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Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie
@thebookroadie.bsky.social
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Tech writer by day, bookbinder by night! See thebookroadie.com

Feminist, green-haired nonbinary weirdo, cat employee. Still masking. They/them.

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All set up to vend at the NW Tarot Symposium! #NWTS2025
My booth
September 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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All set up at the Oregon Ghost Conference in Seaside, OR. This vendor room has a ton of awesome stuff in it, dang.
My booth, two big tables in an L shape with lots of books both lying down and on stands. I'm behind one table, giving thumbs up.
March 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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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. Day 16/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, by Linda Bacon, PhD (now Lindo Bacon, PhD). The cover is white with a bathroom scale in a trashcan.
March 6, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Not home, but I know my way around.
Hannibal's sumptuous library/office, with two armchair facing each other, multiple desks, and a two-floor library wrapping around the large room.
March 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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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. Day 15/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The fancy red-book-of-westmarch edition of The Lord of the Rings, bound in red faux leather with a matching slip case and gold foiling with blue and green bits.
March 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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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. Day 14/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth About Reality by Brad Warner. It's a graphic of a public bathroom's toilet and toilet paper holder, and the title is broken up to look like torn bits of paper, stencil letters, etc.
March 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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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. Day 13/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, Foreword by Isaac Asimov.
February 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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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. Day 12/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of "Webster's Dictionary Game: A dictionary with over 5000 esoteric words, whose definitions you won't recognize and can't guess. Plus complete rules and scoring" Quote at the top of the cover says "Bet you can't play this game without laughing!"
February 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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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. Day 11/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The British paperback cover of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. It shows a bunch of people of various sizes and shapes, dressed in armor and using swords/arrows against a dragon that's breathing fire at them. It's kind of grotesque in art style but I love it.
February 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social 's latest video is awesome as usual. It also contains this bit of wisdom, which I want cross-stitched on my wall or something. This guy is so talented! Check him out if you haven't already: youtu.be/TgKsG6NZSIo
A screenshot from the linked video. A young Black man is holding a mic and gesturing. Below the video, a commenter quotes from the comedian's set and comments on it. The important bit is the quote, which I have highlighted: "Art can save your life, but believe me when I tell you that entertainment will never be your salvation. Entertainment, by and large, is escapism, and no one has ever escaped their chains by forgetting they were there."
February 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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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. Day 10/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of the book Evolutionary Witchcraft by T. Thorn Coyle
February 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The classic pic of Captain Picard face-palming
February 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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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. Day 9/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of The Annotated Dracula, by Leonard Wolf with illustrations by Satty. The cover is a photo of a sculpture or puppet of Dracula lying in his dirt-lined coffin.
February 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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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. Day 8/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of the book The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future, by Cynthia Eller
February 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The latest Threat Model: Covid newsletter is out. As usual, it's well worth reading. Knowledge is power, right? Or at least it helps you make informed choices about things like covid boosters & masking. Also it has this important reminder: It's still "during covid."
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A graph of US New Daily COVID-19 Infections and 1-Month Forecast, from PMC19.com/data. It shows the various spikes since Jan 2020, with each one labeled "During Covid." The final spike on the graph is Jan 2025. Because, you know, it's still "during covid." Covid hasn't gone away.
February 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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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. Day 7/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of a book called The Book on the Bookshelf, by Henry Petroski. The cover image is the spines of four books, which have the title and author's name in place of the book titles.
February 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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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. Day 6/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality, by Paul Barber. The cover has an old woodcut of a cemetery on the lower third, with a crescent moon the same color as the main part of the title.
February 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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. Day 5/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, by Cordelia Fine. There's a quote: "[Fine's] sharp tongue is tempered with humor and linguistic playfulness...read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is." - Katherine Bouton, New York Times.
February 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Let's try these as quote reposts, hopefully it'll make 'em easier to read.

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. Day /20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
February 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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. Day 3/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker. It's a black cover with white text and an assemblage/collage image and the quote "Pete Walker's new book is an invaluable, comprehensive resource for anyone with a childhood history of trauma. This book is ccertain to benefit clients and clinicians alike" - Jule Schenman, MA, MFT.
February 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Indeed.
A skeleton on fire holds up a sword and is moving toward the left side of the image. Text above the skelly says "state of the world? bad. mental health? also bad." and at the bottom it says, "but still, we charge forward"
February 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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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. Day 2/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge
The cover of A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A Basbanes. It has ornate flourishes in a thick frame around the cover with the title and attribution above and below an old woodcut of a person reading in a library.
February 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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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 #BookChallenge
The cover of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, collected from folklore and retold by Alvin Schwartz Drawings by Stephen Gammell. There's a creepy-ass drawing with the text above and below. The crawing is a large head in profile growing out of the ground between a ramshackle house and two tombstones. The head has red around its nose and mouth and blue over the ear, and is smoking a pipe. The eye that's visible is looking right at ya.
February 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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We're harboring a Sith Lord, apparently.
A gray-brown tabby with white lower face, chest, and lower legs is mostly under a black blanket with white, gray, and orange markings. Her face is visible, giving massive side eye, and her left foreleg is stretched all the way out, like she's reaching for something.
January 16, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Finished my first ever paperback repair for a book repair certification course I completed! I am really happy with it, I was skeptical at first but it worked! I have a couple more to practice on, then I can offer this as a service. You might be surprised how often I get asked if I do this.
An old paperback book is lying open on a piece of wood resting on a green cutting mat. The book is not looking good, the pages are separating in clumps and the cover is detached. A paperback book is open on a workbench, the photo is focused on the bottom of the book. The spine is curved in a semicircle and the pages are all sticking out nicely. My hand holding the paperback up so you can see its spine, which has been added back to the book now that it's not in pieces.
January 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM