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Nadezhda
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Lover of books & good vibes.
(If I like a comment, it doesn't mean I agree entirely) ♡🖤♡
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I'm in #reading deficit having purchased more than I've read in #August so let's lead with some of the additions to my bookshelf (see alt).

2 #books read in August:
📖 Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka 👌🏽
📖 Unravelling by Preethi Nair

Currently reading: 📚 Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
A picture of 5 books, spines up. From left to right the books ate as follows: 1. Katabasis by Rebecca Kuang 2. The Day I Fell off the Island by Yvonne Bailey-Smith 3. All the Blood is Red by Leone Ross 4. Eighteen by Alice Loxton 5. The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
August 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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It's wrap-up time... July has passed so here we go:

I consumed 5 books (details in alt). I explored the vivid & intricate world mapped out by Marlon James.
The emotional roller coaster (and frustration) Sabina Khan took me on and the voices, of women, not witches.

#wrapup #Booksky #Books #Read
From left to right: 🎧 Concrete Rose (audio) by Angie Thomas narrated by Dion Graham. 3/5 📖 Meet Me in Mumbai by Sabina Khan. 3.5/5 📖Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 4/5 🎧Black Leopard, Red Wolf (audio) by Marlon James narrated by Dion Graham. 4/5 📖 Queen Macbeth by val McDermid. 3/5
August 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Marlon James has taken me on an epic journey in Black Leopard Red Wolf.

My goodness, I want to read the next saga right away, but equally I want to digest what I've just read.

#BlackLeopardRedWolf #Fantasy #ReadMoreBooks #Booksky
Image of the book cover for Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
July 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I have to pause reading Black Leapord Red Wolf by Marlon James, in favour of reading book club choice.... Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs.

Conflicted, I'm looking forward to it but I don't want to leave the epic world I'm currently in 😭📚📖

#BookClub #Fantasy #MagicalWorld #BookSky #Read #TBR
Picture the book Black leapord red wolf which with the title and author name bold in white. Back drop is purples and blue sith a type of jungle feel Picture of the cover for Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs. Ferry flames are bold on the cover in orange with an image of an open book with 3 leaves coming out of it. All set on a blue background
July 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Finally starting the epic Dark Star Trilogy (which is currently a duology) by Marlon James, book 1: 'Black Leapord, Red Wolf'

#Reading #Fantasy #Booksky #BlackBookSky #TBR #ReadCaribbean #Books
Picture of the book Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James. The title and author name written in while bold letters on a predominately shades of blue with a hint of purple background which has a slight jungle effect.
June 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Currently reading 'John Crow's Devil' by Marlon James.....

I can not wait to finish work so that I can settle back into it 👌🏽📚

#ReadCaribbean #Books #Reading
June 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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I finally read Steve Cavanagh's Th1rt3en.

Crime/Courtroom thriller, Absorbing. Fast paced, with lots of "oh my".
Not quite edge of the seat for me, but was still a great read.

#BeatTheBacklog #BookSky #ReadMoreBooks #Thriller #Th1rt3en
The picture is the cover of the book Th1rt3en, a crime thriller by Steve Cavanagh.
June 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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May is pretty much over and it's been a disappointing month. I traveled into space, visited a village in Japan and was trapped in a made up place.

I can't say I particularly enjoyed any of the books read, no standouts, just a few OKs and mehs.

Details in alt...

#Booksky #Wrapup #Read #Books
1) Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 2) The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton 3) The Final Wife by Jenny Blackhurst (audio) 4) Orbital by Samantha Harvey 5) Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley 6) The Neighbours by Renita D'Silva (audio)
May 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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April was an interesting month for me. The Daevabad world still lives with me, having completed the trilogy and supplement.

I've delved into some messy people's lives 👀 and reflected on the manipulation and ruthlessness within the publishing industry.

Book list in alt 🤗
#BookSky #Books #ReadMore
1) Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty 2) The Croydon Cat Killer by Tucker Tooley Entertainment 3) One House Over by Mary Monroe 4) Cursed by Raw 5) The Fool Who Thought Too Much by Ishmael Reed 6) The Door to Tamba by Ishmael Beah 7) Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 8) The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty 9) Rosewater by Liv Little
April 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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March wrap-up #booksky

March saw me delve deep into the world of Daevabad & I'm currently absorbed in the last of the trilogy.

