jamie m.
@mixedreader.bsky.social
teacher. book reviewer focused on diverse fiction, non-fiction and poetry. writer. interdisciplinary researcher. #booksky 📚
One of the things I think this book does best is explore the waves and complexity of grief. Tessa Yang allows the magical elements of this book to shape the crevices of the her griefs and slowly push her towards community. Out from @berkleypub.bsky.social
“I hover in the indexes, the footnotes” (from the poem “Theory”). A collection that asks reader to sit in the metacognition of why we exist & the stories we tell. 206 release from @tinhouse.bsky.social #booksky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816553...
Only a few days left to pre-order But Where’s Home: A Novella and Stories by Toni Ann Johnson. It’s deeply affecting with family trauma, agency and the complexity of healing. @kentuckypress.bsky.social #booksky #BlackHistoryMonth
Winding, sometimes stream of consciousness type poetry. Phrases bump along uneven roads, sputter like a weary engine. Fagin’s poems ask you to trust the process, and know that we are shortcutting our way to an important place. Then, a revelation so bright you have to squint appears. #booksky
Absolutely in love in with new collection, out tomorrow from @tinhouse.bsky.social . Hardly Creatures is a collection that focuses on disability, community, and so much more. The book is modeled to read like a walk through an accessible museum.
Know a women who writes horror? Repost this! Currently open for submissions!
Support small presses, especially ones that publish short fiction! Check out my friend’s novella, Marisolandia from @wtawpress.bsky.social !
In the poem “On Belonging,” Patrycja Humienik asks, “where do we go to find the myths that made us?” A beautiful #poetry collection releasing this week from @tinhouse.bsky.social
Looking for cozy game recommendations for Nintendo switch. Loved Spritifarer and Wylde Flowers. Didn’t quite get into Cozy Grove. #cozygames
This memoir is full of grief, but also with hope. Using an innovate structure, Nguyen tells the dual stories of how her experience of sexual assault led her into activism and the healing of her childhood trauma. #SavingFive #AmandaNguyen #Booksky #memoir
Fundamentally is a book that surprised me. At first, I had a hard time sitting alongside the narrator, Nadia, whose brash and often offensive humor seemed like a defense mechanism that the reader didn’t have insight to. As I got more used to her & her naivety, layers of character were revealed.
This book is holds you in its heartache and examines how folks move through/in/around grief. Grief of losing family members, of having few options, even the grief of surviving. #booksky
Needing some easing of mind, some breathing? See Kaira Jewel Lingo’s We Were Made For These Times.
#ReadBlackPoetry forthcoming from Tiana Clark is a stunning collection, Scorched Earth! Clark lets us sit in the body as she faces pain while also being determined to celebrate aliveness. Out March 4th! #Booksky #BlackBooksky
Printz winner. Wonderful read about a mixed Guatemalan girl who reconnects with her father over a summer of renovation. Important discussion of gentrification and cultural solidarity.
Just finished Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong and it put me in my feels. #booksky
Literary fiction friends, don’t miss out on Call Her Freedom by Tara Dorabji! It holds heartbreak alongside moments of hope and defiance, imbuing a depth & complexity to each character. Tenderness, in spite of personal and global grief, struck me as I read. Thank you @simonandschuster.bsky.social !
