AuthorAMonth

ABBA: 600 Rare, Classic, and Unseen Photos Telling the Complete Story | Petter Karlsson, Jan Gradvall

My plans to #JumpstartSummer ☀️🤪

-Finishing James for #AuthorAMonth
-Starting in on my library read of my fave Kat Cho‘s latest & a NetGalley biography of one of the GOATs of pop - ABBA (new bio out on 6/17, looks like it‘s not on Litsy yet)
-Digging in to these series I‘ve wanted to watch forever 🤪

Soubhiville, TheSpineView

TheSpineView Great plan! Happy Reading 📚 2h

ChaoticMissAdventures Ohh biography of ABBA should have been released last week for Eurovision! I am excited to see what you think of it. 2h

Melismatic @ChaoticMissAdventures so true!! 1m

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ImperfectCJ

Mania | Lionel Shriver

I've got a busy weekend of music (both professional and talented student musicians) and stagehanding (if that's a word), but I'm hoping to sneak in some reading each day. I'm working on some Percival Everett for #authoramonth, Solito for book club, and the tagged just for fun, although I'm leaving open the possibility of just mood reading. #jumpstartsummer @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Enjoy! 🤩📖📚 7h

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Texreader

Erasure: A Novel | Percival Everett

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

Lcsmcat I loved that exchange ! 19h

Vansa I loved his imagined conversations in this book, something Everett uses again in James! 13h

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JenReadsAlot

The Trees: A Novel | Percival Everett

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So good! #Authoramonth @Soubhiville

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Melismatic

Dr. No | Percival Everett

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This was wild, chaotic, confusing, and very funny in a nonsensical way. Plot? There kinda isn‘t one. And yet you come away rooting for Wala & Co. 🤪🤯

A fever dream-like intro this author indeed. 😅 #AuthorAMonth

Soubhiville

Ruthiella It‘s all about nothing! 😜 2d

Melismatic @Ruthiella truly about nothing 🤣 2d

TheBookHippie I think of The Pretenders song everytime I read this 🤣🎶 Brass in Pocket🎶 or Brass Monkey 🤦🏻‍♀️ Beastie Boys 2d

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Amiable

I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel | Percival Everett

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This book was funny and weird and provocative and brilliant and completely bonkers. And I couldn‘t put it down. Percival Everett is an absolute gift to literature. #AuthorAMonth

BarbaraBB I still haven‘t read this one but you make it sound like I should! 2d

Amiable @BarbaraBB If you like Everett, you‘ll enjoy this one! 2d

sarahbarnes I love his writing and haven‘t read this one - stacking! 2d

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BarbaraBB I do so I will absolutely read it! 2d

Amiable @sarahbarnes @BarbaraBB Have you read this one—it‘s next on my list to pick up by Everett:

Telephone

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sarahbarnes Yes! I loved that one. Apparently there are two alternate endings depending on your version. 19h

BarbaraBB Even three, I think! It‘s a great book! 15h

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Texreader

Erasure: A Novel | Percival Everett

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Monk writes intellectual experimental fiction that attracts few readers. He‘s deeply offended when a black woman writes a gritty almost stereotypical book about black life, makes millions, and sells the story to make a movie. Who could do such a thing—a sellout! But in a mad fit, he does the same thing; he calls it a parody. And it‘s a huge hit! But first he refuses to reveal that he‘s the author having written under a pen name, then he reveals ⬇️

Texreader himself only in disguise adopting a persona that matches a person who could have written what he believes to be drivel. The book he writes is incorporated into this book—a story within the story. At the same time, the main character is dealing with multiple issues of family trauma and he feels like a world-class hypocrite accepting money for the drivel he‘s written, but at the same time the money is his lifeline. This is an incredibly unique ⬇️ (edited) 3d

Texreader book by an extraordinary author. #authoramonth @Soubhiville 3d

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Melismatic

Dr. No | Percival Everett

One you get into the tone…this book flies and it‘s very funny. #AuthorAMonth

Soubhiville

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Gissy

February | Ellen Jackson

February 2025
9 books read (#BookSpin ✅ #DoubleSpin ✅ #AuthorAMonth ✅ (forgot to include in the picture Orbital)
2, 547 pages
4⭐️ 📕 📕📕
3⭐️ 📕📕📕📕
2⭐️ 📕

Best Books: Martyr & Tuya (yours)

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Gissy

Ayiti | Roxane Gay

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February 2025 Book #5

This is a collection of short stories, powerful ones in terms of topics. First book I read by this author and looking forward to read more books by her. However, my experience with short story collections is that I like some more that the others and this is not an exception. Also, some stories I saw them more narrative, informative than a short story per se. It was the same experience I had with In A Dream Hoyse ⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) by Carmen Maria Machado. That one is not a short story collection but sometimes I saw also the story as one informative, giving statics or facts that disconnect the idea, the flow, the line, premise of the book. That was my experience with both readings. But I really liked this book and the message. 3.5⭐️ 4d

Gissy #BookSpinBingo #1 #AuthorAMonth (read in designated month) @Soubhiville @TheAromaOfBooks
#Readatgon #Read2025 @DieAReader
#AcquiredViaLitsy #BlitsySwap2022 @Karisa @Chelleo
#OffMyShelf2025 @wanderglynn
#NationalBlackHistoryMonth (2nd book read for this month celebration even if it doesn‘t appear in Google or any o other platform
#UltimateReadingChallenge2025 prompt #32 book from swap shelf @faranae (edited) 4d

TheAromaofBooks Lovely cover!! 4d

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