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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 04/09/2026

Currently audiobook: House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias. A group of 5 teen boys in Puerto Rico seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas, one of the boys' grandmother's refrain - We are surrounded by ghosts.

A screenshot of the audio book for House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias. It shows that I'm 43% into the audio. The cover has a bright green sky with purple land. A house in the center is orange and yellow.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 22/08/2026

LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL!!! AAAHHHH I'm so so excited to read part 2!! Yay! @shanehawk.com @tvayyyy.bsky.social #BookSky

My hand holding up a paperback copy of Never Whistle at Night Part II edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst jr. I'm holding the book in front of a shelf that has other short story collections I've angled the book so you can see the spine of Never Whistle at Night part 1.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 18/08/2026

Currently reading Oromay by Baalu Girma, translated from the Amharic by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu. #BlackBookSky For background vibes listening to this: youtu.be/nvrJXto0ygI?...

My hand holding a paperback copy or Oromay by Baalu Girma translated from the Amharic by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu.
The cover is white with a star cut out that shows a man and a woman walking toward a mountain range.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 14/08/2026

Birthday book haul! 🥰 My husband got me a copy of Àyànmó, that cover is so gorgeous!! I'm super curious about Oromay & the disappearance of the author. Girma's story sounds extremely chilling. Kintu has been on my list for too long! Excited to read these. #BlackBookSky

On top of a black table is a small candle and a hardcover copy of Àyànmó by Ponle Oluwole. The cover is a vibrant red with an African woman wrapped in ankara cloth for a skirt and top. She holds a large axe and faces forward. She looks like a goddess!

On top of a black table a paperback copy of Oromay by Baalu Girma, the cover is white with a star cut out that has an image of a man and a woman walking facing a mountain range. Next to Oromay is Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. The cover is lime green with illustrations of two faces and a person standing between these two faces.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 06/08/2026

Finally reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones! Found this cool edition and had to buy immediately. #BookSky

My hand holding up a paperback copy of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. The cover shows the side of a Buffalos' head. Title is in red text.

The edges of the book are a bright red with all white buffalo running.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 02/08/2026

I'll be going live in about an hour! 11am PST! We'll be hanging out and doing some reading/coworking sprints while I make jewelry. ☺️☀️ Shoutout my library who took this pic of me reading in the park. Twitch.tv/SekhmetECA

A photo of me sitting on a blanket outside reading. Text over the photo with a green background reads "Reading & Jewelry Making Stream. Sunday August 2nd 11:00am (PST). There are little flowers and hearts sprinkled over the photo.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 26/07/2026

Another stream planned woo!! I'll be live this Wednesday! Twitch.tv/SekhmetECA #BlackSkyGamers

A light maroon color background with two old film strips as the border. They are diagonal on the top and bottom. Test in a yellow-orange color reads "I'll be streaming this Wednesday, July 29th! I'll be playing Moonlight Peaks 4:00pm (then a vampire emoji)"
On top of the bottom filmstrip border is text in the same color as before that is the link to my channel "twitch.tv/SekhmetECA"

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 25/07/2026

Starting The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez this morning. Isn't this edition so pretty? #BlackBookSky

A special edition hardcover copy of The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez. The design is a dark blue background with a glowing white moon covered a bit by a light cloud. A red circle is to the left which I'm assuming represents the sun. An illustration of a silhouette of a Black woman stands in the center. She wears a flowy red dress with a white stripe at the midsection. There are leaf designs in the background that are all black and the foreground ones are all white.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 21/07/2026

I'm live now! ☺️ www.twitch.tv/sekhmeteca?s...

A selfie of me, a light skinned Black woman with long locs. I'm wearing a black stress and a bright orange scarf. I have on blue glasses and am wearing orange beaded earrings

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 16/07/2026

I literally wanna scream whenever I'm just scrolling through YouTube and see that stupid AI brush font and an oversaturated pic. ENOUGH.

A drawing of baby Megumi hands up ready to summon Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 14/07/2026

Ya girl is coming back to streaming!!! Aahh I'm so excited!! First stream back we'll be doing what we do best...talking about books ☺️📚 see you next Monday!!

A selfie over a picture of yellow flowers(I forgot the name) in cursive bubbly text above photo: "Coming Back to Streaming!!” below photos "Twitch.tv/SekhmetECA"
The boarder has a burnt orange old film trim.

Bubbly text reads "Return to Stream! July 20th, Monday 4:00pm PST we'll be chatting about books! So come and let me know what you're reading! " In the center is an image of a puppet rat from Bear in the Big Blue House with heart emojis surrounding him. Around the graphic are sparkly hearts and stars.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 04/07/2026

Explored a different library branch today & picked this out! Was I sold just cause it had a deer on it?...yes lol but the story sounds good! Drawing inspo from the Mauryan Empire of ancient India we have a prince hellbent on not casting violence, and a witch escaping a witch hunt. 👀 #BookSky

My hand holding up a paperback copy of The Prince Without Sorrow by Maithree Wijesekara. The cover is a white background with a young deer that has a small winged serpent wrapped around one of his antlers.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 02/07/2026

Just finished vol 3 of Monster! 👀 I have vol 4 on deck👏🏾.

A physical copy of Monster by Naoki Urasawa vol 3. The cover is a brownish burgundy with framed images of people(who are characters from the story or represent characters).

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 02/07/2026

Just finished vol 3 of Monster! 👀 I have vol 4 on deck👏🏾.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 28/06/2026

Just started The Fake Ghost by Nuzo Onoh! #BlackBookSky This follows a powerful American leader who is reborn as a Black child somewhere in Africa. He soon will meet a medicine man who helps him free his trapped soul. 👀

My hand holding a paperback copy of The Fake Ghost by Nuzo Onoh. The cover is a whispy illustration of a Black man in a suit, holding out a wooden mask, behind him on the left are white wings, the right side is a skull.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 22/05/2026

Up next is How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley. #BookSky

My hand holding my Kobo in front of a bookshelf. Displayed on the screen is the cover of How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley. The cover shows a hand grasping what I'm assuming is a gas can?...a jug of some sort of nefarious green liquid lol.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 22/05/2026

Just got Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris! This is for a book club next month. So excited to read this! #BlackBookSky

My hand holding up a hardcover copy of Positive Obsession. The cover has a portrait of Octavia E. Butler with a light orange background.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 20/05/2026

The first sentence had me intrigued: "In an old wardrobe a djinn sits weeping."

My hand holding up a hardback copy of The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan. It's a library copy so it has the glossy cover. The cover has a woman dressed in a red and gold sari, the background is a smokey blue.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 15/05/2026

Read this graphic novel on my lunch break! Very good! Nimmi goes to Sri Lanka for the first time to meet her mother who runs an orphanage for Tamil children. Their reconnection plus Nimmi seeing effects of war first hand creates an informative and touching read. #BookSky #GraphicNovel

My hand holding up a copy of Tall Water by SJ Sindu and Dion MBD. Cover art has Nimmi in a black tank top and green shorts. Standing on a beach looking over her shoulder toward the water.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 09/05/2026

I've been reading The Helm of Midnight by Marina Lostetter and I'm really enjoying this! It's like a crime mystery inside of a fantasy world. There's magic, world lore, gods, monsters, a serial killer, and a copy cat killer?? 👀 #BookSky

My hand holding a paperback copy of The Helm of Midnight by Marina Lostetter. The cover is all black with a figure dressed in full armor with a helmet that has 4 curved horns. They hold a sword facing down in front of them. Title and authors name is in blood red lettering.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 02/05/2026

I wanted to make this little shelf a display of all the short story collections that we have. However I did not realize how many we have 🤣, there are some that are not on this shelf. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

A shelf with these books on them(from left to right):
'Irish Wonders' by D. R. McAnally, Jr.
'Friday Black' by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
'Love in Color' by Bolu Babalola
'No Edges' (editor not listed, it is 'seventh in the Calico Series)
'Seattle Noir' edited by Curt Colbert
'Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination' by Edogawa Rampo translated by James B. Harris
'Midnight & Indigo' edited by Ianna A. Small
'The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018' edited by N.K. Jemisin
'We Will Rise Again' edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malla Older
'Into the Forest' edited by Lindy Ryan
'New Suns' vol 1&2 edited by Nisi Shawl
'Ghostroots' by Pemi Aguda
'Never Whistle at Night' edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr
'Trouble the Waters' edited by Sheree Renèe Thomas
'Sorghum and Spear' edited bySheree Renèe Thomas
'The Whishing Pool' by Tananarive Due
'Haboo' by Vi Hilbert
'Drinking From Graveyard Wells' by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
'Dominion' edited by Zelda Knight & Elpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
'The Dark-Thirty' by Patrica C. McKissack
'African Ghost Short Stories'

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 29/04/2026

I thought of this and then when searching the cover realized it's steamed buns on the cover not sushi haha. Was the book you saw maybe this?

Book cover for The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu. Steamed buns are in 3 bamboo steamers, the third one the buns are instead planets.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 26/04/2026

Indie Bookstore Day was so so much fun!! Here's our haul! @enkipnw.tv and I went to stores we had never been to before and that was the best ☺️. Everyone was so nice and excited for the day. #IndependentBookstoreDay #BlackBookSky #BookSky

A picture of 6 books I took on the floor. From top left: Persephone Station by Stina Leicht, All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu, The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu, Sabzi: Vibrant Vegetarian Recipes by Yasmin Khan, and Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 22/04/2026

Just finished You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado! I really liked this! Also loved the authors note 👏🏾. If this isn't on your tbr it should be! #BlackBookSky #BookSky

My hand holding up my Kobo that has the cover of You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 21/04/2026

Rewatching season 1 of Frieren and I crying at lil baby Fern! 😭🥹

Lil Fern from Frieren places a teacup and saucer in front of Frieren.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 19/04/2026

I finished Country Place by Ann Petry and oh my lanta this was mess and drama allll the way through!! 👀 I kept taking pauses to run to my husband and give him an update at what wild thing happened/was revealed. And the narrator?? Oh he can catch these hands 👊🏾. #BlackBookSky

An image of the book cover for Country Place by Ann Petry. A silhouette of a woman in a dress is on the right side, all text is on the left. Her dress is more of an outline of a dress, it has cherries and ruffles. She's also wearing a big sunhat.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 10/04/2026

This sends me into a rage everytime.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 08/04/2026

I'm really in a 'I just wanna start every book mood' lol 😂. My hold for Audition by Katie Kitamura just came through. #BookSky #MoodReader

My hand holding up my K*ndle that is displaying the cover of Audition by Katie Kitamura. Stickers on the cover say "Booker Prize 2025 Shortlisted", "Women's Prize Longlisted - fiction 2026”, and "The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist".

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 03/04/2026

I absolutely love embossing my books 💖🥰 #BlackBookSky #BookSky

A golden circular sticker with points on a book page, the stamp from the embosser reads "From The Library Of Emmarae Empowered"

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 30/03/2026

I started The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell yesterday. I'm only a few pages in but I'm really enjoying this snarky Raven! Also just wanted to point out that this hardcover copy has the softest book pages I've ever felt lol 😂 Every time I pick it up I go "oh wow so soft" #BookSky

My hand holding up a cover of The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell. The cover has beautiful formline artwork which shows ravens, salmon, and canoes. The main colors are red, while, light blue, and black.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 27/03/2026

Catch me in the corner at any function with a book 😂👏🏾 this was at SeaBattle. 🐙

Me sitting against a brick wall. I'm clapping for some reason lol don't remember why. A book is in my lap, specifically The Last Dreamwalker by Rita Woods.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 22/03/2026

Bulbasaur in her bonnet, well rested and unbothered 💁🏾‍♀️. We'll be like this while I play Pokopia haha.

A sleeping Bulbasaur plush with my bonnet on lol. It covers the bulb. The bonnet is tan, orange, yellow, and dark brown. With symbols on it.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 22/03/2026

Bulbasaur in her bonnet, well rested and unbothered 💁🏾‍♀️. We'll be like this while I play Pokopia haha.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 21/03/2026

Starting Stealing Thunder by Alina Boyden this morning for the #TransRightsReadathon! #BookSky

My hand holding a paperback copy of Stealing Thunder by Alina Boyden in front of a packed bookshelf.
The book cover shows a woman standing in an arch way, sun is glowing all around her.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 20/03/2026

Anytime I see the author of Project of Hail Mary I remember that post he made where he said he likes to dress his wife up in different outfits using AI 💀.

Screenshot from a video of a post by Andy Weir that says "Again, I got bored and had AI make images of my wife in strange outfits and time periods. This is my wife as a prehistoric cave woman. She really..." Text cuts off there. Image has been cropped out cause nobody wanna see that mess.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 19/03/2026

Lol I got it on a mug 🤣👏🏾 iconic bookish moment.

A small white mug that has the text "I have personally explained the process to you, Debra."

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 17/03/2026

I feel like I blinked and my locs got so long. 😊 I love my them so much. Can't wait till my shoulder heals so I can do some fun styles with this length! 👏🏾

Mirror selfie of me, my locs are now past my boobs lol.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 15/03/2026

I finished this today while watching @enkipnw.tv play Pokopia! We are an OBSESSED with Pokopia household lol🤣 just taking turns playing it for hours. The Summer Hikaru Died, this is soooo mysterious! I need vol 2 immediately 👀 what is going on?? What is in those woods?? #BookSky

My hand holding up a copy of the manga The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokurrn. A glass that has the image of Squirtle is behind it, as well as my laptop which displays my husband's Twitch stream.

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 14/03/2026

Please take a look at how cute my new pen case is! ☺️💖

A pen case that looks like a Gameboy, it's purple, the screen is pink with a darker pink heart with text that reads "GAME START"

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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 14/03/2026

Reading When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen this morning. I'm side eyeing some of these characters already 👀. Cause wtf you mean you're having your wedding on a plantation and invited your few Black friends?? 🚩Hell no. #BlackBookSky

My Kindle on a colorful striped blanket, partially resting on a notebook. The book cover of When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen is displayed on the Kindle. A pen is also on the notebook.

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