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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: Furloughed employees and contractors still get 10% off at Capitol Hill Books for as long as the shutdown lasts.

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 1d

I’m just DNFing books now. It’s much easier than finishing them! 🤓

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 1d

Gritting my teeth for Ray Carney’s safety—how he ‘earned’ those Jackson 5 tix 😱—in Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto for library book discussion. What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

Cd version, might listen to some to help finish in time! Black and white images in a stained glass window effect on yellow background, including skyline, part of a woman’s face, briefcase, matches

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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 2d

If you love books, hit that ❤️.
If you really love and support libraries, go ahead and repost this!
And if you don’t like either… well, at least you read this far. 😉

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 2d

Just came home with the newest adopted member of the family, Tobi.

Photo of a small mixed breed dog wearing a sweatshirt with dolphins on it.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 3d

Mongrels!

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 3d

Well, guess what the library had on the shelves?!!

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 3d

I like the yellow and black one a lot and the one with the car but I obviously have no idea how any of them work for the actual book. Thanks for the recs!

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 3d

Sketchbook doodle #ink #art #drawing

Sketchbook line art in black ink. Page covered in patterns of concentric circular forms that are abstract and vaguely organic.

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 4d

I still haven’t read anything by SGJ. I had to return The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to the library before finishing. Have you read anything else by him?

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 4d

Illustration of abandoned sedan in a field at night with headlights still one and a buck standing in front of the vehicle. Stars speckled the dark blue night sky and a pine tree line stretched across the cover. Title in white on three lines at top. Author's name in black on top of white rectangle at right, slightly above the center of the cover.

Book Cover Design for The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones: Painting of blizzard-like scene with four heavily clothed figures walking through snow. One carries a rifle. A truck seems to be traveling along with them. Mountains are in the background with a large deer head emerging from the mountain tops. Title and author's name at bottom left in distressed red sans serif type on 5 lines.

Book Cover Design for The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones: Black cover with illustration of woman in robe/cloak wearing a crown of deer antlers. More antlers or bones reach up around her stomach. She and the background are yellow and are surrounded by black tree silhouettes that blend into the cover. Author's name in off-white serif all caps near bottom followed by book title in yellow lowercase serif type

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 4d

Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread:
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
#booksky 💙📚 #books #design #reading

Book Cover Design for The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones: Cover roughly cut in half diagonally with lower portion in dark brown. Author's name on bottom half in white bold sans serif type on three lines followed by much smaller, serif white type of the book title. Top is white background with red blood veins or roots over tip of a brown buck that looks in distress.

Book Cover Design for The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones: Black border with illustration of dark blue night sky, large yellow buck, and silhouettes foregrounded of 4 males and pine trees. Author's name in red on three lines at top followed by larger white text title on three lines.

Book Cover Design for The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones: Illustration of female human body, naked but in shadows, but with a buck's head and antlers. Yellow and brown pelt in the background with curving black border at upper right when the author's name and book title appear in yellow.

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 5d

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 7d

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize. “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.” [apnews.com]

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and representative government.

apnews.com

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 7d

I still don’t think there’s another website besides Arts & Letters Daily that actually makes every article/link sound so enticing… www.aldaily.com

Arts & Letters Daily

Philosophy, literature, ideas, criticism, history, art, music from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

www.aldaily.com

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 8d

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 8d

Trying to get this one back to the library before my last renewal expires. Very curious how he wraps it all up…

Photo of a book: The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 8d

Today I have Generations, a memoir by Lucille Clifton, who was nominated for two poetry Pulitzers in one year! This edition features an introduction by Tracy K. Smith. What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat?
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Cover image is Black and White, from 2002 by Thornton Dial. Sort of a rusted chain link effect.

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 8d

Curious to eventually hear what you think of this one. I was moving through it kind of slowly and returned it unfinished early to the library because I knew there were a lot of others waiting for it and I had too many other reads ongoing. I may return to it at some point…

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 8d

Can you spot the ten hidden goldbugs in this holiday newsletter edition?! Exciting things happening at the bookstore in the coming months, be sure to check it out! online.fliphtml5.com/suene/rgkg/