#poc booklr

[blackgirlslit]

Is it too late to share my Halloween costume?

I was Coraline!

🗝 ⚉ 🪡 🐈‍⬛

[dearlyjess]

crocheting, tea logs, playing persona, recent bookstore pick-ups! also desperately awaiting spring 🌿

[the-readers-archive]

The one and only. She never disappoints me. Her works are great modern day classic literature in my humble opinion.

[standardlilith]

Hi hello!

I just finished reading Funny Story by Emily Henry and who are y'all imagining as Miles bc in my mind he's Dev Patel and I'm foaming at the mouth 🫣

[wall-artist2]

Mannn I live in a predominantly white area, 99% of my friends are white (or asian for some reason))

Use to love KOTLC, now I despise it.

I tried explaining to the how bad the representation was + the fact it showed primarily only skinny, blue eyed and white people were pretty.

They ALL brought up Tam and Lin.

TWO ASIAN CHARACTERS OUT OF A MASSIVE CAST IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE!!! SIDE CHARACTERS BEING POC IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE!! ugh..

[bonnibellexox]

Cover art update 12.09.24

Want a spicy (18+), best friends to lovers, post apocalyptic, weirdly scientifically accurate book about autistic, queer ass characters in magical forests and underground dystopian bunkers?

Perhaps themes of loneliness, privilege, conspiracy, quality of life, freedom, ethics, self reflection, blissful ignorance, sacrifice, duty, spite and maybe even a little bit of holding hands in secret?

Omg same… anyway I’m getting MacDonald’s, you want some fries?

[darlingartt]

🌴🦕 YA book cover practice 🍦🎶

this is a little shoutout to my desert hometown and my wistful, dramatic teenage self (although this character so much cuter than I ever was a teen)

[margielalalove]

“I stop myself from apologizing-because what would I even be sorry for? Existing too loud?”

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

[lalectoracaimitena]

The Hole Review

The Hole discribes the story of Oghi, a man that suffers a car accident, loses his wife and ends up in the care of his mother-in-law. Throughout the story we get to see Oghi reflect on his past and present circumstances as he faces the difficulties of recovery. What starts out as a sympathetic character, slowly unravels into flaws and mistakes that make you wonder if his suffering is well deserved.

We are simotaniasly shown how his mother-in-law slowly and siglehandedly unravels his life and health. The question in the story being, how and why? As she digs up her daughter's garden you can see that she is slowly losing her mind and plotting, but you never have a firm grasp on why she's doing it. From neglect to humiliation she throrougly makes Oghi's life a living hell.

The book tackles a lot of interesting topics such as death, ableism, classism and infidelity. You can say Oghi was a man with qestionable morals as you go along with the story. 

He starts of as a doting husband with a loving wife. Speaking of his deceased wife as if she was a dreamer and idealist that balanced his life of blandness. Then turns into a bitter husband succumbing to his spoiled and privilaged wife. Explaining how she couldn't hold on to anything for too long before giving it up and turning to something else completely while neglecting him. And ending as an unfaithful man who is only sorry that he was caught.

I found that what made this book so interesting is the fact that this can happen to and be anyone's life. Sometimes you just need time to realize how unhappy and miserable you really are underneath the rose colored glasses.

As a reader, the book starts off a bit slow and boring, but as it progresses I found myself wondering what would happen next. Oghi is a wonderfully complex character that shows how small things can seem until it's too late.

[mooncrvmbs]

while i do appreciate the politics in academia that love theoretically throws light on as a poc woman in stem i do believe that the tropes are getting a little too repetitive for my liking. i liked the love hypothesis and love on the brain. i even have the paperbacks for both of them. but love theoretically just didn't hit the spot for me. i am getting tired of the repetitive enemies to lovers misunderstanding and miscommunication trope that hazelwood includes in all her books. i feel like there is so much that can be done with a female lead in stem that highlights how xenophobic, sexist and misogynistic academia can be without reusing the same trope over and over again.

i am not saying the book was bad, i just feel like her plots are stagnant and getting repetitive. there's nothing new to expect and honestly that breaks my heart a little bit. because i love the women in stem representation. we have been ostracized by the society in every way possible and i was really happy to find an author who would finally write from our perspective. but it's just not doing it for me anymore :/

[blackgirlslit]

Last, current, next!

I saw @freckles-and-books do this so I decided to join in!

[dearlyjess]

scribbling, reading, common-placing, sudoku-ing(?) xx

[status-quo-book]

Status Quo (Sneak Peak)

Chapter 1- More Questions Than Answers

[the-readers-archive]

Luxury, passion, chaos, and books.

[soft-voice-in-the-void]

October is Pride Month in South Africa. As a queer artist from South Africa, it is important that we strive to share queer narratives in all art forms.

One of the biggest reasons I wrote this book was because growing up I wanted to see someone who looked like me and was like me. Someone who was a person of colour and queer in a world of magic.