I finally read Nemesis and I think this has to be one of my favorite Christie novels so far! Thanks for the awesome rec @e-b-reads 🖤

Well read | Melanin Adorned

Day 12: JOMPBPC: Books And Candles

Four beautiful books and some cute & spooky halloween candles! 💞🎃

But at least we can always pick up a book and read it anew. Stories offer a thousand fresh starts. 🕯️🌸

Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

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Got this cassette player at a secondhand store and i’m in love with it

🕯 “The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.” Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

Back to reading tarot cards, a book on occultism, candles, and quiet nights. 

@merueiledreams

“El origen de las especies”, de Charles Darwin

✨Yellow book stack✨

thanks for tagging me @appleinducedsleep <3

ignore the tiny birb I'm tempted to re-read tin man and put myself through pain now that it's in front of me again.

tagging (if you want to): @adhyayana-v, @aliteraryprincess, @therefugeofbooks, @gushuwa, @booktheraepy

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Letter writing is the only device for combining the solitude with good company

- Lord Byron

Two books by Queer Black authors I read recently that you might enjoy!

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends--some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community.

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the impending destruction of their community, each woman—fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves—must confront long-hidden scars.

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I haven't the least idea what was that book about 😳

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