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Wrapping up work for the week & getting into this #SpookySeason2025 audiobook. A review said this is “an American Indian revenge story” so I’m ready for a good dose of horror, history, & vindication. Can’t have #SpookySeason without #vampires.

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September 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM Everybody can reply
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Libby is playing in my face right now. Several audiobooks on hold, each with multiple weeks (months!) wait time. 🫤 Nothing current on my wish list is available.

So I’m going to revisit one of my favorite childhood books - Juniper by Monica Furlong.
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May 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Listening to the next book in the series - Monica Furlong’s Wise Child.

The fact that I loved these books as a child says a lot about my interests as an adult.

Definitely aiming to be like Juniper when I grow up. 😁

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June 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM Everybody can reply
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I finished “The Possession of Alba Díaz,” and I just want @isabelcanas.bsky.social to know that her take on the possession/exorcism subgenre is perfect. I won’t give spoilers, but the plot resolution is so satisfying.

Also, the cover is gorgeous. Get into it.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM Everybody can reply
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I may have found a new favorite narrator. #DominicHoffman gives a masterful reading of @percivaleverett.bsky.social’s novel James. Huckleberry Finn was one of my favorite childhood books, & I’m enjoying the story from James’ (Jim’s) perspective.
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January 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM Everybody can reply
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A book that blends science and cultural history will always catch my eye.
This is my background noise for today.
(The text is interesting, but I’m not a fan of the narrator. Hate when that happens.) #ZodiReads #NowReading #PeriodicTales
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January 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM Everybody can reply
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Re-reading #TheBookOfJuJu by @itsjujubae.bsky.social as we head into the weekend. I appreciate how she makes her historical overviews accessible and straightforward, not pedantic. This book is a great resource for anyone interested in spirituality across the Diaspora.
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July 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM Everybody can reply
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I did not intend to add this book to my #SpookySeason2025 reading list, but after finishing it just now…
🤬😢💔

We will never comprehend the horrors of slavery. The horrors of white folks. Their utter depravity.

A superb, terrifying novel: Night Everywhere We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
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September 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM Everybody can reply
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Found this article as I was reading about the MFDP. #ZodiReads

Umoja, Akinyele Omowale. “‘We Will Shoot Back’: The Natchez Model and Paramilitary Organization in the Mississippi Freedom Movement.” Journal of Black Studies 32, no. 3 (2002): 271–94. www.jstor.org/stable/3180864.
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM Everybody can reply
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This biography has been on my list for a couple of years. I discovered #AliceDunbarNelson in grad school, but could not find many texts about her life. Thankful that Dr. Tara T. Green helped remedy that.
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January 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM Everybody can reply
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I added Eden Royce’s Psychopomp and Circumstance to my #SpookySeason2025 reading list.

Listening to Bahni Turpin’s impeccable narration for the audiobook.

I love the world the author created here.

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October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM Everybody can reply
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In need of something more lighthearted today, so I’m getting into ‘The Davenports: More Than This’ by @/krystalmarquis.bsky.social.
If you’re a fan of Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte or The Guilded Age’s Peggy Scott, you’ll probably like this series. #ZodiReads #BlackBookSky #BlackRomance #Audiobooks
August 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM Everybody can reply
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Another article to annotate.
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Dirks, Annelieke. “Between Threat and Reality: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Emergence of Armed Self-Defense in Clarksdale and Natchez, Mississippi, 1960-1965.” www.jstor.org/stable/41887....
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM Everybody can reply
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The trigger warning for this audiobook is HILARIOUS. 🤣 This is my escape-from-the-real-world read for the weekend.
@jcageauthor.bsky.social definitely has a hit on her hands, & Tempest Mensah is an excellent narrator.
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June 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM Everybody can reply
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Kicking off the summer with a text that has been in my TBR pile for a minute. Eager to digest this one. #ZodiReads #NowReading #FightThePower #AncestralInspiration
June 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM Everybody can reply
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This book right here? 🤯
I was not expecting such a layered exploration of resilience & family dynamics wrapped within a haunted house story. Tugged my heartstrings AND creeped me out.

Carissa Orlando wrote the hell out of the protagonist. Brava!

#TheSeptemberHouse #ZodiReads #NowReading
July 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM Everybody can reply
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I recently finished O.O. Sangoyomi’s #Masquerade, & it is still on my mind. I’m so happy that we are seeing more stories set in pre-colonial Africa! The plot had me hooked. I need the sequel, the big-budget series, the merch, all of it. #ZodiReads

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April 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM Everybody can reply
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Next up, #WeRefuse by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson (@/kcarterjackson.bsky.social).

I’m interested to see how this text diverges from This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb (2014).
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July 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM Everybody can reply
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So far, I have finished “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” and “Blood Slaves.”

Next up is “The Possession of Alba Diaz” for my #SpookySeason2025 reading. Perfect timing. I’m in the mood for #horromance.

#BookSky #HorrorSky #ZodiReads
🔮 The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

🧛🏽 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

🧛🏽 Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond

🩸Of One Blood by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

👻 The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas
October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM Everybody can reply
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I don’t track this book in my StoryGraph & Fable because I read it piecemeal. But I refer to it often because it provides accessible overviews for life skills we’ve forgotten. Spending some time with it tonight while I have my tea. #ZodiReads #NowReading
June 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM Everybody can reply
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Starting ‘Daughter of the Merciful Deep’ by #LeslyePenelope. I think it’s fitting for #BHM. #ZodiReads #NowReading
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February 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM Everybody can reply
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