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fanfictalkdotcom · 1 month

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Happy International Women's Day!

Looking for some stories that honor women? We have some book recommendations for you to diversify your shelves & broaden your perspectives. Don't see your favorite here? Drop the title or author name below, so we can add it to our endless TBR!

#international women's day #women's history month #diversify your bookshelves #diversify your reading #women writers #reading #book recommendations #books

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bookaddict24-7 · 2 years

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Mieko Kawakami﹒

Six Books Written By this Author:

Breasts & Eggs

Heaven

Ms. Ice Sandwich

All the Lovers in the Night

Chandelier

Marie’s Proof of Love

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Happy reading!

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twobyflor · 1 year

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What are you currently reading, and how do you feel about it?

I couldn't decide which book club to focus on, so I joined them all.

#Am Reading #Booklr #Diversify Your Bookshelf #Diversify Your Bookshelves #Filipino American History Month #LGBTQ characters #LGBTQ fiction #own voices #Representation Matters #Fighting From a Distance #All My Rage #Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School #Kindred #Octavia Butler

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black-is-beautiful18 · 2 years

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In all honesty…white readers suck. Readers control a lot. Us spreading the word about our favorite books or authors helps a lot. That’s how authors and books win awards and get on best sellers lists. Y’all do not give that energy to nonwhite authors though. You going “Well I don’t have to” and “They don’t make interesting books” or any variations of those two when you’re told to diversify your bookshelves is not only racist, but a bold faced lie. There are amazing stories being told by BIPOC authors in every genre but all cuz you “can’t relate” you absolutely refuse to buy their books or give them a chance. And before anyone gets offended, of course it isn’t all white readers. However, it is too many of y’all. That’s exactly why y’all are reacting to Leah being casted as Annabeth the way you are. You’re racist. No amount of “Well she’s not blonde” or “she doesn’t have grey eyes” is ever going to explain why you think that little girl isn’t good enough. It’s all just veiled racism. Excuses. Very bad and horribly disguised excuses. You do the same thing with BIPOC authors. You sit there and complain, email authors your horrible and ignorant comparisons, and are absolutely disrespectful to the cultures and people these stories surround. I mean it’s not surprising since a lot of you do it in real life as well.

#white readers #white people #black authors #latine authors #indigenous authors #native authors #asian authors #representation in books #i said what i said #unique writes

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triviareads · 8 months

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Things I Learnt at Nisha Sharma and Xio Axelrod's book event:

Xio started her writing career writing Buffy fix-it fanfiction AND as a tumblrina

Nisha does, in fact, believe Moghul Express has the best Indian food in Jersey (which… LIES, the correct answer is Bombay Talk) and she's found a way to incorporate it in every one of her romance novels

They spent a solid 5 minutes hyping Sierra Simone (as they should) and apparently, Sierra has a lipstick case shaped like a dildo (God bless her)

Xio also has a band and writes music, which is amazing (one of her newer series is about a girl group)

Nisha started her romance career as a Nancy Drew/Frank Hardy shipper (because fuck Ned)

Nisha is also a childhood friends-to-lovers skeptic

Katee Robert uses Barbie dolls to recreate sex poses for her sex scenes and this is semi-standard practice in the industry apparently

Also, everyone please check out the #23for23 challenge here: https://www.23for23.net/

It's all about putting your money where your mouth is when it comes to reading and supporting BIPOC authors who are writing BIPOC characters and even if you can't read 23 more books this year, I urge everyone to think harder about the diversity of the authors and content you are consuming and consciously try to diversify your bookshelves. I've technically met the challenge this year already, but I'd like to be more intentional about seeking out diversity in my romances.

#romance novels #nisha sharma #xio axelrod #23for23

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the-orangeauthor · 1 year

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The City of Brass Book Review

Overall rating : 5/5

My friend begged me to read this book (the whole trilogy in fact) and I was not disappointed and I completely understand her hype!!

Set centuries ago and spanning the plains of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, this story was beautifully written. The story is based loosely on some Islamic mythology regarding djinn, and I have to say it was so lovely and refreshing to see Islam used in a story without the story being about rebelling against the religion in any way.

That aside, the diversity amongst the character descriptions was amazing, and with the other world building aspects built up beautiful communities based on different cultures across the continents.

The story follows Nahri, a young woman with healing powers who stumbles upon a daeva who insists she’s descendent of a tribe of long lost healers from Daevabad where all the djinn live and he takes her there to restore her ancestors legacy.

