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Books, music, and halloween are a few of my favorite things. Typos free of charge.
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"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
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On Monday, as I.C.E attacked L.A., these 9 California House Dems voted in favor of a GOP-introduced resolution that expresses "gratitude" to ICE.

Names and district are listed in the ALT text

#abolishice #lastrong #fightfascism
Image depicts pictures of the 9 reps. Top Row Adam Gray (CA-13) San Joaquin Valley Josh Harder (CA-9) Stockton Dave Min (CA-47) Irvine, HB, CM Middle Row Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) San Jose to Santa Clara coastal area Raul Ruiz (CA-25) San Bernardino area Eric Swalwell (CA-14) Livermore area Bottom Row Norma Torres (CA-35) Inland Empire cities Derek Tran (CA-45) Cerritos, Cypress, Buena Park area George Whitesides (CA-27) Lancaster area
June 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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🌸 March Wrap Up 🌸

It was a good reading month. 😊
The fact that I'm being more liberal with DNF'ing helped.

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Stats:

Total read: 18
-Audio reads: 9
-Physical reads: 9

Average rating: 3.75⭐️
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DNF's : 11

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#readingwrapup
Image depicts a collage of the covers for books I read in March Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito 4⭐ Let the Games Begin by Rufaro Faith Mazarura 3⭐ Annie Bot by Sierra Greer 4.5⭐ Home by Toni Morrison 4⭐ Red String Theory by Lauren Kung Jessen 3.5⭐ The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff 4⭐ Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima 3.5⭐ Resevoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda 5⭐ Only For The Week by Natasha Bishop 3.5⭐ Boulder by Eva Baltasar 3.75⭐ Maame by Jessica George 4⭐ Small Favors by Eric A Craig 3.5⭐ Maya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja 3.5⭐ Daisy by Asia Monique 3.75⭐ Jade City by Fonda Lee 4⭐ Hakaran/Severin by Alexandra Ivy 3⭐ Angel/Hiss by Alexandra Ivy 3⭐ Lady Susan by Jane Austern 3.5⭐
April 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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As much as I'm enjoying this one, I admit I have smirked or giggled every time they mention fingers, fists, and the armpit. 😄 💙📚

#booksky
#listentoabook
#fantasybook
Image of phone showing audiobook of Jade City by Fonda Lee
March 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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#booksky
#translatedfiction
#womensfiction
Image is Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda This book was 100% a cover by. I mean, look at it. 💗 I went into it blind and was immediately pulled in. The storytelling is unflinching and can be difficult to read at times, but the compulsive writing style keeps you engaged. The girls and women in these stories are written in a real way. Tjeybare complex and you see the good and the bad. This is one that will stay with me. Definitely planning to read it in the Spanish edition. Highly recommend is you're looking for stripped down, but compulsive stories about what it's like navigating through life for too many girls and women in this world. Passage from the novel. No one is ever ready for the death of someone they love. But this wasn't death. It was theft. You were stolen, violently ripped from my side. I broke down. I'd never cried like that before because I'd never felt like that before. Rage and sadness, all at once. When I remember that moment, I still feel the knot in my throat. It was terrible. I can't write about it. It ripped me apart. An unidentified woman. You were one more body in this genocide. Another nameless woman adding to the death count. Another pink cross.
March 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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🔪Happy Women's Day🔪

#horror
#horrorsky
Image depicts a collage of women in horror films
March 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Image depics collage of books written by women with a banner that reads happy international women's day
March 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Reading this one today. 🧵

I've been slowly reading through Toni Morrison's novels the last few years, and I'm sad there's only one left after this that I'll get that "read for the first time" feeling from.
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#booksky
#reading
Image shows me holding up Home by Toni Morrison
March 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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💚 March TBR (possibilities) 💚

I've already started Jade City. I'm only about 60 pages in, but enjoying it so far. Have you read any of these? 💙📚

#booksky
#reading
#marchtbr
Image shows the following books: THE JUNIPER TREE by BARBARA COMYNS Reservoir Bitches by Dablia de la Cerda ORGAN MEATS by K-MING CHANG THE ILIAC CREST by Cristina Rivera Garza THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS by LAURA PURCELL THE WATER CURE by SOPHIE MACKINTOSH RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE by RITA MAE BROWN Eva's Man by Gayl Jones Antelope Woman by Louise Erdrich MONKEY BEACH by EDEN ROBINSON Wonder Valley by IVY POCHODA CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL by ANANDA LIMA LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS by SUSAN NEIMAN SHALOWSTITCH by Cari Thomas Nasty Women Poets edited by Grace Bauer & Julie Kane Home by Toni Morrison Jade City by Fonda Lee
March 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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💕February Reading Wrap Up💕

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It was a good reading month. I enjoyed everything I read. The Street, The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois, and Deacon King Kong were all 5⭐️. The rest landed between 3-4⭐️.

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#readingwrapup
#Februaryreads
Collage of the following books covers: Acting on Impulse by Mia Sosa I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call by Jamison Shea Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes The Street by Ann Petry Root Magic by Eden Royce The Plot Is Murder by V.M. Burns A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Deacon King Kong by James McBride Kiss and Spell by Celestine Martin
March 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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💕 In the mood for something light-hearted after a long day.
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#romancebooks
Image shows Let the Games Begin by Rufaro Faith Mazarura
February 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Finished The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois last night. 5 ⭐️ Starling this one now.

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#currentlyreading
#readabook
February 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Life got busy, and I got behind on this. So, I'm wrapping it up. 💙📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15 - 20

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#Books
#20bookchallenge
Collage display covers for the following books King, Queen, Knave by VLADIMIR NABOKOV SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES by DEESHA PHILYAW THE EXORCIST by WILLIAM PETER BLATTY Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens NEEDFUL THINGS by STEPHEN KING
February 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This is your reminder to get a FREE library card and let your local gov't know that the library is an invaluable resource. In addition to books, they also offer music, movies, and community events. ALL FREE! It's especially important with the current state of U.S. 💙📚

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Stacked library books. Books shown: BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTED by JAYN ALLEN Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by GRADY HENDRIX A MASTER OF DJINN by P. DJELÍ CLARK HARLEM RHAPSODY by Victoria Christopher Murray GLORY by Noviolet Bulawayo Annie Bot by Sierra Greer The SEVENTH VEIL of SALOME by Silvia Moreno-Garcia THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by JAMES MCBRIB3 LESSONS in CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus FUNNY STORY by EMILY HENRY
February 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Just finished this, and I understand why it's the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies. 💙📚

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#booksky
#classics
#classicsbyblackauthors
The Street by Ann Petry being held up in front of a bookshelf
February 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14

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#Books
#20bookchallenge
Cover for Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
February 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Looking for your next read? Try one of these. Three made me sob when I read them and make me tear up just thinking about them. 💙📚

#booksky
#bookrecommendations
#read
#nonfiction
#magicalrealism
#fiction
Collage of books by black authors. Red At the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Passing by Nella Larson Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden The Sellout by Paul Beatty Kindred by Octavia E Butler Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B.Du Bois The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
February 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13

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#Books
#20bookchallenge
Image is the cover for Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
February 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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#currentlyreading 💙📚
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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#reading
Image shows a page from the book. "And Beauty felt her skin chew over with anger that Lady, a girl who appeared no older than fifteen-a girl with Negro blood-was allowed to live as a white woman. That Lady lived free and high above others and lived in a house with a wood floor, instead of dirt. That here this girl was called Lady, while Beauty had been given a new label, "Ahgayuh," which wasn't even Creek! In time, Beauty's new name was shortened to "Aggie," and she decided that she would answer to this, to keep pure the name her parents had given her. For she had been made by two people who had loved each other, and each night under the tattered quilt that she had been given she would take out her memories and wrap her-self tightly in them. She was owned, but her memories were not."
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Some #fantasy #bookrecs for this month and every month of the year. 🪄🧜‍♀️👻

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#books
#fantasybooks
#readfantasy
Image depics a collage of fantasy books by black authors. A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope A Spell for Trouble by Esme Addison Pawsitively Poisonous by Melissa Erin Jackson The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste PET by Akwaeke Emezi Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12

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#Books
#20bookchallenge
Image of the cover for The Sellout by Paul Beatty
February 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Looking for #horror #bookrecs ? Here are a few of my my favorites. I'm currently reading the sequel to I Fed Her To The Beast and The Beaat Is Me. 💙📚

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#reading
#tbr
Image is a collage of horror books by black authors. I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME by JAMISON SHEA AMARI AND THE NIGGT BROTHERS by BB ALSTON RISE OF THE JUMBIES by TRACEY BAPTISTE FLOWERS FOR THE SEA by ZIN E. ROCKLYN MAMA DAY by GLORIA NAVIOR BLACK CANDLE WOMEN by DIANE MARIE BROWN DELICIOUS MONSTERS bu LISELLE SAMBURY THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by ALEXIS HENDERSON THE FORGOTTEN GIRL by INDIA HILL BROWN LONE WOMEN by VICTOR LAVALLE CINDERELLA IS DEAD by KALYNN BAYRON THE BLACK GOD'S DRUMS by P D'JELI CLARK MONSTERS W DEFY by LESLYE PENELOPE PET by AKWAEKE EMEZI THIS POISON HEART by KALYNN BAYRON THE DEEP by RIVERS SOLOMON
February 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚

Day 11

#BookSky
#Books
#20bookchallenge
Image shows cover of East of Eden by John Steinbeck
February 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Romance recommendations
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#booksky
#romance
#read
Image is a collage of romance books by black authors. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams Ante Up by Christina C. Jones Do You Take This Man by Denise Williams The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson The Many Dates of Indigo by Amber D. Samuel Sweethand by N.G. Peltier Make a Scene by Mimi Grace Magnolia: A Perfect Love by Asia Monique How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole Rebel by Beverly Jenkins The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton When I Think of You by Myah Ariel
February 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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February 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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My February stack of possibilities along with a few romance audiobooks.

Currently listening to What A Match by Mimi Grace.

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#booksky
#tbr
#February
#reading
#audiobooks
Pictured is a stack of books. The Street by Ann Petry Dr. No by Percival Everett Deacon King Kong by James McBride The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
February 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM