renni

i love reading! sff, magical realism, translated works, and much more!

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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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Sula

Toni Morrison

Sula and Nel are two young black girls: clever and poor. They grow up together sharing their secrets, dreams and happiness. Then Sula breaks free from their small-town community in the uplands of Ohio to roam the cities of America. When she returns ten years later much has changed. Including Nel, who now has a husband and three children. The friendship between the two women becomes strained and the whole town grows wary as Sula continues in her wayward, vagabond and uncompromising ways.

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Homie

Danez Smith

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez’s friends and for you and for yours.

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renni

Jul 30, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 5.0

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okay, okay, it's good, i'll admit it! i've been effectively spooked! devastating, resonate, honest. dead is better.

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Climate fictions🌿🕸🔥 - does anyone have good climate fiction recs?

I took a Climate Fiction course in my Masters (I studied EngLit) and have been invested in this subgenre ever since!! I want more recs for climate fiction though, it could also be just a subplot rather than the whole plot🥺 I'll share my recs here and you share yours plz!! My recs: 1) How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue 2) Dark Wild Shore by Charlotte McConaghy 3) A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers (this one is more hopeful than the others) 4) Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (a subplot in this one) 5) Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler 6) Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer I don't recall more rn but please give me your recs🤲

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Recommendations for 10/10 books that are underrated?

as the title says, just feel i could do with reading more amazing books that go under the radar a little bit. especially looking for any recs that fall under the categories of horror, thriller, mystery and lit fic (especially characters unravelling/strange lit)

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