There's a fresh episode of Hey YA today. @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about some of the most exciting new young adult books hitting shelves in the month of August: bookriot.com/listen/new-y...
The book The Conjuring of America by Lindsey Stewart
Just got this. So excited to start it 🙂↕️
Did you know that since 2024, the AALBC has kept a monthly list of the bestselling books by Black authors? April's list includes James, Happy Land, and Seven Days in June.
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
#BlackSky
#PublishingWatch
This is the future of book recommendations when libraries are defunded and dismantled. Trained professionals are removed in exchange for this made up, inaccurate garbage.
Are you fighting yet?
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
It’s uncanny
Excited for this new series I spearheaded that looks at how resistance has run alongside literature and libraries, now and throughout American history.
#Booksky 💙📚
bookriot.com/introducing-...
House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
“I don’t think enough people recognize how the normalization of human suffering and disposability happen. When you stop caring about any group of people and their suffering…you also become more vulnerable to the violence they’re experiencing.”
organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...
BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for banning books and curricula about race and gender at schools on military bases around the world.
This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.
Tomorrow night! @erikatwurth.bsky.social. Yours truly. At @bookpeople.bsky.social. If you’re anywhere near Austin, I hope you come hang out and talk spooky things with us. Register for free here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
Right, like please build a library or something 😩
Altadena Library is hosting a day of community and family fun, featuring Levar Burton on Saturday, March 22 from 10 am to 1 pm
Happening this Saturday in Altadena, California:
Now see, this is my kind of carrying on
Tune into this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about some of the most interesting new releases of March, this year's Summer Scares Selections, the FOREVER . . . adaptation, and more: bookriot.com/listen/ya-bo...
“Don’t obey in advance, and don’t obey later” is a bar 🗣️ 🔥
Tune in to this week's episode of Hey YA, where @erica-eze.bsky.social and I highlight some of the best YA books hitting shelves this month.
bookriot.com/listen/febru...
Right! I honestly thought it wouldn’t happen 🙌🏾
Surprised Beyoncé actually won album of the a year. It make sense—it’s her best, most ambitious album—but I’m surprised. It also seems like they were low-key shading the CMAs with that best country album award 😂
This is why it's so important to learn history.
It's EMPOWERING, not just instructive.
Catch up on the best new YA books to hit shelves in January and get the info on joining @erica-eze.bsky.social and I for a Sweet Valley High book club next month: bookriot.com/listen/best-...
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." — Fredrick Douglass
I mean, I would like to see it
This was def a highlight 🥹
Look at that horse
Look at that horse
Look at that horse #beyonce
@krileytips.bsky.social
Ok, you got it with this lol
On this week's episode of Hey YA, @erica-eze.bsky.social and I talk about our favorite YA reads of the year, as well as trends we noticed throughout the year.
For me, it was reading a lot more historical fiction than usual & being okay with far LESS reading.
bookriot.com/listen/favor...
This is also happening at a time when there’s increased loneliness and men turning to red pill ideology, which I think are all connected.
Stand with the workers.
Here's also a reminder that most book stores don't pay a living wage and that distinction between minimum and living wage really matters.
bookriot.com/indie-bookst...
