monkeelino
LightNews LightNews
banner
monkeelino.bsky.social
monkeelino
@monkeelino.bsky.social
230 followers 290 following 1.1K posts
Design. Write. Art. Read. Repeat.
Posts Replies Media Videos
monkeelino.bsky.social
Tobi’s reaction to the #Ravens performance so far vs the Steelers…
Dog asleep on lap of person in desk chair. Chin resting on the arm rest and front legs dangling.
December 7, 2025 at 7:13 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
Reading my first Barbara Pym (Less Than Angels) for a reading group. Pretty funny so far.
Cover of Barbara Pym’s novel, Less Than Angels
December 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Definitely a book to be experienced, but it is fun to see/examine how it's structured... a place and architecture in its own right!
Tabular infographic showing the recurring patterns within Italo Calvino's novel, Invisible Cities.
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
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
monkeelino.bsky.social
You might have heard of this one! 😋
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Picture of a cat next to the book, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Excited for Alla Gorbunova’s (TH)INGS & (TH)OUGHTS (translated by Elina Alter) that just arrived in the mail from @deepvellum.bsky.social
Photo of short story book, Alla Gorbunova’s (TH)INGS & (TH)OUGHTS.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Book Cover Design for THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich: Painting of hooded figure and naked female figure standing in grass in front of large rock formation. Author's name and book title flush left just below center in white sans serif type. Book Cover Design for THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich: Faded duotone type photo of tapestry in front of wall with a wooden cross and the just barely visible outlines of an iron bed "headboard" at bottom right. Book title truncated in brown serif type at bottom followed by author's name in larger white serif type. Book Cover Design for THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich: Gray and greenish photo of hillside with a single tree against a cloudy sky that leads up into a dark night sky at the top of the cover and a greenish-yellow moon. Author's name on two lines in white serif type at top over moon. Book title on five lines in middle of cover in serif type on top of clouds.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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
😯 I think I might like your version the best out of these cover versions in terms of the type disappearing.
Different color variations of same book cover
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
monkeelino.bsky.social
Just starting both of these: Universality by Natasha Brown and The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
Photograph of two books next to one another: Universality by Natasha Brown and The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
monkeelino.bsky.social
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
monkeelino.bsky.social
Yummy sketchbook snack…
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Social media post from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Facebook account: ‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bid’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bid’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Just finished Here by Richard McGuire and about to start Diaries of War by Nora Krug
Book cover for Here by Richard McGuire Book cover for Diaries of War by Nora Krug
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Book Cover Design for SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: White background with blurry black and white image of a large eyeball and eyebrow at top. Illustration of hanging man on top of vertical American flag (with blue swastikas in black of what would normally be a blue background with white stars in the flag). Arabic script in black at bottom. Book Cover Design for SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Light yellow background/border. Rectangular artwork at top third depicting two hands with eyeballs in their palms. Blocks of text in Russian follow below. Book Cover Design for SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Illustration of signpost (with book title) with farm hill in background, large yellow cloudy sky, silhouettes of small military planes at top right, and a falling bomb leaving behind a large red trail with author's name inside the curved red streak. Book Cover Design for SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Blurry artwork of soldiers marching through a fading city with stressed stencil of author's name and book title on top half (very large number 5).
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Veterans Day Edition of the Multiple Book Cover Design Thread:
SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Book Cover Design for SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Olive background with large V on whole cover. Small illustration at top with moon, bomb, and building. 4 stripes across center of cover with author's name in two of them followed by book title in the other two. All type sans serif. Book Cover Design for SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: White cover with illustration of black bomber plane seen from above covered with dirt or splatters of ink and a yellow X in the center of the aircraft. Painted black type. Yellow border. Book Cover Design for SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: White cover with illustration of old alarm clock--bells at top of clock are shaped like large bombs. Book title runs circularly in side of clock. Author's last name at top left on what looks like a price tag attached to the clock. Book Cover Design for SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Bright red cover with author's name at top in yellow, illustration of yellow an black skully and crossbones at center, and book title at bottom in handwritten black type.
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
The Starlet & The Spy (Ji-Min Lee) — this weekend’s library book discussion picked by @amayna60.bsky.social
Book cover for The Starlet & The Spy (Ji-Min Lee) featuring a photo of Marilyn Monroe singing to soldiers with a transparent pink flower illustration running up the left and the image of an Asian female’s face at top right faded into the blue sky.
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
monkeelino.bsky.social
It’s the rare month when my StoryGraph is actually updated and has more than 3 covers so it doesn’t look so sad! 🤣
Collage of books covers for titles read in October.
November 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Last minute holiday spirit from me… HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃
Amigurumi crochet ghost (pattern by Yarnhild) Rubber hose style cartoon drawing of crow perched on a log that says Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Wet Leaves (composition by Mother Nature) #photography
Yellow and brown leaves on the sidewalk after the rain A large light green leaf with large drops of water on it
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM