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Reasons to be cheerful 🎶

1. Books 📚
2. Fabric and quilts 🧵
3. Cake 🍰
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Eat the Ones You Love by #sarahmariagriffin a tale of plant obsession and hunger 🥀 enjoying it immensely
Picture of the cover of Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin featuring a plans resembling a Venus fly trap with eyes and a yellow and red flower
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Post Christmas ghost stories 👻
The photograph shows the cover of Jeanette Winterson's book Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories
January 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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DAY 20

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture shows the cover of the book Last Light by Alex's arrow. The cover shows the London skyline with the Thames in the foreground against a brown, ochre and red toned sky.
January 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 19

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture shows the cover of the cookbook Ottolenghi by Yottam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. The cover is a stylised picture of food on platters in the restaurant in front of a chalk board with one of the waitresses.
January 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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DAY 18

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture shows the cover of Donna Tarte's book The Secret History. It is a plain black cover with just the Title and the author's name on it.
January 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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DAY 17

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture shows the cover of Alan Hollinghurst's book The Line of Beauty. The picture is a section of wraught iron gate on a background showing a long tree lined driveway
January 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 16

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture is the Penguin edition of Harper Lee's book To Kill a Mockingbird. the cover is black with a line drawing of a bird on the cover
December 31, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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My last read of 2024 on the recommendation of @bigbriggers.bsky.social. I have to start at the beginning of a series 😊

#booksky
#newyear
#bluebooks
#amreading
The picture shows the cover of the book March Violets by Philip Kerr. A man in shadow is walking down a street at night, superimposed on the image is the letters M and U in red in the font Old German
December 31, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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DAY 15

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture shows the cover of John Connolly's Book Every Dead Thing. The cover is red and shows a red skull on the front.
December 30, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 14

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture shows the cover of the book Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. The cover picture is of the sea with mountains in the background in a blue colour on a cream background.
December 29, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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DAY 13

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture shows the Penguin cover of the Truman Capote book 'In Cold Blood'
December 28, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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DAY 12

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The picture shows the cover of the book Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon. The cover features a photograph (unatributed in the book) of presumably the author at the wheel of Ghost Dancing, his vehicle.
December 27, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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DAY 11

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
The image shows a picture of the cover of Douglas Adams' book The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
December 26, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 10

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
A picture showing the cover of Susan Cooper's book The Dark is Rising
December 25, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 9

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
A picture showing the cover of Anne Michael's book Fugitive Pieces
December 24, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 8

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
A picture showing the cover of Robert A Heinlein's book Stranger in a Strange Land
December 23, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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The picture shows the cover of the book A Song from Dead Lips by William Shaw. The picture shows a street at night in brown/orange tones with a brick wall on the left taking up 3/4 of the cover.
December 23, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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DAY 7

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
A picture showing the cover of Keri Hulme's book The Bone People
December 22, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 6

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
A picture showing the cover of John Wyndham's book The Day of the Triffids
December 21, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 5

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
A picture showing the cover of Enid Blyton's book The Secret of Moon Castle
December 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 4

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
A picture showing the cover of A S Byatt's book Possession. The cover shows an oil on canvas painting by Edward Byrne-Jones titled The Beguiling of Merlin. The painting depicts a scene from the Arthurian legend about the infatuation of Merlin with the Lady of the Lake, Nimue. Merlin is shown trapped, helpless in a hawthorn bush as Nimue reads from a book of spells
December 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 3

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
#booksky💙📚
#bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
#20books #20books20day
A picture showing the cover of the Penguin Classic edition of Thomas Hardy's book Jude the Obscure. The cover features an oil on canvas painting titled Exodus psinted in 1893. Prevailing color of this fine art print is green and its shape is portrait,it shows a man and a woman who is carrying a child. This art piece is located in Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee du Petit-Palais, France.
December 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 2

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!

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20booksin20days
A picture showing the cover of Wilfred Thesinger's book Arabian Sands. The cover shows a photograph of Salim bin Janina in the north eastern sands of the Empty Quarter taken by Wilfred Thesinger in 1950
December 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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DAY 1

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!

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
A picture showing the cover of China Mieville's book The City and The City
December 16, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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A picture showing the cover of the 2012 Penguin Classics edition of John Le Carrie's book Call for the Dead
December 16, 2024 at 8:10 AM