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(She/her). 20-something. Local library lover. Reading to destroy the brain rot. “A peasant who reads is a prince in waiting” - Walter Mosley. “My taste” = my 2025 top 5.

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Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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I had a vision of how Chiamaka looked to me and the author waited ~130 pages to detail that she’s half Italian and she also has worn her hair straight this entire time to fit in more. She has her mum’s surname so her being Italian as well really didn’t click for me. Why would these details not be included much earlier in the book? 🥴 it’s not a big deal but key character descriptions shouldn’t occur over 1/4 into the story.

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Matriarch: A Memoir

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your fave titles in readalongs!

i've been using this platform for many many months now and have participated in many a readalong, and so i want to ask everyone else. what is your favourite book that you've read thanks to the readalong choices of the past and present?

i've participated in winter 2026, spring 2026 and summer 2026. out of all of the books i've read for it, my favourite of them all so far is when we lost our heads by heather o'neil. i can't wait to see your choices!

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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

Bob the Drag Queen

From RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and host of HBO’s We’re Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and music. In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way—by following in the footsteps of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Harriet wants to put on a show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed by a rival at the BET Awards. Darnell has no idea what to expect when he steps into the studio with Harriet, only that they have one week to write a Broadway caliber musical she can take on the road. Over the course of their time together, they not only mount a show that will take the country by storm, but confront the horrors of both their pasts, and learn to find a way to a better future. Original, evocative, and historic, Harriet Live in Concert is a landmark achievement that will burrow deep into our hearts (and ears).

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Jun 03, 2026

Ace of Spades

2.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 2.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 1.0

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Ace of Spades

2.5

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 2.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.0

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As much as I enjoyed witnessing the 2 MCs’ character development, reading this required to me suspend belief in an unimaginable way over and over again. It also relied on a lot of stereotypical character tropes. I don’t think anyone’s life existed beyond your archetype for rich person, poor person, etc.

Some plot directions made me pull these faces in real time (most especially the plot line about Devon’s dad). 🥴🫩. Gossip Girl and Get Out were never meant to be conceptualised together — the 2 stories are diametrically opposed genres🤷🏾‍♀️.

(This has been on my TBR for ages so I have no regrets about reading it and it was suspenseful and a page turner. It just got very silly very fast).

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Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully. When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too.Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures.As Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly?With heart-pounding suspense and relevant social commentary comes a high-octane thriller from debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.

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Class Schedules

I originally read this as an audiobook so I didn't know the author included Chiamaka and Devon's class schedules at the beginning. I'm going to place them here for my other audiobook readers and anyone else who might need it.

Class Schedules