Two of my books came! 📚

• Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style by Graham Marsh and Jason Jules

• Superfine: Tailoring Black Style by Amanda Garfinkel, Monica L. Miller, and William DeGregorio #MetGala

Here are four of my favorite novels. #BrianaReads

Currently reading: A Companion to Feminist Art, edited by Hilary Robinson and Maria Elena Buszek #BrianaReads

I’m halfway into “James” By Percival Everett and I can already tell this will be getting five stars. I have never read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” By Mark Twain, but I am in love with this book. I can’t believe it took me this long to read it. #BrianaReads

I’m very serious about the Booker Prize longlist announcement.

Last night I watched Je Tu Il Elle (1975), directed by Chantal Akerman and the lesbian exes had a Nutella sandwiches and red wine girl dinner before they left to scissor for 15 minutes (screen time). Cinema! ✂️🍷 #BrianaWatches

The first purchase for my Jane Austen collection to be added to my personal library is the Macmillan Collector’s Library set. #BrianaReads

#BrianaReads: This month, I’ve been (slowly) reading the works of Jane Austen.

• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride and Prejudice
• Mansfield Park
• Emma
• Northanger Abbey
• Sanditon and Other Stories (includes Lady Susan, The Watsons, the Juvenilia, and Miscellanea)

#BrianaReads Here are two books that I’m excited to dig into about millennial women and girlhood!

• Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert

• Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade

#SinnersMovie Insp

• Jazz Poems
• Blues Poems
• 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia

#BrianaReads

#BrianaReads Ararat by Louise Glück

Some rainy day power outage reading material courtesy of Rimbaud.

It’s been a minute since I posted a library shelfie of my upcoming TBR. April is National Poetry Month so I’m reading all poetry all month. #BrianaReads

#nw Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder

I’m obsessed with the Sex Diairies from The Cut. @thecut.bsky.social

Guess who got the eARC of the book of the fall? Can’t wait to read New Millennium Boyz by Alex Kazemi