You might like it. It's a hard read for me. It's def set in a world where the transphobes, homophobes, and racist nationalist win.
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You might like it. It's a hard read for me. It's def set in a world where the transphobes, homophobes, and racist nationalist win.
I could see this for sure. Honestly, it needs to be taught with the Giver and 1984. Amongst many others.
Gliff by Ali Smith is a stunning dystopian. I am clutching nearly every sentence to my chest. Honestly, this is a classic in the making. #💙📚 #📚📚
Ooh I'm reading the physical copy. But I can imagine the audio book is phenomenal!
I'm having so much fun with it ♥️
Alt text: song lyrics Oh, to let pain be as light as a feather Oh, to be free as a rolling stone Oh, to be brave in the cutthroat weather Let the river unfold Let it carry me home With hollow bones
Started #hammajangluck today and it is a bit of a sucker punch. Heist with heart? Hawaiian cyber punk? Yes please 📚💙 🪐📚
Hey #booksky please consider donating and/or sharing! Michael is a great person who is constantly and consistently showing up for the bookish community. If you are able, let's show him some love and be there for him like he is there for so many others 🫶🏽🫂
Right now, @michaellaborn.bsky.social one of the best humans in our book community, if not everywhere, needs help. If you can, please donate to his go find me to help with bills and housing while his imprint launches and share it. 💙📚 #mutualaid www.gofundme.com/f/aid-michae...
If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take: Man-made famines are crimes against humanity. If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.
🏙️COVER REVEAL🏙️ Bram Stoker Award nominated in superior achievement in a novel — CHILDREN OF CHICAGO Available October 21, 2025 — from Union Square & Co., an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group. Preorder: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/cynth...
Someone will probably call this hyperbole. To which I say, you've been calling every true prediction about this hyperbole for years.
I've added Blizz's link to my mutual aid/crowdfunding section of my bio link. Please consider donating anything you can❤️🐻❄️
If you need a hydra best friend, I can hook you up: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...
AFTER he was released, instead of an apology: "On Tuesday morning, while boarding his flight to Vermont, Chavarria said he received an email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection: his Global Entry permission had been revoked. No reason was given."
Haha. I couldn't let myself do it ♥️ but will keep this in mind for next time.
Trying to figure out if putting a bowl of freshly picked raspberries on one of my most-look-forward-to books this year so I can get a better shot Is sacrilegious or not? #meetmeatthecrossroads by Megan Giddings is FIRE. 📚💙
The "you are getting what you voted for" and "fafo" crowd are letting their anger run them into hatred instead of fueling them for the hard fight ahead of us. When they voted, they believed in a liar. Very few of them voted for dead kids and masked kidnappings.
Elon musk framing himself as the middle is about the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while
Oooh have fun! Have you read second chance in Newport Stephens by TJ Alexander?? Perfect queer love story for Christmas in July.
I don’t have the capacity to offer any real thoughts at the moment, but here is a long list of books to help you think about a wide variety of subjects we desperately need to be talking about with our neighbors right now.
We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.
Same. I live rurally and both IG and FB have a monopoly on events, business information, and community groups 😭
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
Anytime the American press uses the word "homeland" a little democracy fairy winks out of existence. #screaningintothevoud apnews.com/article/iran...
♥️ wishing you peace and healing. It is so hard to ask for help. I'm glad you did.
When they tried to assassinate Trump, elected Dems could not get to the microphones fast enough.
"In a previously unreported development, federal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted US aid funds to the gang." Read the whole investigation, republished from @propublica.org ⬇️
The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼
Better yet we start calling Trump Republicans royalists.
Calling Trump Republicans anything other than anti-constitutionalists. Like why are we calling them Republicans anymore. They don't believe in our Republic.
This is sickening. Also if LA needs "liberated", why are women and kids at parks? The cognitive dissonance here is wild.
Loop conversation ear plugs and n-95s or a respirator if you're like me and it's smokey 😭
Beautiful!!
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
Please share with your network! Open submissions for novel length horror written by women (especially interested in BIPOC horror). The 🔗 for agents to submit and for authors to submit directly can be found you know where! #horror #amwriting #amquerying #horrorauthor #horrorbooks
Let's go! Congrats!!
MY MONSTER JUST WON A NEBULA AWARD "Thank you" feels too small, but thank you to everyone who has supported this weird, little book. To everybody who it made feel a little less alone? Remember: we all belong.
California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.
The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.
I enjoyed those!
I'm so excited!!! I can't wait for Cry, void bringer and the Devil of the deep. Sad I sold my original copy 😭 I loved the og cover art. The new cover is equally as gorgeous. I just want both 😂
My challenge: actually invest your energy, time and money into your politics. If you believe reading is political, subscribe to my Bindery so that I can grow this imprint and invest in more Black & brown authors. We are going to have to fight for better together. Leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com
Happy pub week to #meetmeatthecrossroads by Megan Giddings. Lakewood is still a fav. I'm looking forward to this! 📚💙 Two sisters raised apart go exploring through a mysterious door. Scaple sharp characters and commentary @amistadbooks.bsky.social the book is beautiful and I'm already hooked
First breathing treatment of the fire season. It is too early for this. #fuckclimatechange I love being part of the very small group of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution. Fellow canaries, check your script expirations, get your filters ready. It's going to be a doozy.
I really had to triple check this wasn't the onion. Other sources also reporting. I am not sure how to respond. #joewalsh were you visited by three ghosts? Can they visit other people?
I had fun, but it def had some moments.
This made me chuckle, because I did have a discussion with the post about missing parcels today.
Always! 🪐📚 Here's to all the futures unknown ♥️
Waiting for my shipping notification, as we speak. Y'all if you like mystery, if you like post-earth sci-fi, if you love Sapphic love, don't sleep on this series! 🪐📚 #queerbooks
Jonathan Joss was MURDERED. Words matter here. He was MURDERED. it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man. Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.
Happy, happy Pride y'all. Realizing I sold most of my the favorite queer books at my book pop ups last year😂 and haven't replaced all of them yet but could in fact make a stack was a bit of a journey this morning. I've read and loved all of these. 💙📚 🪐📚 #queerbooks
🏳️🌈HAPPY PRIDE!🏳️⚧️ We’re kicking off our annual Pride Fundraiser today, which will keep the library thriving into the next year & beyond 🎉 givebutter.com/Jr8Tfu
In case you need this one this month. Or ever. Happy Pride!
I made my first booktok video I. Ages on Friday because Saltcrop is so good
An hour left in Buffalo Hunter 😭 tears ... Just tears 📚💙 Stephen Graham Jones is one of the best horror writers out there. Also, I swapped to audio and the voice actors and sound editing are quality. I think reading it visually would have been a completely different experience.
Y'all are sleeping on Saltcrop. Netgalley it now and if you like it thank me later. If you don't like it, I'm not sure we read the same book 😁 💙📚 🪐📚
-A Palace near the Wind, Ai Jiang -Hamajang luck by makana Yamamoto -A, Samantha Sotto yambao -Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi vo -Murder by memory, Olivia Waite, -The practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sophia Samatar -Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan
Birthday book haul!!! Lots of books here recommended by some of my favorite people and a couple I haven't heard of but look interesting. 💙📚 🪐📚
Oh! You should try to say. You are both great bookish people @yumewrites.bsky.social ☺️💓
Started it today!!
Call your Senators. This bill points a gun at the disabled, trans, and poor. Flooding their phones is the only way anything shifts here.
The FDA is taking public comments on this decision until Friday at midnight. Share this link and take a couple minutes to leave a comment! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
I couldn't comprehend what happened. I had to read all the posts three times ...
My wallet is sad but my heart is happy?
So excited!
CANNOT WAIT. pre order was locked in months ago 😂 If you haven't started this series, please do. It's the heart-filled Sapphic Sherlock in "Space" that we all need. Mossa and Pleiti forever. 🪐📚 💙📚
Purple cover 😍 I own duplicate copies of two books: this is how you lose the time was and bruising of qilwa. Might be time to a third 😭
I have not found that this feeling goes away. I'm 41 now.
My partner has finally gotten a transfer to a state safer for our queer child than Texas. We have one month to make this happen! We’ll be using our tax return for the bulk of the expenses, but I have started a new Ko-fi goal! ko-fi.com/expertbooksm...
Fan-theydy screaming @yumewrites.bsky.social newest ARC arrived yesterday. I loved both #thedeepsky and #thestardustgrail. Post apocalyptic tale. How far would you travel for your sister in a world that has ended. Cannot. Wait. [💙📚] [🪐📚]
I am acquiring! Would love to read some horror written by women (especially BIPOC!) #h #questpit #writingcommunity
If you haven’t joined our bookclub yet, here’s your reason. @authoreanoble.bsky.social, the author of our May book set up a 50% off coupon on her e-book, valid until tomorrow! Go to www.smashwords.com and use code: 5BHG3 Join the bookclub discord: discord.gg/BkPsBer2aq #leftunreadbookclub
Literally just was wishing for this.
I've been struggling with reading, and I'm late with a bookclub book I wanted to finish. Maybe I will get it read. #booksky
Well absolutely destroyed by Shark Heart. "There's never a good time to say good bye." A story about transformation, marriage, illness, disability, and humans turning into sharks 💙📚 🪐📚 #booksky #saveourlibraries
Congrats @discobooks.bsky.social another amazing Bindery influencer #booksky can't wait to see what you build ♥️
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
I started today too!
Yes. Also, I can't share a TBR...I can't follow a plan in my free time to save my life
I don't actually post every story we put up at @globalvoices.org soooo you might want to stop by the home page every once in a while to scroll free, ad-free, human-written and -translated news and culture stories:
Oh no! I hope they can get it resolved 😭
I'm leading a peaceful rally to demand Mohsen Mahdawi’s immediate release ahead of his Wednesday hearing. 68 House Democrats demanded answers from Rubio and Noem about his arrest. No response. Time for the people to make our voices heard. Join us:
Imagine hating Black people so much you don't want clean milk or healthy kids.
I'm a fan of silly names for silly dogs. Tiny, Tidbit, Tickles, Cuddles would be on my short list depending on his personality 😀♥️
IT’S INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY, AKA THE BEST HOLIDAY OF THE YEAAAARRRRR!!! 💕🎉 Drop the name of the indie YOU are supporting today ⬇️
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...
If you are not approaching Harry Potter with the same righteous indignation that we are globally approaching Tesla, you don’t understand what’s at stake. This isn’t an issue of a “problematic author”. The woman is using her money and power to worsen oppression. Stop helping her.
I need this as a limited series so bad
they want us poor, sick and desperate
Great list! I would add The Amazing Maurice and his Educated rodents. Technically middle grade but all Terry Pratchett. GNU, Mr. Pratchett, GNU. #booksky 🪐📚
Fuck JKR. Buy trans books.
If you're available and able please go to St Albin's tomorrow.
That's what they are doing. It's horrible. And it makes me think about Many other times in history where masked "law enforcement" did illegal and horrible things.
I spend my life trying to stay as white as possible 😭 I don't want a 5th cancer.