Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I’m reading For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts and it’s so healing! I relate to so many of her experiences. This is a book I needed when I was in college. I’m glad it exists now. 021
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Currently reading the Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and it’s so good! The audiobook being 30 hours long almost stopped me from picking it up, but once I started, I was invested in the characters. Amazing writing! 020
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 23/04/2025My next picture book Picking Limu with Tūtū was announced today! It’s publishing with Viking in summer 2027 and illustrated by Sarah Gonzales 0113
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 23/03/2025If anyone’s looking for Pacific Islander book recs for the #transrightsreadathon I suggest Sascha Stronach’s books, The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge. It’s marketed as Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun. 0195
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Spring break means beach for the kids and a book for me 2100
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Journalists make great non-fiction authors. I just finished The Viral Underclass by Steven w. Thrasher and it was an amazing look at how the viruses like HIV and covid disproportionally affected marginalized groups of people, causing a viral underclass 291
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Picked up these three books at the library on Friday and finished them all by today. They were all sooo good! 080
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I had a great reading month! I learned so much and enjoyed reading all of these books 1200
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Shared on IG. Thought I’d share here too. My review of the book, My Walk to Equality: Essays, Stories, and Poetry by Papua New Guinean Women edited by Rashmii Amoah Bell 010
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I finished this book, Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin, last week and it was so amazing!! I highly recommend for people who are looking for hope. It‘s basically about how we have to first expand our imagination of a better society in order to create it. Favorite quotes in the thread below 241
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Just finished reading James by Percival Everett. This is a reimagining of the book, adventures of Huck Finn. The main character is Jim. It tells of his escape from being enslaved. Such a great book! The author is an amazing writer! 160
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Planted pikake. Crossing my fingers that it does well in this part of the yard 150
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025currently re-reading indigo by beverly jenkins. my favorite historical romance novel 040
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025my favorite romance novella: love by numbers by lani young 040
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025currently reading the great displacement: climate change and the next american migration by jake bittle. it’s so good! it tells the stories of people who had to move because of climate catastrophes. it also gives an overview of the man-made issues that exacerbated things 163
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 12/02/2025More lei content. Made a 4 strand ti leaf for my aunty. Wish I had time to add roses 080
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 09/02/2025this show is soooo good! finished season 1 last night. can’t wait to watch season 2. it’s about a Palestinian man living in Houston 1111
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I’ve been in my lei era lately and i made a hilo style banana leaf lei (from the leaves on the ground) the rosettes are made from the bark. 0120
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Dusting off my net galley account. Let’s gooooo 130
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Made a ti leaf rose bouquet with my daughter. It turned out so cute. The base is a banana stump 2180
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 02/02/2025My favorite YA book of all time is Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney and I need more people to read it. And honestly, all her books are great. She’s an auto-read author for me. 1142
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 02/02/2025As someone who loves reading the r/BestofRedditorUpdates, I feel like this book was made for me. It was basically a very well written AITA update and it was so great! 080
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Made my nephew a ti leaf lei while finishing up the audiobook for Hammajang Luck. The whole book was great and I especially loved the ending! 1153
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 27/01/2025My reviews for Aloha Everything, Clairboyance, and Dragonfruit. 120
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Congratulations to the Asian Pacific American Award Winners and Honorees! The picture lists the Pacific Islander recipients. And, thank you to the Pasifika librarians for making this happen! 1136
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 27/01/2025My late night read: The Giver by Lois Lowry. Started it this afternoon and will finish it soon. I can see why it’s a classic. It’s so good! 270
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I recently finished the Last Mapmaker, a middle grade high seas adventure, and I loved it! Definitely recommend 1103
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025What books do you consider to be Pacific Islander classics? 284
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025It’s here!!! Hamajang Luck is now on Libby (at least for Hawaii library patrons) can’t wait to read 1160
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 19/01/2025In honor of Booktok, what is a book you found because of Booktok that ended up being a 5⭐️ read? One of my top reads last year was A Love Song for Ricki Wilde! So many booktok people were raving about it. It has gorgeous prose and is a tragically beautiful love story. 191
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Started a new book: Church Girl by Naima Simone. I always return to romance books when I need a comfort read 360
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Everyone was right about the poppy war. Amazing book! The characterization and the world building is everything! I’m at 28% and I just started this morning. I’ll probably finish it within a day or two depending on how busy my regular life is. 240
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 08/01/2025just finished reading the good enough job: reclaiming life from work by simone stolzoff and it was really good! I love narrative non-fiction. 140
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 06/01/2025It feels like Law was the only stylist to consider the backdrops because that color pops with both the floral backdrop and the green one 010
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 03/01/2025My last book of 2024: Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz My first book of 2025: Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young Loved both books! 042
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 29/12/2024We found the snow! It was my kids first time in snow and they had so much fun. 130
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I just realized I never talked about my book on here. So, I’m an author. I wrote a picture book called Tala Learns to Siva. It’s my love to letter to Samoan women who ensure our cultural traditions live on even when we move away from the motherland. 23522
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 21/12/2024My Libby hold on Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly just became available and it’s so timely with all of the strikes going on right now. 000
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Currently reading: 🎧: Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang 📱: Between Friends and Lovers by Shirlene Obuobi I’m really enjoying both of these books! 210
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 14/12/2024why did no one tell me how addicting crocheting is? i started this granny square scarf and i’m already planning my next project. 180
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Just finished The Quiet Damage by Jesselyn Cook. It was really great insight to how the conspiracy theories of Q have damaged so many families. It’s narrative non-fiction and follows five families. Definitely recommend 031
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I finished my third crochet project! Another beanie. I really want to try earrings and eventually a blanket 060
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 09/12/2024My haymarket books came in!! A few of my friends and many Pacific Islanders poets I admire have pieces in We the Gathered Heat so I’m really excited to read it. 1100
Kealani Netane @kealaninetane.bsky.social · 08/12/2024My first crochet project! The ends are a little crooked, but it still looks so cute on my daughter. She loves it. Hopefully I can get good enough to make items I’ve envisioned in my head 150