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Eleanor Cronk
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Writer. AuDHD. Kinda witchy. She/her.

Currently writing my debut novel, “Dolls” - a 1960’s feminist LitFic with a supernatural edge.
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A poem for all women everywhere. #poetry #skypoets #writers #women #feminism
Text: Poem title: Reclamation My mother’s dreams, her mother’s too, lie down, splayed on arid earth; they snap and prick my feet where I go, where I go. I take each one, each morsel seed. I plant it in some good, good soil, and all our roots entangle where I grow, where I grow.
January 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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A poem for my fellow night owls…

Note: The Kōwhai is a flowering tree native to New Zealand, half the world away from my home in the UK. #poetry #skypoets #writing
Poem: Earthside When half the world falls into sleep my dreams taste all the richer. As the sun is rising earthside, they burn with the bright kōwhai, like the stars are falling, falling on the page in scattered blooms. Yes tonight, tonight, I think I might be onto something good.
January 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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If anyone UK-based has the chance to see this in Stratford this season - go! Brilliant fun.
The printed programme for Twelfth Night at the RSC Stratford, featuring actor Samuel West laughing and wearing a ruff, making the shape of a heart with his hands.
January 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Interesting ice formations on the ground this morning.
A frozen puddle that has half melted, splitting the ice up into beautiful swirls.
January 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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My last poem of 2024 #poetry #skypoets #poems #poet #writing #skywriters
Poem title: The Vow I would have killed to be anyone else. But here, tonight, so I don’t die, I cauterise the ancient wound with words of praise and gentle promises to do better tomorrow than I did today, when I forgot to tell myself: I love you, it’s okay to be us. @eleanorcronk.bluesky.social
January 2, 2025 at 10:45 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 20 of 20
Book cover of Babel by R F Kuang, featuring a black and white illustration of the rooftops of Oxford city centre, with its towers and spires.
December 28, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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I’d say my New Year’s resolution is to buy no more books until I’ve finished the 80 or so waiting to be read on my shelves, but who am I kidding?

#books #reading #bookcommunity #skybooks #resolutions
A photo of my bookshelf, featuring 80 or so unread books, staring at me menacingly from the shelves.
December 28, 2024 at 1:32 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 19 of 20
Book cover for Sistersong by Lucy Holland, featuring the faces of three sisters, each facing a different direction. The tagline reads “Three Siblings. Three Deadly Sins”.
December 27, 2024 at 4:08 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 18 of 20
Book cover for The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, featuring a figure that is half man on one side, and half insect on the other.
December 26, 2024 at 11:32 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 17 of 20
Book cover of The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, featuring a pair of twin girls in matching house-dresses and Mary Jane Shoes.
December 25, 2024 at 8:39 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 16 of 20
Book cover of The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, featuring an abstract floral and serpent design.
December 24, 2024 at 3:32 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 15 of 20
Book cover for Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., featuring a man in a winter coat and hat stumbling through the snow.
December 23, 2024 at 8:02 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 14 of 20
Book cover of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.
December 22, 2024 at 2:41 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 13 of 20
Book cover for The Magus by John Fowles, featuring an island landscape with a large white building on the hill, overlooking the ocean.
December 21, 2024 at 12:02 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 12 of 20
Cover of The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, featuring a teenage girl seated in a red coat, framed by colourful wallpaper behind her, full of blue and yellow birds and pink roses.
December 20, 2024 at 11:18 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 11 of 20
Book cover for A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers, featuring a monk and a robot on an abstract nature background.
December 19, 2024 at 10:49 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 10 of 20
Book cover of The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, featuring a beautiful, flying gold crane on a red background.
December 18, 2024 at 1:07 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 9 of 20
Vintage book cover of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, featuring the four main characters Jo, Meg, Beth & Amy on the cover surrounded by blooms of roses that border the edges.
December 17, 2024 at 12:07 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 8 of 20
Book cover of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, featuring a maze, a man and a mouse.
December 16, 2024 at 2:22 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 7 of 20
Book cover of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, featuring a late-Victorian era woman holding a parasol as she walks along an idyllic sandy beach.
December 15, 2024 at 11:51 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 6 of 20
December 14, 2024 at 10:45 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 5 of 20
Book cover for Anna Karenina, featuring an embossed black and red ivy pattern on a blue background.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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Yet again, nostalgia and fairy lights have me completely forgetting the deep disdain I hold for capitalism the other 11 months of the year.
A decorated Christmas tree, full of fairy lights and baubles.
December 12, 2024 at 7:53 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.

#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 4 of 20
Book cover of Lanny by Max Porter, featuring a green leaf design with a cutout of a boy around the edges on one side.
December 12, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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To the 8000 trees who didn’t make the cut today — it’s not you, it’s me.
December 11, 2024 at 2:35 PM