Whilst there aren’t many other women featured heavily in the main cast, Nahri is in no way a Mary Sue and uses her rough upbringing to navigate the new world she is forced into and I absolutely love her for her persistence. There are also other characters I love dearly but I don’t want to post spoilers (unless you’ve read it and want to come discuss it with me!!!) but I really really recommend this book to everyone, especially for those of you trying to diversify your bookshelves! It’s got a pretty good pace despite its length and the unexpected plot twists along the way are addictive, please add it to your mile long tbr!!!

#anmol reviews books #the city of brass #the daevabad trilogy #books recommendations

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bookgeekdom · 1 year

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ingloriousgigi · 1 year

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Black LGBTQ+ Romance Authors Exist

It's Black history month, and if you would look at certain pages you would only think that the only people that exist are Black cishet authors and books.

As Black LGBTQ+ people, we are often accused of choosing our LGBTQ+ identities over our Blackness. When in truth we are not really welcomed within either camp. We have to look after ourselves because there is almost zero solidarity from either the overwhelming white LGBTQ+ romance book spaces and Black book spaces.

Our contributions to both communities are often erased and when we are there we are afterthoughts. This is why I decided to feature Black LGBTQ+ authors this month. I wanted to put the most vulnerable of us front and center.

Black LGBTQ+ romance authors exist and a lot of us are making Blackish content silently with the acknowledgment or the accolades your white faves get almost effortlessly in this community.

When we call to diversify your bookshelves, the Black book community is not exempt from that. Read Black books outside of your own personal existence. And non-Black LGBTQ+ folks, I urge to read Black stories within the community.

Black queer, trans, and intersex people are here and we ain't going anywhere.

#booklr #diverse books #black history month #black romance #mmromance #sapphicromance #hot topics

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thelabryslibrary · 2 years

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The Labrys Library Book Club

Hello! We are The Labrys Library! A queer literature podcast where we discuss and review books with queer representation. So if you are looking to diversify your bookshelves you should join our book club! Next week our book is The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and the week after is The Fractured Fables duology by Alix E Harrow. So if you would like to read along and hear our thoughts join us on 8/13 and 8/20 at The Labrys Library on Spotify!

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seylaaurora · 7 months

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Every once in a while I see one of those "diversify your bookshelves" lists and it sets me off cause it's always just African-American and Asian-American and Slavic-American authors and never African and Asian and Slavic authors

#seyla talks #there's more nuance to this of course

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characters-at-the-library · 9 months

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I saw your poll about what people do with books they don't like or DNF and I'd like to run my situation by you in case you (or someone else from bookblr) can help. My friend Alice is the kind of person that impulsively buys books, whether it's because of a pretty cover, online buzz o an interesting blurb (no shade to people that pick their books like that, this system is simply not working for my friend). However, Alice is also the kind of person that loves returning books. When she doesn't like a book (either after finishing it or DNFing it), she decides it's "not worthy of her bookshelves", and tries to get rid of it ASAP. Her go-to method is to return them if it's possible. The occasional return would be fine, but it's the norm with her. I recently started keeping a secret spreadsheet, and the numbers are harrowing. This year she's bought (that I was able to track) 12 books. Out of those 12, she returned 8, sold 2 to a second hand bookshop, and kept the remaining 2. Sometimes she can buy a book in the morning before school and then have a change of heart over the day and return it during the evening before going home. To top it all off, she buys most of her books in an indie bookshop, which makes her return streak more assholish than if she were doing it to Barnes and Nobles. She visits that bookshop at least once a week. The clerks definitely know her. We've had conversations about the topic a couple times, and Alice is aware that she returns a lot of books. Whenever Alice brings up the topic we suggest that instead of buying and returning so many books she could do a bit of research at home and buy them the next time, or get them from the library, or we could lend them to her since often someone in our friendgroup, class, or bookclub has them. We've also suggested that she could diversify her purchases and buy from other places besides that indie bookshop, since her return streak is not doing them any favors, but while she acknowledges her problem and our suggestions, she dismisses them instantly and goes back to business as usual. My personal opinion aside that making an habit of returning every book you buy that you don't like is rude, I'm also aware that her habit is a source of conflict in her family. Her parents are both bookworms, so they share a love for books, but also think she should buy less books and save up for some of her future projects that could use that money. Alice herself is aware of the money thing. Sometimes, on our way to school, or in the groupchat, she'll say that she should buy less books, and that next time we're in a bookshop we shouldn't let her buy any, but then 30 mins later we can be in a bookshop and she'll buy one if not two books, and I feel so powerless and like such a bad friend whenever that happens, because if I bring up that just half an hour ago she said we shouldn't let her buy any books, Alice always replies that well yeah but obviously this book must be an exception because it's by an author she loves, or it has such a pretty cover, or it looks sooo good (and less that a week later she'll be returning it). Once skipped bowling plans citing she needed to save money and then spent 25 pounds in books the very next day and another 25 pounds in books the next week. I want to help my friend, but I don't know what to do. Her mental health is not the best (well, neither is mine, but this is not about that), so I don't want to breach the subject unless she does first to avoid burdening her with what I think of her habit (not that talking it out when she brings it up has ever helped), but I do believe that she has an impulsive buying problem that is not only hurting her and her family but also an innocent bookshop. I want to help my friend, but I don't know how. This is an very complex situation to dump on someone and you didn't sign up for this so I'm sorry for this ask, but I've been bottling this for years and your poll made it surface. I'm going to hit send before I regret it, but don't feel bad if you decide to ignore this ask? If you've read this far, thank you.

Thank you for sending this and trusting me with your situation. I agree that it is a problem, constantly returning books, a couple I could understand, there could be content that is disturbing and she doesn’t want to keep it around, I’ve stopped mid book because of that, but it was a library book on Libby, so I just returned it right away. However, she has formed a habit of this, and seems to be dependent on being able to return books, making her more impulsive, thus, losing money.

As a librarian, my first instinct is to always encourage people to use their local library, which you have encouraged her to do. Possibly, next time y’all talk about going to your local bookstore, you go to the library instead. Then, if she finishes a book and really likes it, she can buy it without worrying about returning it later. From the way you are talking about school, I’m guessing you’re in high school, or were ’re at the time, and most libraries, at least all the ones in my system, have private teen rooms where y’all can hang out and enjoy the YA books.

Also, depending on the size of the indie bookstore and how extroverted you are, you could possibly contact them, even over email if they have one, and express your concerns, because they probably have similar concerns from a business perspective. Recommend capping the amount of books patrons are allowed to return. Customers can only return x amount of books a month or a year. I’m not sure how hard it would be for them to track on their end, but if she is such a regular, it could at least dissuade her from mindlessly buying books from there, and screwing over the store.

If anyone else has recommendations or comments, please share

#ask #anonymous #librarian #bookblr #books and reading #book store #any advice appreciated

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bookaddict24-7 · 2 years

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Richard Wagamese﹒

Six Books Written By this Author:

Indian Horse

Ragged Company

Medicine Walk

Starlight

Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations

Keeper’n Me

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Happy reading!

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helenkerenza · 1 year

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musingsofmonica · 1 year

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62 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2023

read diversely & diversify your bookshelves

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zoemikel-stites · 3 years

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Diversity Year Around | Diversify Your Bookshelves

February was black history month, and as usual I saw some amazing black voices raised up, and black stories being told. I love to see it. But now that we are in March something very predictable will happen. We will – as a society – move past the elevation of black and non-white voices and on to the next group of the month, and that is just not good enough for me. Continue reading

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#Aiden Thomas #amreading #black authors #book blog #books #diverse reading #Diversify Your Bookshelves #diversity #KS Villoso #NK Jemisin #Nnedi Okorafor #queer authors #reader

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hauntedpearl · 3 years

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you know. I am so obsessed with silvia moreno-garcía as a writer. like. she's so incredible, my LORD

#currently reading velvet was the night and losing my entire shit over it #I've also read her Mexican Gothic and it is SO INSANE it gave me so many worms and the creepy crawlies #i started The Beautiful Ones a while ago but i never ended up finishing it bc i fell into a slump but even that book was like. batshit.#all her books are insanely unique! hee writing style is different!#her plots are ALL OVER THE PLACE #the genres are different #like she can write anything i believe this truly of her #the only other author I've seen do this so impressively is neil gaiman #and like i generally like moreno-garcía's prose and style better than gaiman'e #SHE IS SO CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED like more people should read her and talk about her books like HELLO???#anyway yes pick up velvet was the night by silvia moreno-garcía for making your reading life better #doe talks books #velvet was the night #favourite authors #silvia moreno garcia #booklr #diversify the bookshelves my dudes

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