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Leanne Yanabu
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She/her. Originally from Hawaii. University of New Mexico website designer. I love reading, board games, skating, photography, cooking and hiking. First 25 posts are books that changed my outlook. Ongoing posts are current reads. See me at olopua.com
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"Notes to John" by Joan Didion. A photo of the author in a sweater, looking at the photographer, arms crossed, sitting at a desk in a high rise apartment
December 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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"The Have and Have-Yachts" by Evan Osnos. Cover depicts a drawing of an elongated boat on the ocean.
December 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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"The Trauma Cleaner" by Sarah Krasnostein. Kindle edition cover depicts a bright yellow latex right handed glove with a small drop of deep red blood at the index finger and wrist, against a white background
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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"Bad Law" by Elie Mystal. Title is black text on white rectangles with a blue tint overlay on legal text. The author's picture in partial profile in black and white is cut off at the bottom of the cover
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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"The End of Night" by Paul Bogard. The cover drawing shows a figure with a hat, long sleeves and pants, peering towards the horizon at a night sky with a Milky Way river of stars arcing overhead
December 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote. A holly decoration in between the title and author.
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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"Graceland, at Last" by Margaret Renkl. Cover shows a series of horizontal landscape cutouts similar to a mosaic, on a light blue background
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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"Means of Ascent" by Robert A. Caro. Black buckram hardcover with Robert A. Caro in gold type, centered and underlined on the cover
November 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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"Foreverland" by Heather Havrilesky. Jacket art: Michael Silver, Collier's Magazine color illustration, April 10, 1951. A white woman in a light blue dress with a curly updo, makeup and diamond jewelry, is peering over the shoulder of a man in a light-colored jacket
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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"The Kamogawa Food Detectives" by Hisashi Kashiwai. Cover drawing of three ramen bowls lined in light blue with an orange and white cat in the middle one, against an aqua background with swirls of steam
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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"Replaceable You" by Mary Roach. A graphic depiction of a six eyed face with multiple mouths, dots and figure eight color blotches for hair and skin against a deep blue background
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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"Deep South" by Paul Theroux, photos by Steve McCurry. Cover depicts the PASTIME theater in Warren, Arkansas after a rainstorm
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Cheap Land Colorado by Ted Conover. Cover image of trailers and a windmill on a plain with a low mountain in the deep background
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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"The One Eyed Man" by Ron Currie. Turquoise text over a red background with a graphic of a pair of black framed glasses with one lens broken
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. White text against a background of red, pink, yellow and white roses and green leaves
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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We'll Always Have Paris by Jennifer Coburn. Cover: colorful pen drawings of two bicyclists on a bridge with the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, trees, and Sacré-Coeur in the background
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"The $12 Million Stuffed Shark" by Don Thompson. Cover depicts a light liquid background. A photo of a shark in superimposed in the foreground, cut into vertical strips.
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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"Reacher" by Lee Child. A black silhouette of a man's body in front of an emerald background
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child. Red title text. Background shows a freeway leading into a night city
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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"Seen and Unseen" by Elizabeth Partridge. Cover depicts a black and white drawing of Toyo Miyatake photographing a guard tower with a tripod; bottom 1/3 of the cover shows a Kodak Wide Field Ektar lens
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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American Oasis, by Kyle Paoletta. The cover drawing is of a city far off in the distance, with desert mesas and saguaros in the foreground
October 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"If you can't take the heat" by Geraldine DeRuiter. A hand with red painted fingernails gripping an iced pastry with a bright red cherry
September 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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"Margo's Got Money Troubles" by Rufi Thorpe. Cover illustration magenta and pink diagonal background; blond woman lying on a couch wearing a long sleeved orange shirt and jeans with a black belt, hand on a laptop. There is a black and white striped throw on the back of the pink couch.
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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"I'm starting to worry about this Black Box of Doom" by Jason Pargin. Cover is white with a cartoon drawing of a woman in a red hoodie with a red trucker hat and neon green glasses with white shorts, red socks, and black sneakers seated on a large black case with wheels
September 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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The Lost World of the Old Ones by David Roberts. White text over a cliffside photo background
September 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM