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Time for my annual thread of (some) Black Books I wanna read this year
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@moniza_hossain
She's sitting there talking about what a support he's been and he's nowhere to be found in the video.
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Black Books Book Twitter isn't promoting but needs to add to their massive shelves: A thread
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@slim_nayaa
And be broke? For what? I dont have kids or a husband and I'm single. Im living rent free and paid! You can live that struggle life
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Black authors don't just need their books optioned. I want to see these movies and tv series actually being filmed and released.
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I need this love conquers all narrative to die.
Sofia said, "Why I fell in love with the movie is that it’s a love story but it’s so much more than that. It’s two hearts, one red, one blue, two worlds apart, who are really raised to hate each other."
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Can Netflix adapt some Black romance books? I'll take YA or Adult. Since they stay handing out deals
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Sometimes I think about how so many Black books from the 90s and 00s are out of print and people talk like they never existed. All that knowledge of Black fiction and it'd history is getting lost.
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I've read a lot of books this year that were traditionally published and could’ve used another round of edits to sort out the plot and pacing. Why is nothing really happening until halfway through the book becoming the norm?
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When are we going to see Black contemporary romance books adapted to film?
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If a Black author writes a book with a Black Girl mc surrounded by white people and passes over all those racist white folks to throw the only Black boy under the bus I'll be removing them from future reading lists and making sure my friends do too.
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You ever read a popular book and side eye the fuck out your mutuals after?
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Time for another massive Black Book Thread. Books on my radar, current reads, upcoming reads, favorite reads, etc to satisfy a range of need
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If my book had a show on Hulu you wouldn't catch me on here tryna put down indie authors but that's just me.
This you? Come chat to me when your books are available in stores
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The biggest hurdle when it comes to Black kids and not being able to swim has nothing to do with getting their hair wet and everything to do with lack of accessibility to pools in their neighborhoods.
Black Parents, in honor of The Little Mermaid coming out, let your babies get swimming lessons, get in the pool, and get their hair wet. Research good protective hairstyles and how to care for their hair after the pool, but let them swim and emulate their new Disney Princess❤️
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People don't give
@authorMsBev
enough props. She crawled so alot of authors could walk. She had Black historical teen romance in the early 2000s and those covers served!
#WorldBookDay
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Time for another massive thread about all the Black Books I'm hype for
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I'll say it cuz watching this whole thing has been upsetting. There's not reason for
@SourcebooksFire
to continuously keep pushing Bethany Baptiste book back. And not only is it bad enough it was pushed back again by why would you put it on May 7th?
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@ItsLaDarrion
That! And I'm not about to waste word count in my stories tryna convince them otherwise
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People say they want more Black Fantasy books but I don't see enough people talking about the ones that aren't heavily marketed by big 5 publishers. Instead of rushing to read Fourth Wing rush to read that Black Fantasy that came out last week.
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Sometimes I think about how a writer's workshop ran by a big publisher to help Black women writers suggested we read Fourth Wing to learn how to write fantasy or romance. Didn't/Couldn't rec us a Black woman author writing fantasy romance because they aren't investing in any.
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I don't wanna see an inclusive regency drama about a biracial woman who was accepted into white high society because she's biracial. I wanna see an all Black Harlem Renaissance filled with glamour and the arts.
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Why does racism constantly have to be in damn every children and YA book lately? There's a lot of Black kids who grow up in Black communities and don't have to deal with white micro and macro aggressions on a day to day. Where are their stories?
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This kinda nonsense annoys me. Cuz like why did this white woman get a print arc when she's clearly not the target audience for this book? And some high schoolers cussing made you DNF?
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@srmilesauthor
And that's one of Howard's biggest problems. They do all this for show but have students living in housing where exposed pipes are bursting.
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I hate that fantasy romance has been renamed romantasy.
What is your fantasy book hot take? 👀
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"This book is such a diverse book!" is not a review nor a compliment.
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Is a book actually dark academia if the characters never go to class?
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BHM may be over but you can still discover Black History all year long. For me historical fiction has been a great way to approach and engage with Black History without feeling overwhelmed. So here's some I've read or their on my radar
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@msolurin
He never atoned though. So that would've been another lie. Did you miss all his mug shots? He gets a new one damn near every year!
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A reminder to read Black authors beyond just the ones you see on every big book list. Don't wait for their books to be put in your face. Seek them out directly!
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Stop begging for YA books ft 20 somethings and read adult books
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It's crazy how people will rush to read a book with a Black mc written by a white woman before reading one by a Black woman.
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Can publishing hype some more books by Black authors that don't feature white people? Books that don't deal with explaining racism, fighting racism or have a white love interest. Getting to the point where I'm getting more exposure to whiteness via books than anything else.
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It's been awhile but here's a thread of some of the Black books I wanna read this year!
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If Romancelandia would put half this energy into supporting books with BIPOC couples.....
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@moniza_hossain
I see people giving excuses of him getting emotional. Then he should be sitting there being emotional instead of her sitting there being emotional by herself.
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People will buy a white author's entire blacklist without reading based off hype but take 2-3 years to read a book by Black author they've heard good things about.
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I see people simplifying how the library works again. My library just bought a book I requested back in 2020. Some libraries don't have the funding to do that. Love my local library and it's a great resource but it's not the one stop solution to end piracy.
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I'm tired of people yelling "Let people enjoy things" any time you critique their favorite book. Let people discuss and analyze books and form their own opinions.
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@dollmin4j
@fruddy_
I have a roof you can sit on but mine ain't low to the ground like that one so my afraid of heights ass never went our there
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Them: There's no Black [Insert Type Here] that's not YA
Me: But did you look though?🤨
Them: 🦗
In honor of
#NationalBookLoversDay
here's a thread of books you might be looking for but haven't heard of yet
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TIRED of these folks! What books are they reading? Because I just finished a Black romance about 2nd chance romance between 2 chef's forced to work together on an event for a movie screening. No Black struggle there!
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I need publishers to stop advertising romance as enemies to lovers just because they have a quick miscommunication when they first meet that gets cleared up in a day. They weren't ever enemies!
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There's really people going "Yeah I know that woman is a supremacist but Imma still watch the movie based on her book" Where is the line for some of y'all?
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Every book is not a book you need to sit with
Over consumption and hustle culture got y’all thinking that reading 200 books in one year is better than reading 3-5 books slowly and sitting with the information or the story
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Since we still talking about Black mermaids once again I'm recommending Mermaid Kenzie. It's written in AAVE. And it had a recent price drop!
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Children's, Middle Grade, and Young Adult are not genres they are age categories
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@hausofriya
@axmedamiinmax
Her mom was raised by white folks and barely id with Black folks herself
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Let's not report reviews just because it wasn't a 5 star and gave details as to why it didn't work for them.
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Stop using romance tropes to market your fantasy book and instead tell me about the characters and plot
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@AFlyBlackCommie
What black queen? Lisa is a whole half white woman who identifies more with her white side
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Spain tryna rebrand from colonization.
people were tweeting shit like “that’s what england deserves for being colonisers” last night…. in a game against spain btw….
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@j_nerdy_
That's amazing! PBS Kids just continues to put out amazing programming and Mychal is the perfect fit!
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Someone needs to build a site to rival Goodreads where we can review books that also has the social/community aspects with a better layout. I can't do The Storygraph since the owner made it clear it's not gonna be a space to make reader friends.
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@BOYfromBK
@amourkam__
@jurassicpatek
You have to consent to a sex tape being released by Vivid. That shit wasn't leaked. She put it out. How many times do people have to explain that to y'all?
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I see people already spreading confusion with Juneteenth. It's ain't a POC holiday or even an all Black people across the world holiday.
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I see an author is doing a Beyonce ticket giveaway to get more book sales. You have to buy the paperback version of her book and upload a video with a positive review on IG to enter.
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Some of this community's fave "diverse" books are just just fave white books with a twist
we're cancelling each other over book takes today. post your cancellable book take
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Sorry but if I wrote a fictional story and white people were going around talking about how my book taught them about racism I would be upset.
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It's so weird to see authors suddenly using steamy to describe scenes in YA lately when steamy is very commonly used to describe sex scenes in romance and erotica. I need them to find another adjective.
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New book coming from Elizabeth Acevedo! And it's adult! I can already tell it's gonna put me through it!
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When Blood at the Root is the same day? There are so few Black Fantasy books published each year and now you're putting this one in direct competition with one of the most anticipated YA releases of the year. I've been lucky enough to read both early and I'm rooting for both.
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More authors should get an honest friend(a friend who will not sugarcoat) to read their book and give feedback. No one is gonna have a universally loved book. I see enough meltdowns on here alone about the idea of a book having mixed reviews or less than 5 star reviews.
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Adult SFF doesn't have to be lengthy just for the sake of being lengthy. No reason for 5 chapters in a row of a character just walking around.
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I remember when this author and her agent were attacking readers on Goodreads back in the day for calling it mediocre though
To all the former 13-year-olds who held my books until they fell apart, I have never stopped loving you.
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@yagirltoomuch
Tyra had folks doing Blackface, chopping their hair off, doing sexy shoots with overt racists
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A lot of kidlit authors need to realize adults are not their target audience.
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Still don't know the names of these alleged traumatic Black romances these people are talking about.
There’s a TikTok by a Black woman talking about why she likes reading white romance because she wants escapism and doesn’t want to read about Black trauma and I am tired, tired, tired. The number of Black women agreeing with her in the comments is depressing.
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@byleahjohnson
It's not just Hawaii. They're visiting the Caribbean too. And I see some folks running back to visit their fam and I understand but at the same time sacrifices have to be made. I'm not running to visit my fam with cases rising
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It's interesting watching this Zora Neale Hurston discourse because there's such a stigma against urban fiction, books written in any kind of Black dialect, Black books that don't follow traditional story structure, etc
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@RdotSpoon
@pynk_pineapple
Tiny Pretty Things was something new but they fucked up the moment they decided the Black girl had to be from the hood with messed up family and then proceeded to make her a side character to the actual side characters.
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People: It's only September
Me:🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨❄❄❄❄❄❄☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁
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Been thinking about it for awhile and I'd love to make a list of Black Romances set in every US state. Anyone wanna help by dropping names and locations of some of their faves? And by Black I mean BLACK. No white LIs.
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I'm not begging white writers to write diverse characters. I'm just not reading their books period.
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A teen finds out her new boyfriend is the spawn of Satan in this light-hearted fantasy read.
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Now he knows he wrote this script for a white woman and switched it up once Zendaya got on board. Cuz ain't no way he looked at all those dark skinned unambiguously Black women in tennis and then penned his script.
#Challengers
writer Justin Kuritzkes on penning the script: “It just kind of felt ridiculous to create a love triangle set in the tennis world with three American players and not have one of them be a Black woman. Because that is the story of American women’s tennis, if you look
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@mjgchick
@hausofriya
I'm not making excuses for her. I agree actually. And her parents failed her because it's a reflection of how they see black folks
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Folks be like, "Where's Ours" but don't want to support their narratives. You want to see more Latinx in different roles then promote those stories. Just two of the books I read this year by Latinx authors.
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Wait a minute now! Did I just read a romance that went against the grain and didn't have a last act breakup to reunite in the final chapter?
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@IfIWereMagneto
@The_Majestic
They figured Laura Jean begin a Eurasian chick going between two white boys wasn't the diversity they were trying to sell
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But like why didn't y'all classic book lovers tell me that Stuart Little was not adopted in the book? Like Mrs. Little actually gave birth to a mouse and the fam was just okay? If I saw a mouse crawl out of me during childbirth I'd pass away!
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It's people saying they want Black historicals set in UK because they associate the US with racism 🤡
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Racists are so fragile that book had them mad and it didn't say nothing authors haven't been saying for decades in better written books
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@AriTheOracle
Chloe has great stage presence and vocals it's her solo song choices people can't stand
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White authors who write these fantasies where that apply the real life struggles of Black people to white characters are very intentional.
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