A Little Bookling Child

I really like to read and learn as much as I can | Slytherin 🐍

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[thighetician]

The second girl at least read the book to confirm that it was shit, she even had Capote on deck as backup. Chick 1 is just lazy

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

Nope. Girl 2 saw that Girl 1′s absolutely accurate analysis was being shut down just because it wasn’t stated in an intellectual way (in spite of its validity). So Girl 2 reinforced Girl 1′s opinions in solidarity and made sure that it was absolutely clear that Girl 1 was factually correct. WITHOUT taking credit for her observations (”kim is right” instead of “Actually, kim”)  

Girls supporting Girls. 

Girls not letting other girls be treated poorly.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

If you read thirty pages of a book and hate it, that’s a good analysis. Girl 1 literally said, “It sucked for these reasons, and I only got through 30 pages.” She was absolutely paying attention and trying to get it. But if all you get is a headache, fuck that book.

[mckitterick]

I love this exchange

[krxs100]

Milwaukee Police Have Been Caught Sex Trafficking Children By Neighborhood And Nobodies Talking About it

HERES WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

Originally 2 girls went missing in the neighborhood and after many attempts at trying to get police to help, which they refused to do, the community took it upon themselves which is how they landed on the sex trafficking house

“Before we came out here, there were nine kids missing, after we came out here four kids were returned,” said community organizer Frank Nitty, narrating a live video on Facebook from the scene around 7:00 p.m. But the number of kids returned might only be two, as Morales later reported one of the teenage girls wasn’t found and Nitty said another child ran away. 

This was all Live Streamed on Facebook

multiple fires being set by unidentified individuals (most likely to get rid of evidence) and gas and non-lethal force being used by the police department. 

Demetrius, the steamer who filmed the cops sneaking children out the back of the house is targeted by police for reprisals. They just pulling him over and are arresting him for nebulous reasons and are impounding his car.  An angry crowd is gathering.

Cops tear gassed and shot at crowed with rubber bullets 

People who went inside the cops’ child kidnapping/rape house say they found a room with a bed and floor covered in blood 

As for the house?  Well the house not only burned Tuesday night but also has a lengthy history of visits from the Milwaukee Police Department. According to its dispatch log, officers have visited the home at least 27 times in the past four years. The house was burned last night by a crowd after members of the group charged that criminals were using the home and others nearby for sex trafficking.

Cops parked their van near the house and quickly rescued the SEX TRAFFICKERS by putting tarps over their faces to hide their identities and get them safely away from angry crowed. 

WATCH LIVE STREAM HERE  or HERE

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#WAKEUP

[seal-of-unknown]

me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please

a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself

[superheroesincolor]

Open City: A Novel  (2012)

A haunting novel about identity, dislocation, and history, Teju Cole’s Open City is a profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our country and our world.

Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius wanders, reflecting on his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. He encounters people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey—which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.

by Teju Cole (Author)

Get it here

Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975 and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City,which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the New York City Book Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His photography has been exhibited in India and the United States. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

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[bixbiboom]

Matt doesn’t want us picking fights on his behalf. That ain’t what he’s about.

[lonelywoodland]

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger. 1953

[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

Science fiction and fantasy isn’t just a white people thing! I’ve talked about some of these books before, but here’s a new slide show entirely for SFF authors of color. Also, I was only doing one book per author. Lots of these authors have multiple books. And like it says at the end, there’s even more SFF books by authors of color but fitting everything in one post would be an impossible task.

Also, could you please not rec white authors on this post? Even if they’ve written a book starring a person of color. I want this post to be focused around the work of authors of color. 

Links to more info about the books beneath the cut. 

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[imbookenit]

This was so good! I can’t explain how much this book spoke to me. It made me think of my own depression, all my mixed and Persian friends and it had Bahaí representation which I have never read in a book before! 5/5📚

[cremedelacoeur]

going into second hand bookstores and seeing the worn out paperback you’ve been trying to find for months and finding an odd bookmark inside the musty pages feels like divine providence

[universitybookstore]

One we all need to read. From Viking and Stanford Professor Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do.

[imbookenit]

JOMP January 3rd: Currently Reading

Everyone should read Biased and that’s that.

[imbookenit]

Litsy review by @Imbookenit

Review by @Imbookenit on Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

[valtsv]

character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*

me:

[icantwritegood]

character in a fight scene: *pins their opponent down by straddling their waist and holding their wrists to the floor*

me:

[ladylike-foxes]

character in a fight scene: *lifting their disarmed opponent’s chin slightly with the business end of their weapon*

me:

[g3ncyho3]

character in fight scene: *pins down the opponent and leans in close to whisper in their ear*

me:

[breyito]

character in fight scene: *restrains the opponent by twisting their arm/s behind their back and pinning them to the wall chest first with their own chest pressing against the opponents back*

me:

[abandoned-as-mustard]

Character: *distracts their otherwise equally good/better opponent by flirting*

Me:

[bmarvels]

Character in fighting scene: *restrains opponents arms in a lock hold with their own, entangling their arms together forcing their bodies to be pressed together and faces in close proximity*

[lime-on-my-side]

character in fight scene: *holds opponent by the collar, lifts them and brings them close to their face*

me:

[miqojak]

Every time this crosses my dash it gets better.

[lady-dedlock]

Jane and Elizabeth by Bethany Stancliffe

[whilereadingandwalking]

My goal this year was to be productive without focusing on goals. And well…that sort of worked. I set my goal at 200 books because it seemed so impossible, only I read 203 books this year—62,542 pages including the seven books I didn’t finish…

Some stats: 

I read an average of 16.92 books a month, and about 171 pages a day. It took me an average of 2.5 days to read a book. 14% of the books I read were for Booklist.

72% of the books I read were by women authors; 3% by nonbinary or otherwise non-gender-confirming authors. 31% were written by authors of color. 16% by queer authors.

31% of the books I read were fantasy, 13% sci fi, and 9% surrealism or magical realism, with those genre distinctions getting fuzzy at times.

54% of the books I read were novels, 10% were short stories, and 19% were graphic novels (which I credit to my Saga marathon). And thanks to my nonfiction marathon in August, nearly 19% of my year’s reading was nonfiction.

I read 57% backlist, 47% books published in 2019, and 6% books published in 2020. 4% were rereads.

38% of the books I read this year were review copies; 35% were purchased this year or previously; 20% were gifts, old and new; and 7% were Book of the Month, giveaways, or borrowed.

To use the reading log I use, check out this link.

[norloth]

Something for the first chapter, An Unexpected Party.

[imbookenit]

First read of the year!