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#beautifulbookcoverschallenge prompt: "Book cover you'd want as your phone wallpaper"

I seriously adore this particular shade of blue (also, shout-out to Youngcheol Lee's illustrations within the book, they're similarly gorgeous!)

#booksky #storygraph #storygraphchallenge 💙📚
Book cover for Haemin Sunim's The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World, showing an illustration of a full yellow moon in a dark blue sky, with a flowering tree dropping petals to the dark ground
January 14, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Book 82 of rereading/cataloging my book collection - Tolkien's translation of three medieval poems. I'm less accustomed to reading poetry so I took it in quite slowly, but largely enjoyed the lush prose

📚💙 #booksky #poetry #fantasy #classics #fiction #arthurian
#medieval #mythology
Book cover for Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo, showing an armored, red-bearded man wielding an axe mid-lunge, with a larger green image of the same in the background
January 12, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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#beautifulbookcoverschallenge prompt: "Book cover you'd frame on your wall as art"

Impractical outfit, impeccable vibes.

#booksky #storygraph #storygraphchallenge 💙📚
Cover of Patricia Briggs' novel Steal the Dragon, showing a woman holding a sword and dressed in a lot of green veils, posing on some metal poles against a grey castle and moonlit sky
January 12, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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Book 81 of rereading/cataloging my book collection - the last book in the Protector of the Small series, and my favorite as well. Kel is a fantastic protagonist, and the life she has built is harsh but beautifully hopeful

📚💙 #booksky #fantasy
Book cover for Tamora Pierce's Lady Knight, showing a woman in armor with a sparrow on her shoulder, holding the reins of a brown horse under a starry night sky
January 11, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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#beautifulbookcoverschallenge prompt: "Book cover with whimsical illustration"

Definitely a cover that makes me feel like I'm wandering into a playful storybook!

#booksky #storygraph #storygraphchallenge 💙📚
Book cover for Terry Pratchett's a stroke of the lost pen, showing a bearded gnome holding a lamp, a green dragon next to him, and various other fairytale details
January 11, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Behold this beauty. I took AGES to arrange and glue all the tiny books into the perfect spot on the bookshelves - absolutely time well spent

#puzzle #booksky #booknook
A Shakespeare-themed tiny book nook, containing lots of books, a green armchair and a little wooden cat under dim lighting
January 11, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Every bookshop should come equipped with a #cat

#puzzle #booksky #booknook #caturday
A cat-shaped wooden piece, in front of a green armchair, looking up at wooden pieces shaped like an ink stand and a flower vase on a small shelf
January 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Think I've found my new life goal: own a life-sized version of this absolute beauty

#puzzle #booksky #booknook
A half-assembled tiny booknook, showing a tiny green armchair, a staircase leading to a second level, and many aesthetically pleasing books on shelves and shakespeare-themed portraits on the walls
January 9, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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Book 80 of rereading/cataloging my book collection - while I enjoyed the first two books in the series, Squire is where I started really loving Protector of the Small. Great worldbuilding and coverage of various interesting themes (focusing especially on sexism)

📚💙 #booksky #fantasy
Book cover for Tamora Pierce's 'Protector of the Small: Squire', showing a young girl with short brown hair holding a small griffin while a sparrow peers at it while perched on the girl's left shoulder and another flies to her right
January 6, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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#beautifulbookcoverschallenge prompt: "Book cover that reveals new details the longer you look"

The overall tone of the stories was surreal and mysterious; the book cover reflects that vibe really well

#booksky #storygraph #storygraphchallenge 💙📚
Book cover for Jen Campbell's 'The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night', showing a heart wrapped in the title, with illustrations of flowers and leaves inside and outside the heart. Stars adorn the background, there is a fish to the bottom right and a planet to the top right of the illustration
January 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Book 79 of rereading/cataloging my book collection - Protector of the Small was one of my favorite book series as a teen, and I still love it lots as an adult. Page's climax felt a tad contrived, but ultimately enjoyed how it fit into the series' themes of sexism and classism

📚💙 #booksky #fantasy
Book cover for Tamora Pierce's 'Page', showing a young girl standing on a cliff's edge, holding a spear in preparation for throwing it downwards, with a dog standing between her legs while sparrows fly around her
January 5, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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#beautifulbookcoverschallenge prompt: "Book cover that awes you with its beauty"

My favorite color is blue, so I simply adore the many gradients of blue present in this picture 💙📚

#booksky #storygraph #storygraphchallenge #blue
Book cover for George MacDonald's 'At the Back of the North Wind', showing a blonde boy in a white nightgown in a snowy, icy blue landscape
January 5, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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#beautifulbookcoverschallenge prompt: "Book you buy/borrow solely because of the cover"

The fox shimmered SO beautifully, I absolutely couldn't resist getting a copy (ended up enjoying the story and characters as well, which was a nice bonus!)

#booksky 📚💙 #storygraph #storygraphchallenge
Book cover for Sarah Ann Juckes' 'The Night Animals', showing the silhouette of a young girl and a fox sitting on a tree branch, facing an enormous white moon. The girl, the tree and the sky are all in shades of dark black and blue, whereas the fox is multicolored and trailing a long curving stream of colored dots from its tail to the bottom of the cover
January 4, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Book 78 of rereading/cataloging my book collection - Protector of the Small was one of my favorite book series as a teen, and I still enjoy it lots as an adult. Loved Kel's resolve and integrity, and was very engaged with her struggles against sexism

📚💙 #booksky #fantasy
Book cover for Tamora Pierce's 'First Test', showing a short haired girl with a bruised left eye holding a kitten in her left hand while a sparrow sits on her right shoulder and another perches on a bush close to her in the background
January 4, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Book 77 of rereading/cataloging my book collection - finally got to this #classic!

Favorite quote: "She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It’s quite a privilege to attend on her. It’s not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!" 😂

#booksky #horror #vampires #gothic #fantasy
Book cover for Bram Stoker's Dracula, showing a castle looming above, with an enormous moon in the background and a ominously dark red light illuminating the whole scene
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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Loved the absurd chaos in the Villainess Flips the Script - it was hilariously fun! Also, really impressed with how the author used cliched tropes to move the plot in interesting directions. Great read, beautifully illustrated

#booksky 📚💙 #manga #romance #fantasy
Book cover for the Villainess Flips the Script manga, showing a man, woman and young boy in fantasy period dress, looking back at the reader, with flowers in the foreground and a castle in the background
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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#beautifulbookcoverschallenge prompt: Prettiest book you discover on a book expedition

Excited to kick this off!

#booksky 📚💙 #storygraph #storygraphchallenge
Book cover for Penelope Farmer's 'Charlotte Sometimes', showing in the foreground a girl in pigtails sitting up in her bed, while in the background a full moon and large cedar tree are visible through a large window with its red curtains pulled back
January 3, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Which book cover is the prettiest you've ever seen?

I made a #storygraph challenge to celebrate all the stunning, whimsical, dreamy, and luxurious covers out there.

Do show off your favorites!

app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

#storygraphchallenge #bookchallenge #bookcovers #booksky 📚💙
Beautiful Book Covers: An Aesthetic Challenge
This challenge is all about celebrating the beauty and feel of books. I'd encourage you to tr...
app.thestorygraph.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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#projectgutenberg read! Appreciated the diversity of the stories. The Parson's Daughter was satisfying - I liked seeing the female lead's POV and Patience's character. Anthony Garstin's Courtship felt promising but unfinished, like a prequel. The others weren't to my taste

#booksky
A plain beige and green book cover for Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship. Author: Various. A public domain book
January 1, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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To sum it all up - a good book year makes for some lovely storygraph stats 💙📚 Frankly only achievable as I've been on career break; let’s see whether the 2026 job market will keep me on this reading pace!

#booksky #storygraph
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The Storygraph 2025 wrap up of books read by Booksny, showing a summary of 152 books read
January 1, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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A lovely reading-heavy end to 2025! Hoping to keep up the momentum for 2026

#booksky #storygraph
The Storygraph December 2025 wrap up of books read by Booksny, showing metadata of 17 books read
January 1, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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"Post a photo containing blue"

Absolutely adore the original photo's vibrant shade!

#photography #malaga #timelinezen #blue
Blue sea and skies, with some clouds drifting above and buildings visible to the left
December 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Book 76 of rereading/cataloging my book collection - felt like I learned SO much about Alaska in this story! Was a bit put off by the protagonist - she felt like an idealized heroine - but enjoyed the fascinatingly complex culture & politics depicted

#booksky #mystery #fiction #crime #thriller 💙📚
Book cover for Dana Stabenow's 'Blood Will Tell', showing a red totem figure
December 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Another #projectgutenberg read, also known as Fish Preferred. As always with Wodehouse: greatly absurd, creatively written, with some truly madcap characters - Sue & Galahad were brilliant! I was less keen on the other characters, but on the whole enjoyed this lots

#booksky 💙📚 #humor #classics
Book cover for P.G. Wodehouse's 'Summer Lightning', showing a comic illustration of a man and woman clinging to each other with an expression of distress, as they look through an open door at a beribboned pig eating.
December 31, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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If you're curious about your potential biases, do check out Harvard's Implicit Association Test - it might bring up some fascinatingly unexpected findings! It’s free to use, but donations help keep it accessible

implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

#SelfReflection #ImplicitBias #Psychology
Project Implicit
implicit.harvard.edu
December 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM