#YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY BY AKWAEKE EMEZI

[eiflawriting]

this book got me smoking cigarettes pls.

[betterbooksandthings]

“Here are the top 30 TikTok book recommendations: 2023 edition. BookTok is known for its varied and vast book recommendations in any conceivable genre from a range of voices. Everyone from casual readers to professional reviewers to authors has the ability to promote books they love on BookTok.

Essentially, a lot of people talk about a lot of books with different levels of success. When discussing BookTok, it is important to acknowledge the bias toward white, cis, straight creators promoting white, cis, straight books. However, if you seek them out, you can find a vast resource of diverse Booktokers promoting equally diverse books. This is also the added lens the algorithm adds to the user experience. TikTok’s algorithm learns from your viewing history in the app, which also applies to BookTok.

The following list comes from compiling various BookTok comment sections on videos about TikTok book recommendations in 2023. Naturally, the list will have the natural bias of my personal algorithm. Nonetheless, backlist books and genre books remain popular in 2023 on BookTok. Similar to the top 25 TikTok book recommendations from 2022, YA, romance, and fantasy books remain popular. Additionally this year, the Trans Rights Readathon increased the recommendation of trans books on BookTok.“

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Literary Fiction about Grief and Mourning

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Some Hell by Patrick Nathan Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke Bonus: Coming next month, Model Home by Rivers Solomon

[thebisexualwreckoning]

Was wondering whether you make a fool of death with your beauty by akwaeke emezi has anything to do with Florence + the machine and turns out I was right, the novel is named after the lyric from the song

[acotars]

Read in 2023:

I feel like the world wanted to remind me that it loves me, and so it gave me him. It gave me a chance, that possibility he’s always talking about, and I seized it with both hands because I know, and Alim knows, how fucking rare it is for that door to open, even by a crack, and what it’s like when it closes.

YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY by Akwaeke Emezi ★★½

[wellconstructedsentences]

He wasn't here and Feyi had promised to love him until death ripped them apart, and then death had ripped them apart and she hadn't stopped loving him; she still loved him, her first best friend, her first love. When the accident had happened, Feyi could have sworn she would never love anyone ever again. It wasn't even a possibility. It was like a fork in the road had closed, shut off by an avalanche of grief, choked with rocks and a broken heart. It wasn't supposed to be open, and honestly, it still hadn't, but somehow, an entirely new path had formed, green and creeping.

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

[highsummonermercar]

Favourite book covers from around the world

Allow me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli (North America)

The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur (Korean)

You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria)

Butter by Asaki Yuzuki (Italy)

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole (Spain)

Yellowface by R.F Kuang (Indonesia)

Caraval by Stephanie Garber (Taiwan)

Welcome to the Hyungnam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Boreum (UK)

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan (Chinese)

[creatrixcymraes]

My sister-in-law signed me up for a book of the month club for Christmas which is LUSH but the book this month is one I already own

BUT it's a really good book and I'd hate for it to go to waste

The book is:

You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

It's a gorgeous romance that deals with grief, art and falling for the "wrong" person.

If anyone would like it, I'm happy to pay the postage (UK only soz) to send it to you! First come first served, drop me a DM

[cupofkinship]

every time I’m in a reading slump the solution is just reading an Akwaeke Emezi book.

every. single. time.

reading their books has always reminded me why I love to read.

[shxpeshifterr]

Cloudy days & good books

[52booksproject]

Book 47: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Random letter generator spat out EM so I chose Akwaeke Emezi's You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty. It's a raunchy (in a good way) romance novel with a lot of depth.

I admit one of my guilty pleasures is reading Reddit's Am I the Asshole forum, which if you're not familiar people submit situations they've been in and the readers vote on whether they were acting like an asshole in the situation or not. Or at least that's how it's supposed to be, a lot of the entries are fake and it's really hard to tell which are which. Anyway, sometimes some of them feel like writing exercises in having the worst possible titles "AITA because I burned down an orphanage?" and yet somehow justifying it in the text. Well, in a lot of ways this book reminded me of that. [minor spoiler] "AITA for ditching my boyfriend for his hot, rich, celebrity dad?" and yet getting justified in the text.

It's a good read, it's a hot romance novel, but it deals with the topic of grief and survivor's guilt, etc all very well. It name dropped a lot of real people that my sorry white ass didn't know, but a well versed Black reader might (eg. Concha Buika and Helen Oyeyemi). And then some references I did get like Bojack Horseman and Bob's Burgers. It feels very hip, and modern.

Best Line: "I'm just trying to find out if it fucks like a duck"

SHOULD YOU READ THIS BOOK: I'd recommend it. If you absolutely don't read romance, or don't want to read something with dirty words you can give it a pass, but it's fun and deep all at the same time.

ART PROJECT:

Two pivotal scenes take place at an island sunrise, so I thought I'd give that a go.

[eiflawriting]

*sighs* 🚬🚬🚬🚬

[qbdatabase]

Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.

It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.

She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the dangerous thrill Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits. This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love?

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Bi/Bi M/F Romances, Part II

For Part I, click here. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Check Your Work by Skye Kilaen A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone A Lot Like Adios by Alexis Daria Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur

[tiffy-reads]

You’re a whole world to me, Feyi. I could spend the rest of my life learning you and I’d never get tired

[itsemptyachilles]

- Akwaeke Emezi, from You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty