HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY!!!

Here are some great recs that help us remember these amazing groups of people today!! (And every day)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth By The Red Nation

I have so many more, but here is just a few. Feel free to also add reccomended works down below as well!!

Is anyone playing tiny bookshop and if so what was a title of a book you never heard of but found it interesting in this game. For me it was a book called Valperga by Mary Shelley which now I want to read.

👻 Down Home by Steve L. Clark VERY spooky reads. If you want something horror, and very short, it’s good stuff. 😆

⚡️ Birth of the Storm by Valerie Storm A GEM. I cried a lot. Very good writing. And you can feel for the FMC. If you like hybrid people, this can be your thing. 🥹

👼🏻 If You Really Knew Me: A Memoir About Miscarriage and Motherhood by Mary Purdie As someone who has experienced miscarriages, this made me feel seen. Very first book I’ve annotated

As you can see, I love reading a bit of everything ahah.

I know these modern times we live in are sooo chaotic and stressful. It can be easy to become nihilistic. But I’m so glad to have access to books (many of them) to dream into. Creating these visual worlds in my mind help facilitate empathy and creativity, both which are sorely needed for a compassionate society.

Rant of the day. 😅

Hey,

I am hoping to make a discord club for multi passionate people as a place to discuss numerous different topics including books, hobbies, etc. I figured, since discord has channel options when you create a server, it would be a good place to host it.

To anyone who has made a discord book club, I have a few questions for you.

How are you enjoying it?

How do you handle age verification? I've heard of a data leak that makes me distrustful of the feature and data privacy but I also want the platform to be 18+.

How do you balance privacy and community?

Link for data breach article: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/discord-data-breach-proof-of-age-id-leaked

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any bookish discord servers they are a part of? I tend to find that readers have overlapping hobbies. Some people like gaming, some people like crafting, etc and I like bookish spaces that encompass a little bit of all of that. I’m in the Dark Academia community discord server and they discuss philosophies. I am part of a book club called The Introverted Book Coven and they share a lot of community based events like game nights. I run an epic fantasy reader discord server called RealmWalkers’ Social Club for people that wanted basically a community that liked “old white guy fantasy (LOTR, ASOIAF, etc) without the incel behavior”.

Anyways, does anyone else enjoy discord servers that are bookish or bookish adjacent?