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Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· 29d

Library haul!! 📚 #BlackBookSky #BookSky

My hand holding a paperback copy of The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Cover has who I'm assuming is the main character Fen, a Black woman in a red dress holding a staff.

My hand holding a paperback copy of The Starseekers by Nicole Glover. Front cover looks like a science classroom with a wooden desk and green chalk board. Main character, Cynthia, a Black woman in a long yellow dress.

My hand holding a hardback copy of Black Friday: Short Stories From Africa by Cheryl S. Ntumy. The cover is red with many golden circles.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· 29d

Ya girl is coming back to streaming!!! Aahh I'm so excited!! First stream back we'll be doing what we do best...talking about books ☺️📚 see you next Monday!!

A selfie over a picture of yellow flowers(I forgot the name) in cursive bubbly text above photo: "Coming Back to Streaming!!” below photos "Twitch.tv/SekhmetECA"
The boarder has a burnt orange old film trim.

Bubbly text reads "Return to Stream! July 20th, Monday 4:00pm PST we'll be chatting about books! So come and let me know what you're reading! " In the center is an image of a puppet rat from Bear in the Big Blue House with heart emojis surrounding him. Around the graphic are sparkly hearts and stars.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Jul 6

Up next! #BookSky

Book cover for Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim.
The cover has gradient red-pink lines, a mirrored image of a person walking through the gradient.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Jul 4

Explored a different library branch today & picked this out! Was I sold just cause it had a deer on it?...yes lol but the story sounds good! Drawing inspo from the Mauryan Empire of ancient India we have a prince hellbent on not casting violence, and a witch escaping a witch hunt. 👀 #BookSky

My hand holding up a paperback copy of The Prince Without Sorrow by Maithree Wijesekara. The cover is a white background with a young deer that has a small winged serpent wrapped around one of his antlers.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Jul 2

Show me a cool physical game

My hand holding up disc of Crash Bandicoot 2: Vortex Strikes Back for PlayStation

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Jul 2

Just finished vol 3 of Monster! 👀 I have vol 4 on deck👏🏾.

A physical copy of Monster by Naoki Urasawa vol 3. The cover is a brownish burgundy with framed images of people(who are characters from the story or represent characters).

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Jun 30

My gracious..

Josh Johnson making a quizzical and disgusted look.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Jun 28

Just started The Fake Ghost by Nuzo Onoh! #BlackBookSky This follows a powerful American leader who is reborn as a Black child somewhere in Africa. He soon will meet a medicine man who helps him free his trapped soul. 👀

My hand holding a paperback copy of The Fake Ghost by Nuzo Onoh. The cover is a whispy illustration of a Black man in a suit, holding out a wooden mask, behind him on the left are white wings, the right side is a skull.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Jun 6

Current reads! #BlackBookSky #BookSky

My hand holding my Kobo which displays the cover of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

A hardback library copy of Age of advice by Deepti Kapoor on top of a dark green blanket with white lines creating a geometric design

My hand holding a hardback copy of Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· May 25

Huh??

A Black man holding glasses far from his face to see wtf was just read.
This makes his eyeballs look real small.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· May 22

Up next is How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley. #BookSky

My hand holding my Kobo in front of a bookshelf. Displayed on the screen is the cover of How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley. The cover shows a hand grasping what I'm assuming is a gas can?...a jug of some sort of nefarious green liquid lol.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· May 20

The first sentence had me intrigued: "In an old wardrobe a djinn sits weeping."

My hand holding up a hardback copy of The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan. It's a library copy so it has the glossy cover. The cover has a woman dressed in a red and gold sari, the background is a smokey blue.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· May 15

Read this graphic novel on my lunch break! Very good! Nimmi goes to Sri Lanka for the first time to meet her mother who runs an orphanage for Tamil children. Their reconnection plus Nimmi seeing effects of war first hand creates an informative and touching read. #BookSky #GraphicNovel

My hand holding up a copy of Tall Water by SJ Sindu and Dion MBD. Cover art has Nimmi in a black tank top and green shorts. Standing on a beach looking over her shoulder toward the water.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· May 9

I've been reading The Helm of Midnight by Marina Lostetter and I'm really enjoying this! It's like a crime mystery inside of a fantasy world. There's magic, world lore, gods, monsters, a serial killer, and a copy cat killer?? 👀 #BookSky

My hand holding a paperback copy of The Helm of Midnight by Marina Lostetter. The cover is all black with a figure dressed in full armor with a helmet that has 4 curved horns. They hold a sword facing down in front of them. Title and authors name is in blood red lettering.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· May 2

I wanted to make this little shelf a display of all the short story collections that we have. However I did not realize how many we have 🤣, there are some that are not on this shelf. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

A shelf with these books on them(from left to right):
'Irish Wonders' by D. R. McAnally, Jr.
'Friday Black' by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
'Love in Color' by Bolu Babalola
'No Edges' (editor not listed, it is 'seventh in the Calico Series)
'Seattle Noir' edited by Curt Colbert
'Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination' by Edogawa Rampo translated by James B. Harris
'Midnight & Indigo' edited by Ianna A. Small
'The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018' edited by N.K. Jemisin
'We Will Rise Again' edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malla Older
'Into the Forest' edited by Lindy Ryan
'New Suns' vol 1&2 edited by Nisi Shawl
'Ghostroots' by Pemi Aguda
'Never Whistle at Night' edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr
'Trouble the Waters' edited by Sheree Renèe Thomas
'Sorghum and Spear' edited bySheree Renèe Thomas
'The Whishing Pool' by Tananarive Due
'Haboo' by Vi Hilbert
'Drinking From Graveyard Wells' by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
'Dominion' edited by Zelda Knight & Elpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
'The Dark-Thirty' by Patrica C. McKissack
'African Ghost Short Stories'

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Apr 29

I thought of this and then when searching the cover realized it's steamed buns on the cover not sushi haha. Was the book you saw maybe this?

Book cover for The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu. Steamed buns are in 3 bamboo steamers, the third one the buns are instead planets.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Apr 26

Indie Bookstore Day was so so much fun!! Here's our haul! @enkipnw.tv and I went to stores we had never been to before and that was the best ☺️. Everyone was so nice and excited for the day. #IndependentBookstoreDay #BlackBookSky #BookSky

A picture of 6 books I took on the floor. From top left: Persephone Station by Stina Leicht, All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu, The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu, Sabzi: Vibrant Vegetarian Recipes by Yasmin Khan, and Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Apr 22

Just finished You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado! I really liked this! Also loved the authors note 👏🏾. If this isn't on your tbr it should be! #BlackBookSky #BookSky

My hand holding up my Kobo that has the cover of You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Apr 20

Rewatching season 1 of Frieren and I crying at lil baby Fern! 😭🥹

Lil Fern from Frieren places a teacup and saucer in front of Frieren.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Apr 19

I finished Country Place by Ann Petry and oh my lanta this was mess and drama allll the way through!! 👀 I kept taking pauses to run to my husband and give him an update at what wild thing happened/was revealed. And the narrator?? Oh he can catch these hands 👊🏾. #BlackBookSky

An image of the book cover for Country Place by Ann Petry. A silhouette of a woman in a dress is on the right side, all text is on the left. Her dress is more of an outline of a dress, it has cherries and ruffles. She's also wearing a big sunhat.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Apr 10

This sends me into a rage everytime.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Apr 8

I'm really in a 'I just wanna start every book mood' lol 😂. My hold for Audition by Katie Kitamura just came through. #BookSky #MoodReader

My hand holding up my K*ndle that is displaying the cover of Audition by Katie Kitamura. Stickers on the cover say "Booker Prize 2025 Shortlisted", "Women's Prize Longlisted - fiction 2026”, and "The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist".

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Apr 3

I absolutely love embossing my books 💖🥰 #BlackBookSky #BookSky

A golden circular sticker with points on a book page, the stamp from the embosser reads "From The Library Of Emmarae Empowered"

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Mar 30

I started The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell yesterday. I'm only a few pages in but I'm really enjoying this snarky Raven! Also just wanted to point out that this hardcover copy has the softest book pages I've ever felt lol 😂 Every time I pick it up I go "oh wow so soft" #BookSky

My hand holding up a cover of The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell. The cover has beautiful formline artwork which shows ravens, salmon, and canoes. The main colors are red, while, light blue, and black.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Mar 27

Catch me in the corner at any function with a book 😂👏🏾 this was at SeaBattle. 🐙

Me sitting against a brick wall. I'm clapping for some reason lol don't remember why. A book is in my lap, specifically The Last Dreamwalker by Rita Woods.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Mar 22

Bulbasaur in her bonnet, well rested and unbothered 💁🏾‍♀️. We'll be like this while I play Pokopia haha.

A sleeping Bulbasaur plush with my bonnet on lol. It covers the bulb. The bonnet is tan, orange, yellow, and dark brown. With symbols on it.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Mar 21

Starting Stealing Thunder by Alina Boyden this morning for the #TransRightsReadathon! #BookSky

My hand holding a paperback copy of Stealing Thunder by Alina Boyden in front of a packed bookshelf.
The book cover shows a woman standing in an arch way, sun is glowing all around her.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Mar 20

Anytime I see the author of Project of Hail Mary I remember that post he made where he said he likes to dress his wife up in different outfits using AI 💀.

Screenshot from a video of a post by Andy Weir that says "Again, I got bored and had AI make images of my wife in strange outfits and time periods. This is my wife as a prehistoric cave woman. She really..." Text cuts off there. Image has been cropped out cause nobody wanna see that mess.

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Mar 19

Lol I got it on a mug 🤣👏🏾 iconic bookish moment.

A small white mug that has the text "I have personally explained the process to you, Debra."

Emmarae 💚🧿@emmaraeempowered· Mar 17

I feel like I blinked and my locs got so long. 😊 I love my them so much. Can't wait till my shoulder heals so I can do some fun styles with this length! 👏🏾