Critics warn that postliterate drift is making us less creative, less informed, and dangerously susceptible to authoritarianism. The fix? Rediscover books as pleasure, not obligation.
felicemosca.com/2026/03/28/r...
#BookTok #ReadingIsResistance #BooksOverPhones #DigitalDistraction
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright 662 pages • paperback • first pub 2023
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright 519 pages • paperback • 2006
Tracker Alexis Wright 620 pages • paperback • first pub 2017
📚💙 🖊️📚💙 #TBR #Australia Praiseworthy, Carpentaria, and Tracker - three books by Alexis Wright #Books #ReadingIsResistance
Just finished Virginia Robert’s Giuffre’s heartbreaking memoir about her abuse at the hands of Epstein and his associates, my first blog post in a series called “Reading as Resistance.” Full post at www.katharineswan.com/2026/02/read...
#readingisresistance #releasethefiles #booksky #blogpost
Next up off my TBR is Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel Half His Age and How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley 📚📖
#booksky #books #currentlyreading #readingisresistance #halfhisage #reader #readersky
2026 Book Blanket Beginnings - a granny square with the cover of "A Borrowing of Bones" by Paula Munier
Decided to create a #bookblanket this year! Here's one of the first granny squares I've made to correspond with "A Borrowing of Bones" by @paulamunier.bsky.social - a thrilling mystery that had me itching to lace up my hiking boots and hit the Lye Brook trails again. #ReadingIsResistance
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Next up off my TBR is George Orwell’s Animal Farm! I’ve been hunting for this one for awhile and am so happy I found a copy! 😁📖
#booksky #currentread #animalfarm #georgeorwell #classics #readingisresistance
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Read sci-fi and romance and encyclopedias and Dickens.
Read fantasy and horror and whimsy and Austen.
Read to your kids, buy them books, be willing to talk to them about what they're reading.
Reading is resistance.
#ReadingIsResistance
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Right now, in the current climate, reading is resistance, reading is rebellion, reading is resilience.
They don't want you curious; they don't want you empathetic; they don't want you thinking.
So resist.
#ReadingIsResistance
And now, my first proper finished book of 2026. A Christmas present from my better half, via @mrjamesob.bsky.social who probably needs to start a book club (Box 88, anyone?). Scary thing is the plot of this could be real
#ASpyAlone
#CharleaBeaumont
#ReadingAsResistance
#ReadingIsResistance
#Booksky
Reposting for no particular reason.
#USPoli
#Protest
#BookSky
#BooksArePolitical
#ReadingIsResistance
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s Progress
1678
#booksky #firstnovel #englishliterature #allegory #christianity #earlymodernliterature #C17 #dreamliterature #protestantliterature #readbooks #readingisresistance #journey
Some reading assignments:
"Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Autonomous Region"
and
"Surviving Autocracy"
Both written by Masha Gessen. I recommend the audio books either from your Library or through Libro.fm.
#readingisresistance
#resist
Even though I finished it today, I'm claiming it as my final finished book of 2025
#IronCouncil
#ChinaMiéville
#ReadingAsResistance
#ReadingIsResistance
#BookSky
A dystopian, cinematic scene set in a decaying futuristic city at night. A woman sits tensely on a worn sofa, lit by a small orange light, while an authority figure looms nearby. Speech bubbles show her listing authors — “Jane Austen, George Eliot… Simone de Beauvoir… Maya Angelou…” — in response to the question “What are you in for?” A guard reacts with hostility, saying “Cut it out or I’ll put you in isolation!” The image satirically portrays women’s reading and intellectual curiosity as something treated like a crime, blending feminist commentary with retro sci-fi noir aesthetics. Design by Monkey Chéri.
Asking for it?
Please tag me if you reshare my work 🙏 #BannedBooks #ReadingIsResistance #Dystopia #BookCulture #SpeculativeArt #ExposeTheMisogyny @booksky.club
The most profound message of racial segregation may be that the absence of people of color from our lives is no real loss.
Robin DiAngelo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
2018
#booksky #readingisresistance #jimcrow #antiracism #implicitbias #contacttheory
They called it explicit.
They took lines out of context.
But Lawn Boy is about poverty, race, queerness, and survival — the things so many Americans live every day.
This is why banned books matter.
#LumosSpin #BannedBooksCountdown #ReadingIsResistance
Cover of Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Photo in the center of the cover shows a seated Lincoln with his cabinet. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
Post 20 books, one daily, that you love from the 2000s in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
My 1st pick: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearnes Goodwin (2005)
#SkyBooks #AmReading #2000sBooks #ReadingChallenge
#Bookstagram
#ReadingIsResistance
#96 — The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
A story about identity, poverty, and belonging — banned for showing what survival really looks like.
Read it. Share it. Protect it.
#LumosSpin #BannedBooks #ReadingIsResistance #BannedBooksCountdown
Cover is black with red title American Predator and white subtitle The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century and red author's name Maureen Callahan. Above the title is the half face of the killer showing his eyes, and below the title is a picture of a deserted tree-lined and lighted road at night dusted with snow.
Red cover with the picture of a boy standing with his back toward the viewer and the title The Boy on the Bridge in white and yellow and the auithor's name M. R. Carey below in black.
October aks Deathtober is almost over & Halloween's coming up fast. I’ve read another 2 suitably scary books since the my last post. Any other horror fans out there? What Halloweeny books have you read this year?
#booksky📚
#audiobooks
#ReadingIsResistance
#horror
#Halloween🎃
Two brown bags from my local bookstore, print on the bag reads "raising passionate readers!"
My copy of "Nobody's Girl" wasn't in yet along with a couple others but I picked up one bag that was ready and accidently brought home another bag full...happy accident. I got a big needle in my knee today so I deserved them...😜📖
#Booksky
#ReadingisResistance
#AltText
“In the 1980s, 60% of American teenagers read for pleasure every day. Now it is under 20%. Nearly half of adults finish fewer than four books a year. We are raising a civilization that does not read.” -Source: Ageless Literature on Instagram #readingisresistance #booksky
Cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny, featuring some of the characters, including The Count and his bat familiar Needle; Snuff the Watchdog, familiar of Jack; The Great Detective; Larry Talbot; Crazy Jill The Witch and her cat familiar Greymalk; The Mad Monk Rastof and his snake familiar Quicklime; The Good Doctor and his creature The Big Man.
The audiobook cover of The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey shows the silhouette of a young girl with arms outstretched against a golden yellow background. Above the title is the sentence that reads: Not every gift is a blessing.
Cover of the audiobook of Stephen King’s Never Flinch and features a statue of Blind Justice holding scales in one hand and a sword in the other, with her eyes covered by a bloody cloth and blood running down her body. All its shades of gray with red for the blood.
Audiobook cover of the Graphic Audio production of Mercy Thompson Night Broken by Patricia Briggs features a woman with dark braided hair, a short black tank top, and tattoos on her arms, holding a walking stick behind her back against a greenish background and a full moon overhead.
October aks Deathtober is almost half over, and Halloween is coming up fast. So far I’ve read four suitably Halloween-y books. Any other horror fans out there? Got any recommendations?
#booksky📚
#audiobooks
#ReadingIsResistance
#horror
#Halloween🎃
It's Banned Books Week! Oct 5-11
Cathay shares why A Brave New World still matters, and why banned books deserve to be read.
#bannedbooksweek #bannedbooks #freedomtoread #readingisresistance #booksnotbans #uucov #progressivefaith #unitarianuniversalist
“How can you teach people to love books if they only read summaries and excerpts?” Reading is not indulgent. It is not a waste of time. It is not lazy. Reading is absolutely crucial for a functioning, well informed populace. It also teaches empathy unlike almost anything else. #readingisresistance
“Isma is free. But freedom has a price.”
We’re reading Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie for our November Books Abroad!
Nov 16th, 10 AM EDT
#booksabroad #GlobalWomensCaucus #bookclub #DemocratsAbroad #ReadingIsResistance
Hunkering on the couch with a book and cocoa and a blanket for the rest of the day. I’m over all of this craziness. It’s called self care. #readingisresistance (reviewing an ARC of A Far-flung Life by ML Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans, because I know someone will ask. So good). #booksky
By the way, I love your #readingisresistance phrase.
