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andreainthepnw.bsky.social
@andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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Reader, hiker & backpacker, attendee of comic cons, recently started playing D&D. Born & raised in Nova Scotia, living in Oregon; History PhD, working in accounting -long stories...
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This guy seems to have summed it up very well.
February 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Your's is better than what I got last Saturday with a Google pixel 9.
January 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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First cross country ski day of the season for me today, at Teacup, near Mt. Hood. The snow is great!
December 16, 2024 at 1:03 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.
Day 20

#BookSky
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Cover of The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, edited by Martin Gardner. Image of an illustration from the original version, of Alice holding a bottle labeled "drink me."
December 14, 2024 at 1:29 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.
Day 19

#BookSky
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Cover of The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. A boy and girl are surrounded by a crowd of shadowy people, while being observed by tiny creatures riding dragonflies.
December 12, 2024 at 7:03 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 18

#BookSky
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Cover of Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers.
December 10, 2024 at 6:57 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.
Day 17

#BookSky
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Cover of Sabriel by Garth Nix. A young woman with dark hair dressed in medieval-like clothes with a bandolier of small bells and a sword scabbard. In the background a shapeless, misty black face looms with a sinister expression.
December 7, 2024 at 6:59 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 16

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle. A man in fantasy-garb on a white horse, watched by a woman in a long dress, with a high castle in the distance.
December 6, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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I'd like to be Jadzia. I'd probably get cast as a Vulcan though.
December 5, 2024 at 4:32 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 15

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Ringworld by Larry Niven. An image of a giant band encircling a star at a distance similar to Earth's from our sun, its vast inner surface facing the star and habitable for life.
December 4, 2024 at 6:26 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 14

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of A Wizard of Earth sea, by Ursula K LeGuin. Three men dressed in medieval-like clothes, and one has alarmed the rest by transforming his entire upper body into that of a bird of prey.
December 1, 2024 at 11:15 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.
Day 13

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
The cover of My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. A boy is riding in a donkey, accompanied by a dog, as his mother, sister and two brothers walk together in the distance.
November 29, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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Spending US Thanksgiving in Poland. I need to learn the story behind this sculpture in Novy Targ..
Metal sculpture of two goats embracing while wearing cylinder-like armor.
November 28, 2024 at 9:35 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 12

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 28, 2024 at 3:06 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.
Day 11

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Shows a richly dressed beautiful woman, with soldiers and a castle in the background.
November 25, 2024 at 10:39 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 10

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde. Image of a book with an illustration of a piece of bread with mold giving it the image of a face.
November 24, 2024 at 10:11 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 9

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Mahabharata, a modern rendering by Ramesh Menon. Background is an ancient carving of a battle.
November 23, 2024 at 11:41 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 8

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover of King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. A man holding a sword, face not shown, and a woman's hand on his shoulder.
November 22, 2024 at 9:05 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.
Day 7

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover of A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. Includes a man and a woman dancing at their wedding. Background is a city far in the future.
November 21, 2024 at 11:32 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 6

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of a book that contains three Margaret Atwood novels: The Edible Woman, Surfacing and Lady Oracle.
November 20, 2024 at 11:00 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.
Day 5
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson. A viking on a ship with a prow shaped like a horse's head.
November 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 4
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowar. A dog wearing goggles.
November 18, 2024 at 11:16 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.
Day 3
Wolf Hall. An image of King Henry VIII in the letter O, a woman's face in the letter A.
November 17, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Raised by Wolves. Androids raise human children on another planet.
November 16, 2024 at 9:08 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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.
Day 2
November 16, 2024 at 8:57 PM