlight!

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She expects lectures and awkward videos…

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I’m about to show everyone what happens when someone tries to take what’s mine.

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A full union could kill us both...

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Can anyone recommend me some (online available ;) ) CS textbook that explains Elias-Fano encoding (and SELECT queries on it specifically) in a readable manner?

The original papers are annoying and my advisor just told me "it's popular enough that you can just ask your favourite LLM about it" and hell no

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🖤🌶️ Spicy Book Recs!

Caveat: I am not typically a romance reader, but I took one for the team due to the nature of these books.

And wow. I was pleasantly surprised!

Megan Montgomery’s Last Responders series consists of Morgue To Love (focusing on a medical examiner and a homicide detective) and the soon-to-be-released Undertaking Love (featuring the medical examiner’s brother and her best friend, both of whom are morticians). There’s a third book in the works about their other bestie, a forensic anthropologist.

First… these are FULL stories with actual plots and great characters. They’re not just vehicles to get two characters together. Megan weaves in so many (ACCURATE) details about what it’s like to work in death care. I connected with so many of their experiences, from feeling called out as a rookie funeral director attending conferences in cheap suits to the extreme burnout of perfectly handling horrible situations day after day. Bonus: Megan adds in conversations about up and coming green funeral options like water cremation!

As I said before, I’m not romance reader. I didn’t mind these books at all though since there was plenty of other material to keep me enthralled. The hot and bother-y parts are indeed hot and bother-y, but they’re not eye rolling or weird. FYI the spice level is pretty high, and the second book strays into some very non-vanilla territory.

I received an advance copy of the second book so I could do some fact checking, but rest assured that I’m promoting these of my own free will. I thoroughly enjoyed these two books and am early awaiting the third!

⚰️ Morgue To Love
Medical Examiner + Homicide Detective
(these characters reminded me of the tv show Bones and includes neurodivergence)
Available now at https://amzn.to/3okC1R0

⚰️Undertaking Love
Rival funeral director/embalmers, enemies to lovers (Reminds me of Six Feet Under + 50 Shades. It touches on the personal struggles many morticians face, plus it features cool green funeral options.)
PREORDER for release on April 25 at https://amzn.to/3omXLvD

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#AmReading: The Undertaker’s Assistant by Amanda Skenandore

Ooooh, historical fiction about a woman embalmer?! Yes please!

I rather enjoyed this book, particularly because the author did her homework. She referenced both current and historical embalming texts and visited with her local coroner for insight. She also employed sensitivity readers and referenced primary source documents written by Black people (specifically women, though they’re difficult to find) living in New Orleans or the South during that era.

““The dead can’t hurt you. Only the living can.” Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies—and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer’s shortcomings.

Tall and serious, Effie keeps her distance from the other girls in her boarding house, holding tight to the satisfaction she finds in her work. But despite her reticence, two encounters—with a charismatic state legislator named Samson Greene, and a beautiful young Creole, Adeline—introduce her to new worlds of protests and activism, of soirees and social ambition. Effie decides to seek out the past she has blocked from her memory and try to trace her kin. As her hopes are tested by betrayal, and New Orleans grapples with violence and growing racial turmoil, Effie faces loss and heartache, but also a chance to finally find her place . . .”

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#AmReading: I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

I finally made it through the library holds list to get this on audiobook (and yes, I did buy the eBook but audio is my jam). If you haven't heard anything other than the sensational title, this book is the powerful true story of a woman coming to terms with her mother's toxic behavior and the profound effect it had on her entire life.

Jennette McCurdy (also known as Sam from iCarly and Sam & Cat) was forced to live her mother's dream of acting. Jennette was unable to experience a normal childhood, being pushed into auditions, beauty regimens, talent training, and eventually eating disorders. Her mother manipulated and abused her for years.

When Jennette's mother died of cancer, she had to grapple with complicated grief. She loved her mother, but hated what her mother had put her through. One quote that stood out to me was:

“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone. Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on… Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer. Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”

It's a great lesson to take away. You can both love and hate a person, and you certainly don't have to venerate an abuser after death. Not everyone deserves to be sainted. Kudos to Jennette for seeking treatment for her disorders and sharing her private and uncomfortable tale. I hope it helps readers who might be experiencing toxic relationships and complicated grief.

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