Learn about Julian of Norwich, read a little satire and laugh out loud thanks to a man that just wanted his peace.

Details in alt

#ReadMoreBooks #Escapism #Books
Starting from left and read in columns: 1. City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty 2. The Fatal Egg by Mikhail Bulgakov 3. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Bali Kaur Jaswal 4. The Answer is No by Fredrik Backman 5. Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty 6. For thy Great Pain Have Mercy on my Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie
April 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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January Wrap up of #books read and my goodness this has got to be the most I've ever read in a month; 15! 6 Audio🎧 & 9 Digital📖
(Note to self: I must go out more).
OK #BookSky #BlackBookSky the full list of books is in "alt"
Happy #reading everyone.

1 paragraph, 1 page, 1 chapter, 1 book at a time.
List of 15 books that I've read in January. Corresponding to the images starting from the left going down Column 1: ▪︎ 📖 Yuh Can't Stop De Carnival: A West Indian Story by Vidya Birkhoff 5☆ ▪︎ 📖 Nigerian Men Will Stain Your White by Alexandra Humphrey 2.5☆ ▪︎ 🎧 Murder at the Book Club by Betsy Reavley 2.5☆ ▪︎ 📖 The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden 3☆ Column 2: ▪︎ 🎧 Wicked by Gregory Maguire 2.5☆ ▪︎ 🎧 Wynnona Earp: Tales from Purgatory by Emily Andras 3☆ ▪︎ 📖 The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden 2.5☆ ▪︎ 📖 Not From Round Here: Memoirs of a Soft Southener Up North by Bradley Chermside 2☆ Column 3: ▪︎ 🎧 No Child... by Nilaja Sun 1.75☆ ▪︎ 📖 Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love by Huma Quereshi 4☆ ▪︎ 🎧 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler 3.5☆ ▪︎ 📖 A Classic Case by Alicia Thompson 3☆ Column 4: ▪︎ 🎧 1984 by George Orwell 3☆ ▪︎ 📖 The Housemaid by Freida McFadden 3* ▪︎ 📖 The Housemaid's Wedding by Freida 1☆
February 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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#BookSky and thriller lovers.... I avoided the hype long enough to be able to pick up Freida McFadden's 'The Housemaid'... it started of quite samey... but yoooooooooooo!!!

What in the actual, it was refreshing to not see or be able to predict what was coning! Very gripping!
#Read #Books #Thriller
Book cover of Freida McFadden's 'The Housemaid' Gradient blue background with the title name written in yellow. Above the title is a key hole with someone' pressed up against it so you can only see the eye and a little of the cheek bone.
January 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Reading Humar Qureshi's 'Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love'.
This collection of short stories is beautiful, real, shocking and oh my, I'm only 4 stories in but it really does capture the things we do not tell those we love.

#Booksky #recommended #Read #books #ShortStories #Love
January 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Well!! This book was very same same, usual themes "Where's your husband" "flaunt your wealth" "girlie's chatting"..... and then ... AND THEN .... the end!! 😲 😱🤯👀😭

#Book: Nigerian Men Will Stain Your White by Alexandra Humphrey #Booksky #BlackBooksky
The cover of Nigerian Men Will Stain Your White by Alexandra Humphrey. The cover is beige with an emoji of a black woman with a white top on carrying a stain. At the bottom of the cover I added a shocked bitmoji gasping, to reflect my reaction to the end of the book because wooooooah that was wild!!
January 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Currently reading this stunning graphic novel by Deena Mohamed. 'Your Wish is My Command' aka 'Shubeik Lubeik'.

#GraphicNovel #BookSky #TranslatedBooks #Books #Art #Read
January 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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2nd day of January, reading "Yuh can't stop de carnival: a West Indian story" by Vidya Birkhoff. 📖

Listening to "Wicked: by Gregory Maguire 🎧

#Booksky
#BlackBoosky
#Audiobooks #Books
The cover of yuh can't stop de carnival by Vidya Birkhoff. A black background with a silver masquerade mask The cover of Wicked by Gregory Maguire, narrated by John McDonough. The cover showing Glinda and Elphaba. WARNING: this book is NOT family friendly. "Now a major motion picture" is deceiving as the book contains strong adult themes not portrayed in the film nor stage show.
January 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Just finished reading this beauty & it's no exaggeration to say its 5⭐️ 10/10.
I was fully immersed. Also listened to the audiobook, read by the author Leone Ross; woooi how the world opened up!

I'll miss the characters but will 100% visit them again.

#Popisho #BookSky #ThisOneSkyDay #BlackBookSky
December 19, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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Lmaaaaaao 🤣😭😳😂 not the pum pum dropping out.

Y'all #booksky #blackbooksky need to read/listen to this book:
This One Sky Day aka Popisho by Leone Ross.

My goodness I'm not even half way through yet. There is so much going on.
This world is so rich and alive....the characters.... Read it!!! #book
December 8, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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November Wrap-up 18 books consumed.
📚4 physical 🎧14 audio
Favourites:
▪︎Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy
▪︎Unmarriageale by Soniah Kamal
▪︎Terror Kid by Benjamin Zephaniah
▪︎In Memoriam by Alice Winn
▪︎Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar

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#booksky #blackbooksky
#Readers #Books
▪︎Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy ▪︎Unmarriageale by Soniah Kamal ▪︎Terror Kid by Benjamin Zephaniah ▪︎In Memoriam by Alice Winn ▪︎Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar ▪︎Life Ever After by Carla Grauls ▪︎Love for Life by Saman Shad ▪︎Halfway by Michael Honnah and Imeldha Eloni ▪︎Daddies by Paul Kruse ▪︎10 Rules for the Perfect Murder by James Patterson ▪︎The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie ▪︎The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr ▪︎Heart by Jade Anouka ▪︎The Christmas Party by Kathryn Croft ▪︎Stranded by Chris Bruno et Al ▪︎My Mum's a Twat by Anoushka Warden ▪︎The Set Up by Falguni Kothari ▪︎The Cube by Adam Rapp
December 1, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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#Booksky Magical Realism/ Fantasy/ read Caribbean #book lovers 'This One Sky Day' #popisho by Leone Ross is for you.
I'm not even half way, (slow reading) but I'm immersed in this world of wonders and joy.
IF you have the UK release I implore you to read along with audio to capture the true essence👌🏽
The cover if the audible book This One Sky Day, also known As Popisho by Leone Ross. The image shows the sea in pink along the shore in a sandy pink The cover of the book Popisho by Leone Ross which seems to depict a being holding a mango which (or liquid nectar, or something yellow liquid in nature) being poured into a rock or a tusk whist in the arm there is an orange looking mango or stone. There are Rockland a leg popping out of the Sea with seemingly another being tip toeing across and standing on rocks. Disclaimer... please do not take my description as accurate.
December 1, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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On the days I can't sit down and cosy with a book audiobooks come to the rescue.

Today's book was 'Love for Life' by Saman Shad, narrated by Zenia Starr and Adil Jain.

So much hope, joy, smiles, 🤗👌🏽
#Audiobooks #books #Booksky
November 26, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Completed 2 #audiobooks today.
Stranded wasn't for me, t'was too noisy for want of a better word but it would appeal to those that like the movie"Girls Trip"(which I enjoyed) it's that energy. The Cube however; Visceral! Emotive & thought provoking.
Don't be put off by the opening its wild.
#Booksky
Image of the audiobook Stranded by Chris Bruno, David Howard Lee and Shukri Abdi. Narrated by Taraji Henson, Tracey Ellis Ross Blake Griffin Image of the cover for The Cube audiobook written by Adam Rapp and narrated by Carla Gugino and Juliana Canfield. Picture shows a hazy shadowed figure hands against the glass/screen
November 25, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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I relish the feeling of starting a new book and reading those opening lines for the first time; that time is here again...
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross 🤗📖

(P.s... can we just admire the sprayed edges for a moment)
#Booksky #Books #Reading #Spredges #ThisOneSkyDay
November 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Soniah Kamal's book 'unmarriageable' 💯
Truly didn't want it to end.
A real modern adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. It is whitty and observant. I enjoyed the nuances between cultures, young & mature, wealth, education, tradition.

I read and listened. Audio by Rasheeda Ali, brilliant #Booksky #Books📚
November 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Audible lock screens, we should start a thread lol
November 21, 2024 at 9:50 PM