vumaisbooked

(She/her). 20-something. Local library lover. “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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The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas

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This Time It's Our Turn

by vumaisbooked

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In the media, the topic of time travel often centres a common protagonist looping across timelines. This list focuses on time travel and time loop fiction books where the time travellers occupy identities often marginalised in fiction. This time, it's our turn. This list is open to recommendations as long as they fit the criteria of: time travel or time loops feauturing marginalised identities in fiction (characters and authors of colour, queer characters and authors)

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The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

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daydreamday completed their yearly reading goal of 100 books!

daydreamday's 2026 Reading Challenge

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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ceejay

Thoughts from 51%

Decided to DNF this book. I gave it till halfway, but it just never grabbed my attention like I was hoping.

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Wraithpirate

Trans lives matter more than HP

I’m just looking for more people to follow who hold this belief. I recently made a comment on here on a quest that we as a community shouldn’t platform HP because of the harm JKR is doing to trans people like me and I’m being called a book burner for this when I never called for book burning. JKR enacts politically violence and has assaulted a trans woman (took upskirt photos of this woman) and I’m tired of being told I’m a book burner when I ask people not to platform for that. Her money she earns from HP is being used to hurt trans people like me. I just need other people to follow on here with the same beliefs because I’m tired and feeling ostracized in the book community for believing Trans lives matter more than a stupid book

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pandemonicnox

signing your books?

i saw an interview with Cillian Murphy recently where he mentioned when he gets a new book he signs it on the first page and where he bought it from, and now i wanna do it 😭 problem is i don’t know exactly when i got a lot of mine especially from months/years ago but i think it’d be cute to start from now on

anyone else do something similar?

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Womb City

Tlotlo Tsamaase

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which begs the question: how far must one go to destroy the structures of inequality upon which a society was founded? How far must a mother go to save the life of her child? Nelah seems to have it all: wealth, fame, a husband, and a child on the way. But in a body her husband controls via microchip and the tailspin of a loveless marriage, her hopes and dreams come to a devastating halt. A drug-fueled night of celebration ends in a hit-and-run. To dodge a sentencing in a society that favors men, Nelah and her side-piece, Janith Koshal, finish the victim off and bury the body. But the secret claws its way into Nelah's life from the grave. As her victim's vengeful ghost begins exacting a bloody revenge on everyone Nelah holds dear, she'll have to unravel her society's terrible secrets to stop those in power, and become a monster unlike any other to quench the ghost's violent thirst.

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Everfair (Everfair, #1)

Nisi Shawl

Everfair, the brilliant Neo-Victorian alternate-history novel from acclaimed short-story writer Nisi Shawl, potently explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had adopted steam technology as their own. In Shawl's eloquently explored vision, told by a multiplicity of voices that have historically been silenced—Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another—Fabian socialists from Great Britian join forces with African American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as former slaves returning from America and other places where African natives and their descendants were being mistreated. The work of keeping this land their own is near impossible, and tragedy is unavoidable. Yet the citizens of Everfair are determined, and even try their hand at the rewarding tasks of governance, invention...and romance. Everfair is not only a beautiful book, but an inspiring and educational one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history. Shawl's speculative masterpiece thereby reframes the notorious atrocities of Leopold's reign into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history.

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strawberry_emm

Reading Anxiety

I never experienced reading anxiety until I moved back home with my parents for my senior semester of college(doing it online) and realized that I get very nervous to read physical books around my parents. My dad especially makes fun of my fantasy books. Well, not ‘makes fun’ he just doesn’t understand them and gets this weird look when I mention what I’m reading physically. I know it’s stupid to get anxiety over this. That’s why I’m heavily considering reading all my books on kindle and then copying the kindle notes/highlights into my physical copy

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HaventReadIt

Happy birthday to me!

I don’t want to sound so…i dont know, self centered(?) or begging for useless updoots on this app. But here’s the two books I got for my birthday.

(Also haven’t been reading much for the past couple of days because I’ve been playing tomodatchi life, also a gift. I’ll lock in, I promise)

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honeydijon completed their yearly reading goal of 100 books!

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Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

Talking to Strangers: A Memoir of My Escape from a Cult

V for Vendetta - The 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

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Oh, Hayden 😞⛸️🕊️

Both Princesses are gone. This truly saddens me and feels like losing a childhood friend. I look forward to hearing her story— in her own words

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment" losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

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This Is Me: A Reckoning

Hayden Panettiere

Heroes and Nashville star Hayden Panettiere reclaims her story in a remarkably candid memoir. Hayden Panettiere’s career in entertainment began before she could talk. From her first gig as a Michelin baby to roles in cult classics like Remember the Titans and Raising Helen, as well as popular soap operas Guiding Light and One Life to Live, Hayden built an impressive resume by the time she entered middle school. Throughout the early 2000s, she starred in millennial favorites like Racing Stripes, Heroes, and Scream 4 & VI and earned two Golden Globe nominations for her starring role of Juliette Barnes in Nashville. The squeaky-clean face of Neutrogena, she was Hollywood’s girl next door and subjected to all the fame, attention, and expectations that came with it. In an era of relentless paparazzi with an appetite for celebrity breakdowns, naysayers were certain this young starlet would crash and burn. Not one to disappoint, she did. In this irreverent, intimate, and inspiring memoir, Hayden holds nothing back. What started as a fun job for a child took a decidedly darker turn as she came of age. She exposes the pressure and exploitation young stars face before they’re old enough to know themselves, and how easy it is for them to lose control of their own narrative and, ultimately, their lives. Hayden was the target of brutal tabloid headlines picking apart her body, and she performed storylines onscreen that mirrored her real-life trauma. She suffered post-partum depression, addiction and recovery, domestic abuse, and the loss of her beloved little brother. Despite everything, Hayden managed to take these experiences, which she calls “lifequakes,” and emerge from them stronger, no longer afraid to use her voice or show her true self. She’s played the part of a misfit hero, a superstar, a survivor, a cheerleader, and an all-American fresh face. In THIS IS ME, Hayden stars in her most heart-wrenching and unforgettable role herself. This is her story, on her terms.

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okayhawa completed their yearly reading goal of 35 books!

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Little Death: A Dark Romance (Queenmakers Series Book 1)

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The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish a nation

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Genocide?

Update: I’ve searched the authors. Rachel Perkins is an Arrente and Kalkadoon woman, and Mina Murray is a Wiradyuri woman. The authors are all historians with previous works that look promising. I guess I’ll have to read it and make up my own mind 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also noticed there are different blurbs across different editions/mediums

Has anyone read this? There are no reviews and I’m trying to decide whether to try it. I’m a bit disturbed with the language that’s used in the blurb - they seem to be positioning it as battles rather than genocide of our indigenous population and culture.

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