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tacolimCass

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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. (20/20)
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler

The cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler shows a person of color holding a worn, open book, with their hands and the book in focus. The title appears in purple, and Butler’s name is bold at the top, alongside praise from The New York Times Book Review. The design emphasizes reflection and significance.

December 6, 2024 at 6:26 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (19/20)
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore

The cover of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore features a medieval-inspired design with an ornate illuminated "L," intricate floral motifs, and a textured, aged background. The serifed font for the title and author enhances the feel of an ancient religious manuscript, blending reverence with playfulness.

December 5, 2024 at 2:13 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (18/20)
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Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card

Novel cover. Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card. The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel. Author's definitive edition. Illustration in background of a futuristic cityscape with glowing red lines, a towering dark structure, and spacecraft flying in a twilight sky, evoking mystery and advanced technology.

December 4, 2024 at 8:54 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (17/20)
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The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin

Novel cover. The Fifth Season: Every Age Must Come to an End N.K. Jemisin. "Intricate and Extraordinary" -New York Times. Winner of the Hugo Award 2016
Background illustration appears to be a stone wall and a stone carving with floral swirls. Both the wall and carving have cracks and signs of wear.

December 3, 2024 at 7:45 PM

tacolimCass

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First sticking snow of the season!
I'm always so excited...
Until I have to shovel a bunch. 😂
💙☃️🌨️❄️💙

A yard with a swing set surrounded by bare trees and bushes. Everything is covered in snow.

December 3, 2024 at 7:40 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (16/20)
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The Midnight Library
Matt Haig

Novel cover. The Midnight Library Matt Haig the number one bestselling author. One library. Infinite lives. Background a dark blue with stars. In the middle what appears to be a paper lantern made to look like a library. A small white cat stands in the shadow cast by the building-lantern.

December 2, 2024 at 8:38 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (15/20)
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

Novel cover. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale. Image of two women dresses in long red garments and white winged caps carrying baskets next to a tall brick wall.

December 1, 2024 at 8:11 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (14/20)
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The Diamond Age, Or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson

Novel cover The Diamond Age, Or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson. Illustration of a sea side with large jutting rocks coming out of the sea. People stare out to sea dresses in clothes from the early 1900s (bustles, hats, suits, canes, parasols).

November 30, 2024 at 8:48 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (13/20)
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His Majesty's Dragon
Naomi Novik

Novel cover. Temeraire - Book 1 His Majesty's Dragon Naomi Novik. "Terrifically entertaining." - Stephen King
Red background with a black dragon wrapped around an image of a ship at sea.

November 29, 2024 at 2:04 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (12/20)
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Babel
R.F. Kuang

Novel cover R.F Kuang Babel An Arcane History. Illustration of black and white city rooftops and spires with one large central tower.

November 28, 2024 at 2:32 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (11/20)
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American Gods
Neil Gaiman

Cover of novel with a blacktop road going into the distance and lighting striking. Words say: Neil Gaiman Author of Neverwhere A Novel American Gods.

November 27, 2024 at 7:33 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (10/20)
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert Heinlein

Novel cover that says The Moon is a Harsh Mistress a new novel by Robert Heinlein author of Stranger in a Strange land and Orphans of the Sky, etc.
Illustration of darkness with a large swath of red, green, blue light in the middle and one indistinct human figure.

November 26, 2024 at 2:27 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (9/20)
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Riddle of Stars
Patricia McKillip

Novel cover Riddle of Stars by Patricia McKillip.
Cover illustration shows a young person with three stars on their forehead holding a sword with the same stars on its crosspiece. A number of people look on from nearby fading into the distance.

November 25, 2024 at 1:35 PM

tacolimCass

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Transformers 2 features the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum's SR-71 Blackbird changing into Jetfire.

Afterward, the exhibit included that clip from the movie.

Once, I saw another patron watch the video, then earnestly ask their parther: "Could it happen again?"

I think about that often.

Image of the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" at Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum in Dulles, VA.

Image from Transformers 2 of Jetfire transformed inside the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum in the middle of other aircraft.

November 24, 2024 at 4:11 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (8/20)
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The Space Trilogy
C.S. Lewis

Omnibus novel cover with an undefined black and grey scale background.
C.S. Lewis The Space Trilogy Complete Collection: Out of the Silent Planet + Perelandra (Voyage to Venus) + That Hideous Strength

November 24, 2024 at 2:58 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (7/20)
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Novel cover cream background with blue writing:
The Bluest Eye A novel by Toni Morrison Winner of the Nobel Prize With a forward by the author

November 23, 2024 at 3:44 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (6/20)
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Novel cover with title Pride and Prejudice and author Jane Austen. Decorative roses and vines.

November 22, 2024 at 6:42 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (5/20)
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Beloved
Toni Morrison

Image of a red book cover with yellow text
Beloved a novel by Toni Morrison

November 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (4/20)
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The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I
Stephen King

Cover of novel The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I by Stephen King

A desolate orange/yellow desert landscape. Foreground: a person dressed in a long coat with cowboy hat, guns, holster looks down at a blackbird on a pile of bones. Deep background: a tall tower being circled by birds.

November 20, 2024 at 2:36 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (3/20)
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The Giver
Lois Lowry

November 19, 2024 at 3:56 PM

tacolimCass

@tacolim.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. (2/20)
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The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien

November 18, 2024 at 1:43 PM

tacolimCass

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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. (1/20)
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle