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A Turnau Life
@tedturnau.bsky.social
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Christ-follower trying not to be tribal. Loves kaiju, NFL, F1, jazz/blues/folk/funk/edm/good pop, film, must-see TV, and PC gaming (Bethesda Boy). Writing a book on fandom. I've written others: https://www.tedturnau.com/.
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August 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Sorry. Couldn't resist.
February 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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January 28, 2025 at 4:49 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. Day #18. (I'm counting the Institutes as one book, so...there!).
#BookSky
#bookskychallenge
#bookchallenge
#20books20days
The cover of John Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion," edited by John T. McNeil.
January 27, 2025 at 9:25 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. Day #17.
#BookSky
#bookskychallenge
#bookchallenge
#20books20days
Cover to Mark Edmundson's "Nightmare on Main Street" showing a white picket fence and house behind it, but shot from a Dutch angle (to make it look creepy).
January 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Listening to an interview on @npr.org on "Sing Sing" (a film about inmates trying to put on a musical), and the discussed how the inmates were doing masculinity differently, with mutual emotional support, vulnerability, being able to talk about their feelings. (1/3)
January 24, 2025 at 8:28 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. Day #16.
#BookSky
#bookskychallenge
#bookchallenge
#20books20days
Cover of Christopher Wright's "The God I Don't Understand"
January 24, 2025 at 8:20 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. Day 15.
#BookSky
#bookskychallenge
#bookchallenge
#20books20days
Cover of the NIV Study Bible, 1984 edition.
January 23, 2025 at 10:45 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. Day 14.
#BookSky
#bookskychallenge
#bookchallenge
#20books20days
Cover of Norton Jester's book, "The Phantom Tollbooth." Cover illustration features Milo confronted by the Watch Dog.
January 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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My girl, Saffron.
January 18, 2025 at 4:37 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. Day 13.
#BookSky
#bookskychallenge
#bookchallenge
#20books20days
The cover of Steven Connor's book "Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary," which features a (post?)modernist painting of a skyscraper, lit as if it were divine.
January 17, 2025 at 1:02 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. Day 12. (Sorry -- been battling jet-lag, so I've been missing a lot of days).
#BookSky
#bookskychallenge
#bookchallenge
#20books20days
Cover of William Edgar's book, "Reasons of the Heart."
January 15, 2025 at 10:52 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.

#BookSky
#bookskychallenge
#bookchallenge
#20books20days
The cover to John Storey's "Cultural Theory and Popular Culture," which features a chaotic abstract painting on the cover.
January 9, 2025 at 8:51 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.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 10
Cover of Richard Baxter's "The Reformed Pastor," the book that convinced me I should NOT become a pastor...
January 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Post one book a day for the next 20 days that has impacted and stayed with you. No reviews, no comments, just covers. Day 9 (sorry I've been so lax with these lately). #bksky #booksky
Cover of J. H. Bavinck's "An Introduction to the Science of Missions." It's a pretty boring cover, just bright red with white lettering...
December 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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I don't think your average, Chris. And...
December 14, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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There. Fixed it.
December 14, 2024 at 3:28 PM
tedturnau.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.
Day 8
#booksky
#20bookchallenge
The cover of Ray Bradbury's novel "Dandelion Wine" in which a whole bunch of really dark and interesting things are springing out of a wine bottle.
December 13, 2024 at 9:13 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. #booksky
#bookchallenge Day 7
Cover of Pauline Rosenau's "Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences," which features a book flying over a dock on a lake.
December 12, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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It's "based on," not "based off of."
Norman Rockwell man standing in a town meeting speaking his truth...or rather, speaking THE truth.
December 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Right. Wasn't denying migrant status.
Agreeing walrus agrees.
December 11, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have impacted you and post their covers. No reviews, no commentary. Just the cover.
Day #6:
December 9, 2024 at 4:30 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.
Day 5
Cover of Calvin Seerveld's "Rainbows for the Fallen World" showing a table with some paper with writing on it, a cut-out of a rainbow behind a geranium. It's supposed to suggest aesthetic beauty.
December 4, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Good morning bsky! Here's my favorite poem from my favorite poet, Thomas Lux's "Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy."
Sorry - it's all text. If you want to hear the poem, got to the Thomas Lux page of the Poetry Foundation.
December 4, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 4:44 AM