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J.C. McCannon
@jcmccannon.bsky.social
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Reader and wannabe writer. I'll add more if I actually start to use this account to do more than lurk, but I'm mostly interested in what other people are doing. Not a bot, but that's exactly what a bot would say.
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20 books, 20 days, etc. etc. I'm thinking of stopping at 10, or maybe 8. Does everyone need to know about these books? Well, maybe THIS book.
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚
Day 8
The cover of The Turning Place: Stories of a Future Past by Jean E. Karl. The cover is mauve and shows the image of a woman with wide eyes, hand to her mouth as if in shock or surprise, her hair blowing behind her. Some kind of spacecraft appears to be pursuing her. A blurb over the author's name says, "An ALA Notable Book." The publisher is Dell and it cost $1.50.
September 22, 2024 at 6:19 PM
jcmccannon.bsky.social
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. (Be sure to add alt text so text-to-speech users can enjoy your books, too!)
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚
Day 7
The cover of The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. It's a black and white photograph of a woman in a nightgown with bare feet, sitting on a floor with her back against a wall and her knees up. She is holing an open book on her knees. There are transparent vertical bars superimposed over the photo, three on the left colored black, blue, and red, and one on the right colored gold. A gold circle contains the text, "Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature." The publisher's label is HarperPerennial ModernClassics.
September 21, 2024 at 2:59 PM
jcmccannon.bsky.social
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. (Be sure to add alt text so text-to-speech users can enjoy your books, too!)
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚
Day 6
The cover of Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling. Cover art depicts an ultralight aircraft flying above the curved landscape of an O'Neill cylinder space colony. A similar aircraft is in pursuit in the distance. Above the book title, it says, "Man's destiny is divided. The fight for control has begun..." Above the author's name it says, "An epic space adventure by," and below it says, "Author of Involution Ocean." A blurb from Philip Jose Farmer reads, "Rare and Sterling, a tsunami of imagination."
September 19, 2024 at 11:58 PM
jcmccannon.bsky.social
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. (Be sure to add alt text so text-to-speech users can enjoy your books, too!)
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚
Day 5
The cover of Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Huie. The cover art depicts many crocodiles suspended by red ribbons or ropes tied around their midsections. The background is yellow.
September 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
jcmccannon.bsky.social
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. (Be sure to add alt text so text-to-speech users can enjoy your books, too!)
#BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚
Day 4
The cover of The White Mountains by John Christopher. The cover art shows three boys running from three tall 3-legged machines that are shining lights around, apparently in search of them. The sky is cloudy and dark.
September 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
jcmccannon.bsky.social
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 💙📚
Day 3
The cover of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. The cover has a black and white photograph of two young girls crouched down by an automobile. One of the girls is smiling and looking toward the camera. The other is behind her and has her head down. Both are wearing dark dresses with white collars and sandals. A blurb from the Guardian says, "Nothing quite like it has ever been published." A gold medallion shape has the words, "#1 Best Book of the Century - New York Times." Under the author's name, it says "The international no. 1 bestseller."
September 16, 2024 at 6:26 PM
jcmccannon.bsky.social
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 💙📚
Day 2
The cover of The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin published by Panther Science Fiction. The cover art depicts a man, viewed from the back, standing on a rocky landscape with a sci-fi looking city in front of him and a planet just above the horizon in a red sky that silhouettes his upper body. Blurbs read: "Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author" and "Certain to become a classic," the latter attributed to Science Fiction Monthly. The cover shows wear and tear.
September 15, 2024 at 7:50 PM
jcmccannon.bsky.social
Text around a radioactivity symbol that says, “i just personally don’t agree with radiation poisoning. you held a rock and now you feel bad? grow up”
September 15, 2024 at 3:01 PM
jcmccannon.bsky.social
I guess I'll try this, too. Let's see if I remember to stick with it.

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 💙📚
Day 1
The cover of All the Names by José Saramago. The cover shows a man in a suit and hat, seen from the back, levitating a little bit above the pavement in an alley. Below the author's name, the cover says, "A novel by the author of Blindness" and "Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature." A blurb from the Denver Post is at the bottom. It says, "A tour de force.. It is a book that's not simply read, but experienced."
September 14, 2024 at 8:56 PM