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I love when a book is just as good as everyone says

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This book was so atmospheric - take me to the Orkney Islands please!

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MSN

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“Maybe [the ocean and I] were on the same side, comprised of the same things, water mostly, also mystery. The ocean swallowed things up–boats, people–but it didn’t look outside itself for fulfillment. It could take whatever skimmed its surface or it could leave it. In its depths already lived a whole world of who-knows-what. It was self-sustaining. I should be like that. It made me wonder what was inside of me.”

Melissa Broder, The Pisces (via shit-i-read)

Check out my review of The Pisces here!

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Gotta take advantage when the sun comes out for two minutes in the U.K

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Shit I Read: “The Pisces” by Melissa Broder

Melissa Broder’s debut novel is a poetic exploration of love, addiction and mental illness.

To read my review of The Pisces please click here!

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Shit I Read: “The Pisces” by Melissa Broder

Melissa Broder's debut novel is a poetic exploration of love, addiction and mental illness.

To read my review of The Pisces please click here!

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“Maybe [the ocean and I] were on the same side, comprised of the same things, water mostly, also mystery. The ocean swallowed things up--boats, people--but it didn't look outside itself for fulfillment. It could take whatever skimmed its surface or it could leave it. In its depths already lived a whole world of who-knows-what. It was self-sustaining. I should be like that. It made me wonder what was inside of me.”

Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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Sometimes a book makes it’s way to you at the perfect time.

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||December BPC: Just One Word|| 2. #readwomen. Especially read WOC, which has been my goal for this year.

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And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (via quotethat)

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John Sandoe Books, London.

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the coffee shop aesthetic.

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Book Bum Coffee Shop.

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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Black Authors Rec List

YA Novels

“Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi

“Dread Nation” by Justina Ireland

“Finding Yvonne” by Brandy Colbert

“Tyler Johnson Was Here” by Jay Coles

“The Hate U Give” Angie Thomas

History

“The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs

“Freedom Dreams” by Robin D.G. Kelley

“The Common Wind” by Julius S. Scott

Auto/Biography/Memoir

“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” Malcolm X

“Assata: An Autobiography” Assata Shakur

“Between the World and Me” Ta-Nehisi Coates

“This Will Be My Undoing” by Morgan Jerkins

“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

“Skin Folk” by Nalo Hopkinson 

“Mumbo Jumbo” by Ishmael Reed

“Who Fears Death” by Nnedi Okorafor

“Dark Matter” by Sheree R. Thomas

“The Kishi” by Antoine Bandele

Comics

“Bingo Love” by Terrence Sage

“Rise of the Black Panther” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Spider-Man” by Brian Michael Bendis

“Abbott” by Saladin Ahmed

“The American Way” by John Ridley

LGBTQ+

“Zami” by Audre Lorde

“Brother to Brother” by Essex Hemphill

“Under the Udala Trees” by Chinelo Okparanta

“Burnt Men” by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker

Poetry

“Helium” by Rudy Francisco

“Bestiary” by Donika Kelly

“How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars” by Alysia Nicole Harris

“The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes

“The Black Unicorn” by Audre Lorde

Authors

Toni Morrison

Zora Neale Hurston

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Octavia E. Butler

Ralph Ellison

Personal Favorites

“Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

“Go Tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin

“We Were Eight Years in Power” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe