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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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20/20

(Saucepan man. Dream Land. I could go on.)
December 15, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Yeah. It's not Louis at all is it!

All of the paperbacks from when I first read them back in the 90s have these sorts of covers.

Queen of the damned's cover is about as far from Akasha as you can get:
December 15, 2024 at 8:39 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.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#ReadBannedBooks

19/20

(For a while I had purple sunglasses)
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
December 14, 2024 at 6:58 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
#ReadBannedBooks

18/20

(I just wrote my goodbye on twitter. It was sad but outraged, which is about right)
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick
December 13, 2024 at 8:40 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
#ReadBannedBooks

17/20

(This is the book you should read if you are Gibson-curious)
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
December 12, 2024 at 9:03 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
#ReadBannedBooks

16/20
Bone Palace Ballet by Charles Bukowski
December 11, 2024 at 8:05 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
#ReadBannedBooks

15/20
Radicalized, by Cory Doctorow
December 10, 2024 at 4:01 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
#ReadBannedBooks
14/20
(I obscenity in the milk of the dart charge for issuing a pcn to me, an account holder)
For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
December 9, 2024 at 8:44 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#ReadBannedBooks

(Today I walked to a pub in the rain to pick up things that were left behind)

13/20
December 8, 2024 at 5:25 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
#ReadBannedBooks

12/20

(I spent yesterday afternoon with old good friends and it wad lovely)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
December 8, 2024 at 9:34 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#ReadBannedBooks
11/20

(I think I had a different book in mind. This book has won the battle of my memory)
Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang
December 6, 2024 at 8:09 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
#ReadBannedBooks

10/20

(Not an explanation nor a reason, but I did later become an EFL teacher in Greece)
The Magus by John Fowles.
December 5, 2024 at 7:55 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
#ReadBannedBooks

9/20 (took yesterday off cos I had 2 3s, also I went to a book signing)
Vurt, by Jeff Noon
December 4, 2024 at 7:39 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
#ReadBannedBooks

7/20
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
December 2, 2024 at 5:48 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
#ReadBannedBooks

6/20
Your wish is my command by Deeba Mohamed
December 1, 2024 at 7:09 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

#ReadBannedBooks

5/20
When we were very young / now we are six by AA Milne. I can never remember which book has which poem.
November 30, 2024 at 6:51 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.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#ReadBannedBooks

4/20
If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino
November 29, 2024 at 6:50 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
#ReadBannedBooks

3/20

(No excuses, I just forget yesterday evening)
Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll
November 28, 2024 at 8:21 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
#ReadBannedBooks

3/20

(Apologies for the lateness, my Internet was being silly last night)
I am the cheese by Robert Cormier
November 27, 2024 at 6:44 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
#ReadBannedBooks

2/20
The hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams
November 25, 2024 at 9:05 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
#ReadBannedBooks

1/20
The daring young man on the flying trapeze by William Saroyan
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM