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📚📖booksky🦋💙 Reading nonfiction (histories by indigenous and other BIPOC authors) and fiction (mainly fantasy and historical fiction) Kanaka Maoli and Ma’ohi (Hawaiian and Tahitian) 🇵🇫🤙🏽
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My second ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ romance read of this year. Takes one to know one was fun, heartfelt, and layered which is what I love in a romance. #booksky #romancebooks #fivestarreads

Listened to this as part of my prep for a YT video about books on female rage. And this one DEFINITELY qualifies. Lmk in the comments if you have any recs. #booksky #bookrecs #femalerage

First book of April. Okay! Wow. One of the internal monologues was so good. I was James Baldwin can really write women really well. Anyway this was such a good story #booksky

If I ever go to the bologna book fair, I’m gonna try to talk to as many people as I can until I get to the person who can reposition Hawaii publishers to be included in the Oceania region for the publisher’s award instead of North America

#booktok rec again with a hit. What a great YA read with many layers. From the dia de los muertos and lady of death to the character layers. Forever greatful for recs from different platforms. #transrightsreadathon #booksky

😂 Joining NetGalley for the first time and only requesting books I actually see myself reading. Rejected from 5 because I don’t have >50% reading and reviewing rate. It’s 0…. Because I literally just joined. This reminds me of applying to entry level jobs wanting 5-7 years of experience 😂 #booksky

Native Authors: I am accepting manuscripts during Pitchfest! (But if you have a YA or adult manuscript that doesn’t quite fit, I’d love to still see it now!)

My stack of I need to finish. Anyone else? Short stories and poetry I just naturally go through slowly and then some nonfiction is very dense or slow going. Nothing against the books. I just need to wrap this up 😂. #booksky #readingcommunity

Best romance I’ve read in years. So many layers and depth to the characters. And the author has another romance coming in July! I’m so excited and ready. Standing ovation, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booksky #romancebook #romancegirlie #readingcommunity

I’m loving the Poppy War trilogy. The Dragon Republic was even better than the first book and the last 200 pages had me hooked with a twist that made me audibly gasp. I’m now 150 pages into The Burning God and realized I forgot to read the Drowning Faith novella. So now I need to back up. 😳 #booksky

My 3rd 5 ⭐️ read of this year. Incredibly educational, inspiring, and engaging. Authors acknowledgements always get me teary eyed but this one had me full on crying. Her gratitude for many that helped this book was beautiful and her love for her husband I felt so deeply. #booksky #readingcommunity

After 5 nonfiction reads I’m listening to a couple romance books. Anyone else genres switchers? Esp to avoid reading slumps? #booksky #readingthings #readingcommunity

I did it! A month of drafting the script, a few hours of editing, and finally my video on the importance of oral storytelling, colonization and languages history, news, books, and a poem for my argument. No worries, it’s just 20 mins. Hope you find it interesting. #booksky #booktube #storytelling

Three hours later. I’m almost done editing. I’ll be dropping my video on the importance of oral storytelling later today. #booksky #booktube #storytelling

Bell hooks is one of my fav nonfiction authors. Her teachings always make me think more critically. Place is something everyone can relate to and can come from place, religion, community, etc.bell hooks shows how we can find community in place through discussion, empathy, and understanding. #booksky

Rachel made this incredibly important video about the book community and book banning. Please go watch and engage with it and DISCUSS book banning with your followers after you’ve spent time with it

Everytime I read bell hooks I’m reminded how much I appreciate and love her writing. One days I’ll finish all her books #bellhooks #booksky

Just uploaded some musings on my January reads. I’m late. But I’m also new to all this 😂 features 5 fantasy books, a mystery series by an indigenous author, and 2 Pacific Islander authored books. #booksky

I just saw a TT about sprayed edges in Germany and now I will be going to bookstores when I’m there for a wedding this summer. May have to mail back the load. If you know any stores lmk. #booksky #sprayededges #readingcommunity

Ok Octavia Butler! OKAY! I’m at the part of Parable of the Talents very early in the book where surrogates are used left and right and they just elected the bad guy. The authoritarian guy. Can i keep reading. Can my heart take this?… #booksky #scifibooks

There are books I’m willing to travel with and there are the PRECIOUS books that don’t leave the house. Don’t get thrown. Don’t get shoved. Yes I treat my books differently and sometimes it depends on the price I paid 👀 #booksky #readingcommunity #booksareprecious

Checkerboard Hill by: Jade Kake, a Māori author of fiction and nonfiction. This beautiful novel follows Ria who gets a call from her family in Australia that there has been a loss in the family. With twists, slow reveals, complicated family dynamics, and memory flashbacks. #booksky #bookrecs

Happy Valentines Day! The lessons this movie and book taught me about love. Find someone patient enough to hear you out and explain themselves, admit when they are wrong and right those wrongs, absolutely devoted. And talking shit is always fun #prideandprejudice

I have a book package arriving today. Happy Valentine’s Day. The books are The Divine Comedy and Jane Eyre. Perfect for Valentines Day. And yes one of them is to prep for Katabasis and the other to continue to deal with my Nosferatu hangover #booksky #valentinesbooks #bookrecs

Lauren in Parable of the Sower buying a book in an apocalyptic world is so real. Because knowledge, learning, and feeding curiosity is always needed. #booksky #fictionreads #apocalypticbook #scifibook

I still have two shelves empty on my existing bookshelves but I’m designing in my head where I can put my next two shelves in the living room. Anyone else slowly building out their lifelong library? Don’t need it all at once but over time it’ll naturally happen #booksky #librarylove

Ok so parable of the sower is giving us all ideas on a plan. Right? We push back but also prep for the worst. Got it. I don’t know that book hit close and I’m about to start parable of the talents with shaky hands. #booksky #scifireads #scifibooks

I usually listen to audiobooks when I’m clearing out my inbox. But I’m in office today and forgot headphones. So now I sit in silence… with nothing… not even instrumental music 😳 #audiobooklife #audiobooks #booksky

Always proud of seeing a book I love on the shelf of the library and bookstore. I wanna stand there and tell people to check it out 😂 #booksky #readingcommunity #library #bookstore

Listening to legendborn and slowly realizing there is a love triangle and some short teen tempers flaring lol. I’m here for the journey 😂 #booksky #legendborn #fantasyreads #fantasybooks