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Victoria M. Sanchez
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Writer | Bookseller & Kidlit buyer | Kidlit Author |
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I love whales and that's a fact.
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My +rump detox, my mental health vitamin. #TennesseeValleyNPS
View of Marin Headlands, San Francisco Bay, and San Francisco in the far background. A teeny tiny Sutro Tower is visible. View down a coastal shrub covered hill into Muir Beach, and small cove. A beach is visible, and behind that, a green coastal hill dotted with homes. Southern view of the Marin Headland and San Francisco coast line. Foreground : coastal shrub. Mid ground: the ocean. Background: A steep path is visible climbing up one of the headland hills.
February 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Flapping the incredible Wandering Stars for Tommy Orange's signing @SanFranciscoWritersConference tonight —loved the book but never noticed that beauty of a #font! 😍
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Title page for "Wandering Stars" by Tommy Orange.
February 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Rolling Stone gets an early start on Best Photo Caption 2025.
Caption below photo of guests at Inauguration. "President Donald Trump is inaugurated standing before billionaires Mark Zuckerberg (curly hair), Jeff Bezos (bald), and Elon Musk (thumbs up) at the US capital rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC."
January 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Why is this even an article, and on the Home page no less?
Screenshot of "Today" home page on New York Times app. It shows an article headlined as, "how much would buying Greenland cost? We asked experts." Below the headline is a photo of what appears to be a Greenland runway at sunrise. A plane in the background and 8 people in the foreground.
January 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Merry #WhalemasEve and thank you for all you do! 🎄❤️🐋
Gold, royal blue, and turquoise beaded, cloth whale ornament hanging in a tree. Glass green with gray stripes whale ornament hanging in a tree. A lilac gray paper narwhal ornament hanging in a tree. Gold glass ornament with a metallic spout hanging in a tree.
December 25, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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An #ADHD win —I actually COMPLETED the challenge!!!!

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
#20BookChallenge
#KidLit
#YAlit
20/ 20
Book Cover: "Fire Keeper's Daughter," by Angeline Boulley Image: it's hard to describe. A stylized drawing of the profile of two women's faces nose to nose so that it Butterfly image. There is a thorax and head that look insect. Above is a rough drawing of a sun at the very bottom of the cover our flames and curling out of the flames to the bottom of the. Are drawings of a bird like creature, maybe a Phoenix? A gold Prince award winner medal.
December 14, 2024 at 9:33 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
#20BookChallenge
#KidLit
#PictureBook
#Ukraine
19/ 20
Book cover: Title: "Yellow Butterfly" Author: Oleksandr Shatokhin Color scheme: Black, white, yellow. Background: all black. Text and butterfly in yellow. Figure in black and white. Image: a simple cartoonish pencil drawing of the side view of a child from the torso up. No clothes are visible. Its skin is white from the paper below. Its arm is lifted face-high and a yellow butterfly rests on an outstretched finger. The child is looking at the butterfly.
December 13, 2024 at 3:41 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
#20BookChallenge

18/ 20
Book Cover: "In the Skin of a Lion: A Novel" By Michael Ondaatje. At the top of the cover, the title is bordered above and below by dark lines. Below that is "a novel" with a dark line below. The majority of the book cover is illustrated with a painting of two men in old fashioned attire of the late 20s early 30s. They are both faced away from the viewer and seem to be wrestling or fighting each other. Below is a dark border across the page and the author's name, two double lines below the name and then a dark line at the bottom edge of the title.
December 12, 2024 at 9:29 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
#20BookChallenge

Stomach virus-for-three-days catch up!
15, 16, & 17/ 20
Book Cover for "Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban. A night sky with stars over brown hills studded with trees. No signs of human presence. Book Cover Author's name: aleksandr i. solzhenitsyn Title: The Gulag Archipelago: 1918 - 1956 Gold Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature seal A large shadow graphic of the Soviet hammer and sickle. TBW!
December 12, 2024 at 2:07 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
#20BookChallenge

14/ 20
Book cover: Top of page: black san serif bold title, "Sky Full of Elephants," by Cebo Campbell. Green to blue ombré background with a graphic silhouette of a head in the center. The head is filled with an image of a paved road heading towards black mountains and a rainbow like sunset. There are cream lightning zigzags shooting from the head silhouette to the edges of the page. Below the title, to right of head in fine black font: "a novel". Below the title, to left of head in small black font is a quote I can't read because it's too small and my eyes are old. "A debut that dares…something." I also can't read who said it. At the bottom of the page in same bold sans serif font is the author's name.
December 8, 2024 at 7:41 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.
Book 13 of 20
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
#kidlit
#mglit
Photograph of the book cover of "Masha," by Mara Kay The book appears to be old because the book jacket is wrinkled and a bit torn at the bottom of the book spine. The top edge of the jacket front is bent and folded a little as if it's been read many times. Another clue to its age is the cover illustration —it has a 1960s vibe. By the way, I don't know alt text protocol so sorry for the commentary! Top to bottom. Black cursive text on white or cream background sky: "A novel by Mara Kay" Black bold serif font against same sky: "MASHA" Pen and ink or watercolor Illustration below text: Background: a large, French-style Russian stone building that could be a royal residence or state house or school. Mid ground: a crowd of young girls wearing black long dresses with 3/4 length sleeves. Their sleeves and scooped necklines are cuffed with white frill, and all they all wear matching white frilly aprons. There is one woman in a blue dress and white cap. Foreground: an adult woman stands behind three young girls. She wears a black dress with long sleeves. Her cuffs and long collar are made of white embroidered material. She has brown hair and pale skin. She wears a hat that could be a giant fabric bow on her head? The fabric appears to trail down her back. The three girls are young and wear the same outfits as the crowd of girls behind them —I assume their clothing is a uniform. They are visible from the hip up. The girl on the left faces the viewer. She has pale skin, possibly blue eyes, and brown hair. Her hair is up in a braided bun and smoothed along the sides of her face and behind her ears. The girl in the middle looks to the left. She also has pale skin, possibly green eyes, and her hair is short, curly, and red. She is shorter than the girls to either side of her. Only the left half of the girl to the right is visible —she is smiling and looking at something above them. She is pale skinned, has brown hair, and brown eyes. She is the tallest of the three.
December 8, 2024 at 1:47 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.
12 of 20
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover for "The Children's Hospital," by Chris Adrian. Foreground: A red cross centered on the page. The horizontal bar of the cross bleeds to the page edges. It is centered in the middle 5th of the vertical height. The vertical bar takes up 3/5ths of the vertical height of the cover. It's is the thickness of 1/3 of the horizontal width. The book title is printed on the cross in white. The author's name is on the cross, below the title in smaller font and also in white. Background. The background behind the cross, taking up 1/5 of the height, is white. The background of the remaining 4/5 of the book height (behind the cross) consists of stylized Japanese-woodcut-like teal waves.
December 6, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
#PoetryAndVerse
11/20
Book cover: "William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books, By William Blake An etching colored with watercolors. A naked muscular woman with long blond hair stands in the middle of two muscular blond children (or small adults?) — she is looking to the left. She holds hands with the child on the left and has her arm draped around the child on the right. Her head is cocked toward a tall gray rock sculpture of a person showing their back to the viewer. Its arms are raised above its head and they are slightly bent at the elbows, forming a rough oval shape in the air. The figure is facing the blind woman in the center. To the right, a person is in the air arched in a backward "C" towards the woman in the center. It is also blonde. it's back is to the viewer and it's right arm is up in the air, slightly above the center woman's head, pointed to a white cloud with the book title in it. Its left arm reaches down to the child and has intwined with the child's arm. Behind the figures is a large yellow cumulus cloud which fills the top 1/4 of the book cover. At the right edge at the right bottom edge of the cloud is a blurry drawing of a yellow cathedral. At the left edge of the cloud and sculpture is an ocher color and an orb with a cross on top. I do not know its formal name. they are standing on yellow and white ground.
December 5, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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Different hip and shoulder alignment?
Closest relative: jackalope. (I hope I don't get tagged for AI!)
(Phony) photo of a Jackalope standing on yellowing grass in early dawn or dusk (based on the lighting). The Jackalope has golden beige colored fur, has two pronged antlers slightly longer than its rabbit ears...and has the body of a jackrabbit. This photo is an unusual portmanteau because the Jackalope is standing on four legs like a small deer, rather than in the normal rabbit sitting posture shown in most Jackalope pictures.
December 5, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
#kidlit 
#picturebook
11/20
Picture book cover: White text title: "All the world" in hand lettering. Silver Caldecott Honor medal "By liz garton scanlon and Caldecott Honor medalist marla frazee" all lowercase and hand lettered. Background Image: a full page illustration in realistic-style bleeds to the edges of the cover. a sky-blue sky covers the top third of the drawing. Centered horizontally and vertically under the title, below the silver medal, and over the sky is an enormous white cumulus cloud. V-shaped birds fly in the far distance in front of the left and right sides of the cloud. Standing centered in front on the clouds are two children. The child on the left is taller with short hair. They carry a bucket, wear a white t-shirt and denim shorts. The child on the right has their hair in a bun and wears an over-sized white t-shirt that is dress-like. The two stand on a yellow-earth hill (drawn on the bottom 1/3 of the cover) partially grown with a light green ground cover dotted with flowers. They are looking out to the distance. On either side of the hill, a small view of the sea is visible. Gorgeous illustration!!!
December 3, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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#Spotify, abruptly stopping a 10hr and 26min audiobook **28** minutes from the end because of a mysterious 15hr time limit is NOT including a book with my Premium subscription –it's including 15 hours of audiobook listening. If I knew that was the deal, I would've planned for it. Purchase top-ups?!
Black screen shot of Spotify's mobile audiobook page, Text from top to bottom: The Mighty Red," below that, "Louise Erdrich." Next line: A star. 3.9. 28 minutes left. Next line: a green circle with a check mark (selected?). A green circle with a down arrow (downloaded) Next: A gray rectangular text box displays a square thumbnail picture of the book cover. Next to it, "The Mighty Red," by Louise Erdrich . Text below text box Narrated by Marin Ireland "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • A FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION ""[A] sweeping, tender-hearted epic."" —Harper's Bazaar In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives. History is a flood. The mighty red . . ." This text is partially covered by an orange "angry cussing" emoji (its mouth is covered by a black bar with "&$#!?" which indicates cussing) which I had pasted over the right side of the screenshot. Another gray text box covers the remaining text. It states: "You're out of audiobook listening hours. Want more hours? Your included listening hours renew in 15 day. You can't listening hours in the app but audio top-ups that you've purchased can be used here."
December 3, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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The challenge is to 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
#20BookChallenge
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10/20
Book cover: Matte grayish blue background with a flat gold strip running down the right edge from top to bottom. An image of a constellation (not sure if it a real one) that is roughly the shape of a daschund. The "stars" are flat gold circles and they are connected by white lines. What I am JUST noticing now is the "star" connecting the dog's neck and body is a gold prop plane! All text in white, from top to bottom. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Title: The Dog Stars A novel Author: Peter Heller "Extraordinary….One of those books that makes you happy for literature."—Junot Díaz, the Wall Street Journal
December 3, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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The challenge is to 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
#20BookChallenge
#kidlit 
#mglit
#travelmemoir✈️📚

Bc 🌁 🚗 🏖️ 👵🏻🚗 🌁
posting 8 & 9/20
Wooden book cover. The title, "The Eyes and the Impossible" is cut into it. Below the title cutout, the designer cut out the silhouette of trees and a clearing between them so a drawing of a coyote running across a field is visibly. The author's name, Dave Egger, is cut out below the trees. Book cover. Text top to bottom: "National Bestseller" "'Jubilant...Bary Lopez lavishes his discoveries into a portfolio of delights.' – the New York Times book review" Gold circular "National Book Award Winner" seal Barry Lopez (author) "Arctic dreams" (title) "Author of Horizon" All text is superimposed over a photograph of an iceberg. Above the iceberg, the sky is overcast. The iceberg is floating in a dark gray sea.
December 1, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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The challenge is to 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
#20BookChallenge

8/20
Book Cover: of "Merry Men," by Carolyn Chute" in the forefront, an illustration of a light skinned girl riding a white horse. She is young, has blond hair in pigtails, wears a pale pink dress, and is very pregnant. The mid ground shows a wooden barn or small house. Standing next to it is a man wearing overalls, a white button up shirt, and a black hat. The background consists of a dark, hazy sky and the outline of a pine forest. Text, top to bottom: "A New York Times Notable Book of the year." A square yellow, blue and red logo that looks like a quilt piece. "HARVEST AMERICAN writing" "Merry Men" "A Novel by Carolyn Chute"
November 29, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Walking through Mom's neighborhood remembering this is the district that voted in BOTH Duncan Hunters, Senior and convicted felon pardoned by Trump. 😟
Photo of home and front yard. Beige house with white trim. A banner in the front windows has a picture of the Virgin Mother Mary and says, "Please God - protect our children from porn and LGBTQ books and libraries and schools." A Christmas light festooned cross is standing beside it. The house is edged with hedges. Two steps lead to the front yard in which three items are stuck: a pinwheel, a campaign sign: "TRUMP, VANCE, keep America Great," and an illustrated banner of someone kneeling in front of a levitating Virgin Mary.
November 28, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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The challenge is to 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
#20BookChallenge
#SFFlit
#feelgoodread

7/20
Book cover: illustration of a forested background with dirt roads weaving over it. A gray robot stands on a road in the top left cover corner holding a hand out to two white butterflies. A light-skinned young person is sitting on the front of a wooden coach-like vehicle in the bottom right cover corner. They are holding a cup of something steaming. Text from top to bottom: "A Monk and Robot Book" Orange circle badge: "HUGO AWARD WINNER" Title: "A Psalm for the Wild Built" Quote: "An optimistic vision of a lush, beautiful world." Author: Becky Chambers
November 28, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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The challenge is to 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
#20BookChallenge
#HardReads

6/20
Mustard yellow book cover with the silhouette of palm leaf along the left edge, and on the right side of the cover, a black and white photo of a woman from the ribs up, facing 2/3 of the way toward the camera. She is wearing a lace trimmed tank top. The camera has caught her turning her head away from the viewer so that the movement of her dark, curly, shoulder-length hair obscures her face. top copy: "finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction." Title: "An Untamed State," by Roxane Gay Bottom copy: "Author of 'Difficult Women' and the New York Times Best seller 'Bad Feminist'"
November 27, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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The challenge is to 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
#pblit
#kidlit

5/20
"The Little Engine that Could," by Watty Piper. Illustration of a smiling steam engine ridden by a waving clown. The train goes down hill towards a little town. Two children and a dog watch it pass.
November 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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The challenge is to 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
#Books
#20BookChallenge

4/20
Book cover: STEPHEN KING (author type bigger than the title), "The Shining."
November 26, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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The challenge is to 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
#Weird&WonderfulBooks
#Books

3/20
Book cover: "Beloved:a novel," by Toni Morrison.
November 24, 2024 at 7:25 PM