I’m reading For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts and it’s so healing! I relate to so many of her experiences. This is a book I needed when I was in college. I’m glad it exists now.

sunday naps are the best

I miss when ig was a picture app

I’ve reached the level of aunty where my nieces come to me for book recommendations and it’s the best to squeal over fun book premises.

I shared my book manuscript with someone I really look up to so I’m gonna go to sleep and pretend I didn’t just do that

the side group chat about the large group chat is the best part about a group chat

took my kids to the park so I could finish my audiobook

Grocery store math: $1 + $2 + $3 = $50

Currently reading the Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and it’s so good! The audiobook being 30 hours long almost stopped me from picking it up, but once I started, I was invested in the characters. Amazing writing!

Emailing people back has been hard for me lately. I now understand why sometimes I don’t hear back from people and I empathize

Update: she read for 65 minutes yesterday. altogether, she’s read 195 minutes since the beginning of June. She’s definitely getting a squishmallow soon. When she reaches 400 minutes, she’ll get a free book.

The librarians told my 7 year that she needed to read for 800 minutes to earn a squishmallow for the summer reading program and now she’s trying to read all 800 minutes today

The soundtrack on the Netflix series forever is perfect. So many of my favorite songs and artists from the past 5ish years

I extroverted a lot today. Now I need to recover with 2.5 business days of not talking to anyone

One year ago, two incredible new pictures debuted into the world:🌺 TALA LEARNS TO SIVA by @kealaninetane.bsky.social, illustrated by Dung Ho, and 📦 BOX OF DREAMS by Faith Kazmi, illustrated by Christine Almeda!

sunday naps are the best

Many Pacific Islanders have no choice but to join the fight against climate change. The Pacific Climate Warriors is a youth-led, grassroots network across 18 Pacific Island nations and diaspora communities drawing attention to the impacts of the climate crisis in the Pacific ⤵️

happy beyonce day to those who celebrate!

My next picture book Picking Limu with Tūtū was announced today! It’s publishing with Viking in summer 2027 and illustrated by Sarah Gonzales

For anyone interested, from my research 77% of 48 total adult fiction books published by NZ publishers in 2024 were by Pākehā authors. Māori were 16.6% and Asian authors 6.25%. This does exclude authors published by publishers based outside of Aotearoa. Adjusted percentages to follow.

A great audiobook will have me cleaning my whole house

I just did something I’ve been avoiding for 3 weeks. It took me an hour, but most of that time was me getting distracted so it probably only took 15 minutes

Stay tuned... #DVPit #writersky #booksky

Here’s hoping that Cory Booker breaks Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

If I ever go to the bologna book fair, I’m gonna try to talk to as many people as I can until I get to the person who can reposition Hawaii publishers to be included in the Oceania region for the publisher’s award instead of North America

I’m trying to finish at least one more book before the end of the month but I’m just so tired. I keep falling asleep even though the book is so interesting

If anyone’s looking for Pacific Islander book recs for the #transrightsreadathon I suggest Sascha Stronach’s books, The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge. It’s marketed as Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun.

Spring break means beach for the kids and a book for me

Is there a word for someone who is a list maker, but not a list user? Because that’s me

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I always think about how I probably would’ve majored in English if my professors had diverse reading lists on their syllabi. Instead, I majored in sociology where we had diverse research papers.

The newest episode of Abbott elementary is going down as one of my all time favorite sitcom episodes. It’s so good!

My neighbor’s hibiscus is so pretty

I wonder what happened to that one guy on tiktok who lived in an apartment complex that was mostly empty, but the complex tried to act like there were people living in all the apartments

Spent the morning trying to remember a song that was on an author’s playlist as she wrote the book, but it wasn’t listed in the physical book I had so I DM’d the author and she shared her Pinterest board with all the inspo and I found the song! It was Tough Love by Jessie Ware. Great song!

Journalists make great non-fiction authors. I just finished The Viral Underclass by Steven w. Thrasher and it was an amazing look at how the viruses like HIV and covid disproportionally affected marginalized groups of people, causing a viral underclass

For the parents who have children who are reading middle age books. Honestly I’ve read most of these myself and loved them. My favorite is “The Last Cuentista”is a Sci-Fi novel and it’s about a girl uses storytelling to resist memory-erasing oppressors in space. #booksky #booktok #childrenbooks

I really want to go to this book event this weekend, but I would have to take all my kids so maybe not

I need the book form of aaron pierre and teyana taylor’s hard launch photos

anything by griff is a top tier pop song

Picked up these three books at the library on Friday and finished them all by today. They were all sooo good!

I wish I had extra money so I could fill my house with beautiful art

my neighborhood is having a block party. I’m gonna go because I like my neighbors, but I really just want to stay home and read my book

I had a great reading month! I learned so much and enjoyed reading all of these books

Earlier in the week, I watched the tv show Kindred. It ended at a weird point so I decided to read the book by Octavia E. Butler. The book was amazing!!! Better than the show. There were so many additions to the show that didn’t seem necessary. But I loved the book and definitely recommend it.

So if I finish a book at 12:27 am, does the book count toward February or March? I mean, technically it’s March 1st. But I don’t know, it could still count toward February since I read most of it on the 28th.

lol my neighbor’s karaoke party is currently singing joyful, joyful the sister act 2 version and of course I’m joining in

Spending some time at the library. Seemed like the perfect activity for a boycott day

great 😳🫠

I always forget how big of a deal it is that I’m the author of a published book until someone asks about my publishing journey and then I’m like, oh I guess it is a big deal