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Reads. Walks. Watches. Mother of hummingbirds.
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Mark Mazower starting off strong in What You Did Not Tell
"Today many people seem to be too chastened and paralyzed by their suspicion of social utopias, even the most practical ones, to want to fight for anything much at all beyond the perfection of their own souls."
December 3, 2024 at 6:13 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 20/20
Book cover for Wild Dog Dreaming by Deborah Bird Rose. The cover image features a dog among brush vegetation, staring melancholically behind a barbed wire fence.
December 1, 2024 at 2:42 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 19/20
Cover for the book Dayspring, by Anthony Oliveira. The image is split in half vertically. The left half is a painting of a young man with soft features and wavy hair, gazing dreamily upwards. The image continues on the right half, where the young man's hand becomes part of a photograph of two, apparently nude, men.
November 30, 2024 at 1:54 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 18/20
Cover of the diaries of Silvia Townsend Warner. The cover features the drawing of a woman's face, executed with sketch -lile lines and a few colours. The woman has a strong jaw, wears glasses, and is subtly smiling.
November 29, 2024 at 4:13 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 17/20
Book cover of Come, Tell Me How You Love by Agatha Christie Mallowan. The bottom third of the cover shows a watercolour of a village on a hilltop. The houses are made of clay bricks and three crossing paths lead up the grassy hill to the village.
November 28, 2024 at 8:17 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 16/20
Cover for George Seferis' collected poems, featuring a picture of the poet.
November 27, 2024 at 7:21 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 15/20
Cover of the book The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin. The cover is a hazy, blue tinted photograph of the seashore, as a low wave breaks.
November 26, 2024 at 12:33 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 14/20
Book cover for Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. The cover illustration is a colourful manuscript -style illustration of two people being burned at the stake next to river, as gathered people watch.
November 25, 2024 at 3:40 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 13/20
Image of the cover of My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell. It is an old, slightly battered Penguin copy featuring a close-up image of a dragonfly
November 24, 2024 at 2:40 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 12/20
Cover of the book Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett. The cover is decorated in a very busy, slightly exaggerated style and prominently features three witches riding broomsticks. Two are older and dressed in black, while behind them follows a younger blonde witch dressed in green. They are surrounded by swamp plants and animals while a city shows on the horizon.
November 23, 2024 at 8:04 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 11/20
Cover of Jean Genet's The Thief's Journal. The cover is a pale green colour and features a bronze sculpture of a head with mouth open, potentially screaming. Cover of Jean Genet's The Thief's Journal in Greek. The cover depicts a painting of a gaunt, bearded male figure stared at by a mocking toothless face with exaggerated, caricature-like features.
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 10/20
Cover of the book White Teeth by Zadie Smith. The title and the author's name are written in large white letters in the foreground. The background consists of bright areas in pink, yellow, and blue with additional colourful patterns, such as golden embroidery on the pink and a rose on the blue.
November 21, 2024 at 12:42 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 9/20
Book cover for Eduard Said's Orientalism. The cover features a painting of a young boy handling a large constrictor snake, while an old man plays the flute, as a group of other men watch. The walls of the room are tiled in blue and feature Arabic calligraphy.
November 20, 2024 at 8:45 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 8/20
Book cover for Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf. The cover is cream coloured with vertical mustard yellow lines and features a close-up of a wolf's eyes.
November 19, 2024 at 9:15 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 7/20
Bright pink book cover. Title: Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice By Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn
November 18, 2024 at 11:19 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 6/20
Book cover for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne. The cover depicts a bearded man standing on a submarine that is floating on the surface of the sea. The man is dressed in crimson and using a navigational instrument.
November 17, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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I don't usually find very realistic paintings particularly interesting, but there is something about this one:
Wind from the Sea, Andrew Wyeth, 1947
#art 🎨
A painting of an open window in muted brown, yellow, and gray colours. The view is from the inside of the house towards the outside. We can see the frame of the window and thin, delicate curtains raised by a breeze. Outside, there is a strip of water and shapes of trees in the horizon, with a sandy expanse in front of the house.
November 17, 2024 at 8:02 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 5/20
Book cover. The book title is The Kon-Tiki expedition and the author's name is Thor Heyerdahl. The cover depicts a raft sailing on a calm see, while the outline of six figures creates the background for the illustration.
November 16, 2024 at 9:13 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 4/20
Green book cover in Greek featuring the drawing of a tiger among leaves. The book's title is "Diana and Tom" and the author's name is Olga Perovskaya.
November 15, 2024 at 9:23 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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 3/20
Cover illustration of the book "The Palace Walk" by Naguib Mahfouz in the Greek translation
November 14, 2024 at 12:51 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.

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Day 2/20
November 13, 2024 at 6:21 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.

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Day 1/20
The Neverending Story (read in Greek)
November 12, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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There's so much more #archaeology than Mayans and Aztects in #Mexico 🏺
Western Mexico has my heart, and here are some figurines from the tumbas de tiro (shaft tombs) tradition, 0-400 AD. From the Museum of Guadalajara.
January 4, 2024 at 3:26 PM