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Paul
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Tea and scones. The New York Mets. Reader. Book reviewer. Cats>dogs. Retired newspaperman. Kentuckian. Science! Child of Irish immigrants. Vegetarian. Long-haired hippie-type pinko. He, him. Blog: https://tbrstack.blogspot.co
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Short book review.

King flinched.
June 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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#Astronomy #science 💙🔭🧪🌙 Viewing the Moon Thursday evening (May 1, 2025) through the 5.5” TEC Wide-Field Refractor telescope on the Giovale Open Deck Observatory at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. -- where Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 -- and is now a verified Dark Sky City.
Waxing crescent moon, as scene through a telescope
May 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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He looks like he's auditioning for the role of Larry
April 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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#booksky #books 💙📚📘

Current read is Driftwood, a biography of a great Kentuckian, humanitarian, artist, writer, and naturalist, Harlan Hubbard, who should be much better known. Written by Jessica K. Whitehead,
April 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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#bookSky 💙📚👍After 15 months -- yes, 15! -- I have finished the Indigenous Continent, a remarkable book of American history that centers indigenous people, rather than the colonizers. I picked it up because I knew little about the history of the indigenous people. I know realize how little I knew.
March 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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The Wood at Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke. Not only a beautifully written book, but a beautiful book.
March 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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#Astronomy #Science 🔭 🧪 Not too bad a photo, I'd say, from my phone camera, from my back yard in Covington, Ky., as the clouds parted at 2:55 a.m., March 14. I was able to see a clearer shot from my binoculars, so it was a good night. Second photo at 2:56 a.m.
March 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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After King would be Emma Donoghue, whose trove of 14 novels and short story collection take an entire shelf.
Bookshelf of 14 books by Emma Donoghue, and a Belleek Irish rowboat, in tribute to her novel, Haven
February 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Oh, easily Stephen King. I have an entire bookcase dedicated to him.
Standing, six-foot bookcase filled with Stephen King's book
February 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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#science #astronomy 🔭 The Moon and Mars before the occultation, taken from the eastside of Covington, Ky., about 6:30 p.m. EST.
The Moon, with Mars below and slightly to the left, taken from the city of Covington, Ky.
January 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Sunday Morning, 3 a.m.
Corner in Covington, Kentucky, on a snowy winter night
January 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Republicans still in disarray. (WashPost photo)

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social #politics #speaker #house #speakerelection
January 3, 2025 at 7:04 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💙📚
#Books
#BooksChallenge

Day 16
December 11, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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Original Daily News from Oct. 16, 1969
December 9, 2024 at 12:27 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.

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#Books
#BooksChallenge
Day 15
December 8, 2024 at 7:40 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💙📚
#Books
#BooksChallenge
Day 14
December 7, 2024 at 7:13 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.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BooksChallenge
Day 14
December 6, 2024 at 6:54 AM
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Currently reading the #BookerPrize winning novel Orbital and just finished a chapter in which she describes the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the ISS as watching the aurora australis (southern lights) from space. Sublime! @samharveyauthor.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚🧪🔭
December 6, 2024 at 3:30 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.
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Day 13

Addendum: Four books, but one story.
December 5, 2024 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.

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#Books
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Day 12
December 4, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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The story is grand. The setting is surreal. But the execution is a bit muddy in this tale about the first colony on Mars.

#BookSky #Books
December 4, 2024 at 5:11 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.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BooksChallenge

Day 11
December 3, 2024 at 6:34 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.
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Day 10
December 2, 2024 at 4:32 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
#Books 💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 9
December 2, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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Still my favorite image of Mr. Met
December 1, 2024 at 9:06 PM