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Ruthelizabethreads
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I talk about diverse books and being disabled (cosy and non-fiction are my favourites). UK based, she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Finally got a chance to read Gender Queer and had an amazing time. Beautiful artwork, wonderfully nuanced discussion and ace rep I didn't know about going in.

I wish it was in more UK libraries!

#diversebooks #queerbooksky #queerbooks
The cover of Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Korabe
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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If you want a poly, queer, spicy romantasy that puts a new twist on heaven and hell, I think you will love this.

As an exvangelical, it was delightful in all the best ways.

Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi. Gifted an e-arc in exchange for review.

#diversebooksky #booksky #romantasy
The cover of Son of the Morning: A Novel by Akwaeke Emezi
October 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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TBR challenge update
Books left to read: 18
Days left in 2025: 91
Confidence I will finish: 5/10

Starting this today, have heard so many good things.

#diversebooksky #booksky
A copy of In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado lies on a duvet with sea plants all over.
October 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Just got an email to let me know that I have early access to read and review Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi.

This is my most anticipated book release for the rest of 2025 and feel so lucky!

#diversebooks #booksky
The cover of Son of the Morning: A Novel by Akwaeke Emezi
September 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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There is something uniquely sobering about reading a collection of writing by young Gazan authors and hoping at the end of each story that their update will tell you that they survived to the book being published.

Yousef Maher Dawas didn't.

This is from We Are Not Numbers, a book I recommend.
A photo of a page from a book. It reads: 2023 (January - October) snapped back at me. 'Who will pay for the twenty years we have lost?' An awkward silence fell between us. 'Who are we without a past or history?' I asked myself. Yousef, who was studying to be a psychoanalyst, was the first WANN writer to be killed in the genocide by Israel, on 14 October 2023. He was killed by an Israeli missile strike on his family's home in the northern town of Beit Lahia
September 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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"Actual death is when you don't stand up for what is right"

From a degree in surviving assaults by Basman Derawi in We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth

#booksky #diversebooks
The cover of We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth, edited by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam Bailey
September 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Has anyone read Patsy? Starting it today with a blank slate of opinions and looking forward to it.

TBR challenge update
Books on TBR: 25
Days left in 2025: 117
Confidence I will finish it: 8/10

#diversebooks #booksky
The cover of Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Brown. It shows a young Black woman in profile above a collage of skyscrapers and brightly coloured palm leaves.
September 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Found this little croissant on my bed.
A golden retriever is curled up asleep on a mustard and white duvet.
September 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Trying to read my entire physical TBR by the end of 2025
Books remaining: 26
Days remaining: 119
Confidence I will do it: 6/10

This might be the most fun book I've read this year. I love dark comedy and I love Pride & Prejudice.
A copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith sits on a wooden sideboard. The cover shows a painting of an elegant child with regency era clothes on sitting in a chair. Her eyes are red and there is red liquid dripping from her mouth and hands.
September 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I made a little bookmark holder to sit on my TBR shelf. It is very wobbly but I am rather fond of it.

#booksky
A slightly clumsily sculpted low clay pot painted in a plaster colour with sunflowers up the sides is sat on a wooden bookcase. It is filled with bookmarks, the ones visible at the front is a landscape art work, a red bookmark which reads "books gift magic: and a postcard of a Knight in armour with a huge progress pride flag behind them.
August 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Trying to read my entire physical TBR by the end of 2025
Current total: 27
Days left in year: 126
Confidence I will finish: 7/10

I have re-picked up this book to round out women in translation month - an intersectional book which packs a lot into a short number of pages.

#booksky #diversebooksky
A photo of A Feminist History of Violence by Françoise Vergès
August 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The first 150 pages were slow paced, with learning Chinese history fascinating enough to keep me going.

I cried for at least 85 of the last 150 pages, the gentle building was clearly meant to destroy me later.

#booksky #diversebooksky
The cover of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
August 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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If anyone else has read this, please let me know! I've not been this lost since I studied philosophy in uni 😭

I fear I am the problem, time travel notoriously confuses me.

(I am reading an e-arc to review)

#booksky
The cover of The Moon Glow Bookshop by Dongwom Seo, translated by Shanna Tan
August 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I'm trying to read my whole physical TBR by the end of 2025.
Current total: 28
Days left in year: 130
Confidence that I will complete it: 6/10
Just starting Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (please lemme know your thoughts, I've heard nothing about it)
The cover for Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
August 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Disability Pride book recommendations day 3:

My favourite book of the year so far, featuring PTSD. The writing is beautiful and careful and it's a story of rediscovering yourself in the safety of strong friendships.

#booksky #disabledbooksky
The cover of Overspill by Charlotte Paradise.
July 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Book recommendations for Disability Pride month day 2:

This is one from a pretty popular billionaire romance series, but it also has dyslexia rep! I enjoyed the specific details around accessibility woven into the story.

#romancebooksky #disabledbooksky #diversebooks
A photo of the cover of Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher. The cover also reads, "dreamland billionaires"
July 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Book recommendations for Disability Pride month day 1:

This book manages to be a great introduction if you are new to disability activism and also have some fantastic content I haven't read elsewhere.

#booksky #disabledbooksky #diversebooks
The cover of Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
July 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Talk Data to Me is a very geeky new enemies to lovers romance.

Honestly, it was a little too long and too physics heavy for my taste. But it was fun nonetheless, and I would read more by Rose McGee in the future.

I received an e-arc to review.

#booksky #romancebooksky
The cover of Talk Data to Me by Rose McGee. A white man and woman face each other, their hands almost touching. The desk in front of them is covered in mathematical notes, models of planets and things you would expect to see in an academic setting.
June 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Managed to get this absolute bargain of a bookcase at the weekend for £25!

Is it practical? Not particularly, but it's secondhand and oh so pretty!

#booksky
A photo of a large, wooden bookshelf. It looks a little like a fireplace with carved lines and angles throughout. It only has two shelves, but is about three foot tall and a little wider than it is tall. It looks old and bespoke for where it was first built for.
June 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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So I was doing a challenge to finish all the books I own by the end of the year. Pretty sure this haul wiped out that goal.

Any ideas of which I should read first? (Full list in alt text)

#booksky #diversebooks
A photo of a large stack of 15 books on a sideboard. The books are: Pigeonholed by Gary Younge Five Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K Le Guin The Baby Dragon Cafe by A.T.Qureshi Persuasion by Jane Austen Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 'Til Death by Busayo Mutaluko Loveless by Alice Oseman (the graphic novel) Deep End by Ali Hazelwood In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke We are not Numbers by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam Bailey The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Ordinary Saints by Naimh Ní Mhaoileoin
June 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Found a gorgeous copy of this book at my local independent bookshop so had to buy it.

Next step is pre-ordering Mandanna's new adult fiction which is coming out in a few months!

#booksky
A hand holds up a hardback copy of Vanya and The Wild Hunt by Sangu Mandanna
May 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This book has in the last 10 minutes included buying 13 toothbrushes for an autistic child so she can feel comfortable brushing her teeth and talked about a man who was banished from homeland and has a rusted key round his neck and I am now crying.

#disabledbluesky
The cover of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
April 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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It is release day for this authentic, devastating and hopeful book!

Definitely one to check the content warnings but if you want a story of powerful friendship and Complex PTSD rep, this might be the book for you!

[I received an e-ARC]

@harpercollins.bsky.social

#disabledbooksky
The cover of Overspill by Charlotte Paradise
April 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Current physical books in progress!

Let me know how you found any of them.

#booksky #diversebooksky
A stack of books sit on a bedside table in a rainbow arranged stack. The books are: Frequently Happy by David Larbi Change Activist by Carmel McConnell This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein Poetry Rebellion edited by Paul Evans Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher
April 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I also love Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter is my favourite book. I think a fantastic book for everyone to read right now is Mutual Aid by Dean Spade.
The cover of Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
April 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM