#read diverse books

[thebearthatreads]

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My novel It's All Magic To Me came out over a year ago through a small indie publisher: The Three Little Sisters. I do my best to market it and not be overly pushy but it's tough. If you've read my book please leave me a review, I love hearing your thoughts!

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[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || July || 26 || Non-fiction

[lamajaoscura]

Scholastic, and a Faustian Bargain — Pretty Ok Maggie

[freddiespencerchapman]

I’ve low key been getting my mom to read more diverse books after she ran out of things to read:

>she used to read a lot of fantasy romance, mostly celtic influenced, outlander

>i pushed more fantasy romance at her but with diverse characters and some cool romances that I read

>then I wafted some kids books and  urban fantasy

>now she’s been reading indigenous authors, kids lit, romances, black girl mermaids from african mythology, gay romances, autistic romances, asian historical fiction

>I just recommended a book by a fellow Mills alumnae featuring a gay romance between a latino trans dude and a ghost on day of the dead and she’s intrigued

>last year she was implying books about black people were boring and Mexican Dirt style

[readerupdated]

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[cemeterything]

sorry if you’ve read this before and i just haven’t seen you post about it, but the book “hell followed with us” by andrew joseph white seems right up your alley

i need some kind of faq with a section where i explain that i consider andrew joseph white to be a poor writer except when it comes to describing excesses of body horror and gore because people keep suggesting hell followed with us to me and i'm sorry but his books are not good. aside from the vivid descriptions mentioned above they're incredibly devoid of compelling narratives, fleshed out characters or immersive worldbuilding. the guy can come up with some amazing concepts for a story, but his ability to execute them is consistently disappointing. i'm glad he's making money and having fun pursuing his creative passions but his stuff just does not appeal to me at all and frankly makes a hater out of me.

[criptochecca]

“The rest of the world is glued to the United States. Foreigners follow American news stories like their own, listen to American pop music, and watch copious amounts of American television and film (in 2016, the six largest Hollywood studios alone accounted for more than half of global box office sales). Sometimes the attention cast toward American culture comes at the expense of foreigners knowing about their own countries. Canadians, a 2008 study found, tend to know more about American history than about their own national history.

But that’s only half the story. Americans, too, stick to the U.S. The list of the 500 highest-grossing films of all time in the U.S., for example, doesn’t contain a single foreign film (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes in at 505th, slightly higher than Jerry Seinfeld’s less-than-classic Bee Movie but about a hundred below Paul Blart: Mall Cop).” damn bitch

[genderkoolaid]

Just wanted to let y kno that people are accusing you of being a zionist and all that? Idk if its true but im assuming it isnt

I support Palestinian liberation, think the government of Israel is absolutely committing a genocide (& is awful in many other ways), and that Western nations are invested in Israel to help further their own imperial goals in West Asia. However I also think this situation is not 1:1 comparable with Western colonial states like America & I'm concerned with how many people (largely white, large Western people) have taken an extremely black and white view of this issue where "says nuance is important" is synonymous with "denies Palestinian oppression." There is a real and bipartisan antisemitism issue here & a lot of people are not taking seriously enough how antisemitism & the legacy of Jewish oppression shapes this issue in ways which make it fundamentally different to talking about White Christian colonization of America.

I am an anarchist & have no attachment to any state's existence. My only hope is that the war ends & a way is found to have everyone in that region (including Palestinians who have been forced from their home and current Israeli citizens) living safe, fulfilling lives in a community which is free from the control of imperialism and other forms of injustice.

[desi-pluto]

BOOKS I PLAN TO READ IN 2024

Thanks for the tag @fierce-little-miana 💓

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[alinahdee]

I saw this making the rounds on Twitter and decided to make it a proper challenge:

Since it's the end of October, I'm going to begin this year with November. So here is the challenge:

NOVEMBER - INDIGENOUS LITERATURE

DECEMBER - LESBIAN / WLW AUTHORS

JANUARY - BIRACIAL / MULTIRACIAL AUTHORS

FEBRUARY - BLACK LITERATURE

MARCH - LATINX LITERATURE

APRIL - GAY / MLM AUTHORS

MAY - ASIAN LITERATURE

JUNE - TRANS AUTHORS

JULY - ARAB / MUSLIM LITERATURE

AUGUST - INDIAN / HINDU LITERATURE

SEPTEMBER - NON-BINARY AUTHORS

OCTOBER - JEWISH /HEBREW LITERATURE

This can be novels, entire series, poems, essays, etc, just as long as it fits the criteria.

Share what you are reading, share what authors you've fallen in love with, tell us all about something new you've learned, etc.

[mariatesstruther]

okay but sarah celebrating tommy every year for mother’s day

[prince-liest]

I’m reading Witch King by Martha Wells, and now that I have read more than one (1) series by this author, I have been suddenly brained with a two-by-four sharpied over with “realizing that I really enjoy novels by Martha Wells because they live in the specific niche created by the intersection of casually and thoroughly queer casts and non-romance storylines”

I am as ever a sucker for non-human main characters struggling with their very human feelings, which is why I jumped on Witch King the moment I saw “the author of Murderbot wrote another book with a main character that’s non-human,” but I live in this dichotomy where I can really enjoy reading queer romances but I don’t really identify with non-ace characters (which is not actually something I figured out how to differentiate until I was Last Week Years Old). so there are lots of books out there that I enjoy reading but it’s comparatively rare for me to read something that feels like it was written For Me and Martha Wells does that very well

anyway, give me more ace it-pronouns human-spliced robot main characters and people-eating demons who consider rank over gender when finding new bodies to inhabit

[lenievi]

Spock to Chapel about McCoy:

"Yes, he is a sensitive man. He's also a remarkable doctor, and the Enterprise is fortunate to have him. However, he needs occasional correction. More than that, though, I believe he derives great pleasure from insulting me and having me insult him in return. That is the only way he will allow himself to express affection to a being as alien as I."

(The Trellisane Confrontation - David Dvorkin)

very talkative aren't you, Spock?

[yvesdot]

FREE IN-PERSON READING & SIGNING!

Come catch me at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a reading, signing, and Q&A on Thursday, January 4th, 2024 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM! I'll be talking about monsters, queer Judaism, and the weird journey I took to get to this anniversary edition of my debut short story collection. We'll have print copies of both Something's Not Right and Exhaustively as well as a real smorgasbord of transsexual stickers and some free bookmarks to boot! RSVP and please SHARE THIS POST with anyone you know in the area who might be interested in turning out for queer Jewish monsters. Bonus: the event page features a truly choice Lemony-Snicket-goes-transsexual author photo. Go ahead and check it out.

[black-is-beautiful18]

Reading is political and I don’t get why ppl, namely yt ppl, don’t get that. You don’t wanna read diversely cuz you don’t wanna read about politics…as if that’s all diverse books talk about. Like y’all are really stupid and show every day that you think that Black and Brown ppl don’t lead normal lives. Yes we are oppressed but we’re literally still ppl. Authors of color also write in many different genres but you’d rather read the book where the MC has to stop their home from being taken over and literally oppressed by the big bad….The only difference being that the MC is white so the plot somehow doesn’t read as political to you 🤔

[ahsokatanos-lightsabertechnique]

Girl help, I blinked and now I have 22 urban fantasy novels checked out of the online library