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Jacky Taylor
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Seaside living writer & creative type, published in numerous anthologies. Reader & co-editor of @theforge.bsky.social literary magazine. Loves arts, landscape, books & crafts.
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My twentieth pick:

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.
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#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel ‘Atonement’, by Ian McEwan, shows the black and white photo of a young girl sitting on a flight of stone steps in the garden of a grand country house. Her face is full of concern.
December 12, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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My nineteenth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of ‘Antarctica’, a short story collection, by Claire Keegan has a faded, atmospheric black and white photograph of a lighthouse.
December 11, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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My eighteenth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel ‘The Night Watch’, by Sarah Waters, has a maroon background with jade green silhouettes of an old fashioned street lamp with a man and a woman standing behind it.
December 10, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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My seventeenth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of ‘Wild Light-a printmaker’s day and night’ by Angela Harding, has the artist’s linocut of four gold silhouetted flying birds at the top, with the sun sending out rays to highlight a blackbird in full song on a branch.
December 9, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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My sixteenth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel ‘Housekeeping’ by Marilynne Robinson shows a muted blue grey photo of an elevated railway track, curving away into a misty distance of tree filled hills.
December 8, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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My fifteenth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead has a tomato red background, with a network of narrow cream tunnels with rail lines on and a tiny silhouette of a person in one place.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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My fourteenth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville West shows the head and shoulders of a young woman in an Edwardian lace gown, against a trellis of pale pink roses.
December 6, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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My thirteenth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of A Scots Quair, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, has a colour photograph of a dark, cloudy and brooding sky hanging over a partially gleaming gold wheat field.
December 5, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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My twelfth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, shows an illustration of a hilly landscape with the figures of a man and woman silhouetted, facing each other on the slope of one hill.
December 4, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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My eleventh pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, shows part of the side view of a sunshine yellow American railcar with wooden steps up to it on the left and a part side view of a young man wearing a felt brimmed hat beside it.
December 3, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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My tenth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
December 2, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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My ninth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of Testament of Youth, the memoir of her life as a young woman on the cusp, during and after the First World War, by Vera Brittain, shows a sepia photograph of her as a VAD nurse against a pale background, with a red poppy in the bottom left hand corner.
December 1, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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My eighth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel Tamar by Mal Peet is a full page size sepia photo of branches of a tree coming from the left side, with a windmill further back to the right. In the space between them are two airmen and their parachutes falling from the sky.
November 30, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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My seventh pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare has a painting of the profile of the young Nigerian girl in the title, with traditional Nigerian fabric print designs in the background.
November 29, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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My sixth pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield has a photograph of the author, against a background of a page of one of her handwritten manuscripts.
November 28, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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My 5th pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of ‘Wuthering Heights’, by Emily Brontë, is dark and brooding with a stormy sky, an arching, leafless tree and the earthy, undulating moor beneath them.
November 27, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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My 4th pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
1970s cover of the the TV series of the book, with actors playing the three main characters standing outside a Georgian house.
November 26, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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My 3rd pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerz a blue tinted photo of a city by the sea with vast expanse of sky with clouds above.
November 25, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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My 2nd pick:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Cover of Hamnet, a novel by Maggie O’Farrell, dark blue background with large illuminated letter H, a mixture of gold and white.
November 24, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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This looks right up my street. Here we go then….my first pick below:

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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Cover of the novel Folk by Zoe Gilbert. A yellow background with detailed black and white engraving style illustration of two birds one passing red berry to the other. They are surrounded by foliage and two red roses.
November 23, 2024 at 8:33 PM