Ben Woods
@linus-wickworth.bsky.social
Trans man living in Aotearoa. Reading is my passion. Disabled.
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Ben Woods
@linus-wickworth.bsky.social
· May 24
Intro time! Looking for the reading community!
° Reuben/Ben. He/They. 31. Aotearoa.
° I read a lot and from many genres, both fiction and non fiction.
° Realm of the Elderlings, YA fiction, diverse fiction.
° I love music and genealogy.
° DNI if you read zionist, racist or queerphobic authors.
° Reuben/Ben. He/They. 31. Aotearoa.
° I read a lot and from many genres, both fiction and non fiction.
° Realm of the Elderlings, YA fiction, diverse fiction.
° I love music and genealogy.
° DNI if you read zionist, racist or queerphobic authors.
Added to TBR: While working under dangerous conditions, taking care of her younger siblings and her mother, and avoiding her father's volatile temper, farm-working Lula Viramontes joins the 1965 protest for migrant workers' rights along with activist Dolores Huerta. 💙📚👀
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: While working under dangerous conditions, taking care of her younger siblings and her mother, and avoiding her father's volatile temper, farm-working Lula Viramontes joins the 1965 protest for migrant workers' rights along with activist Dolores Huerta. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: This heart-wrenching novel in verse describes the life of a poor girl surviving the Irish Land War and the everyday challenges she experiences. 💙📚👀
December 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: This heart-wrenching novel in verse describes the life of a poor girl surviving the Irish Land War and the everyday challenges she experiences. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident. 💙📚👀
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: When thirteen-year-old Sage's best friend dies, Sage struggles with grief and feels that she is at fault, but when she joins a grief group, she slowly learns to heal. 💙📚👀
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: When thirteen-year-old Sage's best friend dies, Sage struggles with grief and feels that she is at fault, but when she joins a grief group, she slowly learns to heal. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: Contains a collection of poetry by Erica Martin about both well-documented and lesser-known people and events of the Civil Rights Movement. 💙📚👀
December 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: Contains a collection of poetry by Erica Martin about both well-documented and lesser-known people and events of the Civil Rights Movement. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: In 1866 New Orleans, formerly enslaved siblings Coleman and June are separated, only to embark on perilous, individual journeys through the Mexican desert to reunite and seize the freedom they were promised. 💙📚👀
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: In 1866 New Orleans, formerly enslaved siblings Coleman and June are separated, only to embark on perilous, individual journeys through the Mexican desert to reunite and seize the freedom they were promised. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: A vampire named Immy's world turned upside down when she meets a human named Claudia and finds herself falling in love. 💙📚👀
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: A vampire named Immy's world turned upside down when she meets a human named Claudia and finds herself falling in love. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: In a haunting story of the American dream, Bit, born in a back-to-nature commune in 1970s New York State, must come to grips with the outside world when the commune eventually fails. 💙📚👀
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: In a haunting story of the American dream, Bit, born in a back-to-nature commune in 1970s New York State, must come to grips with the outside world when the commune eventually fails. 💙📚👀
My November reading wrap up. 💙📚👀
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
My November reading wrap up. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: Examines the civilized world's achievements in controlling famine, disease, and war while making provocative predictions about the evolutionary goals of the twenty-first century. 💙📚👀
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: Examines the civilized world's achievements in controlling famine, disease, and war while making provocative predictions about the evolutionary goals of the twenty-first century. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: A diary/memoir from a 22 year old Palestinian journalist recalling her firsthand experience during the first 45 days of the ongoing invasion of Gaza. 💙📚👀
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: A diary/memoir from a 22 year old Palestinian journalist recalling her firsthand experience during the first 45 days of the ongoing invasion of Gaza. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: Examines the development of the Jonestown cult run by Jim Jones. Follows the experience of five members of the cult drawing from recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes as well as rare videos and interviews. 💙📚👀
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: Examines the development of the Jonestown cult run by Jim Jones. Follows the experience of five members of the cult drawing from recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes as well as rare videos and interviews. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: David is dying, or maybe he isn't. Hard to say, really, because no one ever gives you a timetable when you're disabled, autistic, queer, and stuck improvising your way through existence. 💙📚👀
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: David is dying, or maybe he isn't. Hard to say, really, because no one ever gives you a timetable when you're disabled, autistic, queer, and stuck improvising your way through existence. 💙📚👀
ARC Review: Armaveni by Nadine Takvorian. Graphic novel, releases in March. TW: Genocide. 💙📚👀
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
ARC Review: Armaveni by Nadine Takvorian. Graphic novel, releases in March. TW: Genocide. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: Four years after running from a night that changed everything, Daniel is out, living freely in Atlanta—and deeply unsatisfied. He’s had the hookups, the nightlife, the liberation he once feared—but none of it feels right. Something's missing. 💙📚👀
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: Four years after running from a night that changed everything, Daniel is out, living freely in Atlanta—and deeply unsatisfied. He’s had the hookups, the nightlife, the liberation he once feared—but none of it feels right. Something's missing. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species. 💙📚👀
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely-reported on regions in the world - yet misinformation about its history and its people abound. Historian Anne Irfan explains Gaza's outsized political significance through six pivotal moments in its modern history. 💙📚👀
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely-reported on regions in the world - yet misinformation about its history and its people abound. Historian Anne Irfan explains Gaza's outsized political significance through six pivotal moments in its modern history. 💙📚👀
ARC Review: Memories of Giselle by Katia Vecchio. 💙📚👀
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
ARC Review: Memories of Giselle by Katia Vecchio. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: A narrative history of humanity's creation and evolution explores how biology and history have defined understandings of what it means to be human and details the role of modern cognition in shaping the ecosystem and civilizations. 💙📚👀
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: A narrative history of humanity's creation and evolution explores how biology and history have defined understandings of what it means to be human and details the role of modern cognition in shaping the ecosystem and civilizations. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve an independent life for herself and her children. 💙📚👀
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve an independent life for herself and her children. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: Set in rural Georgia in the 1950's, this is the story of a mother who cannot distinguish love from possession, and a daughter, fourteen-year-old Tangy Mae, her darkest child, who longs for a better life. 💙📚👀
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: Set in rural Georgia in the 1950's, this is the story of a mother who cannot distinguish love from possession, and a daughter, fourteen-year-old Tangy Mae, her darkest child, who longs for a better life. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: Hoping to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, Nao returns to Tokyo and books a year long stay at the Himawari sharehouse where she meets Hyejung and Tina. They soon become fast friends and help each other navigate life in Japan. 💙📚👀
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: Hoping to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, Nao returns to Tokyo and books a year long stay at the Himawari sharehouse where she meets Hyejung and Tina. They soon become fast friends and help each other navigate life in Japan. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. 💙📚👀
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: Growing up in a devout Muslim household, it felt impossible for Mohsin to be gay. Despite the odds, Mohsin's perseverance led him to become the first person from his school to attend Oxford University. 💙📚👀
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: Growing up in a devout Muslim household, it felt impossible for Mohsin to be gay. Despite the odds, Mohsin's perseverance led him to become the first person from his school to attend Oxford University. 💙📚👀
Added to TBR: "Ebby Freeman's life unravels when her brother is killed and a centuries-old family heirloom is shattered. But years later, while fleeing a public breakup, she uncovers how that lost, shattered jar may hold secrets to her future." 💙📚👀
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Added to TBR: "Ebby Freeman's life unravels when her brother is killed and a centuries-old family heirloom is shattered. But years later, while fleeing a public breakup, she uncovers how that lost, shattered jar may hold secrets to her future." 💙📚👀