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Dog & pūriri flower…spring is springing 🌸
Black, brown and white dog with a pink collar dog sitting and looking at the camera with a pink flower on her head, grass and trees in the background
October 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Pūriri (vitex lucens) blossoms #spring #flowers #aotearoa
Pink blossoms among green leaves of the pūriri tree
September 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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#20TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
20/20
Kataraina, by Becky Manawatu
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Book cover Text: Kataraina Becky Manawatu The sequel to Auē ‘Electrifying’ - Tusiata Avia Illustration: silhouette of Māori woman in profile with her arms folded with a carved bone comb holding her hair up. The silhouette is filled with a river scene featuring an eel, a fish, a net and reeds, with a starry night sky shining on a body of water
August 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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#20TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
19/20
Five Past Midnight In Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre & Javier Moro
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Book cover Text: The New York Times bestselling author of City of Joy Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro Five Past Midnight in Bhopal The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster “This is investigative journalism at its best, beautifully told and researched with a vengeance” - Sebastian Junger , author of ‘Fire’ and ‘The Perfect Storm’ Illustration: Text is against a red background, above a photograph of the face of a woman with black hair and brown skin. She wears makeup, has a bindi, and gold jewellery set with red stones decorates her forehead and in her nose. She is smiling and looking to her right.
August 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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#20TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
18/20
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Book cover Text: Atmosphere A Love Story Taylor Jenkins Reid #1 New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Ford Illustration: Head and shoulders of a woman with dark curly windblown hair. She wears aviator shades and overalls, and is looking upwards. The background is a cloud-scattered blue sky
August 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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#20TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
17/20
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom by Emily Feng
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Book cover Text: Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China, Emily Feng Illustration: black background, brown flowers surround a central red flower
August 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
16/20
All the Colors of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Book cover Text: All the Colors of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker, New York bestselling author of We Begin in the Dark. Illustration: a reverse S shape in red, across a forest scene of trees without leaves silhouetted against a starry night sky
August 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
15/20
King of Kings, by Scott Anderson
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Book cover. Text: King of Kings The Iranian Revolution: A story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation Scott Anderson New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence of Arabia Illustration: A gold throne carrying the flags of the USA and Iran, against a black background
August 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
14/20
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book This Is How You Lose the Time War written by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Title is written in black, Amal El-Mohtar in blue at the top, Max Gladstone in red at the bottom. Illustration is a red cardinal sitting atop a mirror reflection of a blue cardinal - both birds are pieced together by unaligned segments
August 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
12/20
The Plague, by Albert Camus
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book “The Plague” written by Albert Camus. Title and author’s name unwritten in white against a red background, featuring a photo/illustration of a bloodshot eye.
August 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No expectations, no explanations, just covers.
12/20
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book Piranesi written by Susanna Clark. Author’s name is written in brown at the top, book title in white at the bottom. Black background, against this a faun plays a flute atop a column. One of the faun’s feet is lifted as though he is dancing.
August 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations
10/20
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War, by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
#booksky #bookchallenge #readersky #reading
August 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
10/20
The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson
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Cover of the book “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson. Author’s name in red writing, title in cream writing within a red circle. Illustration shows a human figure paddling a canoe on water, seen as though from a river bank looking between green reeds.
August 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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20TBRbook challenge
💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBr shelf/list.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
9/20
Hayek’s Bastards, by Quinn Slobodian

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Cover of the book Hayek’s Bastards by Quinn Slobodian. Writing in white and brown against a background of grey, black, and blue. A large blue figure with a grey face hovers over a blue globe and cube, and a small male figure in a blue shirt and black pants.
August 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
8/20
Endling, by Maria Reva
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book “Endling” written by Maria Reva. Title is in black, author’s name in white against a background illustration of a motor home sitting on black and white striped dunes or small hills, with blue mountains in the distance and a red sky above.
August 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
7/20
An African History of Africa, by Zeinab Badawi
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book an African History of Africa, written by Zeinab Badawi. Title of the book is in gold lettering against dark blue night sky, surrounded by a circular pattern of African designs in gold, then red, black and white against a blue/green background. The author’s name is within the circle pattern at the bottom, in white.
August 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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#20TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
6/20
Amma, by Saraid de Silva

#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book “Amma” by Saraid de Silva. Background is horizontal shades of pale colour: green at the bottom fades into yellow, then blue and finally pink at the top. Against this is the black silhouette of a tree in leaf, growing with its trunk split in two.
August 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

5/20

Becoming Tangata Tiriti, by Avril Bell

#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book “Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty” by Avril Bell. Black and red writing against a white background. In the right bottom corner there is an illustration of a yellow flowering plant with leaves which sits in a mug with red and black koru designs on it.
August 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge

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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers

4/20

The Seven O’Clock Club, by Amelia Ireland

#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book The Seven O’Clock Club by author Amelia Ireland. White and yellow writing against a red background on the left, and on the right is an illustration of four people standing on four separate small apartment balconies.
August 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
3/20
Forgotten, by Raja Shehadeh & Penny Johnson
#booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book “Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials” by Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson. White and black lettering against an orange background, with three black and white photos in the shape of a Palestinian style window.
August 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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#20TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

2/20

Long Island, by Colm Tóibín

#booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Cover of the book Long Island, written by Colm Tóibín. White and black writing. The picture is a partial view of a woman’s side/back as she stands in summer grass against a blue sky, her floral cotton dress lifted slightly by a breeze.
August 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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#TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/list.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

1/20

How Tyrants Fall by Marcel Dirsus

#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Book cover of How Tyrants Fall by Marcel Dirsus, red and black writing on a cream background surrounding a picture of the damaged head of a Roman sculpture
August 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Afternoon pīwakawaka/fantail
A pīwakawaka/New Zealand fantail flying with wings spread, chasing insects against a blue sky background
July 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Here ‘tis
A photo of part of page 183 of Jacinda Ardern’s memoir “A Different Kind of Power”
June 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Misty start to the day…
May 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM