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M*J*E
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In the spirit of just posting some stuff, the wean's busy reviewing all her Primary 1 work for me 🙂
Assorted finger paintings, collages, crayon drawings and paintings made by a 5 year old
June 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Got home from work and this was waiting for me @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social another one out in the wild! Looking forward to reading it!
Photo of the book Breaking, by Mic Wright. It's a hardback book with a red cover, the title in the style of a piece torn from a newspaper
June 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Ooooh my new copy of Hyperion from @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social just arrived... beautiful! Can't wait to read it (again...!) #booksky
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Hardcover book with title in black script across the centre, authors name in red along the bottom. Cover shows 6 people, along the bottom of the image, walking in line across a sand dune, towards a bright light. A large planet takes up the top left, while what appears to be some sort of monstrous creature takes up the remaining top half of the picture
June 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Day 20/20

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:

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#BookChallenge
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Cover shows grey mountains with sharp, snow covered peaks rising above a thick green forest, there is a red sun in the sky above the mountains
February 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Day 19/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Cover shows a large lion surrounded by three children
February 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Day 18/20

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:

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#Books

#BookChallenge
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Cover shows a cartoon drawing of a boy in shorts, surrounded by various human sized insects and worms
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Day 17/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Cover shows a wizard in a black robe pointing to smokey crystal ball from which a dragon is emerging
February 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Day 16/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
Daddy Hairdo by Francis Martin and Claire Powell. Cover shows a girl with an outlandish hairdo that looks like an ice cream, with cream, cherries and sprinkles on top
February 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Day 15/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Cover looks like a stained glass panel showing priest, a soldier with a gun, and another character in a grey suit and long coat standing beneath a tree with black and red eye above
February 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Day 14/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett. Cover shows a wooden chest with dozens of legs running across what looks like a dungeon floor, knocking a man in a red vest over, looking on are variety of fantasy characters and creatures, the whole affect is kinetic and chaotic
January 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Day 13/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
The History of The Runestaff by Michael Moorcock. Cover shows gold gryphon like creature with its arms around the blade of a golden sword
January 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Day 12/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Cover shows a robed figure with a staff looking up at a dragon rearing above
January 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Day 11/20

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:

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#BookChallenge
Richard Scarry's Busy Busy World. Cover shows anthropomorphic animals, a pig in overalls putting up a billboard sign of the title has been knocked off a high ladder by the pike of a dog in a Papal Swiss Guard uniform running below it
January 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Day 10/20

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:

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#Books

#BookChallenge
Painted People by Matt Lodder. Cover shows an older man in black shorts, his entire body covered in tattoos, against a pink background with blue border, the words of the title at the top and bottom
January 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Day 9/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Cover shows a rabbit, wearing a blue jacket with gold buttons, in a vegetable patch, eating carrots
January 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Day 8/20

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:

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#BookChallenge
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson. Cover shows the image of an 18th Century city waterfront with sailing ships across the bottom, title and author text in the middle, while an image of a woman in a bright pink dress and wearing a plumed helmet looks down
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Day 7/20

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:

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#Books

#BookChallenge
Q by Luther Blissett. Cover shows a classical painting of an army, the letter Q superimposed taking most of the space, and 3 woodcut pictures of a skeleton with a person
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Day 6/20

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:

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#BookChallenge
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard. Cover shows the silhouettes of a boy running with a toy plane superimposed over a Japanese flag
January 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Day 5/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. Cover shows a sword and several gold coins on a bloodstained map
January 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Day 4/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. Cover shows a red spaceship flying toward a futuristic building built over a waterfal, everything surrounded by golden light as if the sun is rising over the building
January 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Day 3/20

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:

#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr. Covers art shows a young girl with blonde hair, sitting at a table with a cake and tea cups, beside a large tiger, both smiling to one another
January 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Day 2/20

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:

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#Books

#BookChallenge
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Cover art is the words William Gibson, in white, and Pattern Recognition, in faded salmon pink, on a solid black background. The letter O has been designed to look like an electrical input socket
January 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Day 1/20

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:

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#Books

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Cover art of Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock. Image of a muscular albino warrior standing on a ruin, holding a black sword above his head, a dragon in the background
January 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Out with an old friend I've not seen in years. The joy of talking total nonsense over a few beers in a place we've never been. Happy humpday
2 pints of Paulaner German beer on a table top against a chipboard background
December 13, 2023 at 8:39 PM