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[aocnet]

Welcome to aocnet, your newest source for authors of colour in literature! We are opening our doors in an effort to place a light on books by authors of colour.

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[lilabard]

fave books read in 2017 - 8/10   warcross by marie lu

It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. But for those who have, not a single word is needed.

[reinasmoris-deactivated20230408]

A long time ago, Roma had told Juliette that her anger was like a cold diamond. It was something she could swallow smoothly, something to be placed upon other people, gliding along their skin in glitter and glamour before they realized far too late that the diamond had sliced them into pieces. He had admired her for it. Mostly because his own anger was the precise opposite—an uncontrollable wave of fire that knew no subtlety. — these violent delights by @chloegong

[patroxlus]

READ IN 2018: the hate u give, angie thomas

Listen! The Hate U—the letter U—Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody. T-H-U-G L-I-F-E. Meaning what society give us as youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out. Get it?

[daykevin]

@asianlitnet event 01: favorite book — girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan 

she makes me feel reappeared. reimagined. her touch shapes me, draws out the boldness that had been hiding in my core.

[evasjacks]

@dailyaoc​ event 04: meet the members  —  We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

“If I told you my name, would you bow?” His voice was soft. A melancholy caress. He lifted his chin when understanding dawned on her face. “Or would you flee?”

[parisakamali]

the poppy war, by r.f. kuang

when man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality.

dedicated to @ouyangs ♡

[parisakamali]

protect us, please. all of you. everyone. protect me, so i can protect her. help me see the danger before it strikes. help me resist their entrapments. give us the strength to hide and to fight.

happy birthday, mansi! ♡ (@selwynkane)

[haniishu]

@librarysource’s event I: favourite book romances

❝  I kiss her with everything I have. Like I’ll never kiss her again. Because this is real, we finally made it to this place, and it’s better than any fairy tale. Because I’m done letting people stop me. Because here, always, we deserve this good thing. ❞ 

[theghostwrites]

“Was everyone in this house a moth caught in a killing jar and then pinned against a board?”

[antoniosvivaldi]

@chaptersnet event iv: page↔︎screen

“This city is filthy and deep in the thrall of unending sin, so saturated with the kiss of decadence that the sky threatens to buckle and crush all those living vivaciously beneath it in punishment.”

These Violent Delights (duology) by @chloegong

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2021: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia

I pray I will see you again. You must come for me, Noemi. You have to save me.

[larrajeans-deactivated20210425]

top 50 characters of all time: 8 - lara jean song convey

music makes everything more romantic, doesn’t it? 

[sitpwgs]

books read in 2021 +  @storyseekers event 10 : written by a Black author — honey girl by morgan rogers

sometimes the things that are familiar to us and feel safe to us, remnants of our childhood and old lives, are locked away by someone who wants us to be different and look different and follow their rules. sometimes lonely creatures are not of their own making.

[parisakamali]

felix ever after, by kacen callender

some people say we shouldn’t need labels. that we’re trying to box ourselves in too much. but i don’t know. it feels good to me, to know i’m not alone. that someone else has felt the same way i’ve felt, experienced the same things i’ve experienced. it’s validating.

[catlaila]

I stand at that statue and claim the bodies whose names the world wants to forget. I claim those bodies whose names I was taught to forget. And I claim the unsung bloodlines that soak the ground beneath my feet, because I know, I just know, that if they could, they would claim me.

—  LEGENDBORN, TRACY DEONN.

[lanzhans]

@storyseekers event 16: color palette — hani and ishu’s guide to fake dating by adiba jaigirdar 

through gritted teeth she says, “take the picture now before my smile muscles collapse.”