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Y’all, these deep edits to the manuscript require 🫀🫁🧠 & a refueling of rest, little treats, & pleasure reading. Shout out to every writer inventing possibilities for imaginations to recover, stretch, shed, & spore💚🦎🪸🍄! TY! Yes YOU!
#writingcommunity #authorsky #wip #diversebooksky
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A majestic fluffy black cat with closed eyes rests comfortably in a well lit living room.

🐈‍⬛😻This supreme 🖤 A majestic fluffy black cat with closed eyes rests comfortably in a well lit living room. #catpics #blackcats

Survival Is a Promise A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and fac...

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i’m slow reading @alexispauline.bsky.social Survival is a Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde & today i learned that young Audre was a fan of Ray Bradbury’s early sci-fi short stories & so was i & now, my child-self has met a new way to be read & it’s a gentle healing ❤️‍🩹💜 #💙📚 #blackbooksky

eating a lil snack & reading @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Trail of Lighting, which is, as we know, amazebalz 💯. for example, this precisely cruel color: “The sky is clear, a sacrilege of spotless brilliant blue…”pg.152. #booksky #diversebooksky #💙📚🪐

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Toni Cade Bambara’s final novel: Those Bones Are Not My Child, edited by Toni Morrison. Sepia tinted photo of fallen branches in a misty waterlogged clearing at dusk.

ok, here’s 20/20 of the #20bookchallenge with the cover. just gonna state that this entire book’s life has been with me all my days; toniCB💜toniMproductions iykyk
#💙📚🖋️ #blackbooksky #diversebooksky #tonicadebambaratonimorrison

Photo of my mass market paperback copy of THE LIVING BLOOD by TANANARIVE DUE; cover art is a person wearing a hoodie with their back in silhouette against a palm tree and hotel neon lit night.

19/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #20bookchallenge #blackbooksky #diversebooksky

VOYAGE of the SABLE VENUS and other poems by ROBIN COSTE LEWIS. Cover is black and white photograph, Window Shopping by Eudora Welty.

18/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #blackpoetry #blackbooksky #diversebooksky

Medium black dog curled up on teal couch with Charmaine Wilkerson’s new novel, Good Dirt, in hardback with abstract colorful cover.

Finally got my copy of #gooddirt and plan to stay out of the snow all Sunday to read, only braving the cold for quick walks with my canine companion. 💜💚💙Wilkerson’s writing and slow building character& story reveals! #booksky #blackbooksky #snowday

Well loved paperback copy of love conjure/blues by sharon bridgforth; blue background with white and blue lettering. Cover art by Daniel Alexander Jones is called “Conjurers” and is an illustration of seven melanin rich faces against orange background.

17/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #blackbooksky #20bookchallenge #diversebooksky

yes! i decided to let this stay off the shelf this year, so i can read it when needed and be reminded just how GREAT this novel is at all times 💜

My newish copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. The paperback with the maroon background and ivory title card with deep red lettering and flowers.

16/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #blackbooksky #20bookchallenge #diversebooksky

Black floofy cat sleeping on multicolored striped Mexican blanket.

Category is cozy and floofy and unbothered. #catpics #cats #blackcats

Photo of the paperback SING, UNBURIED, SING A Novel by Jesmyn Ward; deep orange with whitish painted lettering over a loosely rendered black bird with wings spread.

15/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #blackbooksky #20bookchallenge #diversebooksky

Photo of my warped and worn copy of Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film by Julie Dash with Toni Cade Bambara and Bell Hooks. Cover text is all white font, over a screen capture from Dash’s film of three Black Wxmxm, dressed in turn of the 20th century attire, looking past the viewer, their faces warmed by golden sun.

14/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. i’m definitely not gesturing wildly for y’all to get eyes on this book. def breaking rules cuz THIS is my most-most 💜 book. #20bookchallenge #blackbooksky #blackwomxnartists #booksky

Photo of The Complete Persepolis, the graphic novel by Marianne Satrapi. Black cover with turquoise accents; large profile illustration of a woman with her eyes closed and a dream bubble that holds a multi generational group of five people.

13/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #20bookchallenge #booksky #diversebooksky

example 0001 of when a writer’s white voice goes 👻: they mean to spell “Nah” but they write “Naw” and I have to stop to wonder if a character has a country accent…

Photo of paperback, Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange. Title in rainbow colors against an illustration of three Black girls wearing various skirts walking w/ their backs to the viewer along a tree shaded lush path.

12/20 of #20bookchallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed/influenced you. One book/day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text.
This one’s impossible. Might definitely do a Shange post another day. #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooksky

Photo of (US ed) hardback of Akwaeke Emezi’s DEAR SENTHURAN: A Black Spirit Memoir. Cover features artwork by Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, paint and graphite. Art: a sketch of a Black femme with a shoulder length braid looks out; a painted leopard in a blue jacket hovers over the top; a yellow wash of paint at the bottom shaped like a person’s hand.

11/20 of #20bookchallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text
#bookchallenge #booksky #diversebooksky #blackbooksky

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Reading Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower in real time. Yes, I’ve read it before; I know it. But reading it in real time pulls on my senses in new ways, makes new things shine. Today is chapter 4. Nothing to read between Jan6 and today. Octavia knew. #booksky #diversebooksky #octaviabutler

Photo of a book stack with the paperback copy of OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’s Parable of the Sower on top. Cover features a Black child’s notebook and hand as they write, with the notes in their lap.

10/20 of #20bookchallenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text.
#booksky #diversebooksky
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Ombré teal to coral hardback edition of T Kira Madden’s memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, with speckled shimmery bits. Author name in white, title in black, centered. Photo also shows a brown and white woven blanket with accidentally matching socks on a teal cushion.

9/20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #lgbtqbooks #diversebooksky #queermemoirs #apiabooks

Turquoise paperback with yellow and white title text. A trio of dolphins in deep blue are silhouetted in the center; UNDROWNED: BLACK FEMINIST LESSONS from MARINE MAMMALS by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

8/20: choose 20 books that stay/ influence you. 1 per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #diversebooksky #bookchallenge #books

Black cat sits on shelf with green box and multiple plants.

Santi the cat. Queen of everything. Patron of writers and fish eaters. Lover of those who read. Reader of all rooms. Quietly killing it. An unmatched stare. Thee Supreme. #catpics #blackcats #acab

Yabo by Alexis De Veaux. Paperback cover shows a sepia toned photographic/multi layered abstract image of a femme body with key and nail shapes. Cover art by Valerie Maynard (1995), “Get Me Another Heart This One’s Been Broken Many Times.”

7/20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text.
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#BookSky #Diversebooksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Off white paperback with indigo lettering and a drawing by Gibran of a hand/palm facing outward from a swirl of clouds.

Day 6 of 20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you and/or influenced you. 1book per day for 20days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers and alt text. #booksky #diversebooksky 📚💙