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jamie m.
@mixedreader.bsky.social
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teacher. book reviewer focused on diverse fiction, non-fiction and poetry. writer. interdisciplinary researcher. #booksky 📚 🌈
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Read memoirs in summer. #JillDamatac #DirtyKitchen @atriabooks.bsky.social
The book cover is pictured on the left side of the image, and a quote is on the right. The book cover is yellow with an image of the AI to or as a child smiling at the camera and wearing a large hat. The quote on the right says, “There is no name for those of us who choose to deport ourselves. The Huddled Masses, yearning to breathe free from the nightmare of the American Dream. American Escapees. Refugees from America”
June 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Absolutely in love in with new collection, out tomorrow from @tinhouse.bsky.social . Hardly Creatures is a collection that focuses on disability, community, and so much more. The book is modeled to read like a walk through an accessible museum.
The book Hardly Creatures by Rob Colgate is picked in front of a bush of white and pink flowers. The cover has a broken statue of a face, with a red salamander crawling across it.
May 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A stunning book of poetry steeped in Black culture references.
#Booksky #Blackbooksky
a hand holds up a copy of What Had Happened Was by Theri Pickens against a plant with dark pink flowers. The cover is various shades of pink, with a brown, ink-blot like repeating pattern of women whispering to each other.
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Support small presses, especially ones that publish short fiction! Check out my friend’s novella, Marisolandia from @wtawpress.bsky.social !
The book Marisolandia is held in front of a cactus. The book cover has a barren landscape and blue sky, with a stone statue in the bottom right corner
April 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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More thrift store book nostalgia
#90s #booksky
On top of a wooden shelf is a series of babysitters club books.
March 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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‘90s kid bookish nostalgia in the local thrift. #booksky #90s #animorphs
A series of Animorphs books on a wooden shelf
March 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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In the poem “On Belonging,” Patrycja Humienik asks, “where do we go to find the myths that made us?” A beautiful #poetry collection releasing this week from @tinhouse.bsky.social
a hand holds up a book in front of a large cactus. The book, We Contain Landscapes, has black title text and a blue, white and purple swirling design on the cover.
March 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This memoir is full of grief, but also with hope. Using an innovate structure, Nguyen tells the dual stories of how her experience of sexual assault led her into activism and the healing of her childhood trauma. #SavingFive #AmandaNguyen #Booksky #memoir
The book Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen is propped up against a large black telescope. The book cover has a portrait of the author, a Vietnamese woman with long black hair wearing a pink sweater. There is a shadow effect behind her and stars overlaid on her hair.
March 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Fundamentally is a book that surprised me. At first, I had a hard time sitting alongside the narrator, Nadia, whose brash and often offensive humor seemed like a defense mechanism that the reader didn’t have insight to. As I got more used to her & her naivety, layers of character were revealed.
The book Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis is pictured on a blue footstool. The book has a blue background and white title text with three spliced images of a pink feminine face. The bottom image of the face is blowing a bubble with gum.
February 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This book is holds you in its heartache and examines how folks move through/in/around grief. Grief of losing family members, of having few options, even the grief of surviving.
#booksky
the book Waiting for A Long Night Moon. The cover is purple with stars in the background and two overlapping images of the moon, one orange and one purple at the center.
February 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Needing some easing of mind, some breathing? See Kaira Jewel Lingo’s We Were Made For These Times.
A photo of the book We Were Made For These Times. The cover is black with white title text and has rainbow comets or asteroids across the cover.
February 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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#ReadBlackPoetry forthcoming from Tiana Clark is a stunning collection, Scorched Earth! Clark lets us sit in the body as she faces pain while also being determined to celebrate aliveness. Out March 4th! #Booksky #BlackBooksky
In the background, a black and white image shows a barren landscape. In the bottom right corner is a woman with curly hair looking up to the right. A faded thought bubble begins from her head into the sky above her. Inside the thought bubble is the cover of Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark, which has pink title text and an art piece by Kara Walker that features a desolate landscape, people on horseback and floating images of a head and hands
February 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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What’s your response to this question from #RandomHouse?
This is a graphic from random house. The background is green with tan text that reads “1. The book that sets you on the path to a life built by and around reading. 2. The book you can’t ever recover from, that you never stop thinking about, and that makes you desperate to reach that frightening depth of experience with other books.” At the bottom of the graphic is the book Bibliophobia by Sarah Chiyara, which has a green cover and overlapping text of the title at the top.
February 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Here’s a new collection for you, out from @tinhouse.bsky.social , who publish some of my favorite collections. This collection is for the heady, the heartbroken, the mythologists. There were moments in this collection I held my breath, stunned at connections I didn’t see coming.
A photo of the cover of Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen. The cover is a deep blue with shelves of abstract circular and pointy shapes.
January 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Printz winner. Wonderful read about a mixed Guatemalan girl who reconnects with her father over a summer of renovation. Important discussion of gentrification and cultural solidarity.
The cover of Brownstone is pictured, a graphic novel by Samuel Teer and Mar Julia. On the cover, between two gray apartment buildings is a brownstone building. A girl wearing a yellow sweater leans on the roof and looks towards the sky.
January 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Literary fiction friends, don’t miss out on Call Her Freedom by Tara Dorabji! It holds heartbreak alongside moments of hope and defiance, imbuing a depth & complexity to each character. Tenderness, in spite of personal and global grief, struck me as I read. Thank you @simonandschuster.bsky.social !
A hand holds up a book in front of a yellow, blue and purple wall art piece. The book has white title text with a purple background. The cover has an illustration of a woman looking to the left. At her shoulders is the silhouette of two mountains.
January 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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This is a screenshot image of a post by Brianna J Heath. It reads “what I mean when I say I’m busy”. Beneath that is four images of Black women from TV shows and movies reading and writing.
January 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Thank you to @groveatlantic.bsky.social ! I’m a huge fan of Convienence Store by Sayaka Murata, so I’m sure VANISHING WORLD is going to be amazing! This promo made me chuckle—I know I’m in for some surprises with this book!
#booksky #translatedlit
The book Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata is pictured. The cover is blue with yellow text and a picture of a plastic disc filled with tiny plastic babies. Next to the book is a plastic disk with two plastic babies.
January 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Long review of upcoming release FIRSTBORN GIRLS by Bernice McFadden up on my Substack. Preview: I deeply connected to it! Maybe even healed some childhood wounds. open.substack.com/pub/jamielmo...

Thank you @duttonbooks.bsky.social
#booksky #blackbooksky #memoir
The cover of Firstborn Girls by Bernice McFadden. The cover is a beige-pink with orange lettering this is a line drawing of a woman’s face with collaged photos as her hair.
January 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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From artist HelloMyNameIsWednesday. Here’s their Patreon link: www.patreon.com/hellomynamei...
The image is a set of doodles on a yellow background. The center is a cloud around the phrase “here are some thing that you can do as a community member to resist individualism and the destruction of community solidarity.” Arrows branch out from the cloud with the following phrases: volunteer, community fridges, create free sanitary product and clothing pick up points, get to know your neighbors, radical community art exhibitions, community gardening, music and poetry, radical theatre, making zines together, create radical book clubs, mutual aid, stitch and birch, and a group to share ideas.
January 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Text on the image reads “me and my emotional support stacks of to read books”. Image shows a cat sitting at a wooden desk in front of an open books. The cat has stacks of books on both sides of them.
January 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I’ve got Lark & Kasim on my shelf; this is encouragement to get to it! My pick is Model Home by Rivers Solomon
Cover of Model Home by Rivers Solon. Cover is bright green with slanting text and an illustration of a two story home with creepy features like an eye in the window.
January 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Intro post! Hi, I’m Jamie, life-long book nerd, recent PhD grad and teacher. I love sharing my reading life, esp. Black contemporary fiction and other diverse books. Love recommending, esp. to other teachers! Known by the same name on IG. More to come!
A women with curly black hair and orange glasses Holds up a book titled The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The book has an illustration on the cover of a bird between branches of a berry bush. On the back cover is the quote “all flourishing is mutual” and an illustration of hands holding berries.
January 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Grateful to return to Morrison’s work with more life experience, with more understanding than frustration with the character’s choices. With tenderness and tiredness. Do you have a favorite Morrison title you’ve re-read? #booksky
A hand holds up the book Jazz by Toni Morrison against a green bush with red berries. The book is purple with the title in golden lettering across the center
January 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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“It’s gonna take too many tomorrows to get through/ yesterday. I pray for time to deal with now. no, I pray/ to Time.” —from Danez Smith poem “relativity” in BLUFF
January 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM