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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I understand that literature-as-inspiration is lucrative, but a James Baldwin as spirit guru, a Baldwin whose mission is to equally uplift anyone and everyone — a Baldwin who never challenges you — is not really Baldwin at all any more. (And this distortion goes well beyond this one project.)

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Can the James Baldwin Typebot Tell Us the Meaning of Life?

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 06/07/2025

Giveaway of all the items pictured are live on my Instagram now! If you don't win this, no worries, there will be more to come. You can enter until July 11th. Good luck! www.instagram.com/readbygaia

1 Tote Bag
Kiss Me Maybe by @gabbywritesalot
An ARC of Heartsick by @kristinaforest_
The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by @clarenceahaynes
1 personal library kit
1 pen from @tinyrepbooks
1 Books Are Forever sticker

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 18/06/2025

BOOKCON IS BACK April 2026 Javits Center, NYC 💙📚

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 17/06/2025

💙📚 Exciting news coming tomorrow!

Unreliable narrator tote bag
Fight evil read books tote bag
2 polaroid photos

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Manny Voices @itsdrlittle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"When there was controversy about ‘Renaissance’ and “Break My Soul” being in the dance categories and ultimately winning, they immediately created a Best Dance Pop Recording category the very next year,” the executive explained. Mmmhmm.👁🔁

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 29/04/2025

💙📚 Shattered by Hanif Kureishi Thank you @eccobooks.bsky.social for the free copy! Hanif Kureishi is an acclaimed author & playwright, but this memoir was my first experience with his writing.

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 04/04/2025

📚💙 Here are all my Q1 favorites! I am obsessed with all of these books. I still need to put up full length reviews for most of these, but I'll highlight some in this thread.

Q1 2025 Favorites
The City of Brass
the Kingdom of Copper
The Empire of Gold
The Fire Next Time
Coming Home
A Psalm for the Wild Built
One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This
The Amen Corner
Sunrise of the Reaping
Rise of The Red Blade
Mrs Wiggins
Pachinko

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 03/04/2025

📚💙 I really need time to slow down a bit. I just did a wrap up, and here I am doing another one for March. I read 7 books that month and had an average rating of 4.4 stars. I own all of the books except for two, so I’m making good progress on my physical TBR.

7 books read
2157 pages
79 hours
4.4 average rating
Shortest book - I who have never known men
Longest book - the fury of the gods

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 02/04/2025

Now streaming! Let’s talk about this Nintendo Switch 2 Direct…. twitch.tv/heyjiikae

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Nouria ✨ @nouriareads.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Forgot to share my posts for BHM here but if you’re looking for YA or Adult books by Black authors releasing this year, here are some recs!! 📚💙 #Booksky 📚🌶️ #BlackBooksky #QueerBooksky

A purple background with four book covers and short summaries of upcoming YA releases by Black authors.

Solo Stan by Talia Tucker, a YA Romance with
Bi rep in which two concertgoers spend an
unforgettable night together after their show is abruptly cancelled.

If We Were A Movie by Zakia N. Jamal, a YA Romance with Sapphic rep in which a high school student has to work with her academic rival to save their town's beloved Black-owned movie theatre.

The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum, a YA Romantic thriller with Achillean rep in which a teen unknowingly makes a deal at a crossroads and gets possessed.

Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi, a YA Fantasy in which a young girl goes looking for her missing twin in a magical forest.

A purple background with four book covers and short summaries of upcoming Adult releases by Black authors.

Just Our Luck by Denise Williams, an Adult Romance in which after going viral because of a misconstrued romantic grand gesture, Sybil and Kieran decide to fake date to help Kieran's donut shop.

Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory, an Adult Romance with Sapphic rep which follows the developing relationship between 30-year-old, newly single Avery and resident heartbreaker
Taylor who offers her flirting lessons.

No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel, an Adult Romance which follows the PR relationship between a pop star in the middle of divorcing her producer, and a pro baseball player with a bad boy reputation.

Our Vicious Oaths by N.E. Davenport an Adult Dark Romantasy with an enemies-to-lovers romance in which two Black Fae rival courts make an alliance to take down a despot.

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Alise @shereadytoread.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Day 2 of #transrightsreadathon: I finished Across a Field of Starlight! Trying to finish Fierce Femmes tonight! #booksky #diversebooksky #blackbooksky

Trans Rights Readathon TBR
March 21st - March 31st

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

To help with your sanity, maybe step away from the news (and social media) to enjoy this Black Romance series. Follow this thread for my reviews, if you think you'll be interested! #Booksky #BlackBooksky #StressRelief

THE GREENE SISTERS SERIES; @BOOKISH_AFROLATINA. The books by Kristina Forest float over pink-tinted bookshelves: The Partner Plot [left], The Love Lyric [right], The Neighbor Favor [center].

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 20/03/2025

📚🪐 We found that boy Twee-lek and Twy-lek are acceptable pronunciations, depending on what size of Ryloth you're on #booksky 💙📚

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Disabled Content Creators Collective (DC3) @thedc3.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This month, for #WomensHistoryMonth, the DC3 is celebrating the wonderful women of our team! We'll be posting individual graphics under this post, but for now, you can find most of the women on our team featured on our website here: thedc3.carrd.co#WomensHistory

thedc3.carrd.co

The Disabled Content Creators Collective

The DC3 Stream Team Homepage!

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Ms.B @yourfavauntie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I have not been able to build a #booktalk community on IG nor TT. If you are on either follow me. I want to share longer book reviews. IG: booksntea_withmsb TikTok: rhomanticblue #blackbooksky #booksky #booktok 📚🎧

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 27/02/2025

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 26/02/2025

I got to be in this video with some of the coolest bookish creators! Please give it a watch! 📚💙 #blackbooksky

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Laura 🤎 @bronxgirlreading.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Here are some to support and follow!! #blackbooksky #blkbookccd go.bsky.app/CW4em8e

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 23/02/2025

I got a surprise in the mail! Thanks to Dey Rey/ Random House for this box of goodies! Reign of the Empire is book one in a trilogy about the first years of the Galactic Empire. It is told from the points of view of Mon Mothma, Saw Gerrera and Bail Organa. The book releases on February 25th! 💙📚

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 03/02/2025

Here's my January reading wrapup! I had an average rating of 4.3 ⭐ I did a lot of immersive reading (audio plus physical) and it helped a lot with retention. I spent $73 for the month on 3 books and saved $127 by using the library and receiving gifted books from publishers. 📚💙 #blackbooksky

8 books read
2939 pages
113 hours
4.3 average rating

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 02/02/2025

📚💙 Happy Black History month y'all! These are the books I hope to read this month. This is a large amount for me, so I may not get to all of them but I'm gonna try! What are you reading? #blackbooksky #bhm #physicaltbr

A stack of books!
Invisible Man
all about love
Ultra85
James
Decoded
The heaven and earth grocery store
The love songs of w.e.b. DuBois
A love song for Ricki Wilde
A mercy
Coming home

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 11/01/2025

Here's my 2024 reading stats (part 1)! Main goal for 2025 is to read more of my owned books 📚💙 #booksky #blackbooksky

Shortest book - outdoor Farm, indoor farm
Longest book - the will of the many

Shortest audio - mutual aid
Longest audio - the Reformatory

First book - this is how you lose the time war
Last book - witch hat Atelier Vol 8

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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 18/12/2024

Hi @jay.bsky.team, @aaron.bsky.team—so after choosing to placate and appease the transphobe and going silent to your community here all you got is… …checks notes… …an article by him about how Bluesky is terrible. You’re really good at this.

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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 18/12/2024

Reminder: Replying to a replyguy is what they want (they don’t get attention from anyone in their sad lives) and is just going to make you angrier. Blocking a replyguy is an investment that pays dividends: you’ll read less of their tripe in the future and you get less angry.

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 29/11/2024

I will be tired until January

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act iii loading… @yallqunt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

And I just wanna thank Megan Thee Stallion for throwing the FIRST boulder at that DL Canadian’s stoning 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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K ✨ @heykristin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Libro is having a Shop Small sale 😵‍💫 …I have 11 books in my cart but at least they are under $10 #Blackbooksky 📚💙

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She who refuses to be tired. @androidhooligan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It's all fun and games til all of your library holds are ready at the same time 😐 #BlackBookSky 🌎📚

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 23/11/2024

Repost with your 5 favorite reads from this year: The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin The Paper Managerie - Ken Liu Lost Stars - Claudia Grey The Will Of The Many - James Islington When No One Is Watching - Alyssa Cole 💙📚

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 22/11/2024

If you're Black and Bookish, I love you already. Let's be friends 🥰 #BlackBookSky

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Eric Sisco @ericsisco.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A great bundle by @ursulakleguin.bsky.social The Earthsea books are worth it on their own but I would advise writers not to sleep on this bundle either. In this bundle are two great books on writing, 'Steering the Craft,' and 'The Language of the Night.'

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 22/11/2024

Between gaming and music I'm barely making any progress in this book 😭 💙📚

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Clarabelle (normal type) 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · 20/11/2024

THREE new #booksky feeds for the nerds. 🫡 1️⃣ - SciFi/Fantasy/SpecFic - use 🪐📚 to post to feed 2️⃣ - Smut/Erotica/🌶️ - use 🌶️📚 to post to feed Add a 💙 at the end of either of those emoji combos to post to the main 📚💙 feed as well. 3️⃣ - Booksky Trending 🔥 - same feed, sorted by popularity Enjoy! 🫶🏻

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salem || free 🍉🇨🇩🇸🇾🇱🇧🇸🇩 @softemo69.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

i'm in the @thedc3.bsky.social !! if you are interested in finding more disabled content creators! go.bsky.app/CeW2Ro8

go.bsky.app

♡ ⇢ the DC3

Join the conversation

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 18/11/2024

My review of The Will of The Many by James Islington is over on IG 5 stars! #booksky www.instagram.com/p/DChaC_3Rr4...

The Will of The Many is a large dark blue hardcover book with crumbling columns depicted on the front

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Sasha’s Space 🌷🩷 @sashasspace.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It’s time for your bookworm sim to cozy up and analyze a book to get 32 unique moodlets! Analyze book mod is in collaboration with the talented @bookwormsims.bsky.social 📚📚✨✨💕💕 Download on patreon for free 🍁

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Tj @cheaper2beepher.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Ppl keep saying that this app needs things from other apps and I think that’s unfair. This app doesn’t need to copy what’s already been done. If you want those features there are places that have them

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Sweet N Lo. @thelogolo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I know we want engagement but some of yall are 🤏🏾 from getting pulled to the front of the congregation with these thread questions. It’s getting too close to security questions and at this point yall gone slip in and ask for the last four of somebody’s SSN

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a man is standing in front of a window with his eyes closed and says `` my eyes are on you '' .

Alt: a man is standing in front of a window with his eyes closed and says `` my eyes are on you '' .

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Gaia @readbygaia.com · 17/11/2024

This book is excellent and one of my 5 star reads from this year 💙📚 #booksky #blackbooksky

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid:

“Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s.

Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Keep blocking, but remember that this is a public site. They can just log out and find your posts. This isn't a cozy group chat. Behave accordingly.

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Lee | The Girl with The Nails 💅🏾 @bookishlee.com · 16/11/2024

I love a memoir!! (I wish Target would put those ignorant stickers on the back or something) #BlackBookSky

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Diverse Spines @diversespines.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Our mission is to help you Discover Your Next Diverse Read! Diverse Spines® highlights books by Black Women and Women of Color. We are dedicated to amplifying marginalized stories that will help readers diversify their reading lists and discover new voices. #diversespines #booksky #blackbooksky

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🌞 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐢𝐳𝐚 @academicaries.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If 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.

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