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Lisa Hatlestad
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15: Wicked - Gregory Maguire
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Wicked book cover - circular inset of the profile of a shoulders-up etching of a witch with her face turned to the left and half-hidden under a wide-brimmed witch hat.
December 19, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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My current view. A slightly uneasy sharing of space. Good thing i have ample real estate. 🥰
#Caturday
December 14, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14: Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice
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Cover of Memnoch the Devil - the painting “Road to Calvary with Veronica's Veil” - by Giovanni Cariani Biblical figure Veronica holding the cloth Jesus pressed to his bloody face on the day of his crucifixion as Jesus and other figures under burden of his cross, stand beside and around her.
December 13, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
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Book cover of Piranesi - painting of Pan playing flute while standing on. Grecian column against a black background. Book title and author name in large serif grunge font.
December 9, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12: The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
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Book cover - pale yellow the Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking.
December 8, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11: The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
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#bookchallenge
Cover of first edition featuring surrealist/abstract collage art of a burly man with an abstract face clutching a woman with a woman’s raphaelite-styled face/head atop a small, child sized body
December 6, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10: Koko - Peter Straub
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Book cover for Koko - abstract face with acid green skin and red lips and fake outline on a black background
December 5, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9: Making the Gods Work for You - Caroline W Casey
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#bookchallenge
Photo of the book Making the Gods Work for You: Purple background with mythological figures in relief, title in gold.
December 4, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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This does not trend toward holiday cheer, but it is what it is. Northwestern Minnesota, Dec 4 2024
Photo through car windshield of rural highway covered with blowing snow under a dreary, gray, windy sky
December 4, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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John Meowkovich
December 2024

#kitties
#cats
#johnMalkovich
Photo of John, a dark gray male cat with a small dot of white on its chest, sitting upright on a taupe blanket and looking at the camera.
December 4, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susannah Clarke
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#books
#bookchallenge
Cover of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - black background with a raven in flight silhouette, title and author in white
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7: The Color Purple - Alice Walker
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Cover of The Color Purple with Celine reading while sitting in a rocking chair in front of a window
December 3, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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Comfort frog says hello.
#knitting
Leaning my head toward A frog I knitted that I placed on my shoulder.
November 30, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6: A Three Dog Life - Abigail Thomas
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Cover of the book A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
November 30, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5: The Girls Who Went Away - Ann Fessler
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Photo of the cover of the book The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
November 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4 (which was yesterday) The Vampire LeStat - Anne Rice
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Photo of cover of the book “The Vampire LeStat” by Anne Rice
November 29, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3: Dalva - Jim Harrison
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November 27, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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The apparent fate of having to restart EVERY SINGLE new knitting project one to two rows after cast-on 😬😭
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#knittingfails
November 26, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2: Wuthering Heights —Emily Bronte
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#books
#bookchallenge
November 26, 2024 at 5:44 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
Day 1
Slightly dendted/worn cover of the book Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
November 25, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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So I reposted a post about adding alt descriptions to images for the sight-impaired and then did not do that for my original post. Making amends as best I can since I can’t edit my original post.
Orange female house cat named Hermie sitting in front of a window, facing camera and looking annoyed Orange house cat, Hermie, in front of window, ears cocked back.
November 17, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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Hermie excels at looking peeved. So much we can learn from our pets. 😜
November 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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This is Rico. My little gray muzzled friend whose snores are the background music of my mornings.
Photo of Rico, a tan Pekingese with a gray muzzle, asleep in his dog bed.
November 16, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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My Taurus Sun, Taurus Mercury, Taurus Mars, Taurus Venus, and Taurus MC to Uranus.
November 16, 2024 at 1:58 PM