#bipocbooks

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Hi my loves✨I hope you’re all well! • If reading is for everyone, why don’t we see everyone?• We have three drop off locations available in New York and welcome any shipments you’re willing to send. No matter where you reside, if you want to participate in the book drive in any way, we can make it happen! Feel free to DM me or @colorclubnyc if you have any questions or concerns. . . . #bookdrive #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #literature #publishing #freebooks #donations #lgbtqbooks #bipocbooks #bipocbookstagram #lgbtqbookstagram #bookshelf #booksbooksbooks #booknerd #bookster #booknerdigans #books #bibliophile #bookdragon #thebookieclub #fantasy #novel #recommendations #yabooks #bookstagram #ya #bookster #blogger #readersofinstagram #bookreviwer #bookworm (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNvIMG5LFDm/?igshid=glex1mutk83l

[thereaderbee]

Q: What are some of your favorite BIPOC books? And/or, what are some BIPOC books that you really want to read?? . Wednesday has arrived, Bookworms… We are so much closer to the weekend and I am soooo ready for it. What about you?? . Do you have any BIPOC books on your TBR? Or any favorite books that you’d like to share?? I have ALL of the books pictured above on my TBR, and I absolutely can’t wait to read them! A few of these are new to my shelves, and a few I’ve had for a while now, and I am very excited to read them (and SO many more) now that I seem to be over my year-long reading slump. They all sound really great. 🥰 Have you read any of these books? What did you think of them?? . And here are just a few of my favorites: • A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown • We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faisal • Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi • The Iron Fey (series) by Julie Kagawa • The Pandava Quintet (series) by Roshani Chokshi • An Ember in the Ashes by Sanaa Tahoe • You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson • The Brown Sisters (series) by Talia Hibbert • The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang And so many more! Tell me some of your faves! . . . . 📚 BIPOC. #AlltheBooksMay21 📖 Morally Grey Character. #BooksCoasttoCoastMay21 📚 Big or Small Books. #TumblesOverBooks 📖 Candle Love. #CourtofReading 📚 Favorite. #OneSquareStory . . . #bipocbooks #bookshelf #yabooks #shelfie #bookcollection #bookcollector #bookhoarder #booknerd #totalbooknerd #currentlyreading #bookgram #bookphoto #bookstagrammer #bibliophile #booksbooksbooks #bookdragon #booksofinstagram #booksofig #instareads #igreads #bookobsessed #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #toberead #beautifulbooks . . . 📚 📖 📚 📖 📚 📖 📚 📖 📚 https://www.instagram.com/p/CPVYfVkpPyl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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💖🔪 Rot, Rage, and Glitter

We All Rot Eventually by Mia Ballard

📚 Finished Reading: We All Rot Eventually

📏 Length: 98 pages

💫 Vibe: Slasher core ambition, femme villainy, blood soaked hunger for fame

“Tomorrow, I tell myself. Tomorrow will change everything… It means people saying my name like it means something, saying it with reverence, like a secret they get to hold in their mouths.”

— Alexa Valentine

First, let's talk about Alexa. Fuckin. Valentine.👏🏾👏🏾

She’s sharp-tongued, bloodthirsty, and on the verge of exploding. From the first page, she’s already halfway feral. Hungry. Determined. The kind of girl who’s stared into the abyss and said, Make me famous, I don’t care the cost.

This was my first horror novella and I tore through it in one sitting. Just 98 pages of gore, glitter, and full throttle delusion. TikTok recommended it based on Camp Damascus, and honestly? A perfect match. But where Camp Damascus whispers its horror, this one screams. 😱😱

The best part? Alexa gave me serious Maxine Minx energy. 🧨

If you’ve seen X or MaXXXine, you already know what kind of obsession I’m talking about. That dangerous, unstoppable hunger for fame. That “I don’t care who I have to kill, I will be remembered forever” mindset. Both Alexa and Maxine are femme, fierce, and deep in their villain girl era; spinning in blood and rhinestones, and fucking daring you to look away.

“The thing told me to do it, and I listened because it was right. We all rot eventually. We all fall apart. Why should I feel bad about trading blood for glory?” 😈😏

Damnnnn. That line from this read lived rent free in my head for hours after finishing!

The horror in this novella is fast paced; it slashes, splatters, a rollercoaster ride with sharp turns, but so does the commentary. It’s about fame. Power. The desperation to be famous is front and center . Alexa’s spiraling monologues feel like a mirror held up to every girl who’s ever been underestimated, overlooked, or told to be quiet, especially as an Afro Latina. She doesn’t just want the spotlight. She wants to set the stage on fire and watch it burn to the ground.

“Fame is a fire, and I want to burn with it until there’s nothing left.”

Say less Alexa!

This book reads like a slasher where the final girl is also the monster, and you’re still rooting for her. It’s brutal. It’s glittery. It’s unhinged in the most fun way. And Alexa’s voice? Loud, clear, hella unforgettable. I could hear her laughing at the edge of every page.

“I am famous. Alexa Valentine will be famous after this.”

And honestly? I believe her. 😭

This book gave me:

🔪 Femme rage and fame hunger

💖 Unapologetic villain era

🩸 Glitter and gore, teeth and lipstick

🔥 Monologues that bite

📺 Fame as obsession, as prophecy

🧠 Psychological unraveling that hits hard

Final thoughts:

Short but deadly. Like a blood soaked manifesto for every girl who’s ever wanted to be remembered and didn’t care what it cost. Mia Ballard snapped. I’ll be reading everything she writes next.

