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Will Willingham
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Author of Adjustments: a novel (https://a.co/d/e5TsIC2). Sr. Editor @tspoetry.bsky.social. Maker of açaí bowls and tacos. Sometimes reader of Keats, always upside down.
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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 20

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Cover of The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay. Cover art features an illustration of green leaves on a white background, black sans serif type for title and author and bright pink blurb by Tracy K. Smith.
December 7, 2024 at 4:04 AM
willingham.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 19

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#20BookChallenge
Cover of Love's Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life by Scott Cairns. Cover art features a wooden dick extended over water with rolling waves in the pink light of sunset.
December 4, 2024 at 9:43 PM
willingham.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 18

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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón. Cover art features an abstract painting in oranges, yellows and browns.
December 4, 2024 at 4:27 AM
willingham.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 17

#booksky
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#20BookChallenge
Cover of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark. Cover art features black type in white background with a large pixelated question mark in a light grey in the background.
December 2, 2024 at 9:43 PM
willingham.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 16

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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of How to Be Animal: a new history of what it means to be human by Melanie Challenger. Cover art features a menagerie of animals surrounding a white profile silhouette of an human face with the title and author in the middle.
December 1, 2024 at 7:33 PM
willingham.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 15

#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Madness, Rack and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Reufle. Large black sans serif on off white background.
November 30, 2024 at 4:25 PM
willingham.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 14

#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems by William Stafford. Cover art features a sepia toned photo of William Stafford on the top half and the title and blurb in brown on a light brown background on the bottom half.
November 29, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Spending Thanksgiving in Austin where the surprising is unsurprising.
November 28, 2024 at 10:22 PM
willingham.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 13

#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris. Cover art features a painting of a red haired woman sitting on a tree trunk in the snow with a white swan and brown rabbit. She is dressed in a green cloak and is knitting a dark colored garment.
November 28, 2024 at 10:02 PM
willingham.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 12

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Dark Times Filled with Light: the selected work of Juan Gelman. Translated from the Spanish by Hardie St. Martin. Cover art features a cream colored background with the title in black sans serif font and subtitle in red. A red circle sits partially off the page at top right, with a blurb from Oscar Hijuelos.
November 27, 2024 at 2:21 PM
willingham.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 11

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande. Cover art features a textured cream paper background with the title and author in black text with a single blade of grass laying horizontally between them.
November 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
willingham.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 10

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Rumors or Water: thoughts on creativity and writing, by L.L. Barkat. Cover art features a close up shot of the edge of a teacup with the handle blurred in the depth of field, and hand drawn floral design at the bottom edge of the mostly cream colored design.
November 25, 2024 at 5:03 PM
willingham.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 9

#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Kate DiCamillo's The Tale of Despereaux. Cover art features a brown mouse with a red string threaded through a needle and tied around its waist, needle posed like a sword. Mouse is running across a stone floor in an arched palace corridor with banners hanging overhead.
November 24, 2024 at 2:17 PM
willingham.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
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Richard Rohr's Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life. Cover art features an old mission style wooden table with chairs on each side, one facing out and one facing the table. Furniture sits against a cream colored old stucco wall.
November 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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"Choosing between values is an act of affirmation, not consumption. When we choose beauty, there is more beauty, not less."

-Timothy Snyder, On Freedom

Appreciating the positive-forward frame of Snyder's work this time around. Choices, actions, beauty, not only getting out from under.
Photo of Timothy Snyder's On Freedom open next to a small notebook, gray backpack and cappuccino in a black cup and saucer.
November 23, 2024 at 1:59 PM
willingham.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 7

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers. Artwork features the title in black on an off-white background, split vertically by a bold pink line. The font switches at the line, with the text on the left in a serif font with a fine black rule under each line, and a heavy San serif font on the right with no rule.
November 22, 2024 at 3:01 PM
willingham.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 6

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W.S. Merwin. Volume is a Penguin Classics edition. Artwork features a bold red heart on a black and charcoal textured background.
November 21, 2024 at 3:25 PM
willingham.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 5

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Book cover of N. K. Jemisin's The World We Make. Artwork features a black and white photo of an apartment building wall with windows and fire escape superimposed with neon colored drawings of tentacles.
November 20, 2024 at 12:01 PM
willingham.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 4

#booksky
💙📚
#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover art for Tony Hoagland's poetry collection Application for Release from the Dream. Artwork is a black and white image with blue text. Image features mildly rough water and a whale (or other sea life - I'm honestly not certain, with apologies) and several white birds flying over it.
November 19, 2024 at 1:49 PM
willingham.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 3

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Image of the book cover of Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee, subtitled A true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man. Cover art features black and white drawing of a puzzle or toy man which has been disassembled is is the collection of its parts - head and torso, arms, legs, etc., with visible holes for fastening the toy together at the joints.
November 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
willingham.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 2

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
A photo of the book cover for Rebecca Solnit's The Faraway Nearby." Image features an abstract background of white on white that could be thick paint or feathers with two black circles showing the title and author's name.
November 17, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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Been mulling how to start here after a long quiet spell on social. Found a lovely way to begin:
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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 1

#booksky
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#books
#20BookChallenge
Cover of A General Theory of Love that features an empty room with two red chairs, one leaning toward the other on two legs almost like a person leaning their head on the other's shoulder. The cover includes a blurb from the San Francisco Examiner that reads, "An insightful look at the science of human emotions... A rare example of the fusing of scientific rigor with literary eloquence."
November 16, 2024 at 7:09 PM