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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 4d
Covers for all 45 nominated books for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada
List here: www.goodreads.com/list/show/24...
Prize site here:
www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com
Longlist coming in late January...
#booksky💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature #fiction
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haymarketbooks.org
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
The dog and I came upon this cute lawn decoration which then became a kind of metaphor for social media where we’re often shown only one side of a story or image…
Wooden frog sculpture in a clay pot. Wooden frog sculpture in a clay pot as seen from the other side where half of the sculpture is gone.
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Covers for all 45 nominated books for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada
List here: www.goodreads.com/list/show/24...
Prize site here:
www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com
Longlist coming in late January...
#booksky💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature #fiction
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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amayna60.bsky.social
These four will help me complete my book challenges! Historical fiction, contemporary fiction for the final countdown 🥳🎉
What do you have cooking for #ThursdayBookChat?
Reading plan for 2026? 📚💙
The Heart Principle, Helen Hoang has an illustrated dark haired woman in sunglasses. Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg, has a cityscape at night. Taiwan Travelogue, Yang Shuang-Zi, translated by Lin King has a bowl in a train window with photos along the borders. It won the National Book Award. Stray City, Chelsey Johnson, has an orange and white cat on the cover. My orange and white cat Vera looks up at the camera next to it on a scratcher.
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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everylibrary.bsky.social
Federal funding for libraries and museums has been reinstated nine months after the Trump administration first sought to eliminate the agency that provides that money.
Judge restores federal funding for museums and libraries, including in Alaska
At least some libraries in Alaska that lost federal funding last spring have received notice that it’s been reinstated.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
A couple of Seidel quotes... #booksky 💙📚 #books #poetry #quotes #writing
Two quotes from the poet Frederick Seidel: "Too much is almost enough" (from the collection Ooga-Booga: Poems) “Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.”
December 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
@indivisibler1c.bsky.social Food Drive —Donations Needed
Flyer for food drive . Dropoff at Lustine Center (5710 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville Maryland), 7-8pm Fridays, 10am-12pm Saturdays
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
These are the best book covers of 2025 (as chosen by some of the industry’s best cover designers).
The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025
Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Just imagine that if we had this sort of replication in the ‘80s (Cabbage Patch Kids -> Garbage Pail Kids -> Sgorbians) what kind of derivative proliferation of slop AI will provide as it simply copies itself with minor variations ad infinitum!
networkcultures.org/geert/2025/0...
Image of Italian Sgorbian cards and a paragraph from the linked article in the post.
December 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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amayna60.bsky.social
Partway into the graphic novel memoir Come Home, Indio by comic book artist Jim Terry. This child of alcoholics is about to have his first beer...😔What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
Person in a narrow cinder blook enclosure looks out at some tree trunks
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
I email myself relevant links to my work email from my phone. Then, a moment later, I get a notification that I got a new email. And I eagerly check my work email genuinely wondering who just sent me an email.
a cookie monster from sesame street is smiling and looking at the camera
Alt: Cookie Monster from Sesame Street covering his face with his hand and putting his head down as he shakes it in disbelief.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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electricliterature.com
The Best Book Covers of 2025 continues with round 3! The voting has been neck and neck so far. Every vote counts! ⚡ 💡 📚 Cast your votes now in our Instagram stories and on our website!
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
I always feel like a bad person for despising Jacquie Lawson e-cards. There I said it. (My lips curl back and I bare my teeth when someone sends me one. It's possible I growl, as well... )
December 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Either I made this too hard, nobody saw it, or nobody cared. 🤣 Answers to be revealed next week…
monkeelino.bsky.social monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 20d
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 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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indivisibler1c.bsky.social
Rt 1. Neighbors, we've made is so easy to donate to our weekly food drive. Drop off non-perishables ANYTIME on a porch or at a business near you!
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...
Rt 1 Food Drive Drop Sites - Google My Maps
Rt 1 Food Drive Drop Sites
www.google.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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miskaknapek.bsky.social
Quite interesting project (see further below for the OP)
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
#pantone #coloroftheyear #design
Off white square with gray text that reads: Why didn't Pantone just explain that because of tariffs we can't afford color in 2026?!!
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread:
TARGET IN THE NIGHT by Ricardo Piglia
#booksky 💙📚 #bookcovers #books #design
Book Cover Design for TARGET IN THE NIGHT by Ricardo Piglia: Dark gray cover with black speck, white circle slightly off center with spokes of black radiating outward and the book title spiraling around the uneven spokes. Author's name in white at top left. Book Cover Design for TARGET IN THE NIGHT by Ricardo Piglia: Illustration of car headlights shining on running rabbit silhouette in the middle of the night. Author's name in serif white type at top followed by book title on two lines in yellowish brown serif type similar in color to the headlights in the image. Book Cover Design for TARGET IN THE NIGHT by Ricardo Piglia: Black cover with two white headlights behind simplified white outline drawings of a person with wavy arms and a cone topped tower of some sort. Book Cover Design for TARGET IN THE NIGHT by Ricardo Piglia: White cover with black photograph in middle of a tree silhouette and the moon behind it on a hazy/cloudy night. Author's name in black sans serif type at top followed by book title in serif bold type on the next line.
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/help-us-choo... #booksky 💙📚 #books #bookcovers #design
Help Us Choose the Best Book Cover of 2025 - Electric Literature
Cast your votes to determine which cover will go home with the gold
electricliterature.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
monkeelino.bsky.social
Krasznahorkai Nobel Prize Speech

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"
www.nobelprize.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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
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fictioncollective2.bsky.social
What author-run, not-for-profit, subversive press doesn't deserve more attention? ( Thank you 😘 )
www.instagram.com/fictioncolle...
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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…
graywolflab.org
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