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Typography Puzzle (Theme: Publishing)
Be the first to identify each origin for all 9 pieces & win a book-related prize. #booksky 💙 📚 #books #publishing #typography #typogphiles #design #puzzles
A 3x3 grid with each cell containing one letter or number taken from something to do with the theme ("publishing").
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fictioncollective2.bsky.social
What author-run, not-for-profit, subversive press doesn't deserve more attention? ( Thank you 😘 )
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November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Maybe because it doesn't usually snow this early around here, but I've never noticed this effect where the sidewalk is too warm for the snow to stick, but the fallen leaves are the right temp.
Leaves on wet sidewalk covered with snow. Close-up of a leaf covered with recent snowfall. Close-up of a leaf covered with recent snowfall.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Sometimes you read a short piece and it just hits like a punch in the gut. Wow. "You Start with Three Languages" by Rae Delane (via the @graywolfpress.bsky.social Lab site)
graywolflab.org/2025/11/21/y... #literature #writing #booksky 💙📚
You Start with Three Languages
Rae Delane SetupWelcome, Player One.Your starter pack includes three languages, five vowels, and the assumption that you will not need all of them. You are brown-skinned, quick-tongued, and too lou…
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December 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Panel 1. A character holding a mobile phone. Ping! An alert arrives: "Your order has been received!" (Image of happy-looking book) Panel 2. Ping! "Your item has been dispatched!" (Image of happy-looking van, driving along) Panel 3. Ping! "Your package has been delivered!" (Image of happy-looking box on doorstep) Panel 4. Ping! "Your book has been neglected: left on the shelf, unread and forgotten, gathering dust for several months." (Image of unhappy-looking book, dusty and covered with cobwebs, accompanied by a spider) Panel 5. The character looks sad and guilty about the unread book. Panel 6. Ping! "Your order has been received!" (Image of new, happy-looking book)
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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amayna60.bsky.social
For January Romance book group, just picked up library hold of The Perks of Loving a Wall flower by Erica Ridley. This one involves daring disguises and an old manuscript. 🧐 What do you have cooking this #ThursdayBookChat?
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A blonde woman and a brunette woman in a loose embrace, foreheads touching, wearing regency fashion. One is in purple, the other blue.
December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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dorothyproject.bsky.social
All the Dorothies are on sale during @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social's sitewide sale for the next (checks watch) 36 hours! 📚🎁

Go: www.nyrb.com/collections/...
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
The Vega is a rare and beautiful gift in this world...
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Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
YouTube video by SuzanneVegaVEVO
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December 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Typography Puzzle (Theme: Publishing)
Be the first to identify each origin for all 9 pieces & win a book-related prize. #booksky 💙 📚 #books #publishing #typography #typogphiles #design #puzzles
A 3x3 grid with each cell containing one letter or number taken from something to do with the theme ("publishing").
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answer only.
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
One dedicated judge (@eyesonindie.bsky.social) for the 2025 US/Canada Republic of Consciousness (@usrofc.bsky.social) Small Press Prize is posting one short video for every nominee this year! #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7L...
EVERY Nominee for the 2025 RofC Prize: Book #4
YouTube video by Eyes on Indie
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December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/sol...
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
@amayna60.bsky.social Elsie Silver—Yes/No/Meh?
November 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Cold but fun bike ride to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.
Higher marsh at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Washington, DC Ducks swimming at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Washington, DC Tall grasses bending in the wind at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Washington, DC
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
A wonderful review by Cory Oldweiler but allow me to share the all-too-prescient first paragraph. #booksky 💙📚 #books #reviews #zeitgeist
Screen capture of book review’s first paragraph: IN VÁCLAV HAVEL’S seminal 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless, the actor, dissident, and future president of both Czechoslovakia and the subsequent Czech Republic lays out the dynamics of dissent under authoritarianism. Though he was specifically concerned with the Soviet Bloc governments that would crumble in less than a dozen years, many of his observations broadly apply to other iterations of totalitarianism, all of which depend on deceit: “Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.” Simply by living inside this lie, Havel continues (in Paul Wilson’s English-language translation), everyday citizens are co-opted to the cause. “They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfil the system, make the system, are the system.” These authoritarian systems manipulate the present by controlling access—to information, to opportunity, to security—and fabricate the future via the fantastical promises of ideology. But attending to the past proves trickier because it has verifiably occurred, is remembered, and has been documented. And so the past must be obliterated.
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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amayna60.bsky.social
My unbroken #ThursdayBookChat posts stretch back to April 2020, so here’s The Scapegoat by Sara Davis, added to my groaning TBR from back book review issues! Mysterious doings and shadowy fringe academics…
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A big black bird carrying off a cross from a California mission behind it, surrounded by low fluffy white clouds
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
your moment of calm: a golden-crowned sparrow contemplating the world...
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Never got excited for Thanksgiving. Was I progressive at an early age? Uh... nope. Just thought the food was lame and I didn't get to see all my cousins like at the other holidays.
bookshop.org/lists/recomm...
Recommended Reading For People Who Don't Understand Why Many Native Americans Call Thanksgiving "Thanks-taking"
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread:
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich
#booksky 💙📚 #books #design
Book Cover Design for THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich: Top half is off white background with blurred silhouette of rider on a horse. Title is in yellow serif type on black box across the center of the cover. Author's name at bottom half in off-white serif type on top of orange background. Book Cover Design for THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich: White background with architecture structure at bottom of cover overgrown with limbs just stating to sprout green leaves. Author's name at top on two lines in serif black type followed by book title on three lines in sans serif type. Book Cover Design for THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich: Blue-ish photo of wooden planks (floor or table) with lighted wax candles melting into a puddle of wax. Title at top in white serif type. Author's name at bottom in white serif type.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Some seasonal “changing-of-the-guard” photos I snapped while walking the dog this week.
Photo of bright yellow leaf Photo of light pink flowers with petals starting to wilt and brown Photos of dark purple berries on a reddish purple stem Photo of cut tree branch ends
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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pgcmls.bsky.social
Showing this cat puppet things it has never seen at the library. #library #cat #puppet
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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amayna60.bsky.social
Liked the author’s debut The Truth According to Ember, so next up will be Love Is A War Song by Danica Nava. What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
Woman with long dark hair and a guitar and man in western wear holding a hat in a field of flowers.
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Didn't get around to posting my normal multiple book cover design thread this week, so here's an interesting look at the evolving design process for these three Beckett books. #booksky 💙📚 #books #design
www.faber.co.uk/journal/book...
Book Cover Design: Jonny Pelham on Beckett
Jonny Pelham outlines his process for redesigning three of Beckett’s most important novels – Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.
www.faber.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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A List by @asterismbooks.bsky.social --- Trans Stories
#booksky 💙📚 #translit #reading
asterismbooks.com/list/trans-s...
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Awww… This made me feel like maybe I really am a writer. 🥰 #feelingseen
Green back ground with centered text: “You don’t have to write every day to be a writer, you just have to feel guilty every day that you don’t.”
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM