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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 21h

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

17/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 1d

Got this postcard today, from Sophie in Taiwan. On the back she tells me about the Mid-Autumn Festival on October 6; “we eat pomelos and mooncakes and have barbecue parties while admiring the moon.” And she ends: “May we live long and share the moon’s beauty, no matter how far apart.” #postcrossing

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 1d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

16/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 2d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

15/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 3d

A couple chapter titles from Cristina Rivera Garza, “Death Takes Me”:

#Booksky

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 3d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

14/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 4d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

14/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 5d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

13/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 6d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

12/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 6d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Literature Prize? Ugh.

I tried to read Satantango once- his most acclaimed- and it was dreadful. Although it was an English translation, so hopefully the original Hungarian is better.

#NobelLiterature

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 7d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

11/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 8d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

10/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 9d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

9/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 10d

Awww

#portland

Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 10d

Portland building art Pt. 2:

#portland #oregon

Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 10d

First day of my trip to Portland. (War-torn Portland.) Some building art pt.1:

#portland #oregon

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 10d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

8/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 11d

At DFW (Dallas) airport, whatever you do… do NOT drink the water.

Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 11d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

7/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 12d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

6/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 13d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

5/20

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 14d

Received this through Postcrossing today; a postcard with a Hiroshige print, from an 80-year-old man in Japan who writes postcards every day (with difficulty) as a form of physical therapy.

Note the USPS markings on the front of the card. They do that sometimes.

#postcrossing

Postcard depicting part of “View of the ferry at Rokugo”, a woodblock print from 1847-1852 by Japanese artist Hiroshige. The full piece is a triptych; this card shows the rightmost of the three prints.

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Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 14d

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: nothing in the world is as simple as you’d like to believe.

Joel Travis @corsac22.bsky.social · 14d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

4/20

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