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Elizabeth Morgan, book botherer
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Hi guys I'm actually just mostly on mastodon: aus.social/@elzbethmrgn Former historian, current seller of notebooks (scrivenerstools.com.au). Based in NE Victoria. I buy books and talk about them on YouTube. Secretly a cat. she/her
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The poop emoji wearing the crown emoji
October 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
Three-panel meme. First frame depicting a radioactive skeleton, labelled *Zeus, asking "Who are you?" to a superhero, labelled A Greek Hero. The superhero responds in the second panel, "You banged my mom," and in the third panel the skeleton replies, "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
September 14, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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A meme combining the RUOK? logo with a scene from The Simpsons. Homer Simpson is sitting on the couch, looking annoyed and saying, "I told you last year, no!"
September 11, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Why the hell do half of Pynchon's Vintage Classics outings have this Where's Wally cover / I will never read such an ugly book
The terrible cover of THE CRYING OF LOT 49 by Thomas Pynchon, featuring the title superimposed in strong yellow over a "Where's Wally?" style illustration
August 4, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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39: Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric and the Bandit (2024)
My Kindle displaying the cover of PENRIC AND THE BANDIT by Lois McMaster Bujold. We have a map held down by pewter cup and a dagger, strewn about with gold coins and a pair of dice.
July 5, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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38: Maggie O'Farrell: The Marriage Portrait (2022)
The paperback edition of THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT by Maggie O'Farrell. The green background is covered in a collage of floral and animal imagery, including snakes, tigers, starlings, bearded lizards.
July 2, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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37: Steven Carroll: Death of a Foreign Gentleman (2024)
A fifties-era car speeding up towards a bicycle, with sky and city skyline behind. The book is DEATH OF A FOREIGN GENTLEMAN by Steven Carroll
June 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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36: Nicholas Spencer: Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion (2023)
My hand holding a Kindle, which is displaying the cover image for Nicholas Spencer's MAGISTERIA: THE ENTANGLED HISTORIES OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION. The image around the text vaguely suggests to me cellular biology and imagery of flora, but nothing stands out as a concrete image to describe.
June 15, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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35: Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
My hand holding a paperback edition of Charles Dickens' A TALE OF TWO CITIES. This is the HarperMuse Classics edition. It is in woodcut style, with the the raised and lowered parts of the image actually debossed or flat to touch. The debossed areas are tonally orange-brown. The image is in two halves, the top and bottom each depicting a cityscape, and I assume one is Paris and the other London from the events of the book.
June 12, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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35: Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice (2013)
Ann Leckie's ANCILLARY JUSTICE in paperback, with a cover illustration that features some fighter-plane looking ships in front of a cratered moon-like background, with various satellites designed to tell you this is a sci-fi set in space. The faux-sticker tells us this book was a winner of the 2014 Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards.
June 1, 2024 at 5:26 AM
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33: Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
My hand holding the Oxford World's Classics edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE. The titular Hyde is skulking in the cover illustration, in a shadowy, although lamplit, Victorian street.
May 21, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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32: Heather Fawcett: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (2023)
The paperback edition of EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by Heather Fawcett. The title and author text are surrounded by a woodland-themed border. At the bottom is an open book, out of which is spewing floating ✨ stars. Around the sides of the border we variously have ivy, mushrooms, wispy leaf situations, berries, a key, and what looks to be diaphanous fairy wings despite none of the fae in the book possessing wings 🤷
May 8, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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31: Lois McMaster Bujold: Barrayar (1991)
My Kindle in it's bright yellow cover sitting on my green bedding. The display on the Kindle is showing the cover for Lois McMaster Bujold's BARRAYAR, from The Vorkosigan Saga. In the foreground of the cover stands two people in silhouette holding a baby; the shadow of the couple combines into the figure of a man (who, from context, is the same person as the baby).
May 4, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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30: Jeffrey Eugenedes: The Virgin Suicides (1993)
The 25th anniversary paperback edition of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenedes. The cover is textured cream with a peach-coloured border. The title text is interspersed with five rose-gold foil rose stem silhouettes, each broken in half (ooh, symbolic).
April 25, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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29: Ellis Peters: Saint Peter's Fair (1981)
Me holding the paperback edition of Ellis Peters' SAINT PETER'S FAIR. The type is stylised as medieval script, with an illustrated capital P as you'd find in an illuminated medieval manuscript.
April 22, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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28: Jen Gunter: The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism (2021)
The Libro.fm-generated screenshot for THE MENOPAUSE MANIFESTO by Jen Gunter. The book image displays a megaphone with a speech bubble emanating from the cone, with the subtitle "Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism". The book cover is pink. Below the book image, the text indicates my libro.fm subscription supports my local indie bookstore, Booktique (in Albury and Wangaratta, Australia), and that I listened to the book with libro.fm. (I have a libro.fm referral code, DM me if you'd like it!)
April 20, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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27: Emma J. Wells: Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals (2022)
My (tabby) cat sitting next to the paperback edition of HEAVEN ON EARTH: THE LIVES AND LEGACIES OF THE WORLDS GREATEST CATHEDRALS by Emma J. Wells. The cover image is of the Cathedral Church of St Andrew the Apostle, in Somerset, UK. The image is clearly photoshopped out of the beautiful background of the original (included within the book) and to remove people and cars from the original photo. Both cat and book rest on a fluffy rug (a favourite place of my cat's)
April 20, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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26: Stuart Turton: The Last Murder at the End of the World (2024)
Kindle displaying the cover of THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Stuart Turton. The cover image is an empty row boat on the water in the foreground, a lighthouse and mountains in the background.
April 17, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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25: Ray Nayler: The Mountain in the Sea (2022)
My Kindle displaying the cover of THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA by Ray Nayler. The long tentacles of an octopus cover the majority of the space, winding over and under the text of the title.
April 7, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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24: Ian Mortimer: Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter (2023)
My hand holding the paperback edition of MEDIEVAL HORIZONS: WHY THE MIDDLE AGES MATTER by Ian Mortimer. The cover is blue, and, in the bottom right-hand corner contains (according to the reference on the book): "detail of navigators using an astrolabe in the Indian Ocean from Livre des Merveilles du Monde, c. 1410-12 by Boucicaut Master, MS Fr 2810 f.188, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris." They are sailing a wooden ship with sail and mast, one seaman holding the mast while the other consults the astrolabe. They are surrounded by gold stars.
March 30, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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23: Andrey Kurkov (trans. Boris Dralyuk): The Silver Bone (2024)
My hand holding the paperback edition of THE SILVER BONE by Andrey Kurkov. The image is 60s-vintage style depicting a man (we know from the context of the book), wearing a trapper hat with a peak, a long coat, a button-up shirt, and long books. He is holding a pistol in front of him as he moves to the left of the image. Behind him is a stylised city silhouette, clearly Russian-influenced in the Muscovite style.
March 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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22: Pierre Bayard (trans. Jeffrey Mehlman): How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (2007)
My hand holding the paperback edition of HOW TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T READ by Pierre Bayard. The image is of the foredges of a pile of books.
March 25, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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21: Martha Wells: Rogue Protocol (2018)
My hand holding the paperback edition of ROGUE PROTOCOL by Martha Wells, the third of The Murderbot Diaries series. The cover image depicts possibly a space station with clear triangular panels making up clear domes, and various other space station or futuristic-looking buildings in the background. In the foreground, an improbable platform juts out over nothing, and standing on the platform are two humanoid figures, potentially in armour (or, potentially, robots or cyborgs).
March 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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20: Jennifer Croft: The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024)
A paperback of THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY by Jennifer Croft. The cover image depicts a ever-deepening forest, filled with trunks, leaves and fungi. The colours are very bright and give an almost cartoonish feel. The book is sitting on a green fabric.
March 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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19: Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2014)
Amazon Kindle in an open yellow cover, resting on a cream fabric. The Kindle is displaying the cover of Becky Chambers' THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL ANGRY PLANET, which contains the title running vertically down the image, with a lone human-shaped figure standing on a small sloping mound at the bottom, which a background of what is probably supposed to be the galaxy.
March 16, 2024 at 9:19 PM