These PKs are insane! #worldcup

Was in PA for a day and ended up at a Barnes & Noble bookstore. Here was the center display table as you walk in the store. And the rest are just pics of covers throughout the store that I liked. #booksky 📚💙 #books

Celebrate #Juneteenth by discovering powerful poetry, gripping fiction, and illuminating historical accounts. PEN America's curated reading list offers a gateway to understanding the complex narratives that have shaped the African American experience. See the full list: bookshop.org/lists/junete...

@amayna60.bsky.social This is the cover I told you about for the recent novella I read. Thanks for a fun book discussion today! I await your romance recs. 😻

Yes, it's Melville and More Summer! More includes my listening to The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu, with a Hamlet influence, future lab with immortality drug, locked room chills. Definitely an intriguing blend. What do you have cooking #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

Mondays Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi #booksky 💙📚 #books #design

At the salon with my better half (not pictured)…

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction. pudding.cool/2026/05/simi... #booksky 💙📚 #books #writing #literature

Upcoming group reads at the Bladensburg Library

This might be our biggest event month to date! Show your favorite authors some love! RSVP online at peoplesbooktakoma.com/calendar/

Sometimes you take a book home so good that you just devour it. Wait, no, the dog devoured it!?!? Ethel, beloved pup to a Bladensburg Branch Library family, took the phrase "devouring a book" a bit too literally. P.S. This is your friendly reminder not to leave your library books in the chew zone 😉

Monday’s Multiple Book Cover Thread: The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (translated by David McKay) #booksky 💙📚 #design #books

When proofreading, it’s sometimes helpful to read aloud as it forces your brain to slow down and read every word…

Our parents were really like “stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about” and then destroyed the middle class forever

I like it when my phone randomly takes pics without me knowingly participating…

Puzzle answers in the comments...

#booksky 💙📚 #bookcovers #design (answers to last week's puzzle will be posted right after I post this)

Yet another gem discovered in one of our neighborhood Little Free Libraries! #booksky 💙📚

Am I imagining that at one point politicians attempted (at least partially) to win elections based on policies they thought might help actual people? Now it feels like they just try make you angry or scared, or tip the election in their favor through gerrymandering or voter restrictions.

I’ve Got My Eyes On You #sketchbook #drawing

It's been a while since I did a book covers post, so I thought I'd change it up and give you all a puzzle... CAN YOU IDENTITY ALL 9 BOOK COVERS? (prize goes to the first one to name all 9 in the comments) #bookcovers #design #booksky💙📚

Currently reading…

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Hold a pen or pencil in your hand as if you were about to start writing. Which one of these matches your grip?

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY continues IN-STORE & ONLINE all day until 9PM!!! 20% OFF everything in-store & online w/ codeword FCBD2026 (excluding pre-orders & gift cards)!!! Not local? All 5/2 orders for in-stock items ship with 3 randomly selected FCBD 2026 books!!!

From the Johns Hopkins Measles tracker, an alarming acceleration of the outbreak. It took ~12 months for case counts to reach 2,000 in 2025. We're on track this year to hit that by May. Link here: publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resourc... Let's dive in a little on what's at stake in our response.

I try not to be all doom-and-gloomy but when I see anti-data center posts that have used AI to generate imagery I do kinda feel like we’re fucked.

A rather thought-provoking article, as well as a nice tribute... electronicbookreview.com/publications...

Introducing two new Piżama titles for 2026! We’re thrilled to be releasing these wonderful poetry collections this year. Both books are available now to pre-order & will be out on May 27, 2026. asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

Celebrated Independent Bookstore Day with @peoplesbooktakoma.com

Why Animals Look So Strange in Medieval Manuscripts www.openculture.com/2026/04/why-...

Fantastic read. "There is a spirit of democracy that exists all around the world. People are always asking me about what is lost in translation... what is interesting to me is what is found in translation. What we have in common is much more interesting to me than what we don't have in common."

@pgcmls.bsky.social LOCAL AUTHOR EXPO Saturday, April 25, 11am-1:30pm Bladensburg Library More details here: www.pgcmls.info/event/15921817 Author list & bios here: drive.google.com/file/d/1uTnY... #libraries #writers #readers #books #bladensburg #pgcounty

Kill Pretty Magazine wins Best-Email-Signup-Invitation... 🤣

Watch Animations of Two Italo Calvino Stories: “The False Grandmother” and “The Distance from the Moon”

Do all Foucault book covers just suck? Asking for a friend (actually, I'm not a friend of mine)...

Tree rat!

Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr

Started Tali Girls: A Novel of AfghanIstan, another read the world pick. It is Siamak Herawi’s first novel published in English, translated from Farsi by Sara Khalili. Narratives shift as Kowsar and her community grapple with drastic, swift change. What’s up #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

We aren't a big fan of the litmag rankings that are based on # of awards, mostly because most litmag awards aren't blind readings so we think it's mostly...well, we won't say.... Regardless, we like the Fish List far better! buff.ly/o6uua07

Having recently seen and loved her pioneering film Losing Ground, I was eager to start her rediscovered stories. These have such sharp points of view! Whatever Happened to Interracial Love, Kathleen Collins. Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth on this #ThursdayBookChat. 📚💙

Idk who needs to hear this, but reading before bed—not scrolling— is one of the best things you can do for yourself to end the night.

Photos from this morning's dog walk (before we get tornadoes or whatever else is threatening to kill us this muggy Monday morning).

ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN is one of our most anticipated releases of 2026! Read what @tobiascarroll.bsky.social has to say about it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Bro out there strutting his colors and trying to get lucky!