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Book Reviewer | Book Blogger | Writer | Artist | Editor | 18+ only
Reads: Mostly BIPOC authors- all genres
BSc: Natural Resources- Conservation Rangeland Ecology
BSc: Sustainability
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Still slowly making my way through The New Jim Crow on my down time.
#booksky💙📚 #amreading #nonfiction #diversebooksky
Photo of a highlighted book on a metal desk
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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My current audio read while I do cleaning tasks at work:
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The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Govt Segregated American by Richard Rothstein 23%
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Finished reading this last week as well. Hood Feminism is a great read for those who are new to feminism or looking to add a new layer of understanding to their practice.
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Hood Feminism notes from the women that a movement forgot Mikki Kendall
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Finished reading Fearing The Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. And now I officially hate Ralph Waldo Emerson. I had no idea this man was racist af on main for the giggles.
5☆
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings. The imagery included is that from human zoos specifically.... hot n tot Venus...
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Current Physical Read while I'm at work between customers.
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The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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My current audio read for work tasks since I finished How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Emmerwhar.
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Fearing the Black Body the Racial Origin of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I really enjoyed this book, it was a wonderful accompaniment to Braiding Sweetgrass and highly reccomend reading these two books back to back.
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Theory of Water Nishnaabe Maps to The Times Ahead by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Just finished How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Emmerwhar 4.5☆ if only because it stated "Palestine got its independence by becoming Israel" boo tomato. But I learned a lot about American Colonialism
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November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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My current physical read for when I finish tasks as part of nonfiction November
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Dinner for Vampires life on a cult TV show While also in an actual cult By Bethany Joy Lenz
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I'm doing nonfiction November in an attempt to read my ever growing nonfiction tbr. And as a break from all the fiction. This is my current listen while doing work tasks.
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How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Here is my completed prompt list and page count for #TWR #ThisWitchReads #readingchallenge #booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #queersky
A collage with 5152 pages and prompts for a reading challenge called This Witch Reads Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng Raybearer Inuyasha Kaikeyi Where the River Meets the Soul Braiding Sweetgrass The Demon King's Gardener The First and Last Demon Cursebound House of Frank Golden Apple Duet Legend of the White Snake
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I return from a small break! I have much to post 🤣
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October Wrap-up 15 books 5258 pages 93% fiction 7% nonfiction Avg page length 346 pages Avg time to finish 2 days Mostly LGBT books 80% print 20% audio Of Love and Libraries House of Frank Legend of The White Snake Demon King's Gardener The Golden Apple Duet Cursebound Bat Eat And Other Names for Cora Zeng Elegy for the Undead First And Last Demon Inuyasha Where the River Meets The Soul Dead of Night Kaikeyi Braiding Sweetgrass Raybearer
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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My current audio read while I do tasks. I'm really enjoying every minute of this book. Listening to the author makes me smile and has definitely improved my mornings significantly. This is what I love about poetry and science together.
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Braided sweetgrass ropes across a book cover. Titled: Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants By: Robin Wall Kimmerer Chapter: Asters and Goldenrod 11% read
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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This beautiful edition of Royal Rescue is currently on sale and can be found @rainbowcrate.bsky.social honestly. If for nothing else, get it for the masterpiece that is the foiling
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Book cover of Two people sitting under the protection of a large dragon in the mountains Title: Royal Rescue By: A. Alex Logan Gold foiling in an antique style depicting animal silhouettes on a green hardcase for Royal Rescue Foiling in antique style continued on the bacl hard case with the qoute "if youve already decided you're never going to be happy. Youre not going to be looking for happiness. Keep an open mind okay? The world might surprise you." Interior endpages of two people jail breaking mythical and non mythical animals alike: unicorn, wolf, lynx, basilisk, and dragon
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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My current work read between customers.
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The Fraud by Zadie Smith
October 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Flash Review for The River Meets The Soul by S. Nicole! Long Form Review to come! @rainbowcrate.bsky.social iirc this edition is on sale presently! It's so cute you should get it!
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Whirl's Review Where The River Meets The Soul by S. Nicole 4/5 Predictable but fun Cute, a YA fantasy Flat antagonist Afrocentric world and fantasy Grief and chronic illness forward Destined Soul mates
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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This lovely edition of Where The River Meets The Soul by S. Nicole can be found @rainbowcrate.bsky.social I recently finished reading it and review to come. A lovely emotional YA of queer Soul mate magic.
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Where the River Meets The Soul by S.Nicole A young Black woman is lovingly embraced by her lover a nonbinary Black person. They are creating magic together. Surrounded by pretty flowers. Interior art of the young Black woman and her lover dancing in a cave with magical flowers. Hardcase where two hands are embracing a magical blue flower. Where the River Meets The Soul by S. Nicole Back hardcase with the qoute " by the glow of the fair moon in the light of my love. I bask in the joy of our union. May the marm we bear be a sign of our devotion and the beauty of our souls entwine. For the good of our land till our last breath." With a blue foiled flower under
October 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Current audiobook read while I'm finishing tasks at work.
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Zombie hands gripping bars. Titled: Dead of Night A zombie novel By Jonathan Maberry
October 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Flash Review for The Golden Apple Duet by Ali Williams. I got my dual story novella from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social
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Whirls Review 5/5 ☆ Book: The Golden Apple Duet By: Ali Williams Short and Fun Read Salacious and Steamy Interesting magic Well researched fae Well written smut Fat Positive Rep
October 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Finished another book for TWR

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This witch reads a purple galaxy background with a tarot card that says divination. Prompt: Shoot For The Stars Pages: 390 Book: Where the River Meets the Soul by S. Nicole
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Who'd Have Thought by G Benson You & I Rewritten Royal Rescue The Golden Apple Duet Books surrounded florals
October 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Here are the interior endpapers and the salacious hardcase that I adore.
Interior end papers art features the red-haired fae woman and a large green snake coiled around her. And the plus size fmc wrapped in chains. Surrounding them is gears and triskelies Interior end papers with the fae woman eating fruit and the shy fmc with afterglow covered in fruit juice. Surrounded by colorful triskelies Hardcase art features the plus size fmc bound to a St. Andrew's Cross via Chains as the fae woman tries to unravel her while her hands are burning from touching the iron. Blonde fae woman drizzle fruit juice on the plus size fmc as she lounges sensually on a table covered in fruit.
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Recently read and absolutely inhaled The Apple Duet, which is 2 novellas in one. This was a phenomenal read. Reviews to come later today. You can find this @rainbowcrate.bsky.social
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NSFW hardcase in 🧵
The Apples Hung Like Stars by Ali Williams Cover features 2 women one tall with impossibly long red hair and the other plus size. Their Fruits Like Honey by Ali Williams A tall, thin blonde fae woman with tattoos and a short and shy plus size girl gaze at each other shyly. The multidirectional dustjacket for Their Apples Hung Like Stars and Their Fruits Like Honey by Ali Williams
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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My reading for the day since I have finished the sweaty and arduous labor of FIFOing a walkin and cleaning it.

Yet again another lovely special edition from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social Where The River Meeta the Soul by S. Nicole
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Where the River Meets The Soul by S. Nicole With two black women, one with vitiligo creating beautiful magic together.
October 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Rating: 5/5 ☆
Pages: 322
Genre: Fantasy, LGBT

Link to photos of the beautiful special edition from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social can be found in the thread along with my review for House of Frank by Kay Sinclair
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House of Frank by Kay Sinclair a collage featuring skeletons embracing in a garden, a hand reaching out for a ghost. Golden spun magic. A beautiful arboretum. Glittering fairy wings. A black woman with hair like starlight. A purple gargoyle with purple claws. And a fading foggy memory that reads "i think about the last time I saw you all the time"
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM