Joanna Rakoff @joannarakoff.bsky.social · 22/01/2025You are going to love, even as it shreds your heart. 000
Joanna Rakoff @joannarakoff.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Yeh, I originally wrote four times this much, then stripped it down to its essence; there is so, so much more to say on this subject!! 010
Joanna Rakoff @joannarakoff.bsky.social · 22/01/2025More relevant and urgent every single day over these next four years. Oy. 010
Reposted by Joanna RakoffDeborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Birthright citizenship is on the lips and minds of many, given yesterday’s “executive order.” Recommend Martha Jones’s book to those seeking to inform themselves about the context of this concept. 853585753
Reposted by Joanna RakoffCarmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The purpose of yesterday was to frighten us to submitting in advance. I have my freedom of speech and I will use it here and everywhere else I exist online to make my voice heard. No oligarch, no president will silence me. So, be prepared for more Latinx books just as soon as my mourning ends, okay? 274194721868
Reposted by Joanna RakoffSaimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 22/01/2025Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books 1269336061890
Joanna Rakoff @joannarakoff.bsky.social · 22/01/2025My latest column for @janeratcliffe.bsky.social on why some books become huge and others mysteriously do not, and includes a list of favorites that deserve a much wider audience, from @joannahershon.bsky.social & @laurensandler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/janeratc...open.substack.comThe Best Books You've Never ReadWhy do some books become huge? And others fade away? 241
Reposted by Joanna RakoffThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Homeboy stopped the wrong lady (H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social ) 20596240813612
Joanna Rakoff @joannarakoff.bsky.social · 11/12/2024If you’re still figuring out holiday gifts, you might find my first ever gift guide helpful? Or fun? Or both? open.substack.com/pub/janeratc...open.substack.comA Gift Guide for the Perfectionist GiverSome things I love that might make great gifts for people you love 000
Joanna Rakoff @joannarakoff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Really all that is keeping me sane right now: My giant poodle. 170
Reposted by Joanna RakoffVivian 🌊☀️ @vivian1212.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Libraries need to reclassify 1984 from fiction to nonfiction. 465165751663
Reposted by Joanna RakoffThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15/11/2024What I would quite like please is for somebody to write the rest of my book for me. Not in a ghost-writing cheaty way, just in a physically lifting my fingers onto the keyboard and slapping me every time I think about wandering into the kitchen. Applicants welcome. 72416564491
Joanna Rakoff @joannarakoff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The best. Or as my kids would say: So satisfying. 040
Reposted by Joanna Rakoff🌞 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐢𝐳𝐚 @academicaries.bsky.social · 15/11/2024If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use. 970433395205
