Eric Bee
LightNews LightNews
banner
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
Eric Bee
@urkburkurskur.bsky.social
55 followers 95 following 50 posts
Books, woodworking, music, and... well, maybe that's it. PNW💙

70% fantasy, 20% science fiction, 5% horror, 5% everything else.

Currently reading:
The Two Towers
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
Eric Bee @urkburkurskur.bsky.social · Jan 29
About me:
- Woodworker for 10+ years
- Avid reader of Fantasy/Sci-Fi +
- Married to my best friend for 13+ years
- Former dog person converted to cats
- Play guitar, synth, and alto sax 20+ years... Not as good as I probably should be.

Here to:
- Make friends
- Talk books
- Show off neat projects
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
Finally read one of the prettiest books on my shelf. While I thoroughly enjoyed it, I have to say it wasn't perfect. Plot points felt convenient several times, and some action scenes felt a bit clunky. I loved many of the characters though, and much of the book was excellent. 4/5.
#booksky
Paperback version of "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon. Cover art of the same name, by Ivan Belikov, depicts a blue scaled dragon wrapped around a stone tower, seemingly roaring at something out of frame.
April 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
Finished up "The Left Hand of Darkness" yesterday morning. I thought it was very interesting, and I think it would be a great book for a buddy-read or a book club. It wasn't at all what I was expecting, and I forgot I was reading a work of fiction for about the last quarter. Very good.
#booksky
Mass market paperback copy of "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Cover photo shows an iceberg floating in water beneath a sunny, yet cloudy sky. A hill rises in the background to the left.
February 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
Last week, I found out a press I follow stopped printing hardcover editions of a set of their books. The natural response to this is buying every hardcover edition from them that I had been putting off.

#booksky
A stack of primarily cloth-bound smyth-sewn books on the subject of woodworking. All books printed and sold by Lost Art Press. From top to bottom, titles are: Workshop Wound Care Doormaking and Window Making The Essential Woodworker American Peasant By Hand and Eye Mouldings in Practice The Stick Chair Journal vol. 2 The Stick Chair Journal vol. 1 Principles of Design Making and Mastering Woodplanes Dutch Tool Chests Euclid's Door Good Eye Woodworking in Estonia Kitchen Think My complete collection of Lost Art Press books.
February 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

16/20
"This is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
February 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

15/20
Paperback copy of "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. LE Guin.
February 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

14/20
Paperback copy of "Circe" by Madeline Miller.
February 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

13/20
Hardcover copy of "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Cover depicts a unique color scheme in which the background is bright yellow, Dracula himself is shaded various hues of red (all similar to blood in color), yellow irises, and yellow and light blue "blood" around his mouth.
February 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

12/20
Hardcover edition of "Words of Radiance" by Brandon Sanderson.
February 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

11/20
"Gardens of the Moon" by Steven Erikson.
February 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

10/20
"Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir. Cover depicts a badass space lesbian necromancer wearing aviator glasses, dark clothes, and swinging a sword nonchalantly with one hand.
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

9/20
Paperback version of "The Stranger" by Albert Camus.
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

8/20
"The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Second Edition" The cover depicts a piece of abstract art featuring a red and dark red smear against a cream-colored background. Many tabs of various colors can be seen on the edge of the book.
February 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

7/20
Juniper Books hardcover edition of "The Gathering Storm" by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. Cover is one part of a 15 book collection, with all of the spines aligning to depict a red and gold dragon, along with the words "The Wheel of Time" in large white lettering. On this cover, the body and claw of a long, skinny, red & gold dragon can be seen across a navy blue background.
February 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

6/20
Hardcover edition of "The Bone Shard Daughter" by Andrea Stewart. Cover depicts intricate stonework and a large key.
February 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
I set a reading goal of 5 books this year because I knew that was a goal I could absolutely destroy (I read 48 books last year), and that would be neat.
I love reading, so setting a goal feels kind of redundant and puts pressure in a place that should have peace. Anyone else feel this way?
#booksky
January 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
Of all the different bookmarks I make, I think this is my favorite engraving. So simple, so elegant.

#booksky
Maple wood bookmark with the words "this book has dicks in it" engraved on the left, and E B Woodcraft engraved on the right. Many other bookmarks sit in the drying rack in the background.
January 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

5/20
"The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut. Cover is a light purple with three floating elliptical eyeballs with lime green irises.
January 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

4/20
Illustrated hardcover edition of "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien. The forest green cover features gold embossing, a small gold dragon above a circle depicting a red sun setting behind a trio of snow-capped mountains: two black, one blue. Runic lettering surrounds the circle, and Tolkien's signature is gold-embossed below. The top and bottom edges of the cover also feature the runic symbols embossed in gold across the width of the book.
January 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
About me:
- Woodworker for 10+ years
- Avid reader of Fantasy/Sci-Fi +
- Married to my best friend for 13+ years
- Former dog person converted to cats
- Play guitar, synth, and alto sax 20+ years... Not as good as I probably should be.

Here to:
- Make friends
- Talk books
- Show off neat projects
January 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

3/20
Hardcover edition of "Stone Blind" by Natalie Haynes. Cover depicts a likeness of Medusa colored light blue, with slightly darker teal snakes for her hair. Lettering is dark gold, and there are images of pots and plants in the same color.
January 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
While my feelings on Wind and Truth are overwhelmingly positive, I do have some mixed emotions on it. Definitely a lot to process. Overall, I'm not sure "happy" is the right word, but I appreciate how it ended and very much look forward to the future of the series. 💙📚🪐

#booksky
Hardcover edition of "Wind and Truth" by Brandon Sanderson, book 5 in The Stormlight Archive.
January 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

2/20
Hardcover copy of "Daughter of the Moon Goddess" by Sue Lynn Tan.
January 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with/influenced you. #booksky

One book per day
No particular order
No explanations
No reviews
Just covers

1/20
Hardcover omnibus titled "Ambergris" containing the following novels written by Jeff Vandermeer: 1 City of Saints and Madmen 2 Shriek: An Afterword 3 Finch The cover depicts a large gray capital A, with half of the A covered in colorful mushrooms growing across the surface.
January 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
urkburkurskur.bsky.social
I feel like once I finish Parable of the Sower, this will be a much more difficult decision. For now though, this.
Trade paperback copy of "The Fifth Season" written by N. K. Jemison.
January 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM