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Jenny Lynn
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She/her, writer, reader, librarian, nerd, bi, liberal af, dog and cat mom
also I have a Teepublic store with some fun/funny/sarcastic/librarian-themed designs if you're into that sort of thing. here's one of my latest: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/748
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Got dolled up for Dallas Pride today as well as the No Kings protest. Didn't get to walk the streets with everybody but I was happy to be a part of it for a while before we headed to Pride
June 15, 2025 at 4:32 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.

#BookSky

#BookChallenge

(Day 20)
A book cover. The bottom of the cover shows a row of camp cabins on a field tinged with blood red with a line of black and dark red pine trees behind them. One of the cabins is illuminated inside with a neon blue light that shines out of the windows and open door. In the center of the cover is the title "Camp Damascus" and the author's name "Chuck Tingle, Hugo Award Finalist." Above the line of trees is a close-up illustration of a woman's open mouth and nose in profile, also tinged red. Flies pour out of her mouth along with what looks like reddish-black smoke. In the distance behind the face are yellow-tinged mountains and sky. A tagline at the very top reads, "They'll scare you straight to hell."
February 12, 2025 at 6:08 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.

#BookSky

#BookChallenge

(Day 19)
A illustrated graphic novel cover with the title "The Complete Maus" at the top. The background is grey. The center of the image is taken up with a white circle filled with a black swastika, at the center of which is the image of cat version of Hitler. At the bottom of the cover are two grey mice, one taller wearing a blue coat and one shorter wearing a brown coat. The taller mouse has his arm wrapped around the shorter one. To the left of the mice is a red circle with the words "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" in it. At the bottom of the cover is the author's name "Art Spiegelman."
February 11, 2025 at 6:44 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

#BookChallenge

(Day 18)
A book cover with the author's name "Octavia E. Butler" at the top. The background is a mostly off-white color with the edges fading to black. The image of a young Black woman with short, close-cropped hair wearing a simple white top takes up the majority of the cover. Her eyes are closed as her head is partially bowed. The book's title is the middle of the cover, "Kindred." Below that is a blurb from Harlan Ellison that reads, "Octavia Butler is a writer who will be with us for a long, long time, and Kindred is that rare magical artifact...the novel one returns to again and again." At the bottom of the cover is a black and white image of wooden cabins, trees, and bushes, and Black men and women standing in front of the cabins.
February 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
jenlynn.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 17)
A book cover where the top half is a white box with the words, "National Bestselling Author Robin McKinley, 'A fierce and beautiful story of rage and compassion, betrayal and loyalty, damage and love.' - Alice Hoffman." Underneath is a small black box with the title "Deerskin." The bottom half of the cover has a picture of a marble statue of a woman's and dog's body. Only the lower half of the woman's torso, arms, and legs can be seen, and her lap is covered by a piece of cloth. The dog is stretched up on its hindlegs next to the woman, on paw on her leg and the other held in her hands. Behind the statue is a stone wall with ivy growing on it.
February 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
jenlynn.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 16)
An audiobook cover featuring a light blue background with the first author's name "Amal El-Mohtar" at the top. In the middle is the title "This is How You Lose the Time War," separated by a pair of birds--a cardinal and a blue jay that mirror each other in the middle of the page, the cardinal facing right side up and the blue jay upside down. Each of the birds are fragmented. To the left of the blue jay are the words "Read by Cynthia Farrell and Emily Woo Zeller." At the bottom of the cover is the second author's name "Max Gladstone."
February 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
jenlynn.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 15)
A book cover featuring on the left side a black and white illustration of a stone church ruin with trees growing around and through it. In front of it are a few gravestones bordered by a low, black iron fence. On the right side at the top is a grey box with the author's name "Edgar Allan Poe" and at the bottom is a black box containing the title "The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe."
February 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
jenlynn.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 14)
A book cover featuring an illustrated image of a three-storied house set in a grassy-area with trees behind it and a glass arboretum set to the left of the house. The sky looks as if it's either sunrise or sunset and a star or meteorite is streaking across the sky above the house. Towards the bottom of the page is the title written in the grass, "House of Frank," next to which is a wooden arrow sign pointing toward the house. Below the title is the author's name "Kay Synclaire."
February 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I promised myself I wouldn't miss yesterday, but then I was busy with spouse's medical stuff and life.
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 13)
A book cover featuring a bright white background. At the top are the words "International Bestseller Jose Saramago Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature." Below that on the left side is a gold award seal that reads "Now a major motion picture." The middle of the cover is filled with a line of people following after one another, one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of them. The first person is a white woman with blonde hair wearing a pale sweater (actress Julianne Moore). The person behind her is a white man with short, brown curly hair wearing a dark T-shirt and a grey jacket (actor Mark Ruffalo). The person behind him is a Black man wearing a kangol hat, a black eye patch over his right eye, a white shirt, and grey cardigan (actor Danny Glover). The person behind him is a Hispanic man with short, dark hair. His clothes are hard to see as the image begins to get blurry and fade out. The people behind him are blurred faces that can't be clearly made out. At the bottom of the cover is the title, "Blindness."
February 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I've missed three days! Argh!!! Sorry, too much crazy shit has been happening.
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 12)
A book cover featuring a mostly white background meant to convey a snowy landscape. At the top left corner are a pair of legs wearing dark pants but no shoes, standing on the snow. At their feet, a crack forms and widens as it continues down the cover, showing blue/black water and ice underneath. To the right are the words "New York Times Bestselling Author Laurie Halse Anderson." Below that is the title "The Impossible Knife of Memory."
February 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
jenlynn.bsky.social
I've missed three days! Argh!!! Sorry, too much crazy shit has been happening.
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 11)
A graphic novel cover with a white background. At the top are the authors' names "Brian K. Vaughan" and "Fiona Staples." In the center of the page are three figures. On the right is a pale-skinned man with dark hair and rams horns growing out of his head. He wears dark pants, a yellow undershirt, a green shirt, and a grey jacket, and holds a sheathed knife in one hand. His other hand is wrapped around the back and shoulder of the tan woman to the left. She has short, dark green hair, tanned skin, and green wings sprouting from her back. She wears a black skirt and a tan blouse that is open in the front, allowing the baby she is holding in one hand to nurse. The baby is wrapped in a pale blue blanket. In her other hand, she holds a small, silver gun. Towards the bottom of the page is the title "Saga, Volume One."
February 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
jenlynn.bsky.social
I've missed three days! Argh!!! Sorry, too much crazy shit has been happening.
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 10)
A book cover featuring a brown stone background with the author's name "Gail Carson Levine" at the very top. Below it is the title "Ella Enchanted." In the center of the page is a young white girl with brown hair, smiling slightly as she looks out at the reader, wearing a green Medieval-style dress. One hand is resting on a wall while the other rests on top of a book with a brown cover. On the right side of the cover, a small portion of a landscape at night can be seen with a river flowing to a distant castle. On the left side of the cover is a silver, Newberry Honor seal.
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
jenlynn.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 9)
A book cover featuring a black background dotted with white stars. An illustrated white hand, palm up, is in the center of the cover, holding a black, white, and red stripped set of circus tents, the center tent topped with a white clock surrounded by off-white curlicues. Framing the clock is a red circle, broken by a black triangle. Above the clock is the title "The Night Circus, a novel," framed by ornate swirls and lines. Below the hand is the author's name, "Erin Morgenstern."
February 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
jenlynn.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 8)
A book cover featuring a black background. At the top is the author's name in off-white font, "Garth Nix." Below it is a line with two arrow shapes at either end, then below that is the title, "Sabriel," in gold font. The rest of the cover is filled with an illustration featuring a young, pale woman with black, chin length hair streaming off to her left as if the wind is blowing it while she looks in that direction. She wears a blue tunic over a black undershirt with white collar and cuffs. Across her chest is a bandolier lined with bells in various sizes. Her left hand is held across her chest, holding a small bell between her thumb and forefinger. Her right hand is down at her side, holding an unsheathed sword with symbols etched on the blade. In the background of the illustration, to her left is a dark, shadowy face. Only eyes and a thin, skeletal hand reaching out toward the young woman can be seen over her shoulder.
January 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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(I forgot to do one last night, so here's one for yesterday).

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 7)
A book cover featuring a blue sky background dotted with white clouds. At the top in stylized font is the title, "The Eyre Affair." In the middle of the cover is an image featuring an open book in front of a neutral background and what appears to be a woman walking into the words on the left side of the open page. The box is outlined in neon green. Below the box are the words, "A Novel," then the author's name, also in neon green, "Jasper Fforde."
January 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
jenlynn.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 6)
A book cover. The background is mostly pink clouds and a city skyline, which appears to be Washington DC. At the top of the page is the tagline, "The only thing more dangerous than magic is power." Underneath that is a young black woman with shoulder-length pink hair waer8ng a blue tank top and a silver necklace. On her chest, there is a light as if power is radiating out of her. Her hands are in front of her waist, partly obscured by tendrils of pink smoke and hovering over a simmering cauldron of green liquid. Towards the bottom of the cover the background colors fade from pink to purple then to blue. There are dim potion bottoms on either side of the cauldron. The title reads "The Poisons We Drink." Author is Bethany Baptiste.
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 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.

#BookSky

#BookChallenge

(Day 5)
A book cover. The title reads "To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods" at the top of the page. In the background is an ornate golden archway with a blue/grey castle centered in the distance. In front of the castle is a young woman with pale skin and long, dark hair in a colorful and elaborate dress. Pieces of the fabric of her dress fly across the page in various directions. At the bottom of the page is the authors name, Molly X. Chang.
January 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
jenlynn.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 4)
January 28, 2025 at 5:37 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

(Day 3)
A book cover. The top reads "C. S. Lewis. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Book 1 in the Chronicles of Narnia." Below the text is an illustration of two wardrobe doors open showing a snowy path into a forest with tall trees. Four dark haired children wearing coats are walking down the path. At the end of the path in the distance, there is a castle.
January 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
jenlynn.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)
A book cover featuring illustrated trees and vines coming out of the center of the page around two people, a white man and a white woman. The man wears black pants, a black shirt, and a black bandana on his head. He holds a fencing sword in his left hand. The woman wears a white undershirt with a long, light red dress over it. She has long blonde hair and is looking backwards. The top of the cover reads in smaller print "The 30th Anniversary Edition," then below that in larger print, "The Princess Bride." Near the bottom of the page is italized wording which reads: "S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure." Below that is "William Goldman" and the text "Includes a new introduction."
January 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
jenlynn.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 1)
A book cover. The top contains a red box that reads "Oxford World's Classics." Underneath that is another red box that reads "Jane Austen Persuasion." Below that is an image of a young woman in profile with brown hair in an updo that is curly and braided. She is wearing a Regency style dress that can only be seen from the back, a light red beaded necklace, and is sitting in front of a dark red curtain.
January 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Was playing Mass Effect 3 last night and this line came up and hit me in a really good way. Something I really needed to hear. Hopefully it helps someone else out there, too.
An image from the video game Mass Effect 3 featuring the characters Eve (a krogan) and Shephard (a human). Eve says, "There is no reason to exist other than the hope that the next day will bring change. And if it doesn't, there's always the next."
November 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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My lil terror, Peebee
November 11, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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My sweet babies, Zelda and Peebee
September 15, 2023 at 3:34 PM