Joel Travis
corsac22.bsky.social
Joel Travis
@corsac22.bsky.social
Just someone in Milwaukee. Reader (world lit, sci-fi, science, travel narratives); photographer; stamp collector. Former goalkeeper in the Milwaukee Hurling Club for 28 years. Dead By Daylight player.
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

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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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

17/20
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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

16/20
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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

15/20
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A local Milwaukee mural, at Bronzeville Center for the Arts:
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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

14/20
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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

13/20
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A few characters in Charles DeLint’s “Someplace to be Flying” have this discussion about changing the world.

Note that they’ve identified one of the chief purposes of reading and writing fiction. Not the only purpose; just one of them.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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

12/20
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Received this postcard today through Postcrossing: a cartoon rendition of Seoul, from a South Korean political science student.

#postcrossing
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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

11/20
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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

10/20
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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

9/20
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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

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October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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

7/20
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
From “The Muller-Fokker Effect” by John Sladek; a beautiful way to describe a character who’s stumbling drunk.

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October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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

6/20
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Received through Postcrossing today, from a German man named Werner (not Herzog): this tranquil scene from the town of Neuruppin, on the shore of Ruppiner See (Lake), northwest of Berlin.

#postcrossing
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
In “Someplace to be Flying”, Charles DeLint introduces a character like this:

#booksky
October 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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

5/20
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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

4/20
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Some photos from the China Lights festival; at the Boerner Botanical Gardens in Milwaukee.

#chinalights #milwaukee #boernerbotanicalgardens
October 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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

3/20
October 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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

2/20
October 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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

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October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM