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Have you visited the @something__bookish website lately?

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Remember to read black authors all year long, not just in February!

I made this post to highlight black authors and black creators. It is also made for people who do typically read white authors, and never branch out to read more diverse books.

Definitely suggest following these accounts if they fit your vibe and what you like to read and if you’re open to branching out into other genres! I recently followed a bunch of accounts when I realized that I didn’t follow a ton of black creators here, and it’s pretty easy to find people who fit your creative type and the genres you like and have the same book taste as you.

Also, you can see I have a type haha look at all that purple. I have a lot of sci fi and fantasy in my list to read, Evan Winters, Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin. I also have a lot of horror, queer horror specifically, on my TBR.

Also Honey Girl is queer!!! I forgot the purple tag!!!

#bookrecommendations #bookrecs #queer #blackhistorymonth #bookstagram

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Happy Black History Month!

It’s time for a fantastic readathon hosted by @kelssweetie with collaborators @bookswith.janel @blerdy_girl_readings @nailahkingwrites & @theblerdlibrary who you should follow as well!

I’m starting the I Love Black Horror readathon with the audiobook of The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson which has absolutely phenomenal reviews and I can’t wait to get into it!

Just a reminder that we (talking to you, white folks) should be diversifying our shelves and uplifting black voices all year round, not just this month. Hoping some of these books pictured & tagged creators can help you do that!

Have you read any of these books? Which one has been your favorite?

#bookstagram #horrorbook #horrorbookstagram #horrorbookrecs #blackhistorymonthbooks

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It’s more important than ever, that we amplify underrepresented voices, especially in spaces like the book community that are deemed apolitical and predominantly white.

With February being Black History Month, I wanted to specifically highlight black bookstagrammers you need to follow, who all make this community a better place. Go show them some love, and drop suggestions for more awesome folx! 🫶

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You know that saying about creating the art you want to see in the world?
Well, I had this "genius" idea to create a website where I can visit for niche book recommendations. Now, I have this amazing team of curators with incredibly diverse reading tastes, and they're constantly adding incredible reading lists to the site.

The problem? I've created my own personal paradise and now I'm trapped in editor mode when all I want to do is dive into their recommendations. I built the perfect reading rabbit hole but I'm too busy maintaining it to fall down😭

The curator has become the curated's biggest fan. Shout out to the @something__bookish curators! As soon as I win the lottery, y'all are first in line. I love you, okay?
PS if you haven't visited our website, there's a direct link in bio! x
#somethingbookish #girltravellingthroughbooks

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The @something__bookish website is LIVE!🥳🥳🥳🥳
Special hugs to the Co-Curators who are embarking on the adventure with me. @afictionalinterlude @nenye_wordsandwhatnot @favourite_igbo_boy @2treads @anjoureadsbooks @adexbooks @_lola.e 🫶🏾😘🫰🏾

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Booksta mama bookclub is back with 3 books to discuss this month! I cherish these get togethers. It is so fun chatting with these beautiful book loving mamas! 🤍

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Blood Over Bright Heaven is easily the best book Ive read this year. So powerful and perfectly paced. Yes, it’s heartbreaking, but to a purpose that left me feeling hopeful. Read it.

Thank you @afictionalinterlude for the recommendation! Thank you @meleahreads for letting me process it with you!

Plot - 5
Writing and Editing - 5
Character Development - 5
Narration - 5
Personal Bias - 5
Final Score - 5

#BloodOverBrightHaven #BloodOverBrightHavenReview

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👌One of my favourite re-reads ever 👌

🗣💬: " I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real"

👩🏾‍🏫 𝔾𝔼ℕℝ𝔼: SCI-FI / THRILLER / DYSTOPIAN / CYBERPUINK

📄 ℙ𝔸𝔾𝔼 ℂ𝕆𝕌ℕ𝕋: 374

🎡 𝕋ℍ𝔼𝕄𝔼𝕊: 80'S Pop Culture - Video Gaming - Capitalism - Team Work/Friendship - Greed - Survival

✍️ ℙ𝕃𝕆𝕋: Wade Watts, a young gamer, embarks on a exhilarating adventure through the virtual world of the OASIS, where his love of 80s pop culture and friendships are put to the test in a high-stakes quest that will delight fans of video games, science fiction, and nostalgia

💭 𝕍𝕀𝔹𝔼𝕊: NOSTALGIC . ADVENTUROUS . THRILLING .

💟 𝔽𝔼𝔼𝕃𝕊:
- LOVED it even more this second time around!
- Yes it waffles on for 18 pages, front and back, but that is what makes the journey so immersive! The narration places you inside the pages of the book in the same way that the characters enter the OASIS - you need all of that excruciating detail and description to pull something like this off.
- It's nostalgic as hell, regardless of what decade you grew up in.
- As a reader, you feel like you're on the scavenger hunt with them!
- Because of the nature of how the characters interact in the OASIS, they end up being super diverse by default; it doesn't feel forced.
- Even my favourite characters did and said things that annoyed me which made it feel like a real life friendship group (and now, I'm thinking about how Booksta is kind of our OASIS).
- Every time a clue was figured out in the story, we were treated to some real life trivia.
- Yes, you have to suspend disbelief for a lot of it, but don't we do that with most books anyway? Some books are supposed to be moral and some are supposed to highlight the immoral; this does a bit of both.
- Just good solid fun!

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Booksta mama bookclub is back! ✨ After a quick break to all have babies, it was wonderful to reconvene and talk all things books and motherhood. The Unmaking of June Farrow had an average rating of 4.25/5 ⭐️

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✨The Books that Made Me✨

Y’all I am unwell after this trip down memory lane 😭

Honestly, going through these books explains SO much about my current reading taste… like apparently I have always enjoyed books that destroy me emotionally?? (Where the Red Fern Grows & Bridge to Terabithia traumatized me forreal) And my love of thrillers & the fantastical seems to also have started young (Where my Eragon/Twilight/Hunger Games babes at)???

As far as college goes …. We don’t need to discuss it. 😂

Anyways, this challenge was SO fun, thank you so much to @no.shelf.control.k for tagging me!!! Tagging a few others because I just loved doing this and want to see more 🫶🏼

❓QOTD: Do we have any books in common?! What was a book that ignited your love for reading?! A slide with a background photo of a bookshelf shelf featuring old books that are navy, grey, and tan, as well as a few red books. The title The Books That Made Me is written across the middle in three rows in white and is a mix of block letters and script lettering. At the bottom there are 3 cartoon graphics of white girls with blonde hair reading. The first graphic on the left is a little girl with rosy cheeks and a purple shirt, and is using an open book to fly, her fist is raised forward. The second graphic in the middle is a teenage aged girl wearing a pink plaid shirt and her hair in a pony tail, she sits with her legs underneath her and one arm resting on a pile of books and her other resting under her chin while she reads another book which lies open in her lap. The final graphic is a white faceless woman with blond hair pushed back by a pair of headphones that sits over her head, wearing a brown t-shirt and tan leggings and white socks with olive green toes; she sits with her legs in front of her holding an open olive green book.

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❓️ IF YOU HAD UNLIMITED FUNDS, WHICH BOOKS WOULD YOU COLLECT MULTIPLE EDITIONS OF?

Back in the day (even as close as only a decade ago), you had to search specifically for 'Collectors Editions' of certain books and they were usually box sets.
Now, you can make your collection up of whatever you please, especially as we have easier access to order internationally- so yes, my Babel collection consists of two Polish copies, a Croation and a French copy.
No, I don't speak a LICK of those languages and no I am not rich.

We absolutely live in a time of over consumption but
I work hard, I pay my bills, I don't have a life and so I treat myself to books (and food) because SOMETHING has to be just for fun.

I also have gorgeous friends who gift me copies of books they know I'm building a collection of.

One day, I'm determined to get myself a box set of The Chronicles of Narnia with 'The Magiicians Nephew' correctly labeled as book 6. ( I found one once. It was £15,000!!! 😭🤨🫠)

📸 Pictured above:
- Babel
- Blood Over Bright Haven
- Wuthering Heights

‼️ Don't forget to support your local library! That's where the ultimate collection is ans you get access to it for FREEEEE 🤩

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