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Andrea Ferrante
@andreaferrante.bsky.social
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Book Whisperer, Tarot Reader, Tea drinker. Sicilian-American, Tree-Hugging Animist.

Here for Community Building. Talk to me about Music, Books, Art, Magick, Herbalism, Food, Geneaology, and Southern Italian Folkways.
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Old photograph of young Keanu Reeves with the sentence “they should invent a way out that isn’t through” superimposed over it
September 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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As I sit in a hospital to advocate for and comfort my mom for the third day in a row, I am thinking about all the people who labor for the benefit of others, for which they may never receive any direct gratitude or thanks.(1/2)
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Some floral beauty to re-regulate your nervous system this Sunday afternoon. Because beauty and pleasure is resistance too.
Beautiful bouquet of white, pink, and lavender flowers in a clear vase.
June 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Dance scene from Espresso Bongo (1959)
May 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Life never fails to amaze me 🐾
May 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Not sure why this got deleted but here is the graphic from original post
February 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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A queer polish romance for St Valentine and passionate poems by Diane DiPrima to fuel the resistance to the very real coup going on here in the U.S.
The cover of A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee A Victorian era Butch/Femme couple embrace against a purple washed background library setting. Bold Red and Black graphic lettering on cover of Diane DiPrima’s Revolutionary Letters
February 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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When the #bookmark you found is way better than the book itself
#BookSky #lace
December 3, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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One of the new books I picked up from one of my local indie bookstores this weekend.

#BookSky #indiebookstores #mrsdalloways #berkeley
Cover of Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season, a short story collection in the British Library Women Writers Series. Image of a woman’s profile in white on a green background of repeating Christmas trees.
December 2, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Covers of the graphic edition of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder and Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
December 2, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20.
#books #BookSky💚📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Cover of In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch which features a storefront window with books in a blue and orange color scheme.
November 27, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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Unnecessary diversion of the day

✨Go to pinterest and search:

"Celebrity"
"Outfit"
"Song"
"Aesthetic"
Picture of Cher from the 70s wearing a black oversized hat and black velvet blazer with dark grey polka dot silk scarf, getting ready to light cigarette Dark haired woman with dramatic makeup walking down old cobblestone street in burgundy velvet ankle length overcoat, dressy black blouse and pants and combat style boots. Black and white photo of young Kate Bush sitting at her keyboard with a tv and Harp in the background Moody detail photo of a shelf arrangement filled with antiquarian gilt-spine books, a greco-Roman style statue, a brass candlestick and flower art in small oval frame
November 26, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20.
#books #BookSky💚📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Vintage cover of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums. A couple lie on the ground heads together with their backs to the camera.
November 26, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20.
#books #BookSky💚📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Cover of Danny Sugarman’s biography of Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive. Solarized photo of Jim Morrison face and bare chest in yellow and red with black text.
November 25, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20.
#books #BookSky💚📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
November 23, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20.
#books #BookSky💚📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

Cover of Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. New Directions edition
November 23, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20.
#books #BookSky💚📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Original Cover of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion by Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain Cover photo is aerial shot of landscape shot with color infrared film.
November 21, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20.
#books #BookSky💚📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Alice in Wonderland book cover with original Tenniel illustration of Alice with cards flying up over her head.
November 20, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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These were the ones currently in the bedside drawer . . . the one from the Lawrence Ferlinghetti exhibit at the Triton Museum is my favorite ✨
#bookmarks #books
Selection of 9 bookmarks primarily from independent bookstores and libraries from the San Francisco Bay Area spread out upon a gold colored blanket.
November 18, 2024 at 9:55 AM