Micareads 📚

I have a nagging desire to do nothing but read nonfiction and drink coffee for the foreseeable future

We love N.K. Jemisin over here 🙌🏻

Such a sweet movie!! 🥺

Nice to meet you! 😊👋🏻

The joy I feel when an audiobook contains content warnings at the beginning ✨

“This is fine” meme. Dog sitting at table surrounded by fire, speech bubble says “I have work tomorrow”

i have this meme saved to my favorites folder for times like these

Yes! I have a link in my bio 😊

The image is a graphic containing 15 book covers, lined up in 3 rows of 5. The background is a faded image of several open books, overlapping. The 15 books pictured, from top left to bottom right, are: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryle Aoki Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou Babel by R.F. Kuang Real Life by Brandon Taylor This Is How You Lose Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Defekt by Nino Cipri In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Hi! Let me reintroduce myself. I’m Mica, and I love to read!

Here’s a little about me:

🇨🇦 I live in Canada
📚 I believe reading is political
🌈 I love queer, fantasy, scifi, litfic and nonfic books
🌎 I think reading diversely is critical

If you love any of these books, let’s be friends!

#booksky

Perhaps a tandem read will be in order! Thanks for the tip! 🙌🏻

Exciting!! We may need to discuss it when we read it. 👀

I like what I’m hearing! Happy you liked it. On the surface, this book seems to check all of my boxes. Kind of nervous to read it because of how much I’m hyping it up in my own head.

The image shows a hand holding a hardcover copy of Metal from Heaven by August Clarke. The cover contains purple and green artwork of soldiers overlooking a city.

The image shows the summary inside the dust jacket of the book. The text reads as follows: "WHEN MY VIOLENCE SUBSIDES, WE WILL HAVE NOTHING, AND BE CHAMPIONS." Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory illness befalling them. Marney Honeycutt, a luster-touched child worker, stands proud at the picket line with her best friend and family. That's when Chauncey sends in the guns. Only Marney survives the massacre. She vows bloody vengeance. A decade later, Marney is the nation's most notorious highwayman, and Chauncey's daughter seeks an opportune marriage. Marney's rage and the ghosts of her past will drive her to masquerade as an aristocrat, outmaneuver powerful suitors, and win the heart of his daughter, so Marney can finally corner Chauncey and satisfy her need for revenge. But war ferments in the north, and deeper grudges are surfacing... "A glorious, breakneck, dyke revenge story." -Em X. Liu "A queer, bloody love letter to rebellion." —Nino Cipri

Has anyone read Metal from Heaven by August Clarke? I impulse ordered it as soon as I heard about it.

A sapphic revenge story? Political fantasy? For fans of Gideon the Ninth? Blurbed by Nino Cipri (among many others)?? Why haven’t I seen people talking about this?

It’s 2025.
Take your hogwarts house out of your bio.

The picture shows a paperback copy of The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez resting on a green fuzzy blanket.

No book has ever made me seriously consider shelling out hundreds of dollars for an out-of-print special edition quite like The Spear Cuts Through Water. 🥲

I’m not generally a collector of special editions, but please SOMEONE publish another run of this book in hardcover. 😭

Thank you!! 🫶 Reposted 🥰

New list of creators to follow to build this community! 👇🥰

Thank you for the rec! I think I will do a tandem read for it. 🥰

I keep seeing people rave about it! I did really enjoy Sword of Kaigen, but I think I might like this one more.

Going to try to squeeze this in next month 🤞🏻

I’d like to join! 👉🏻👈🏻💗

To new people who have joined, there is a really handy feature for labelling your pronouns at @pronouns.adorable.mom

Check content warnings first, but I highly recommend it if you love fantasy!

The image shows a book, The Sword of Kaigen, resting on a white sheet.

Y’all, I think chapter 27 of The Sword of Kaigen, The Duel, might be my favourite chapter of any book ever? And that’s coming from a reader who struggles with fight scenes. So brilliantly and beautifully executed. 🥹

#booksky #theswordofkaigen #fantasybooks #fantasybooksky

Thank you for including me on this list of stellar creators 🫶🥹

If you’re new to #booksky and looking for fellow book reviewers, I put together a starter pack with some of my fav creators who I first found on #booktok! ❤️

go.bsky.app/5xvhA7Q

Looking for queer, BIPOC and/or disabled BookTok? 👇

Let me know if you want to be added!
#booksky #booktok #bipocbooksky #queerbooksky #blackbooksky #disabledbooksky

go.bsky.app/Ax5LErr

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tip for posting alt text.

there's a setting under accessibility that won't let you hit 'post' until you've added alt text

I looked at some of the Tome App’s stuff… it’s def giving cis/straight/white fantasy, considering almost every post they made on insta or tt heavily features ACOTAR and 4th wing.

I’ll be watching what happens but unless a lot of my diverse reading community joins I’ll pass.

#booksky

welcome booktok

please remeber to be kind, add alt text to images and to take time to breathe

heres a starter pack i threw together of people who read and review books. Also added a few feeds that you might like <3

go.bsky.app/PP7xTyL

#booksky #Booktok

Thank you for including me here. 🫶 I’m so grateful to be in such good company. 🥰