#black women book lovers

[melaninadorned]

Worth the Read | Melanin Adorned

[afrotumble]

[elcosmiquechild]

Them: So, what do you like to do for fun!? 🤷🏾‍♀️

Me:

[chroniclesofnadia111]

Old throwback of me & my fave form of escapism

📖🌹🖤✨

[cocoabuttavasa]

infinitely

[xoxomissm]

I read all of Deanna Grey's published works and I can't wait for more stories.

Outdrawn

Loved this sapphic, rivals-to-lovers, slowburn, grumpy/sunshine black romance by Deanna Grey.

College rivals become co-workers when Noah lands her dream job. She isn’t expecting to be assigned to work with her infuriatingly talented longtime webcomic competitor Sage. The tension between the two artists builds as they try and fail to ignore it while they work together on a comic revival. Noah and Sage let the walls between them fall as they both navigate setting boundaries with their respective families.

4/5 ⭐️

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Team Player

Two athletes decide to date casually to blow off steam and of course, they find more.

Team Player by Deanna Grey

On the ice, Aderyn is the fearless leader of the women’s hockey team. She is known for being ruthless to her opponents, but when it comes to dating she is far less lethal. Samson, her counterpart in many ways on the men’s team challenges her to date around while he proves he can remain focused on one girl, Aderyn. As hard as she tries to resist her old ways, Aderyn and Samson find an unexplored emotional connection between them. Aderyn doesn’t question it because she knows it is all too good to be true and Samson has to prove he how serious he is.

4.5/5⭐️

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Sunny Disposition

Sports romance, double life, grumpy/sunshine, AND they were roommates!

Sunny Disposition by Deanna Grey

To most people, Finn is a cutthroat college hockey player. To Naomi, he is a stream moderator and (hopefully! maybe more when they decide to meet up IRL. Finn never makes it because he gets into a fight after a game that leaves him without most of his memories and Naomi without any explanation. The person Finn was before the accident is gone and as he is finding out who he wants to be, fate gives them another opportunity when Finn realizes Naomi is his new roommate. They fall for each other almost instantly and Finn struggles to reveal his true identity. When he finally works up the courage, Naomi meets the shy gamer who was also hiding a filthy mouth and eyes only for her.

5/5 ⭐️

[leeeugenie]

Trap Selena ft. A Book Recommendation 🎀

[intotheescape]

this semester's reads (spring '24)

[phoenix-joy]

"Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black "lady lovers"—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black lady lovers grew, and queer flirtations flourished. Cookie Woolner here uncovers the intimate lives of performers, writers, and educators such as Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Gladys Bentley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Lucy Diggs Slowe, along with the many everyday women she encountered in the archives.

Examining blues songs, Black newspapers, vice reports, memoirs, sexology case studies, and more, Woolner illuminates the unconventional lives Black lady lovers formed to suit their desires. In the urban North, as the Great Migration gave rise to increasingly racially mixed cities, Black lady lovers fashioned and participated in emerging sexual subcultures. During this time, Black queer women came to represent anxieties about the deterioration of the heteronormative family. Negotiating shifting notions of sexuality and respectability, Black lady lovers strategically established queer networks, built careers, created families, and were vital cultural contributors to the US interwar era."

[moonhedgegarden]

Over a year in the making.

All about pantheism, science and reconnection!

[thegetdownrebooter]

[melaninadorned]

Worth the Read | Melanin Adorned

[crestfallenstars]

crying after waking up is a different kind of pain.

struggling to find a reason to get out of bed, everything seeming futile.

everything happening at once.

failing economics, failing at relationships, failing at life.

it's all the same, a cycle.

i don't have an appetite anymore, my stomach isn't hungry, but my heart is.

for someone to understand, this constant feeling of loneliness.

there are certain days that i would love to die and that is after a good memory.

so i wouldn't have to wake up the next day and go through any bad ones, anymore.

i wouldn't have to go through the pain of crying to the sky every night begging for something good to happen to me anymore.

love, crestfallenstars

[elcosmiquechild]

T H E • C O S M IC • C H I L D

Greetings and Welcome to my little artistic corner of the Internet. I am The Cosmic Child, a Stay-At-Home Mom of Four, Wife and Hobby Artist. In my leisure time, I thoroughly enjoy reading, bullet journaling, adult coloring, flower gardening and making homemade beauty goods (i.e. soap, body lotions). I also love to make collage art in both digital and print formats. I created this blog to share my obsession with Contemporary Art, Photography, Soul R&B Music, Nature/Astronomy & Literature (Books).

So, yes, I'm a big nerd.

If you like what you see on this page, feel free to reblog my posts! ☺️🙏🏾 Thanks so much for your support!

[chroniclesofnadia111]

Much love to all who’ve supported my new book release so far. 🤲🏾❤️💫 I truly appreciate it.

Hopeful Nets can be purchased down below 👇🏾💕

Hopeful Nets: A collection of poems, essays, musings, and streams of consciousness. https://a.co/d/3GnFcuT

[gl0ryg1rl]

The finer things in life are the little things🌸

-I started a Book Club w/ my little sister😆

- & I created a Tumblr acc for my actual Blog!@starg1rlworld