[sistahscifi]

Okay, Savannah is excited.....like standing splits excited!!!!!! @isisasare landed in #Seattle late last night and is headed to Mixed Coffee and Community this morning to finish set up and stock the second Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine launching today in #MillCreek!!! See you there!!! Date: Fri, Feb 10 • 11:00 AM PST Location: 800 164th St SE Unit N, Mill Creek, WA 98012, Mill Creek, WA 98012 Registration link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sistah-scifi-book-vending-machine-launch-mixed-coffee-and-community-tickets-513291036307?aff=eand Reposted from @mixedcoffeeshop Welcoming tomorrow…. @sistahscifi’s first Book Vending Machine launch! This vending machine will have sci-fi and fantasy books for sale from Black and Indigenous authors! Be sure to come tomorrow from 11-2 for the launch party! Can’t make it? No stress this vending machine is here to stay!! 🤪👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #SistahSciFi #blackbooks #bipocbooks #blackgirlsreadtoo #millcreek #bipocmillcreek #millcreekevents #mixedXsistahscifi #mixedcoffeeandCOMMUNITY (at Mixed: Coffee and Community) https://www.instagram.com/p/CofHlcwLyYT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Join is today as we discuss #AfricaRisen!! 445PM to 5PM Pregame with @isisasare and @brisbookish!!! 5PM to 6PM @shereereneethomas, @authorzknight, and @penprince gives us the behind the scenes on editing Africa Risen! Reposted from @seahorsestories 🚀Book Tour and Review🚀 Thank you so much to @tordotcompub, @shereereneethomas, @penprice, and @authorzknight for providing the Weirdos and I from @b2weird with finished copies of Africa Risen! I'm so glad we could do a tour for this beautiful story collection. Africa Risen is a speculative fiction collection full of beautifully written stories by BIPOC authors! As with any short story collection, there were certain stories I enjoyed more than others, but I really loved this collection overall. There was only one author I was already familiar with going into Africa Risen, so this book introduced me to quite a few new-to-me writers that I will definitely be keeping an eye out for! Here are some VERY brief and honestly insufficient descriptions of a few of my favorite stories from Africa Risen: "March Magic" by WC Dunlap: A group of witches gather to conjure a dream into reality.  "IRL" by Steven Barnes: A virtual reality kingpin burns his digital empire to the ground to revenge an IRL attack on his family.  "Rear Mirror" by Nuzo Onoh: A group of priests face off against the spirit of a dead woman who does not want to be cremated.  "The Sugar Mill" by Tobias B. Buckell: A real estate agent tries to sell a former sugar mill but is haunted by the ghosts of those who died there.  "Ghost Ship" by Tananarive Due: A woman smuggling an illegal cat onto a ship finds that getting caught with the pet is the least of her worries during the voyage. This is only a few of the stories I loved! There were some I couldn't even begin to try describing in one sentence. Africa Risen is available now! Check out the hashtags #B2Weird and #B2WTours to see more Africa Risen posts from the tour! #AfricaRisen #shortstories #bipocbooks #bipocauthors #speculativefiction #scififantasy #scifibooks #bookstagram #SistahScifi (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmmAIYv4Hz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Vanguard! It's an afrofuturistic epic fantasy that takes place in the not so distant future, after a rogue AI knocks weapons technology back to the Dark Ages! When the president consigns all but the elite to mass incarceration, and forced labor! Chessed, an S.C.A loving ex-gang member, hefts his weapons, and declares war on corrupt cops, hate groups, and a hostile government! What follows is a thrilling dive into romance, magic, prophecy, and heart pounding action in a dystopian world that gives rise to a post apocalyptic Camelot born in the inner-city! #BookPost #representationmatters #blackpublishers #bipocbooks #yalit #readinglife #bookdragon #bookaholic #blackauthors #blackbooks #booksaremagic #blackreaders #africanamericanbooks #africanamericanlit #fantasy #fantasybooks #sffortheculture #afrofuturism #swordandsoul #dystopian #epicfantasy #blackfantasy #blackscifi (at Fairfield, Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKiTx8bgLAm/?igshid=157ikpn05m7hm

[mybookbath]

Did you read any books by BIPOC this month or recently that you would recommend? ✴️ I decided that with everything happening in the BLM movement and also because in Canada June is National Indigenous History Month, I wanted to dedicate this month to reading only books having to do with or written by people from these two diverse cultures. ✴️ I feel it is so important to educate ourselves on the lives, cultures and struggles of black and indigenous people. Educating myself like this makes me feel better informed, open-minded and non judgmental. I love that I can just pick up a book and learn something new about the unique lives of people from backgrounds that are different than my own. ✴️ Below are the books I read this month. I am about ½ way through Queenie so I wasn’t able to rate it yet. Let me know if you’ve read any of these. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 *Tar Baby 🌟🌟🌟🌟 *Homegoing *Passing *Sing, Unburied, Sing 🌟🌟🌟 *The Girl With The Louding Voice *Sula *The Nickel Boys (not pictured) *The Shoe Boy *Xeel’s, The Creator . . . . . . . #junewrapup #blmreadinglist #antiracistbookclub #bipoc #bipocbooks #bookishflatlay #readersgonnaread #bookrecommendations https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_b5QLnzFE/?igshid=1bd7tanl0yktx