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Wen (she/her)

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Current audiobook.

Understanding the parallels and the ideology that’s behind what’s happening today is eye opening and important.

It’s a 57 hour listen, but so far well worth it.

I apologize if the symbols are offensive. I am not sure if I should blur them or not?

#booksky
#history

Screenshot of my audiobook “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich” by William L. Shirer. Basically shows the title of the book, and symbols of the Reich are included.

February 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Since I fell behind, finishing up with posting the last 3 books.

Book cover for the book Disfigured, On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc. The cover is mostly a lot of green leaves. Coming out of the leaves at the top an eye, a hand. In center house like you would see in a fairy tale or Baba Yaga, to the left of the house is an ear. In the right side is a line crutch. There’s a purple box where the title of the book & author’s name is. Then the bottom left is a foot partly hidden in the leaves.

Book cover for the book From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty. The background color is cream and in the center is a black illustrated skull with red, blue, white flowers of different sizes on its head. There are flower petals falling on either side of the skull and the title of the book is written in the eye sockets, nose socket and mouth. Author’s name is along the top, and on the bottom it says “Travelling The World To Find The Good Death”.

Book Cover for the book Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zaun. The background is red. In the center are chopsticks partially coming from both sides of the picture holding noodles that drape down on both sides. The top text in black says Crying In, and underneath the noodles continues with H Mart and the author’s name in white text below that. The center of the noodles says New York Times Best Seller and A Memior in white text.

February 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 17/20

Book cover for the book Black AF History by Michael Harriot. The background is black and all the text is gold. Title fills most of the picture. Underneath title it says The Un-whitewashed Story of America and under that is the author’s name. At the top and bottom kind of behind the text are illustrations of historical men. The top looks to be the forefathers and the bottom more current historical people.

February 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.bsky.social

I am truly gutted over the attack on our National Parks.

Yes, everything else is awful, too, but the Parks…that hits my heart and soul on another level.

#saveourparks
#nationalparks
#resist

Photo from Yosemite. Creek in the middle with mountains peeking out from behind green trees that are tall on the left & right, and a bit shorter in the middle back. There are some large rocks scattered in the creek.

Photo of Redwood Forest. There’s a paved path in the middle where in the distance there are 2 hikers. Green trees surround the paved walkway and there’s a large boulder off to the right.

Another photo of Yosemite from Glacier Peak. Mostly mountains and to the right there is a waterfall. Foreground has trees.

February 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 16/20

I guess I will pick back up where I left off! lol.

Book cover for the book King A Life by Jonathan Eig. The background is black with a side portrait of MLK Jr in black & white photo. The title King is in large yellow letters towards the top. A Life is written in small yellow text below it. The author’s name is written in yellow text in the left bottom corner. Above that is a seal that says winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

February 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 15 of 20

Book cover for Audre Lorde’s book Sister Outsider. The background is an illustration of grayish brown hills, a grayish green sky with a few scattered white clouds and an orange sun towards the upper right. There’s a painting of Audre Lorde taking up the whole cover. She has a yellow wrap on her head, her ear to the left has an orange dangle earring in the shape of a teardrop. The other ear has a small white circle earring. She’s wearing a brown shirt with a cowl neck. The shirt has patterns of different shapes in various colors of brown. The shapes are kind of like blob shapes, squares and triangles. The title of book is in grey at the top. Author’s name at bottom in white.

February 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 14 of 20

Book cover for The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris. Green background. Top tight corner there’s a hand in red gloves where you can see a thumb and forefinger holding a knife that fills the cover. In the knife is a picture of a man with a face wrapped up except you can see one eye. The book title in white at the top, bottom right in white is author’s name.

February 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 13 of 20

John Green’s book, Turtles All The Way Down book cover. Background is cream. Title of book and author name in black in middle. There’s a reddish-orange spiral behind the words.

February 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 12 of 20

Book cover for The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali. Dark green background.,The sides and bottom have a repeating pattern in gold of a half circle with a dot in the middle, then a small solid circle. At the top in vivid reds and purples is I think a phoenix, outlined in gold. The head is cut of at the top so you see mostly the body and the legs and tail. The style of the art is Asian. The center of the book in gold is the title and author text.

February 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 11 of 20

Book cover for Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. White background. There’s a greenish braid of Sweetgrass going across the center of the page horizontally. Title of book above it in green. Towards bottom is the name of author in green. Just below the Sweetgrass it says “Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and The Teaching of Plants.”

February 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Book cover for Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig. Background color is a salmon orange color. There is a girl wearing a yellow shirt with white designs sitting in a wheelchair. She has black bicycle shorts on and black boat shoes. She’s facing towards the center of the cover, with an arm outstretched towards the words “the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body” written in black. Part of title Sitting is above her in white and text Pretty, also in white, is below her. Below that is author’s name in black.

February 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 9 of 20

February 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 8 of 20
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Book cover for the book How The Word is Passed. Cream background. Title takes up most of the book in black letters. Red line under title, then under line in black letters is the author’s name (Clint Smith).

February 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.bsky.social

Says in red Not Just February. Below an arm and hand comes out horizontally from each side, reaching for a heart with red, yellow, green stripes.

February 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 7 of 20
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Book cover for the book We Will Be Jaguars. Background color is white. There’s a photo of the author Nemonte Nenquimo. She has long black hair, red paint is lightly painted across her upper cheekbones, nose bridge and eyes. She’s wearing large round but flattened white earrings. On top of her head is a feather wrapped like a crown that is white, yellow, blue repeating pattern. Green trees are in the background of the photo.

February 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.bsky.social

My current read, and quickly soaring to be a favorite.

As someone who feels a deep connection to nature, this book is giving me all the feels.

Absolutely beautiful writing.

#booksky
#books
#currentread

Book cover for Something In The Woods Loves You. Black background. Title in white letters at the top with star specks. There’s a detailed nature illustration which includes a blue heron standing in water. Behind are trees, dragonflies, and a bird to its left flying. In the pond are cat tails, lily pads, frogs, snails.

January 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 6 of 20

Book cover of The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham. Various photos are pictured: Top left is him as a young boy wearing a red plaid shirt, white shorts and white sneakers. Below that is a man outside with young trees and a stone wall behind him, wearing a dark green tracksuit, facing sideways with sunglasses and a cigarette in his mouth. I think he has a radio up to his ear. Then below that is a photo of a Carolina Wren. To the right of that photo is another photo of the author as a teen. He’s facing forward with arms crossed.

January 31, 2025 at 5:20 AM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Book cover for the book Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason. Green background, book title towards top in yellow. Author’s name in black below title. There’s a woman, with face obscured, lying on her back in a peach dress that’s very puffy. The sleeves are big & puffy. Her arms are bent and over her head/face. The sleeve obscures the face. Dark hair can be seen under the sleeves. Looks like she’s lying across the arm of a green chair.

January 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 4 of 20

Book cover for the book Columbine. Grey cloudy sky with the picture of the school at the bottom. Title is in black letters towards the top. School is a brick building with 2 sides separated by the entrance. Right side of building has glass windows running along the top.

January 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 3 of 20

Book cover for the book Stoner by John Williams. Light brown background with a man looking down. He’s wearing a black suit with white collared shirt underneath. Black pants and his hands are in the pockets. The man is wearing wire glasses.

January 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 2 of 20

January 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM

Wen (she/her)

@wenthepagesturn.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.

#books
#booksky 💙📚
#bookchallenge

Day 1 of 20