Raymond is reading
@raymondisreading.bsky.social
I am a reviewer specializing in literary fiction, memoirs, essays, short-story collections, and stories centered on LGBTQIA+ experiences and characters. (he/him)
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Hey my name is Raymond and I read books and love to share my reviews.
Wild, weird, and totally unforgettable. The Master and Margarita reads like a stage play gone off the rails—in the best way. Bulgakov, a playwright at heart, gives every scene dramatic flair, sharp dialogue, and entrances worthy of a spotlight.
April 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Wild, weird, and totally unforgettable. The Master and Margarita reads like a stage play gone off the rails—in the best way. Bulgakov, a playwright at heart, gives every scene dramatic flair, sharp dialogue, and entrances worthy of a spotlight.
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Introducing Faber US, an exciting new chapter for Faber's publishing.
February 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Introducing Faber US, an exciting new chapter for Faber's publishing.
In Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar delivers an evocative exploration of identity, artistry, and recovery through the life of Cyrus Shams, a recovering alcoholic searching for meaning.
January 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
In Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar delivers an evocative exploration of identity, artistry, and recovery through the life of Cyrus Shams, a recovering alcoholic searching for meaning.
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I was talking with a dear friend yesterday, and she reminded me of something I told her months ago:
Trump and his ilk do not know how to build anything. They only know how to destroy things.
We can and will outlast them if we focus on building for the foreseeable future.
Trump and his ilk do not know how to build anything. They only know how to destroy things.
We can and will outlast them if we focus on building for the foreseeable future.
January 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I was talking with a dear friend yesterday, and she reminded me of something I told her months ago:
Trump and his ilk do not know how to build anything. They only know how to destroy things.
We can and will outlast them if we focus on building for the foreseeable future.
Trump and his ilk do not know how to build anything. They only know how to destroy things.
We can and will outlast them if we focus on building for the foreseeable future.
Hoping my Korean siblings are breathing a little easier today.
January 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Hoping my Korean siblings are breathing a little easier today.
Sigrid Nunez’s The Vulnerables is a pandemic-era tale that reminds us it wasn’t just humans who had a rough time in lockdown—parrots had feelings too.
January 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Sigrid Nunez’s The Vulnerables is a pandemic-era tale that reminds us it wasn’t just humans who had a rough time in lockdown—parrots had feelings too.
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Can a Black woman who’s drowning in student debt join up with her mall coworkers to defeat the Debt Police and destroy their student loan company by pulling off the heist of a lifetime? Find out in The Payback, out July 15, 2025, preorder now: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...
October 16, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Can a Black woman who’s drowning in student debt join up with her mall coworkers to defeat the Debt Police and destroy their student loan company by pulling off the heist of a lifetime? Find out in The Payback, out July 15, 2025, preorder now: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang weaves together three intermingled timelines to explore themes of love and fate. 📚🌈
January 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang weaves together three intermingled timelines to explore themes of love and fate. 📚🌈
The debate over whether audiobooks count as real reading is steeped in ableism. It’s a tired, exclusionary argument that dismisses diverse ways of engaging with stories and knowledge. If someone’s listening, they’re reading. Full stop.
January 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The debate over whether audiobooks count as real reading is steeped in ableism. It’s a tired, exclusionary argument that dismisses diverse ways of engaging with stories and knowledge. If someone’s listening, they’re reading. Full stop.
Fables, Vol. 1 starts with a cool idea—fairy-tale characters living secretly in modern-day New York—but it didn’t quite click for me.
January 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Fables, Vol. 1 starts with a cool idea—fairy-tale characters living secretly in modern-day New York—but it didn’t quite click for me.
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New music on the way.
January 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New music on the way.
Hayao Miyazaki. Born on this day in 1941. A thread.
January 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hayao Miyazaki. Born on this day in 1941. A thread.
“An immigrant's test of discipline, most probably ancient, for this instinct to pass unnoticed, to veil oneself, must surely be as old as time, as old as exile, as old as when Adam and Eve, cast out of Eden and sent down to earth, were made to live on opposite sides of the empty planet.”
January 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“An immigrant's test of discipline, most probably ancient, for this instinct to pass unnoticed, to veil oneself, must surely be as old as time, as old as exile, as old as when Adam and Eve, cast out of Eden and sent down to earth, were made to live on opposite sides of the empty planet.”
So many books, so little time. 📚🌈
January 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
So many books, so little time. 📚🌈
Starting a new blank journal or notebook is so stressful.
December 16, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Starting a new blank journal or notebook is so stressful.
My cup is cooler than your cup!
December 13, 2024 at 10:29 PM
My cup is cooler than your cup!
The classic rectangular eyeglasses with a thick black or dark-colored frame on top (browline style) and a thinner metal frame on the bottom always send me! 📚🌈💙 — Author Dag Solstad in 1965.
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December 12, 2024 at 10:14 PM
The classic rectangular eyeglasses with a thick black or dark-colored frame on top (browline style) and a thinner metal frame on the bottom always send me! 📚🌈💙 — Author Dag Solstad in 1965.
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In her interview with The Nation, Dionne Brand critiques the Western literary canon for perpetuating colonial and capitalist ideologies, urging readers to question the narratives that shape our understanding of history and society.
Can’t wait to read Salvage📚🌈
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Can’t wait to read Salvage📚🌈
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
www.thenation.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
In her interview with The Nation, Dionne Brand critiques the Western literary canon for perpetuating colonial and capitalist ideologies, urging readers to question the narratives that shape our understanding of history and society.
Can’t wait to read Salvage📚🌈
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Can’t wait to read Salvage📚🌈
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Same same 🤭
December 5, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Same same 🤭
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Well-deserved @boymercuryx.bsky.social! I’m delighted to be a reader, and we are grateful for you 💖
In its first week online, Bringing Up Himbo hit 1,000 readers on GD alone, and at my best ratings so far at 9.6 of 10. Feeling very grateful to the readers. 💖 💖 💖
An ambitious writer competing for a prestigious fellowship encounters a handsome himbo determined to help him — whether he likes it or not — in a sexed-up screwball comedy.
Bringing Up Himbo is now live at www.gaydemon.com/stories/Brin...
Thanks to @noahdeaart.bsky.social for this gorgeous art.
Bringing Up Himbo is now live at www.gaydemon.com/stories/Brin...
Thanks to @noahdeaart.bsky.social for this gorgeous art.
December 2, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Well-deserved @boymercuryx.bsky.social! I’m delighted to be a reader, and we are grateful for you 💖
December is my favorite month for books, especially all the book lists! If you have one, please share it with me! 📚💙🏳️🌈🌈
December 2, 2024 at 12:58 AM
December is my favorite month for books, especially all the book lists! If you have one, please share it with me! 📚💙🏳️🌈🌈
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it is my birthday and I will accept either chests of jewels or everyone buying my book (or both, if you can swing it)
today’s a good day to get the book people are calling “kaleidoscopic,” “lovingly queer,” “brutal & bloodthirsty,” “fascinating,” “dangerous,” “whimsical,” “deeply strange and cannibalistic”, and one of the best fantasy novels of 2024
The West Passage a book by Jared Pechaček
THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." --Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Legends & Lattes "A weird and wonde...
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November 29, 2024 at 2:59 PM
it is my birthday and I will accept either chests of jewels or everyone buying my book (or both, if you can swing it)