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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR/TBRA shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
![[On this cover] #1 New York Times Bestseller [I don't give a fk]. Author: R. F. Kuang. Award winning author of the Poppy War trilogy. [Another not given] A masterpiece --- Rebecca Roanhorse. [There's another I get to keep.] Title: Babel, An Arcane History. Background picture probably supposed to be Oxford of 1800s, big tower, white-ish birds spiraling upward round the tower. What does any of this mean? It means I'd like to live there for awhile. This is a First Edition and is probably going to be worth a gazillion whathaveyous eventually.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreignlaftu2psxyuzvsemprodjaprfevlfpxxgidglcrbaplqoknuii@jpeg)
October 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#Booksky #bookchallenge Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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![Title: The Spirit of Democracy: the struggle to build free societies throughout the world. Author: Larry Diamond. The "o" in "Democracy" is not a letter but a picture of the earth made up of jigsaw pieces, 90% blue shades, some white-ish, & one tiny piece red. (The small print mostly above the title reads: meticulous [and] gleaned from his experience . . . Diamond is at this best when he recounts how ordinary people affect the democratic process.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreicgm2tlly2mhfzegwzno2ttmjlouf76blltxti5c44rwuf57xgbri@jpeg)
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#readingchallenge #readersky💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#readingchallenge #readersky💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#readingchallenge #readersky💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#readingchallenge #readersky💙📚
Choose 20 books on your current TBR[A] shelves. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #books Choose books (or their similars) that significantly contribute to a well-lived life. Just covers.
![Two paperback covers. On the left, title: The Strife of Systems: An Essay on the Grounds and Implications of Philosophical Diversity. Author: Nicholas Rescher. One large square divided into 4 squares, 2 of which are some kind of blue, 2 are deep purple. There's s small square in the center: a diagram of triangles, curves, hexagon tiles, maybe golden ratio diagram. Book on right, title: The Philosophy of Need. Edited by Soran Reader. Cover is mainly brown with cloudylike wispy whatevers. Small white square is old library tag for a Dewey Decimal designation. It was withdrawn from circulation and purchased at a used books store. (Long may they live.) Way over among foundations where we find solidarity, dignity, human recognition, freedoms, there are vital needs (Wiggins), needs, capabilities. . . .We have vital need for cogent cognitive values, and a vital need to increase our capabilities to meet our vital needs. We need to expand our vital capabilities, and protect particular “freedoms and possibilities of ongoing adaptation” [Alkire], cogently adopted cognitive and epistemic values, orientations, predispositions for “how we make sense of our experience”, our “explanatory paradigms”, our “principles of interpretation”, our fundamental “metaphors”, our “styles of argumentation or logics” (Rescher). We have a vital need for cogent cognitive axiology and cogent phenomenological axiology and vital capabilities to meet such need. We need probatively cogent reasoning.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreia5ezvrnvub4dpjrhuvqlny2xqu4ht4pokyx25yj5gemqwghb775e@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #books Choose books (or their similars) that significantly contribute to a well-lived life. Just covers.
💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #books Choose books that influentially stayed with you in a good way. Just covers.
![Title: The Ethics of Belief and Beyond, Understanding Mental Normativity. Edited by Sebastian Schmidt and Gerhard Ernst. Top green yellow dark green with "Routledge Studies in Epistemology". Middle white containing title. Bottom with blue rectangle: an "R" with "Routledge",curved part silhouette of human. That’s right, mental normativity: shoulds & shouldn’ts of what we do with our minds, of what our minds should/shouldn’t be. That’s right, think more not less. Think better not worse. To do: developing minds capable of excellently meeting our epistemic responsibilities, our epistemic goals, of instantiating epistemic virtues and avoiding epistemic vices, of producing greater perceptions and conceptions and insights, of regularly improving our capacities to make and understand distinctions, improving daily our capacities to distinguish true from false and distinguish degrees of probable (likely, plausible, feasible, possible, and other terms of evaluation) from improbable (ditto), of growing capacities and abilities of imagining and of thinking, of implementing and instantiating the morally best, most profound, most useful, most reasonable, most satisfying, most humane, set of cognitive values . . .We want, seek, and enjoy mental adventures, we want consequences of our abilities to excellently meet with complexities. This is, of course, not to establish a single focus for mentality, but, we claim, a most important one for us all. Ultimately it’s a profound and permanent balance we seek among memory, passion, … responsibility for our attitudes, reasonableness, rationality, blaming, fearing, deciding, fantasizing, mind-wandering, intentions, evolvings . . . [“Balance?”, you pause. My use of the word resonates with Indigenous sphere (literally, the geometric metaphor and literal meaning) of my Indigenous experience.] And always for best Earth-life for all. (Improving the Universe is where it’s at.) “Bite off more than we can chew!” Not true. Think and imagine again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreigiass3xc7aziympruceo7wlsvbieqklsn2tjsk3a6rwz6etsohty@jpeg)
August 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #books Choose books that influentially stayed with you in a good way. Just covers.
