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I‘ve been wanting to read Audre Lorde for a long time and now I‘ll definitely be reading more by her.

✅ memoir
✅ coming of age
✅ lgbtq author
✅ Black author
✅ 1950s New York

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@Andrew65 !

I finally finished this yesterday and I really liked it. I love a good memoir, or biomythography as she calls it. It was so interesting to read about 1950s New York City and see it through the eyes of one Black woman coming of age and into her (homo)sexuality. She has a very poetically descriptive writing style I enjoyed and I will definitely be seeking out more books by her.
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#ghostsofxmas #wintergames @BookwormAHN

#20in4 Readathon time with @Andrew65 !

My goals:
✒️ finish Zami - 18 chapters
❤️ Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown - 2 chapters
🐴 She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo - 4 poems
🟰 20 chapters and 4 poems
😝 20 and 4 for 20 in 4
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👻🎄 Get some points for #GhostsOfXmas and #wintergames !

Gorgeous writing about the poets life growing up in Harlem
It was a bit slow going for me, but I appreciate the writing and storytelling.
4⭐
This is part of my #14booksin14weeks2023 list! This has been on my TBR since 2019
@TheHeartlandBookFairy

"I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks."

Lorde was a gorgeous writer.

#firstlinefriday
@ShyBookOwl

Weekly forecast!
I am already behind on #14booksin14weeks so getting 2 done this week Zami & Not Without Laughter
I am reading We Hunt the Flame with my niece
And I grabbed The Magician on audio from the library.

Big Gay Bingo Card!

Ready to goooo!

#bookspinbingo
@thearomaofbooks

I LOVE YOU AUDRE LORDE

there‘s no other way to describe her writing style, just LESBIAN

I love the works of Audre Lorde, so I‘m excited to get to this one from my TBR!

#IntegrateYourShelf @ChasingOm

Get your reading done right 🍓🍓

Sadly I didn't love this as much as I thought, despite some stunning writing. I sometimes had trouble emotionally connecting with Audre and wanted more content about poetry and libraries. I was disappointed she labelled butch femme culture inherently oppressive role playing and said she can tell who is a lesbian by looking. I see how this is a queer classic (Black lesbian classic specifically) but it didn't always translate to an enjoyable read.

"With no intent and less insight, I fashioned this girl of wind and ravens into a symbol of surrogate survival, and fell into love like a stone off a cliff."
#QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQ #BlackBooks

I loved the last queer classic I owned but had never gotten around to reading (Mrs Dalloway), so I thought I'd do another! Don't miss the photobomb by my dog. 🐩 #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQ #AudreLorde

Gorgeous prose, some weird bits, but overall a pick.

I‘ve been in a bit of a reading slump, but thanks to self-isolation I might get out of it - for one thing I‘ve got to read these library books asap.

So, let‘s see how far I get.

Easily one of the best books I‘ve ever read in my life.

Here‘s what I plan to read in March. I‘m also rounding my recommendations up each month in a tinyletter if you want to subscribe! tinyletter.com/tholmz

#currentlyreading

Lorde wrote a powerful book about coming of age in the 50s.Black, poor , Lesbian, she knew she would be a poet.She also knew all the things she was will make her voice unforgettable.Leaving home at 17 , she worked grueling jobs to keep herself alive .Plath knew she would be a poet too . Her book the Bell Jar and Lordes book both have sections on NYC in 1953 where the execution of the Rosenbergs are on the minds of both women.

I've been splurging too much this month but I regret nothing 🤗 #TBR

I love Audre Lorde‘s sad, poetic writing about herself and her relationships, and loved the book in general. Reading about lesbian culture in New York in the 50s made me feel uneasy because of me being bi and feeling unwelcome in a lot of queer women‘s spaces, and thinking I would have been unwelcome there, but my own issues aside, Lorde is a visionary writer whose bittersweet, difficult life story is very worth telling.

Perfect contemplative Saturday morning with Audre Lorde. This is slow to read cause there‘s just so much to think about and let sink in, but I love it. It‘s bright and cold in Surrey today and I‘m at my boyfriend‘s house in the most comfortable chair in the known universe

Fitting in a few pages with Audre before my boyfriend gets here for the theatre 💖

Got off work early and went to read Audre Lorde in an expensive coffee and hot chocolate place. Happy birthday to me!

Lunch date with Audre Lorde

Keeping black history month going! I loved Sister outsider, then I heard very good things about this book. Audre Lorde seems like such an important woman whose voice we need to hear. I‘m looking forward to connecting with her in this book.

Audre Lorde has been one of those writers I‘ve been meaning to read for years, and she‘s every bit as good as I was envisaging. She writes about her time growing up in a stifled home, her parents, racism, 1950s NY and being a gay woman then, a stint in Mexico and mostly about her girlfriends and relationships. It‘s honest, lyrical and completely engaging. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Calling it a day at 20 hours. Think it‘s the most I‘ve read for #24in48. Read the bottom three books, which were all great (The Choice especially), and started the top two.

This.....👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #Audrelorde #books #women

I've been thinking long and hard about this question since @TheBookbabeblog84 tagged me. I read so much as a kid, that I couldn't think of anything. The more I though about it, the more I realized my reading was just stories about people like me. White. So the books I'd give my younger self would come from authors like these. Talented men and women of color whose works I'm catching up on now, and learning a lot from! #recommendsday #bannedbooks

#riotgrams : I love all my notebooks and journals. Here is one of my favorites, from an etsy shop called Vagabroad Journals. I have two of her journals and I don't write in them enough, but I aspire to be as bold as Audre Lorde in Zami.

#junebookbugs day 2 #lgbtqauthors great photo theme!Makes me look through the bookcases in a new way.

So in preparation for my reading plan for next year -- read only books I already own -- I pulled a bunch off the shelf and realized I almost have enough to do the #LitsyAtoZ challenge! I am only missing books starting with J, Q, and X. I'm kind of surprised I don't own a book that starts with "queer," actually. Maybe I can fill the extra letters in with audiobooks, which I always get from the library. Any recs for those letters?

This is a few days late for #SeasonsReadings2016 but here are a few #ClassicsIHaventRead. These might not be what you'd think of first as classics, but both of these are feminist and queer classics. WHISPER THEIR LOVE, an original lesbian pulp, is even part of the Little Sister's Classics series by Arsenal Pulp Press. #QueerBooks

This quote!!! 😍💓

#orangecovers for #photoadaynov16 - I've been down with the plague 😵 got a lot of catching up to do!

Tonight's book for my class, ZAMI. Although what I REALLY wanna read are all these new books I've got. I clearly don't have the attention span for college classes.

Orange (& black) books. 🎃 #hauntedbooktober

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