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The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
4.5
learning more about different approaches to semi spiritual ways to live my life, appreciated a lot presented in here but wished there was more thought given to indigenous plants/species throughout (although it was mentioned early on)
A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton
2.0
I absolutely empathise with the author's experience, having experienced sudden illness myself & having that call me to studies of our perception of illness & medicine over time. That being said, I really wished this book was more analysis-focused and truly historical—perhaps because of the tagline. I would reclassify this as "a consideration of hypochondria" with the caveat that it hints at conclusions but never truly achieves them, and left me wondering if that truly was all there is. I wished for more actual research and less Sherlock and John Green (although I understand the Tumblr instinct). Overall I found myself disappointed by this and wished it was redefined as a memoir with historical elements since that seems best suited to the author's aims, and reformatted to fit that goal.
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow
4.75
Thoughtful, eye-opening, & direct book