August 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #books Choose books that influenced you in some ways and mostly you have mixed feelings about. Just covers.
July 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #books Choose books that influenced you in some ways and mostly you have mixed feelings about. Just covers.
💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #books Choose books that influenced you or stayed with you or became part of a process to achieve a well-lived life. Just covers.
This one's about 916 pages.
This one's about 916 pages.
![Hardback. Spine cover: Collected Papers [of] Charles Sanders Peirce. [Volumes] V Pragmatism and Pragmaticism VI Scientific Metaphysics. [Publisher] Belknap Press Harvard. [Logo is a lion wearing a crown. Why? 1960 publication.] "...[G]rowth comes only from love...", "...by cherishing and tending [my ideas] as I would the flowers in my garden...this is the way mind develops". Thru interactions, life, travelers, brains of travelers, trying to develop minds, to willfully, pragmatically get ourselves beyond obstructions & twisted distortions that sickened some of us. Life and varieties, experiences, pragmatic interactions & involvements, operational pluralism, cognitive values, adaptations, flexibility, adjustments, readjustments. Challenge: we're fallible. Treatment: multanimity, pluralism, moral & epistemic good, democracy, comportement in daily life. Peirce reminds us things would "behave" generally, in general, in specific ways in the course of experience, according to a kind of critical common-sensism. Pragmaticists with minds open to learning to "distinguish accurately between truth and falsity, probability and improbability", because they recognize their thinking "lies in a conditional resolve" and also that learning the truth is the way to satisfy the wishes of our innermost. We're attentive to matters of "everyday facts which critical common-sensism takes into account". There is a "close affinity between thinking in particular and endeavour in general".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreighb2wxiqzbk4dcybrunch5fm3qzdvaf6snafnubqsep6xvyqdmcy@jpeg)
July 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #books Choose books that influenced you or stayed with you or became part of a process to achieve a well-lived life. Just covers.
This one's about 916 pages.
This one's about 916 pages.
![Cheap paperback published in January 1959 by Bantam books. However, it was well-made; it was not glued; it was sewn. [It was a pleasure to read without the book falling into separate chunks.] The author's name: Simenon. (Remarkable in that only his last name is given.) Above the author's name is "Europe's most celebrated mystery writer". [More celebrated than Christie?] Underneath author's name: "Meet Inspector Maigret, the toughest, smartest, most relentless French manhunter of all time, in one of his greatest cases". Title: No Vacation For Maigret. There is a picture of a heavy set man with mustache, hat in right hand, handkerchief in left, black vest, white socks; presumably Maigret. [Doesn't look at all like the real Maigret, i.e., Bruno Cremer. That was a joke.] Overall, the cover is divided into one large square and two rectangles. The square is black with a splash of red blood. The left rectangle is a cityscape, a narrow street, a crowd of onlookers, a dead woman in a red dress laying on the street. [Not much relation to the story if memory serves.] The right white rectangle contains most of the above-mentioned figure of a man. Rectangle also contains the words "A Bantam Mystery" followed by Bantam's logo, picture of a bantam of course.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreibe7x5kfyvfboqf5awk4v5exc67zeypc2guu7jsyten4at36vbltm@jpeg)
July 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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