Where my readers at? Is there a #booksky #blackbooksky? For the last 2 years I’ve had a goal to read 12 books a year and I’ve flopped both times (halfway through the year I just fall off) and I wanna do better next year. Since September I’ve read 6 books. I like black protagonists, recommend below 🫶🏾 - ThreadSky

residentchemist.bsky.social • 95 days ago

Where my readers at? Is there a #booksky #blackbooksky?
For the last 2 years I’ve had a goal to read 12 books a year and I’ve flopped both times (halfway through the year I just fall off) and I wanna do better next year. Since September I’ve read 6 books.
I like black protagonists, recommend below 🫶🏾

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dwriterlife.bsky.social•95 days ago

There’s a feed for both 🥰

audionmedia.bsky.social•95 days ago

How to find a feed???

dwriterlife.bsky.social•95 days ago

And the search function has them too

dwriterlife.bsky.social•95 days ago

Welcome to BookSky! 💙📚

1️⃣ save/pin the feed if you're enjoying it
2️⃣ repost to help us find more bibliophiles
3️⃣ use 💙📚 or 📚💙 to post to feed
4️⃣ more niche feeds on my profile (some are NSFW)

FAQ 👉🏻 https://bit.ly/bookskyFAQ

audionmedia.bsky.social•95 days ago

Thank you SO MUCH

dwriterlife.bsky.social•95 days ago

You’re welcome!

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

How do I save/pin please? Will deffo do so

dwriterlife.bsky.social•95 days ago

There’s also a ‘pin to home’ button at the top

dwriterlife.bsky.social•95 days ago

Once you search and find the feed there should be a plus sign next to it that allows you to save or pin

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

Thank you 🫶🏾

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

Just having a look in now I need more recommendations 🫶🏾

canavesegirl.bsky.social•95 days ago

If you like history, I recommend Truevine by Beth Macy. It's a true story of two albino African American brothers in the Jim Crow south, kidnapped and forced to perform in the circus and the mother's quest to find her sons.

beccabouchard.bsky.social•95 days ago

What was the last book you read and really enjoyed?
Recs:
The Roommate Risk- Talia Hibbert (romance)
The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D Jackson (YA thriller)
Black Buck - Mateo Askaripour (contemporary)
Chain-Gang All-Stars -
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (spec fic)
Raybearer-
Jordan Ifueko (YA fantasy)
♥️📚

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

Thank you! I just finished my name is Maame and I loved it 📚💙

audionmedia.bsky.social•95 days ago

Here!

dangerjane.bsky.social•95 days ago

I just finished a book titled Quarry Girls and I'm desperate to talk about it!

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

It says ‘thriller’, was it scary? I don’t like being scared lol

dangerjane.bsky.social•95 days ago

No! It was about secrets and how they harm you. No scares

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

Okay bet will add to the reading list thank you!
I have about 6 books out of my local library at the moment but they might have this

plf515.bsky.social•95 days ago

Any particular genre?

SF, mystery, biography, history....

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

Open to all genres honestly

mctina2010.bsky.social•95 days ago

Favorite reads from this year with Black protagonists: Such a Fun Age, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents.

discobooks.bsky.social•95 days ago

If you like fantasy:
The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
The Final Strife by Saara el-Arifi
The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark

imzjourney.bsky.social•95 days ago

I recommend Under the Udala Trees

lonelymiles.bsky.social•95 days ago

Sky Full of Elephants

thoopsy.bsky.social•95 days ago

There's "As The Crow Flies" by Melanie Gillman which is a graphic novel about feeling alienated in spaces you're supposed to be welcome in. Also the backgrounds are pretty. Good luck with your reading goal!

mamakspeaks.bsky.social•95 days ago

Reader here. Are you struggling with time to commit to reading all the way through books or are you struggling with the books you choose to read? What is your favorite genre?

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

It’s more like once I’m reading the book I’m hooked (usually) but if I put down the book or take a break from daily reading (as I do at the beginning of the year and around my birthday) I find it hard to get back into it. I didn’t pick up a book until September in 2024

mamakspeaks.bsky.social•95 days ago

Ahhh, yeah it’s hard to pick a book back up once life distracts you. I have been reading the same damn book for almost three weeks that I would have normally been done with in days. Just keep it at once you remember and just enjoy the book when you can.

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yeah I have to make a conscious effort and choice to pick up the book and put down the phone, but I do enjoy it so will keep at it

wampie.bsky.social•95 days ago

Only thing with a black protagonist I read this year was Rivers of London series. It's written by a white dude tho, so your mileage might vary.

But outside that, it's a very nice urban fantasy about a magic detective, kinda like if Dresden files were set in the UK

lady--j.bsky.social•95 days ago

I just read My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. I feel like it should get way more attention.

mizzdee.bsky.social•95 days ago

The Nsibidi Scripts series by Nnedi Okorafor

https://www.goodreads.com/series/64643-the-nsibidi-scripts

Graphic Novel: Eve series

https://www.boom-studios.com/archives/eve-1-first-look/

bookden.bsky.social•95 days ago

Some favorites - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis, White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson, When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen, The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

alisshalle.bsky.social•95 days ago

One of my all time favorites is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. It's more episodic (each chapter focuses on a different character) as it traces generations down from two half sisters from Africa.

samiraali.bsky.social•95 days ago

i tend to go between reading and audiobook. when i get bored or need help getting back into the book, i listen to the audiobook to get me interested again!

hollykins.bsky.social•95 days ago

I’m currently reading the Rage of Dragons. By Evan Winter. It’s pretty epic.

paultempleman.bsky.social•95 days ago

It shouldn’t be a duty but a pleasure, as I keep explaining to my son’s school when they insist he keeps a reading diary.

Remove the targets. Enjoy your reading.

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

Reading is a pleasure, but after a long day working and parenting it’s easier to put the TV on and zone out, hence the target.
I’m not forcing myself to read, and once I start I often read for hours (200 pages yesterday) but the goal hold me accountable

paultempleman.bsky.social•95 days ago

So do that: it’s OK to watch TV. That’s what it’s for 😂 Get your pleasure where you can. You wouldn’t set yourself a TV viewing target, would you? 😉

As a writer I wouldn’t want anyone to read my books out of obligation.

Don’t mean to preach. Sorry.

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

I never said I don’t watch TV at all and yeah I have targets about reducing the amount of TV and handheld content I consume too.

I don’t read out of obligation, it’s a conscious choice to do so, hence the target, just like a target to eat healthier or go exercise x times a week

residentchemist.bsky.social•95 days ago

I do get what you are saying though and will out less pressure on myself

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