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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One of the things I think this book does best is explore the waves and complexity of grief. Tessa Yang allows the magical elements of this book to shape the crevices of the her griefs and slowly push her towards community. Out from @berkleypub.bsky.social

The cover of The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang, which has a diver swimming towards pink jellyfish tentacles

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“I hover in the indexes, the footnotes” (from the poem “Theory”). A collection that asks reader to sit in the metacognition of why we exist & the stories we tell. 206 release from @tinhouse.bsky.social #booksky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816553...

Cover of The Near and Distant World by Bianca Stone. A mountain range is at the center with a shadowy figure walking alongside the peak. Illustrated fire tops the mountain

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Only a few days left to pre-order But Where’s Home: A Novella and Stories by Toni Ann Johnson. It’s deeply affecting with family trauma, agency and the complexity of healing. @kentuckypress.bsky.social #booksky #BlackHistoryMonth

The cover of But Where’s Home by Toni Ann Johnson, which has a painting of a black woman’s head and hands.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There’s a little here for everyone: spiritual practice and meditation, literary analysis, reflection for healing, and re-tooled lessons in political engagement. New from North Atlantic Books. #booksky #newbooks

The book The Fire Inside: the Dahrma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde held in front of a bus with tiny purple flowers. The book cover is free with photos of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin in front of a lotus flower.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I was enchanted and grieving and wondering. I was lost and planted again. Grateful for this work and the challenge of it. Out from Soft Skull press. #poetry #booksky

A copy of The World After the Rain by Canisia Lubrin. The cover is several shades of blue, with a rain pattern.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Winding, sometimes stream of consciousness type poetry. Phrases bump along uneven roads, sputter like a weary engine. Fagin’s poems ask you to trust the process, and know that we are shortcutting our way to an important place. Then, a revelation so bright you have to squint appears. #booksky

Cover of Self Driving by Betty Fagin. A white, oblong spiral is pictured, on top on a background of layered abstract colors.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Absolutely in love in with new collection, out tomorrow from @tinhouse.bsky.social . Hardly Creatures is a collection that focuses on disability, community, and so much more. The book is modeled to read like a walk through an accessible museum.

The book Hardly Creatures by Rob Colgate is picked in front of a bush of white and pink flowers. The cover has a broken statue of a face, with a red salamander crawling across it.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A stunning book of poetry steeped in Black culture references. #Booksky #Blackbooksky

a hand holds up a copy of What Had Happened Was by Theri Pickens against a plant with dark pink flowers. The cover is various shades of pink, with a brown, ink-blot like repeating pattern of women whispering to each other.

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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Know a women who writes horror? Repost this! Currently open for submissions!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Support small presses, especially ones that publish short fiction! Check out my friend’s novella, Marisolandia from @wtawpress.bsky.social !

The book Marisolandia is held in front of a cactus. The book cover has a barren landscape and blue sky, with a stone statue in the bottom right corner

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

‘90s kid bookish nostalgia in the local thrift. #booksky #90s #animorphs

A series of Animorphs books on a wooden shelf

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

In the poem “On Belonging,” Patrycja Humienik asks, “where do we go to find the myths that made us?” A beautiful #poetry collection releasing this week from @tinhouse.bsky.social

a hand holds up a book in front of a large cactus. The book, We Contain Landscapes, has black title text and a blue, white and purple swirling design on the cover.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Looking for cozy game recommendations for Nintendo switch. Loved Spritifarer and Wylde Flowers. Didn’t quite get into Cozy Grove. #cozygames

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This memoir is full of grief, but also with hope. Using an innovate structure, Nguyen tells the dual stories of how her experience of sexual assault led her into activism and the healing of her childhood trauma. #SavingFive #AmandaNguyen #Booksky #memoir

The book Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen is propped up against a large black telescope. The book cover has a portrait of the author, a Vietnamese woman with long black hair wearing a pink sweater. There is a shadow effect behind her and stars overlaid on her hair.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Fundamentally is a book that surprised me. At first, I had a hard time sitting alongside the narrator, Nadia, whose brash and often offensive humor seemed like a defense mechanism that the reader didn’t have insight to. As I got more used to her & her naivety, layers of character were revealed.

The book Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis is pictured on a blue footstool. The book has a blue background and white title text with three spliced images of a pink feminine face. The bottom image of the face is blowing a bubble with gum.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This book is holds you in its heartache and examines how folks move through/in/around grief. Grief of losing family members, of having few options, even the grief of surviving. #booksky

the book Waiting for A Long Night Moon. The cover is purple with stars in the background and two overlapping images of the moon, one orange and one purple at the center.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Needing some easing of mind, some breathing? See Kaira Jewel Lingo’s We Were Made For These Times.

A photo of the book We Were Made For These Times. The cover is black with white title text and has rainbow comets or asteroids across the cover.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#ReadBlackPoetry forthcoming from Tiana Clark is a stunning collection, Scorched Earth! Clark lets us sit in the body as she faces pain while also being determined to celebrate aliveness. Out March 4th! #Booksky #BlackBooksky

In the background, a black and white image shows a barren landscape. In the bottom right corner is a woman with curly hair looking up to the right. A faded thought bubble begins from her head into the sky above her. Inside the thought bubble is the cover of Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark, which has pink title text and an art piece by Kara Walker that features a desolate landscape, people on horseback and floating images of a head and hands

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

What’s your response to this question from #RandomHouse?

This is a graphic from random house. The background is green with tan text that reads “1. The book that sets you on the path to a life built by and around reading. 2. The book you can’t ever recover from, that you never stop thinking about, and that makes you desperate to reach that frightening depth of experience with other books.” At the bottom of the graphic is the book Bibliophobia by Sarah Chiyara, which has a green cover and overlapping text of the title at the top.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Printz winner. Wonderful read about a mixed Guatemalan girl who reconnects with her father over a summer of renovation. Important discussion of gentrification and cultural solidarity.

The cover of Brownstone is pictured, a graphic novel by Samuel Teer and Mar Julia. On the cover, between two gray apartment buildings is a brownstone building. A girl wearing a yellow sweater leans on the roof and looks towards the sky.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Just finished Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong and it put me in my feels. #booksky

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Literary fiction friends, don’t miss out on Call Her Freedom by Tara Dorabji! It holds heartbreak alongside moments of hope and defiance, imbuing a depth & complexity to each character. Tenderness, in spite of personal and global grief, struck me as I read. Thank you @simonandschuster.bsky.social !

A hand holds up a book in front of a yellow, blue and purple wall art piece. The book has white title text with a purple background. The cover has an illustration of a woman looking to the left. At her shoulders is the silhouette of two mountains.

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Chel | Ink Drinker 📚 @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The next starter pack will be for #booksky peeps with #disabilities I, an able bodied person, can't qualify a disability. SO If you label yourself as disabled and are comfy with being public about it, lemme know. Must also have NOT voted for 🍊, and do NOT support problematic authors to be added

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Tell me about your current read in 3 emojis. Mine is: ✍️ 💀 🤖 (Guesses?) #booksky #currentlyreading

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thank you to @groveatlantic.bsky.social ! I’m a huge fan of Convienence Store by Sayaka Murata, so I’m sure VANISHING WORLD is going to be amazing! This promo made me chuckle—I know I’m in for some surprises with this book! #booksky #translatedlit

The book Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata is pictured. The cover is blue with yellow text and a picture of a plastic disc filled with tiny plastic babies. Next to the book is a plastic disk with two plastic babies.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hooray! It’s here!! Thank you @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social for starting this starter park for lit fic/non fic/ historical fic folks!!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

As a litfic girl, I appreciate how many new book friends I have who are experts in diverse sci-fi, fantasy and other genres. The recommendations are stacking up 👏🏼 #booksky

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Long review of upcoming release FIRSTBORN GIRLS by Bernice McFadden up on my Substack. Preview: I deeply connected to it! Maybe even healed some childhood wounds. open.substack.com/pub/jamielmo... Thank you @duttonbooks.bsky.social #booksky #blackbooksky #memoir

The cover of Firstborn Girls by Bernice McFadden. The cover is a beige-pink with orange lettering this is a line drawing of a woman’s face with collaged photos as her hair.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

From artist HelloMyNameIsWednesday. Here’s their Patreon link: www.patreon.com/hellomynamei...

The image is a set of doodles on a yellow background. The center is a cloud around the phrase “here are some thing that you can do as a community member to resist individualism and the destruction of community solidarity.” Arrows branch out from the cloud with the following phrases: volunteer, community fridges, create free sanitary product and clothing pick up points, get to know your neighbors, radical community art exhibitions, community gardening, music and poetry, radical theatre, making zines together, create radical book clubs, mutual aid, stitch and birch, and a group to share ideas.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Boosting this again with new book friends in the feed!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Looking for folks for a #booksky starter pack collab with @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social for BIPOC/Queer/Disabled readers of non-fiction and Literary fiction. Let us know if that’s you!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Intro post! Hi, I’m Jamie, life-long book nerd, recent PhD grad and teacher. I love sharing my reading life, esp. Black contemporary fiction and other diverse books. Love recommending, esp. to other teachers! Known by the same name on IG. More to come!

A women with curly black hair and orange glasses
Holds up a book titled The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The book has an illustration on the cover of a bird between branches of a berry bush. On the back cover is the quote “all flourishing is mutual” and an illustration of hands holding berries.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Two books I never forgot: The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis and Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Grateful to return to Morrison’s work with more life experience, with more understanding than frustration with the character’s choices. With tenderness and tiredness. Do you have a favorite Morrison title you’ve re-read? #booksky

A hand holds up the book Jazz by Toni Morrison against a green bush with red berries. The book is purple with the title in golden lettering across the center

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Booksky newbies starter park! Thank you to @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social : go.bsky.app/rDUDBA

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Finishing up Jazz by Toni Morrison and even though I’m grown, parts of this book have me going “this is grown folks business,” like I’m a pre-teen ear-hustling. #booksky #tonimorrison

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’m in a graphic novel moment. Suggestions? Recent faves: Squire, Brooms, Feeding Ghosts. #booksky

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“It’s gonna take too many tomorrows to get through/ yesterday. I pray for time to deal with now. no, I pray/ to Time.” —from Danez Smith poem “relativity” in BLUFF

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I just want book community that’s not on meta! Currently reading Imani Perry’s newest, Black in Blues. It’s so good.

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