KB Brookins Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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they/them | 2023 @NEAarts fellow | author of #HTIYWAW @PressGaia ('22), FREEDOM HOUSE @DeepVellum ('23) & PRETTY @aaknopf ('24) | rep: @talllike3apples
U: Monogram Initial U Letter Ruled Notebook for Women, Girl and School, Pink Floral Cover 8.5'' x 11'', 100 pages
Happy BooksKB Brookins@JustSayMJ happy 4 u & looking fwd to these books! 🤗
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White Egrets: Poems
Derek WalcottKB Brookinscurrent reads are a mix btw @GabrielleBates' JUDAS GOAT (audiobook), Derek Walcott's WHITE EGRETS, & Alice Oswald's MEMORIAL. let's see what I finish first 😅 I got more detailed thoughts on storygraph (earthtokb on there ofc), & hope to place more longform reviews #soon!
Paperback, 2011
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frost: Poems: Edited by John Hollander
Robert FrostKB Brookins@IAmSubVersive 🤣this video, but yes! if robert frost can not care ab anybody getting his poems, then I am allowed not to care ab white ppl not getting my poems🤷🏾♂️
Hardcover, 1997
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text
DanteKB Brookinsnah fr, I'm thinking about spending summer 2023 reading old ass texts that I haven't read yet. the illiad, the odyssey, dante's inferno... I wanna see what the classics is hitting for😂 if you'd like to read them with me (I'm thinking a book a week?) for 15 weeks DM me.
Paperback, 2021
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Zong!
M. Nourbese PhilipKB Brookinsomg realized after I posted that I also re-read Zong by M NourbeSe Philip & American Sonnets by Terrance Hayes. but who’s counting🤠great yr for my eyes & ears!
Out of stock
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
Brian BroomeKB Brookins11th read was an audiobook of PUNCH ME UP TO THE GODS by Brian Broome. truly no notes! a difficult-but-perfect book if I've ever read one. https://t.co/wLG8QfNadt
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad
Alice OswaldKB Brookinscurrent reads are a mix btw @GabrielleBates' JUDAS GOAT (audiobook), Derek Walcott's WHITE EGRETS, & Alice Oswald's MEMORIAL. let's see what I finish first 😅 I got more detailed thoughts on storygraph (earthtokb on there ofc), & hope to place more longform reviews #soon!
Paperback, 2013
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Bell HooksKB Brookinsanyway if you're Black & masculine (stud, cis man, non-binary, etc) & wanna read bell hooks' WE REAL COOL in a group, DM me! there's a lotta shit Black masc people need to figure out w/o roping kids or femmes into it.
Paperback, 2003
$48.95$24.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Identify Yourself with a Wound
Kb BrookinsKB Brookinsnow how did I not find out about this til today: a stellar review of my chapbook, How To Identify Yourself With a Wound, by @sundresspub 🥹🫶🏾 read it here: https://t.co/tdLQwSHgTR
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdyKB Brookinsfinally getting around to reading I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy & damn… trauma is an understatement!
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book