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Porcelina
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Public-sector STEM jockey, constant reader, language learner 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇪🇸🇲🇽🇫🇷🇰🇷🇮🇪
I’m political 💙 (immigration, inequality, climate, democracy) but I like jokes, art, books, and wonders of science & nature too.
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Not that PR wants statehood, only that it’s a (not-that-)small place without Congressional representation so it gives the lie to small rural white states crying about the oppression they’d face without two senators each. DC is definitely interested in voting representatives, see its license plate.
District of Columbia license plate showing the motto TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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There is also this, of the 2020 election, from www.core77.com/posts/90771/.... Original map of vote by county, looking almost entirely red, at the link.
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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That’s why maps like this work better. From www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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My favorite of the year so far: One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun. Eungyo and Mujae work in a rabbit warren of workshops threatened with demolition. There, people’s shadows are starting to rise away from them. Weird, subtle, unforgettable. #booksky #koreanlit
Wavy blue and black feather or fur shapes on an off-white background.
August 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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From her East German upbringing in a family of discreet dissenters through her career in science to 16 years as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel has a lot to tell. She’s good on Trump and Putin. Her clear prose and Juliet Stevenson’s crisp narration make the audiobook an easy listen. #BookSky
The cover shows Angela Merkel dressed in royal blue and wearing a necklace, against a matching blue background.
February 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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“It sort of feels like more than just a car brand” - Fredrik Skavlan for Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten
February 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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An update from North Dakota 2008. One character goes west to the oil patch; most stay home, in town and on the farms south of Fargo. There’s a teenage love triangle and small-town scandal. There are hints of magic, an environmental reckoning, and, surprise, lots of humor. 4.5/5 #BookSky #BookReview
The background is black and may be a starry sky or an aerial view of a river, which appears in white. The title THE MIGHTY RED appears in red and the author’s name, LOUISE ERDRICH, is in a golden earth tone.
February 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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This thriller about a boy who survives the wreck of a migrant boat and the girl who helps him puts some flesh on the bones of a familiar news story. Alternating chapters from before and after the wreck is great for building tension. 4/5 #BookSky #BookReview
The background of the book cover is an overhead view of the ocean with waves breaking on the beach. At lower right a boat sits in shallow water.
January 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Beautifully written, full of poetic metaphors, but also grounded in grubby specifics of daily life. Cyrus is obsessed with a death that will make his life have meant something, then he goes to Brooklyn with Zee and meets an artist. 4.5/5 #BookSky #BookReview
The cover is yellow. The title (Martyr!) is at the top and the author’s name (Kaveh Akbar) is at the bottom. In the lower left corner there’s a line drawing of a helmeted Persian warrior on a horse with a speech bubble saying “A NOVEL”.
January 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The author takes three trips: to Dakar, where he looks for history and finds modern Africa; South Carolina, where teachers fight proposals to ban his books; and a Palestinian writers’ festival where he starts with the modern and finds history. Check out his interview w Ezra Klein. 4/5 #BookSky
The title (The Message) and author’s name (Ta-Nehisi Coates) appear in white on a beige background along with splotches of white, red, blue and black and what might be blurry bits of black text.
December 20, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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Follows the four members of the band from childhood through their meeting in Athens to superstardom to the present day. None of the four talked to the author and he fills in with details of contract negotiations and just-OK rock criticism. 3.5/5
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December 15, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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In her fourth novel Sally Rooney switches to male protagonists, two brothers who are mourning their father and sorting out their relationships with women. It’s not all interpersonal dynamics—this one opens out into a nice little social novel. 4.5/5 #BookSky #BookReview #SallyRooney
The cover is a chess board with squares in yellow and gray. Five different chess pieces, shown from overhead, cast shadows of women and men. The author’s name, SALLY ROONEY, appears at the top in black and the title, INTERMEZZO, appears across the bottom.
December 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Last but by no means least. 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. 💙📚 20/20
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#BookChallenge
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The background of the cover is yellow. On it, a Black man and little girl are seen from behind and below, holding hands and looking at a white house with a large porch.
December 8, 2024 at 1:49 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. 💙📚 19/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#BookSkyChallenge
December 7, 2024 at 11:38 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. 💙📚 18/20

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#BookChallenge
#BookSkyChallenge
The cover is beige. Horizontal text is black surrounded by 19th-century-style curlicues. The title, Missy, runs vertically bottom to top in red block letters. Below it, a handgun shoots curlicues up into it.
December 6, 2024 at 10:33 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. 💙📚 17/20

#BookSky

#BookChallenge

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December 5, 2024 at 12:04 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. 💙📚 16/20
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The cover is a pinkish red. The author’s name, Carson McCullers, is shown in white. A white box shows the title, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
December 4, 2024 at 11:55 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. 💙📚 15/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover is white and shows a line drawing of a man with blue eyes surrounded by geometric shapes. To his lower left is a green shape. To his right is an orange shape covered with stars in an animal print. At the bottom is a stylized blue typewriter. At the top is an animal-print shape with a motorcycle over it. At upper right is a purple box with the title (THE BOYFRIEND SCHOOL) on it in white. Over that is a red stripe showing the author’s name (Sarah Bird) in black cursive.
December 3, 2024 at 2:37 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. 💙📚 14/20

#BookSky

#BookChallenge
December 2, 2024 at 10:18 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. 💙📚 13/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover shows an illustration in the style of the 17th or 18th century, of some kind of earthwork or rock formation by the sea. On one side, two men in round hats with wide brims and belted coats are standing on a tall circular wooden platform lifting a large cylinder. On the other, a man is using a large hammer to build another, lower wooden platform.
December 1, 2024 at 11:37 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. 💙📚 12/20

#BookSky
#BookChallenge
November 30, 2024 at 6:18 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. 💙📚 11/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
November 29, 2024 at 4:40 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. 💙📚 10/20

#BookSky

#BookSkyChallenge
November 28, 2024 at 10:47 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. 💙📚 9/20
#BookSky
#BookSkyChallenge
November 27, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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I’m underwhelmed by this list. I’ve only read 4 and want to read just 13 more. Maybe this is a weird year or maybe it’s me. Fave so far: Everyone Who Is Here Is Gone. Most anticipated: The Silence of the Choir or the Muldoon book. @nytimes.com
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The image shows 13 book covers arranged in a grid on a white background. Text above says: 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024 and below that, “I want to read 13.”
November 26, 2024 at 7:40 PM