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Jessica Lynn
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Chronically ill bookworm, sometime gluten-free baker, and hobbyist writer. #BookSky 💙📚 #ChronicIllness #BreadSky
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'The Great Mann' by Kyra Davis Lurie releases today. It's a fresh Gatsby retelling, focused on the wealthy, Black Sugar Hill neighborhood of 1940s LA. Familiar characters, fresh tensions, and an untold history make for one great novel. Highly recommended for historical fiction fans! #BookSky 📚💙
This is the book cover for The Great Mann by Kyra Davis Lurie, showing the book title and author's name. The foreground shows a Black man in profile wearing a fedora, whose face is partially obscured by a red cloth. In the background, we can see a 1940s Los Angeles city street.
June 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Speculative fiction at its best from Laila Lalami. Minority Report meets Black Mirror in the most thoughtful and terrifying way. Themes of privacy, surveillance, private prisons, and big tech + capitalism. Highly recommended! Thanks to Pantheon and NetGalley for the eARC. #TheDreamHotel #BookSky
Cover art for The Dream Hotel, a novel by Laila Lalami, Pulitzer Prize finalist. Book has a purple background with a large orange box in the center, orange box is shaded black inside. There is a shadowed figure standing at the lower right edge of the orange box. Title and author text appears in white above and below the orange box, on the purple background.
February 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Image of Robert F. Kennedy in profile, including the following RFK quote. “Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom, decency, and justice.”
February 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Every Feb, I further my own education by solely focusing on Black authors. Feels esp important rn. This year’s list:
- Books in photo
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Salvage the Bones, Ward
- all about love, hooks
- South to America, Perry
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (annual reread)
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Image of three books stacked on a kitchen counter with a houseplant and barstool in the background. The books are Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson, Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward.
February 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Hello BookSky! I am disabled due to autoimmune disease, diagnosed initially 15 years ago this month. I spend my time reading anything and everything. Currently in the middle of a timely ‘Parable of the Sower’ reread for my book club — an all-time favorite. Can’t wait to chat books with you all!
Image shows a paperback copy of Parable of the Sower sitting on a nightstand next to a lamp, reflected in a mirror.
January 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM