Owl in the Attic Books
LightNews LightNews
banner
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
Owl in the Attic Books
@owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
11 followers 24 following 16 posts
Eclectic & independent online bookstore in Tacoma, WA, selling rare, collectible, & worthwhile books & art since 2024.

Contact/order: [email protected] or https://www.ebay.com/str/owlintheatticbooks

www.owlintheatticbooks.com
#booksky
Posts Replies Media Videos
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry & Hito Steyerl's Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat

#whatimreading #booksky #hitosteyerl #robinwallkimmerer
The cover of Hito Steyerl's book Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Beat. It has a dark background with blooming flower-like orange heat masses creeping in from the edges & public library stickers.
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
reading Robin Wall Kimmerer's beautiful writing can be so calming it's almost painful. thinking about that today in this 1st entry in my reading journal, as rain continues to fall & fall & fall in the PNW.

#booksky #readingjournal #robinwallkimmerer #serviceberry

scribbles.page/6ugysvtn/pos...
"a flash of Bluebird iridescence"
It's raining and raining and raining where I live. Everywhere that water can find to pool or flow is full. The rivers are swollen. Levees have been breached and sections of highway have collapsed or b...
scribbles.page
December 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
love a plan that forms because it "feels like an inevitability and probably better than being flipped to the next private equity person"

#booksky
December 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
Today's reason I love my public library:

I'm listening to Flynn Berry's Northern Spy while waiting to pick up a friend whose train is delayed. Downloaded on the @libbyapp.com thanks to Tacoma Public Library!

#booksky #flynnberry #mystery #northernireland #audiobook #publiclibraries
A screen shot of the Libby library app, showing the title of Northern Spy & the app's play/pause button and other details.
December 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Reposted by Owl in the Attic Books
dedication-bot.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall #books #literature #dedication
Dedication This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Micmac warrior woman, assassinated on Pine Ridge, February 1976 and to Naiche Wolf Soldier, strong warrior and good friend who passed into the spirit world as we were writing. It is also offered in memory of the others, many mentioned herein, who have fallen, and with the renewed commitment to the struggles of Leonard Peltier, Geronimo Pratt and the thousands of kindred POWs/political prisoners/fugitives who mark the modern landscape of American "justice." One day justice will prevail.
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
The cover to the first edition of Alice Walker's phenomenal 1983 novel, The Color Purple. It depictions a small house with a tree outside shown from a distance. The title is written in dark purple. The author's name in lighter purple.
December 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
I finished @harikunzru.bsky.social's Blue Ruin.

Appreciated reading a novel (partially) set during the pandemic shutdown. I want to engage w/more art that directly references that time. There's so much mandatory forgetting in our culture.

Anyone have suggestions of other books?

#booksky #bookrec
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
My best advice is just to stick with it! I remember having similar struggles in The 5th Season, but making it through Book 1 & then having the series blow my mind and heart open in the 2nd & 3rd books in a way that made the formal choices in Book 1 come into context. It's worth it!

#booksky #scifi
bingereadingbooks.bsky.social The Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast @bingereadingbooks.bsky.social · 7d
Currently reading The 5th Season by N.K. Jemisin but there is something I’m struggling with.

1/3 of the story is written in 2nd person - essentially placing you, the reader, in the story which I find really hard to digest and engage with. Any tips on how to approach this type of reading?

💙📚
💬💙
December 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
In the prologue to Guinea: Masks, Music, and Minerals, the author describes Guinea as a place where "conspiracy" explains the inexplicable ("A car accident, a plane crash...even bad weather") bc for 26 years the president "eliminated his opponents by declaring them part of conspiracies."

#booksky
The front cover of a book titled Guinea: Masks, Music, and Minerals, by Bram Posthumus. The cover is bright yellow and features the title, the author's name, and the image of an elaborate mask (with a long beard) set on a metal pedestal. An image of a page of text. The text reads: "Prologue: The Rain, A Fire, Two Colours, and A General 'It's a conspiracy.' When Guineans look for answers to the inexplicable, they turn to this. A car accident, a plane crash, unexpected death, even bad weather—all conspiracies. It is the fallout from twenty-six years of uncontested rule by a man who eliminated his opponents by declaring them part of conspiracies. This country has yet to recover from the preferred governance method of its first post-independence president, Ahmed Sékou Touré."
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
You're sure to find something good from @haymarketbooks.org!!

#booksky #books
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
Hard to believe Susanna Clarke's Piranesi came out 5 years ago. Also easy, bc the last 5 years have felt like a century 🫠

I loved this weird, magical, moving book. The rare reading experience where I found myself somewhere totally unexpected. Hope the person receiving this enjoys!

#booksky #books
The cover of the paperback edition of Susanna Clarke's novel Piranesi. The background is a night sky with stars and in the foreground a faun playing two horns stands atop a Corinthian column. The cover has the novel's title at the bottom, author's name in the sky, and other text related to prizes/reviews. A book packaged carefully in bubble wrap with a label that says "Thanks for your purchase! Owl in the Attic Books." The wrapped book sits atop a cardboard box.
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
I am this kind of old-fashioned also.
kanaratron.bsky.social Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 7d
Call me old fashioned, but I like to generate new ideas using my brain.
December 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social
Running an online used bookshop, I can't keep my fav books in stock all the time. When books sell, they're gone.

I'm always excited when I have my favorites in stock. The Belgariad series is one of my go-to comfort reads. Aunt Pol! Silk! Belgarath! & sure, Garion.

#booksky #fantasyseries #books
Photograph of the front cover of The Belgariad, Vol I and II, by David Eddings. The cover of Vol I has a green-blue cover that shows (in addition to the title and author) a woman in a black cloak standing with her arms protectively around the shoulders of a young boy. The cover of Vol II is red-orange and shows a young man holding a sword. The sword is glowing blue with magical power.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM