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Willow Hazel
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Teaching middle school science out here in the middle of nowhere, trying to shed light wherever I can. Learning to love reading again. Growing slowly, but not stopping.
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Got my first read of the year finished thanks to a snow day!
Cover of "A Letter to the Luminous Deep", featuring an underwater scene. Books and trinkets are tucked into growing kelp and coral, as light filters down from above.
January 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring
Side-by-side images of the character Billy Cranston in his usual blue overalls outfit and in his blue Power Ranger suit.
December 23, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Day 20 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Cover of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green. The title is in bright green over a blue background, in which the shady outline of a large statue with glowing eyes can be seen looming over a town skyline
December 5, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Day 19 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Cover of I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. On a background of bubblegum pink and canary yellow, Jennette holds a bright pink urn and shrugs as if to say "Oh, well."
December 4, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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Day 18 #BookSky📖💙📚
Cover of A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The silhouette of Sherlock Holmes, complete with magnifying glass, smoking pipe, and deerstalker hat, appears on a scarlet background.
December 2, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Day 17 #BookSky 📖💙🤍
A cover of Vanity Fair by William Make peace Thackeray. 15 drawn diamonds of varying sizes and cuts lay in a pattern of columns across a background of powder blue.
December 1, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Day 16 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Cover of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. A grainy, murky image of a dry landscape - like on an old TV with bad reception - with the sky dominated by the enormous moon
November 29, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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Day 15 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Cover of T. A. Barron's The Lost Years of Merlin. It features a young boy with a gnarled staff and rough-spun clothes. The boy is slightly hunched, as if using the staff to help him climb a hill. He is wearing a large pendant of swirling green stone. A hawk perches on his shoulder.
November 28, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Day 14 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of book cover for Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh. The title is embossed in gold on a red background, with a rectangular gold border.
November 26, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Day 13 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of the cover of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The title, along with a series of intricate curling and circular patterns, are yellow on a teal background
November 26, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Day 12 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of the cover of Octavia E. Butler's novel Dawn. Amid a twisting pattern of red, green, and yellow (which evokes the double-helix of DNA), the face and shoulder of a woman can be seen.
November 24, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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Day 11 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of the cover of Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover. The main image is a colorful sketch of a pencil, but within that image can be seen a distant silhouette of a young girl standing on a hilltop.
November 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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Day 10 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The cover is pink with a pattern of flowers that seems almost like old wallpaper. In the center is a cameo-style silhouette of a young woman.
November 22, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Day 9 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of the paperback cover of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. Through a large, keyhole-shaped opening in a brown stone wall, a dark sea is visible, with a small sailing ship passing close by. There are, strangely, no stars in the clear night sky above the ship.
November 21, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Day 8 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Hardback cover of A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens. The title is embossed in gold lettering, framed by a rectangle of curling vines, on a forest green background. The spine is burgundy. The overall effect is very cozy and Christmas-y.
November 20, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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Day 7 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of 30th anniversary edition cover of Redwall. A young mouse in a green monk's habit and sandals (which are a bit too big for him) wields a sword and shield, framed by twisting, flowering vines climbing up the red stone walls of the abbey. Among the vines lurks a snake, whose tail reaches out to wrap around the mouse's sword. Above, stylized like a gargoyle of sorts, is the head of a grizzled, one-eyed rat. The phrase, "The legend begins!" appears at the bottom of the image.
November 19, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Day 6 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of the cover of The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The wizard Gandalf walks a quiet country lane through Hobbiton, approaching the home of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo sits on his front stoop smoking a pipe.
November 18, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Day 5 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of the cover of the novel Perfume: the Story of a Murderer. A man in 18th century attire appears, heavily shadowed, against a red background. Only a partial outline of his face is visible, and he holds an un-stoppered perfume bottle in a manner that is strangely threatening.
November 17, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Day 4 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image shows the cover of Anne McCaffrey's book Dragonsong: volume 1 of the Harper Hall trilogy. A young red-haired woman in a tunic and trousers stands on a jutting rock as waves splash about her. There is a flute in her right hand. She is surrounded by five small, colorful flying lizards that look like tiny dragons.
November 16, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Day 3 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image of a hardback cover of Anne of Green Gables. Green spine with gold detailing. Cover image features an older, bearded man in a well-worn suit and hat driving a carriage. His passenger, a young red-haired girl with a shabby carpet bag, is admiring the blossoms of the trees as they drive by.
November 15, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Day 2 #BookSky 📖💙📚
Image shows the cover of The Princess Bride, S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure, by William Goldman. It features a swordsman in black (Westley) and a young woman in a red dress (Princess Buttercup) sneaking through a swamp.
November 14, 2024 at 10:51 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. Day 1 #BookSky 💙📖
Image of the cover of "The Witch of Blackbird Pond", featuring its Newberry Medal alongside an illustration of a young girl in Puritan dress standing by the edge of a lake.
November 14, 2024 at 2:08 AM