Finished the short story Ghost Summer and I‘m floored by Due‘s writing. Beautiful and elegant and awe-inspiring.

It may not be summer anymore but it is spooky season. Excited for some non-gory horror.

I‘m not a story part of the novel yet and but the foreword is 🔥.
TIL: Phyllis Wheatley was the first Black person published in English in 1773. She “was the only Black personal to have published a book of imaginative literature in English” for 56 years. #blackgirlmagic

We‘re both excited by this acquisition! Especially since she talks about her previous careers in Letter to my Daughter. #iknowwhythecagedbirdsings

I remember Sara talking about bread juice and saying not to steal it, because she was going to use it in a story one day. Glad that one day came. (Also, this book is really good. And I‘m not saying that because I‘m biased.)
Photo of a book page with the phrase “bread juice” underlined.

From the first paragraph in chapter 9:
“And I‘m currently employed by a company that turned lists into multimillion-dollar business, so they will always have a special place in my heart.”

Looks like some adventuring is in our future! #blackgirlmagic #historicallyaccuratedragons

I‘m still learning African and African diaspora religions, but every time a deity I‘ve learned about pops upIn the book I‘m reading I get excited. #blackgirlmagic #historicallyaccuratedragons

In the second chapter and this book reminds me of Tracy Chapman‘s song Fast Car.

“Won‘t have to drive too far, just cross the border and into the city. You and I can both get jobs, finally see what it means to be living.”

#historicallyaccuratedragons

Stories about magical children coming of age are my current jam. Can anyone suggest stories with protag s that are not-white? I‘ve got magical Black girl covered, but I‘ll always take more suggestions. #historicallyaccuratedragons

It took me a minute to get into the book, but then I was hooked. A 13 year old magical Black girl comes of age while traveling through a dangerous jungle to rescue her dying friend. The characters are well-realized and the world building is phenomenal. (Note: this book takes place in the same universe as the novel Who Fears Death and the short stories The Winds of Harmattan and From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7.) #historicallyaccuratedragons

This book is so good. Reading it reminds me of being thirteen and my love for exclamation points at that age.#blackgirlmagic #historicallyaccuratedragons #recommendsday

With the humidity making the air feel like soup, I‘m starting to really get into the atmosphere of this book. #historicallyaccuratedragons

“It‘s yaoi about a bullied ugly goat demon (UGD) who gets rescued by the hot fire god and then the UGD falls in love with hot fire god.” - Jasmine #animeboston #animeboston2018

Last book of the night that I‘m adding to my list. So excited to buy this soon.

Also this book. Learning more about the amazing Josephine Baker has been on my To Do list for ages.

Looks beautiful. Making sure the next person to buy me things knows to get me dis.

Pretty sure the cover says it all. Rec from #blacknerdproblems spotted in the wild.

“It‘s a romance about a secretary who loves her job and her boss, who is a vampire. She loves them in that order.” #animeboston #comicopia

From my notes, “this world building is what happens when the author has been raised in a society that is cis-and heteronormative, Christian dominated, and accepts white supremacy as how life should be.” #historicallyaccuratedragons

In my notes from reading, “the world building appears to have stopped at magical and vaguely European.” #historicallyaccuratedragons

Partner went to the comic book store and picked me up a bunch of books (with my own credit). #wakandaforever

#arisia2018 #conhaul

“...she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation.” Seems appropriate while I sit here to post bail for a few people.

Seems appropriate the week that I'm marrying my partner that I start reading a book written by the cofounder of the dating site we met on.

Super enjoyable, especially if you love #StarTrek, old Hollywood, or if you're an entertainer (specifically a singer, actor, or dancer). I loved reading about Nichols life prior to Star Trek, as well as during Star Trek. A lot of the book is an insider's take very old gossip (like William Shatner being a jerk) but I still appreciated it.

My reward for helping a man with a lot of packages back to his home. Good deed = a good book. And then another book I'm excited to read and critique.

The quality of the stories are a little uneven (the one about Santa was dope, as was Lazzrus by Nisi Shawl). Overall worth the read, especially the essay in back by Keffy R. M. Kehrli.

Attempt 3 to sit down and read, now with French Onion soup and Earl Grey.

Really digging this book despite Frost's repeated attempts to knock it out of my hands. Currently on the 6th short story, The Farming of Gods by Ibi Zoboi, and can report that thus far there have been no weak stories. #catsoflitsy #afrofuturism

You know your partner loves you when they buy you the hardcover book of one of your favorite books that you no longer own because a former roommate stole it.

It's so exciting when a book moves from your TBR pile to the In Process pile.

"Spanish guys come from Spain. I'm Puerto Rican." From the third story, "Entanglements."

An interesting mix of comics and journalism that actually gives (illustrated) human faces and specificity to a problem that is so large it loses its humanity and so amorphous there is only a vague notion of needing to do something that is castrated from any action. Highly recommend. Definitely going to check out other Microcosm Publishing books.

This is a spoiler. But also this is also the all ages superhero version of Scandal's "work twice as hard to get half as much."

I read this for the @bookriot #readharder challenge because it's about sports and double plus bonus it's an all-ages comic. I was not overly enthralled by the book because it shows two games from Paige's long career (one from the Negro League in 1929 and an exhibition game in 1944). They also touch on life in the Jim Crow South in rather heartbreaking ways, but everything felt a little glazed over, I would have loved a longer book.

This story draws on Shakespeare's tragedies (we've got Miranda and Ophelia) but it is distinctly a Southern Black tale. And for anyone participating in the @bookriot #readharderchallenge2017, all of the POV characters in this book are people of color.

This book is great. I loved the frequent references to Harry Potter and Tupac. I like that it gives a fictional human story to the Black Lives Matter movement without feeling like it's trying to exploit it for money. My two grumbles are that no Black women get mentioned as frequently as Huey Newton or Malcolm X and that for conscious rappers today only Kendrick Lamar is mentioned.

A little light reading and note taking while Juggs looks at the food on the table. I'd tell him to get down but I'm too amused by his inability to remember he doesn't like most of the things that go on falafel. #catsoflitsy

Juggernaut patiently waiting for my lap to free up. #catsoflitsy

More research into the current state of slavery. #amwriting

Gonna miss this fuzzybutt curled up in my lap while reading but vacation is over. I'll console myself with the two cats I now have at home. #catsoflitsy

Also excited that this arrived while I was in Charleston.

It's like my family knows me and what I'd want.

"This ongoing importation of slaves meant the Caribbean slavery population was continuously re-Africanized. On the other hand, most Africans brought to the United States Arrived between 1750 and 1808, the year the [importation] slave trade officially ended."

Bought my tour guide's book (A Gullah Guide to Charleston) and a few others while on vacation in Charleston. Just some light researching reading for Apocryphal Family Tree.

Can't think of a better way to spend a Friday night the cuddled up in my Star Trek onesie reading a book that makes me slightly uncomfortable.