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jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

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 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 8/20

Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. It is black, with a glowing center showing two wooden blocks that cast shadows for G E and B, representing, I think, the interconnectedness of the three thinkers.

November 25, 2024 at 1:35 AM

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Rory

@roryreckons.bsky.social

No one ever thinks about how Promethus' hawk must be absolutely sick of liver by now.

November 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

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 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 7/20

Cover of e. e. cummings complete poems 1904-1962.

November 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

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 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 6/20

Cover of The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra. Under the title it reads, "SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND THE RISING CULTURE." Under the author's name it reads, "author of The Tao of Physics." The cover is black with grey and white lettering, with a small box in the middle with orange and brown lines alternating and two purple curved arrows pointing at a glowing spot in the box. Below it reads, "A compelling vision of a new reality. A reconciliation of science and the human spirit for a future that will work."

November 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM

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Todd Jones

@toddrjones.bsky.social

November 17, 2024 at 4:32 AM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

｡⋆ Bookish Checkpoint⋆｡🕯️. -ʚɞ
✧ Last book read: Building A Life Worth Living by Marsha Linehan
✧ Current read: Disappearance at Mexican Hat by Jo Rebeka
✧ Last add to TBR: Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
✧ Next anticipated read: ACOTR by Sarah J. Mass
Quote with yours! #BookSky 💙📚

Lizzie Dub @lizwhipps.swifties.social · Nov 17

˚｡⋆ Bookish Checkpoint⋆｡🕯️. -ʚɞ
✧ Last book read: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
✧ Current read: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
✧ Last add to TBR: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
✧ Next anticipated read: Babel by R.F. Kuang
Quote with yours! #BookSky 💙📚

Naz @enchantednaz.swifties.social · Nov 17

˚｡⋆ Bookish Checkpoint⋆｡🕯️. -ʚɞ
✧ Last book read: Never Lie by Freida McFadden
✧ Current read: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
✧ Last add to TBR: The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali
✧ Next anticipated read: Babel by R.F. Kuang
Quote with yours! #BookSky 💙📚

November 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

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 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 5/20

Cover of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. The cover is turquoise-ish (I suck at describing colors, sorry), with yellow lettering made to look like handwriting. It reads at the bottom in black text, "Introduction by Judith Thurman.'

November 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

It's caturday! Look at my cute cat!
#caturday

Picture is a close up if a black cat with wide black pupils. In the background is a blurry bedroom with a closet to the left and a bookshelf to the right.

November 16, 2024 at 4:10 PM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

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 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 4/20

Cover of the book Night by Eli Weisel. It's is grey on the top and bottoms, and white in the middle with a red piece of barbed wire under the author's name. It reads, "winner of the nobel Peace prize." And "A slim volume of terrifying power. -The New York Times."

November 16, 2024 at 2:01 PM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

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 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 3/20

Cover of The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by ajules Feiffer. The cover is blue with yellow letters. There is a drawing of a boy in a black shirt and brown pants with white hair talking to a brown dog with a clock on the side of his fur. The dog looks angry or upset, the boy looks curious.

November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

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 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 2/20

Cover of Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones. It is the 30th Anniversary Edition, with gold lettering and a gold band along the bottom. The cover has a picture of an ink bottle spilling out black ink and stars, along with the man in the moon.

November 15, 2024 at 12:50 AM

jessica smesshica

@ramblerjessica.bsky.social

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 💙📚
#BookChallenge