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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 16h

FINAL ENTRY!!!
#20TBRbookchallenge
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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.
#20 of 20 #Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

Book Cover: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene

Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 18h

"First there was Chaos..."
Thoughts on reading Hesiod's 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘺 - where did all those gods come from anyway? - and 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 - letter to a shiftless brother.
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Hesiod: Theogony; Works and Days (ca.700 BCE) [IBR2025]

The Theogony unfolds the origins of the cosmos (‘In the beginning was Chaos’) as well as the family trees of the gods, while in Works and Days the poet refreshingly takes his own trials and tribula…

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 1d

Waning crescent is still my favorite moon

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I know about the strain 😄

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Catherine Project @catherineproject.bsky.social · 1d

Curious about what we do?

Join us on Friday, October 24th for a one-off seminar on the Greek tragedy Philoctetes by Sophocles!

Learn more and register: catherineproject.org/community-se...

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.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.
#19 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

Book Cover: The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.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.
#18 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

Book Cover: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 3d

Now here is a most appropriate random sequence of unrelated posts: (feel better!)

Second post: quoting Walt Whitman: "You must travel it for yourself"

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.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.
#17 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

Book Cover - Cambridge Companion to The American Short Story ed. Collins/Jones

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 4d

While I loved the phototour of New Brunswick (Kingsbrae Garden was a particular favorite of mine), I'm so glad you're back!
I'm reading Hesiod. There's a story behind this, but it's long and not very interesting. Let's just say it started with the 'post pics of your TBR shelf' thread.

Book Cover - Theogony, Works and Days by Hesiod

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.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.
#16 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. (oops, missed yesterday)
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 6d

Let's just add: Ada Lovelace did have a mother, who in fact raised her as Byron was an absentee father who left when she was a newborn. It was her mother who fostered her interest in math and science.

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 6d

I saw this the other day, you've convinced me - added to TBR

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 6d

I just pre-ordered your Close Reading book two days ago and THIS is the thanks I get!?!?!
Sigh.

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.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.
#15 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

Book Cover - The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 6d

"I will not be sneered at by hens."
Thoughts on reading 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴 by P. G. Wodehouse. 💙📚👀
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P. G. Wodehouse: Love Among the Chickens (1921) [IBR2025]

I needed a change of air. London may have suited Doctor Johnson, but in the summer time it is not for the ordinary man. What I wanted, to enable me to give the public of my best (as the reviewer of…

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.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.
#14 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

Book Cover - Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.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.
#13 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

Book Cover: Beyond the Body Farm by Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson

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Karen Carlson @sloopie72.bsky.social · 9d

oops this was #12 not #13

Karen Carlson @sloopie72.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.
#13 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky