Brian
brianreadsbooks.bsky.social
Brian
@brianreadsbooks.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 reader in London 🇬🇧

Find me on StoryGraph https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/brianreadsbooks
I miss 2000.
February 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino. Just gorgeous. Funny and beautiful. Fax machines.
February 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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You know a book is good when you find yourself just standing reading in the middle of your bathroom because you couldn't put it down long enough to brush your teeth for bed (in this case @nisishawl.bsky.social 's latest #sci-fi, Making Amends). #booksky #readabook #bookrec
February 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I don’t want to live in this new world. I’m not sure the old one was really better, though?
February 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
BlueSky is a challenge for longer thoughts and book reviews.

I’m trying Substack, though I’m not sure how to really build a following there. It’s a free blog, not monetising it so give me a follow!

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🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 reader in London 🇬🇧 Find me on StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/brianreadsbooks
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January 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Who’s ready to read 20 books by Black Folk in 2025? Honored to host this yearly challenge on the storygraph? What’s on your TBR? #booksky
#20BooksByBlackFolx 2025 Challenge hosted by @Melanatedreader
Here’s to reading #20BooksByBlackFolx the official challenge created by me @Melanatedreader o...
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January 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One thing I love in @thestorygraph.com app is how easy it is to find the specific edition of a book I’m reading/listening to.
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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New book! By me! Making Amends is out today--a novel in stories. Bet you can't read just one. This link has an excerpt: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/nisi...
Nisi Shawl's Making Amends
Back in 2004, Nisi Shawl's "The Deep End" appeared in So Long Been Dreaming, an anthology edited by Nalo Hopkinson. This story, which move...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Trying substack for my latest review of the fabulous queer sci-if anthology I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! from Bona Books.

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January 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#bookreview
I Want That Twink Obliterated!, edited by Trip Galey, Robert Berg & C.L. McCartney

This anthology is wild, fun, & beautiful. Some stories are high camp, sexy & hilarious. Others beautifully thoughtful stories of queer families pushed to the limit, with and without reconciliation... 1/2
January 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Thinking about this poem this morning. Near misses, scraping by, bouncing back, and the big warm whatever comes next.

(Fifty Words Aritten About the Arctic Bowhead Whale After Learning They Can Live Up to Two Hundred Years by Nate DeMio)
December 31, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I follow this approach with books…
why 100% complete one task when you can 64% complete many tasks
January 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Hey y’all! Here’s a big mega list of 160+ Black Owned Bookstores all over the U.S. + a few other countries as well! U can filter it by state. I posted about this on the clock app today, but figured I’d share here too! aalbc.com/bookstores/l... Happy Reading! 📚💙 #Booksky #BlackBookSky #BlackSky
165 Black-Owned Bookstores in the US | Find Independent Bookstores Near You
Explore 165 Black-owned independent bookstores across the U.S. Find your nearest store and support local businesses today!
aalbc.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:20 PM
#bookreview
Everfair is an epic, sprawling, steampunk historical fiction set primarily in an alternate version of the Congo during Belgian King Leopold's brutal exploitation of African people and resources.

In Nisi Shawl’s fictional version of the Congo…

1/4
January 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM