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Former editor, manager; museum & library geek, Professional WTF Wrangler, Y86 in NYC. Now mostly trying not to punch people.

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🎬 ABC’s in Film 🎬
(Let’s change it up!)

Today, it’s the letter N!

“N” is for Number.

Drop the name of a movie with a number in the title.

#filmsky #moviesky 📽️
Six Degrees of Separation movie poster. In front of a slightly parted red curtain stand three figures, all looking out at the viewer: an older man with silver hair, beard, and mustache dressed in black tie (Donald Sutherland), a red-haired woman with an upswept 'do in an evening gown (Stockard Channing), and a young man in a jacket and striped tie (Will Smith).
May 11, 2025 at 1:57 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
20/20
Cover for The Night Circus by Erin Mortensen. Against a black background, beneath the title in large white type and the author in smaller white type, two grey silhouetted figures in Victorian-looking garb glance back at each other as they walk away from each other through a sprinkle of tiny stars, circular and curlicued designs by their feet. Between them, inside a decorated red ring, are a set of stylized black-and-white circus tents with grey bunting, topped with tiny red pennants. Above the tents is a white-faced clock decorated with grey clouds and red crescents.
December 17, 2024 at 3:40 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
19/20
Cover of The Initiate (Book One of the Time Master trilogy).Against a brown-to-rust-toyellowish background, a beautiful young woman with blowing auburn hair looks off to the left; the bodice of her long-sleeved, high-necked, rust-colored gown seems to be elaborately woven, almost like armor. In the background just behind her stands a square castle with four enormous towers topped by tall black points.
December 16, 2024 at 12:49 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
18/20
Cover of James by Percival Everett. Against a black background, the title is presented in a goldenrod yellow mix of serif (the initial capital J) and sanserif all-caps (the rest of the name). Inside the teardrop curve of the J is a partial image of what appears to be a reproduced image of the fleeing slave Jim from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). (This novel is told from Jim's--James'--point of view.) "New York Times bestseller" is printed in sanserif under the author name (which is all-caps serif font in bright white) in the same turquoise as the thin line under the title.
December 15, 2024 at 1:13 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.

#books
#booksky
#bookchallenge
17/20
Cover for Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson. Book title and author are in a grass-green box at the top left; "Foreword by Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes" is in a small red rectangle at the top right. Against a drawing of what looks like an endless press of cheek-by-jowl houses on a suburban cul-de-sac with comically tiny lawns and cars and trees, we see a number of people, five out of six of them white: One bald male adult in an impossibly wee red car is followed by a blonde female adult in a micro-minivan; walking along the sidewalk is a redheaded preteen boy. Centered in the foreground are three preschoolers, two boys (one freckled and nearly hairless, pushing a toy shopping cart, the other dark-skinned with straight black hedgehog hair and a unibrow, carrying a rectangular red toy of some kind) and one perspective-defyingly large girl at the center. She is another redhead, perched on a red tricycle.
December 14, 2024 at 12:10 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
16/20
Cover for You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar. Against a bright yellow background, silhouetted waist-up images of sisters Ruffin (in a turquoise blue sweater) and Lamar (in a red floral V-neck and a black zip-up sweater) appear to be on the phone with each other, looking shocked and nonplussed respectively. All letering is "handwriting" style, in black and red.
December 13, 2024 at 1:23 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.

#books
#booksky
#bookchallenge
15/20
Cover for Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up. Against a kelly green background is a silhouetted photo of Barry from a 3/4 rear view. He wears jeans and a red shirt with its long sleeves rolled up, standing in front of a pedestal on which a three of his previous books are stacked. He raises his right hand as though about to be sworn in, but his first two fingers are crossed, as are the first two of his left hand, which he holds behind his back while looking over his right shoulder, giving the viewer a chagrined, "Of course I would never!" moue. The book title appears in a large white box, in all caps and mostly in red; a snippet of praise from the Associated Press appears in a red banner near the bottom.
December 12, 2024 at 1:54 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
#ADistantSoil
14/20
Cover of A Distant Soil: The Gathering (Volume 1). Two figures stand together against an otherworldly night-sky background with three moons, a distant, sharp mountain with faint lines of lights leading to it, and a floating crystalline structure off to the right. At left is a young girl with bright red, wavy hair in a gold jumpsuit zipped up over a worn blue T-shirt; she leans into the second figure but looks off into the distance, her small hands held out as though to accept the glowing orb held by her companion. At right is a tall, extravagantly garbed figure with very long, ornately coiffed silver-white hair; at the center of his forehead is a blue jewel, and in his left hand is a glowing orb swirling blue and white.
December 11, 2024 at 1:43 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

13/20
Cover for Show Control: A Jason Keltner Mystery by Keith Snyder. Against a black background, a dim spotlight shines down on a yellow bisected outline, implying a removed body. All type is in white, with the title being the largest and in all caps.
December 10, 2024 at 1:06 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

12/20
Cover for Rat Queens Volume One: Sass and Sorcery. Four female figures (who are otherwise stereotypical RPG characters) are confronted by a giant, angry orange serpent against an inclined background with a stone cliffside. The Smidgen Thief is making off with a jewel, the Human Cleric is hitting the serpent's snout with an ineffectual-looking fire strike, and the Elven Mage is pulling at the Dwarven Fighter, whose sword is about the same size as one of the serpent's fangs.
December 9, 2024 at 1:32 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

11/20
Cover of Booth Again! More of George Booth. Against a cream background, very large reddish letters outlined in mustard-yellow form the all-caps title at the top; the subtitle is in olive green, in a much smaller font, also in all caps. Across the center is a cartoon drawing of an enthusiastically singing cat perched on a stool and playing a fiddle while two bull terriers in top hats dance.
December 8, 2024 at 1:42 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

10/20
Cover for The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Against a cream background, a greyscale illustration shows a tiny house with a porch, flanked by a small tree on one side and some large bushes on the other. Large-font title is in dark purple, author in a lighter purple; "A NOVEL" is printed in black, all caps, in a much smaller font.
December 8, 2024 at 1:28 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

9/20
Cover of the 1976 edition of The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Volume 2: Wonder Woman. Against a tomato-red background, a color illustration of an early 1940s version of Wonder Woman wielding her golden lasso.
December 6, 2024 at 12:49 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

8/20
Cover of I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive, a Zora Neale Huston Reader. Features an image of a laughing Huston from the hips up; she is wearing a dark winter coat with a fur collar, and a red-colorized hat with a large feather.
December 5, 2024 at 12:32 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

7/20
Against a dark green background, a line drawing of an annoyed-looking terrier. Drawing and title and author are in orange.
December 4, 2024 at 12:24 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

6/20
Against a black background, a masked figure dressed in red faces the viewer between the title (Flash of the Spirit) and subtitle (African and Afro-American Art & Philosophy). The mask is silver with detailed embossing, and has hair, some of it waxed in black and ornamented, falling from it.
December 3, 2024 at 12:39 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

5/20
Three witches ride their brooms over what looks like a stream, with a pair of colorful frogs in the foreground. The second witch has a pipe in her mouth and a black cat on her shoulder; the third, who alo looks younger than the others, is losing her pointy black hat and is followed by several red parrots. A castle and a horse-drawn cart are in the background.
December 2, 2024 at 1:40 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

4/20
Photograph of a flamboyantly colored cassowary looking at the camera, with the book title, subtitle, and author in yellow letters. Image includes quotes from Publishers Weekly and the New York Public Library.
December 1, 2024 at 12:34 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
#bookchallenge

3/20
Cover of InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi. Close-up of white-haired main character InuYasha, looking fiercely at the viewer with amber eyes under black brows. He wears a red top and a black beaded necklace. He is the absolute bestest.
November 30, 2024 at 12:38 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
#bookchallenge

2/20
A yellow and light-blue striped background with the title in a large curlicued "handwritten" font and a small oval medallion in the center featuring a drawing of a steaming cup of tea, some flatware, and two open books. I would love to meet Hector and Virgil one day!
November 29, 2024 at 12:34 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
#bookchallenge

1/20
Huge, flame-colored wings surround a woman in an elaborate uniform and golden headdress. She is giving the viewer a severe look.
November 28, 2024 at 2:03 AM