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Owl in the Attic Books
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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."

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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
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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
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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