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In "Stop Telling Women To Smile" by Tatyana Fazializadeh uses her arresting street art portraits to explore how women experience hostility in communities that are supposed to be
homes.She addresses the pervasiveness of
street harassment,it's effects and the kind of activism that can serve to counter it.
The result is a cathartic recognizing with the aggression women endure,and an examination
of what equality truly entails
#books#comicbooks#comicbookseries#booksodon#booksofmastodon#blackfriday #blackmastodon#blackfediverse
These comicstrips are too funny,had this book for some time,needed a laugh or two today.Huey and Riley,their grandfather, and crazy ass Uncle Ruckus to damn funny
The series was created by Arron McGruder
Here's the first big book of The Boondocks,more than four years and 800 strips of one of the most influential, controversial,and scathingly funny comics ever to run in a daily newspaper
So, I was tagged on Intagram by facetious_manga to talk about my "Bookstagram Backstory." I don't know if a Pixelfed equivalent exists. Bookselfed? Pixelbook? I don't know, I'll use both hashtags and share.
Regardless. Let's go, I guess.
When did I start on Bookstagram?
This account is and remains a personal account. While I post (often), about manga, this isn't exclusively about books or manga. My first post was in April 2016. Wow...that's a long time ago. I started getting more active in posting about books / manga, participating in things like "25 Days of Manga" in 2020. But it was early 2023 when I started posting a lot more manga pics / reviews.
What inspired your username?
I started on Twitter and needed a small handle. MD - I'm from Maryland, MRN - My initials. 83 - I'm old.
What was your 1st review?
The first "review" I posted was saying that the Free Comic Book Day 2016 Firefly comic was good. It got more detailed in my reviews after that.
Favorite part of Bookstagram?
The community. So may good folks to talk, discuss, and share.
Booksta made me buy?
My Lovesick Life as a 90s Otaku. I couldn't NOT get it, the reviews were just too much and I was not disappointed.
Aesthetic?
Middle aged nerdy, bearded Dad-core? I really have no idea.
Recent reads?
A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Ōima
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku by Fujita
Re-Reading Your Lie in April by Naoshi Arakawa
Describe your aesthetic using emojis
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Tagging no one. Feel free to participate if you like!
The first page of my "Fantasy/Attempted Comedy" story, The Last Philosopher.
I've been rewriting it again, but this first page still has some issues.
The question is would you keep reading? ☺️
Excited to have finished reading Crime and Punishment by #Dostoyevsky . Was always intimidated by the sheer length but stuck with it and found it quite satisfying. E-Book version let me increase the font and read on my phone in the middle of the night. So much more worthwhile than mindless scrolling. Lots to digest and will revisit it again sometime in the future. #BooksofMastodon#Reading#BooksWorthReading#Literature
I have a 6th-grade (13 years old) student who is at grade level in his reading and does well in English class, but feels unmotivated to read on his own. The only two series he's really gotten into are #HarryPotter and Percy Jackson.
Edit: I knew Mastodon was the place to ask this :ablobmeltsoblove: Thanks to each and every one of you who replied! I can't respond individually, but I did take each suggestion into consideration. 1/2
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Firekeepers Daughter by Angeline Boulley
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
We Are Ok by Nina LaCour
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Ive been trying to track down a book I read and loved as a kid and have searched for, but can't remember the author or title, so thought maybe the fediverse could help me track it down.
I read it in the late 80's / early 90's, but I remember the cover art being a bit "old fashioned" so it technically could have been published the 70's or earlier.
The story revolved around a kid/kids moving to (or just spending the summer at) an old American farmhouse that was haunted by the ghost of a young boy in "wild west" style clothes. The main plot is the kids solving the mystery of the ghost boys death, that involved a train heist 100 years earlier and the boy being killed for betraying the gang who did the heist.
I think. like I say, I read it 30+ years ago, but remember loving it and would now love to read it to my kids.
Any ideas out there? Anyone remember a book like that?