You you care about book covers and science fiction, this survey will be online for another two days: bsky.app/profile/adri...

30-Day Book Challenge Day 28: Classic book you haven't read but plan to "Women in Love" by D. H. Lawrence Having read most of his books, this is top on my TBR list. (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

Besides favorite authors, beautiful book covers are my #autobuy 😍📚 What's your favorite book cover? [🎨Graphic by Krysten Winkler] #BookSky #BookCover #BookDesign #Illustration #BookLovers #CoverArt

30-Day Book Challenge Day 27: Book you read every year "The Rose and the Ring" by William Makepeace Thackeray. As we do this book in class, a memory refresh of this complicated quiproquo-ridden fairy tale is badly needed yearly. (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

🖋️📚 If you are into literary fiction, and you don't snub science fiction, and you care about cover design, here's a short survey to help an MA student assess the recent dynamics of the genre. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

‪30-Day Book Challenge Day 26: Biography everyone should read "The Dream of the Celt" by Mario Vargas Llosa. The life of Sir Roger Casement, colonial agent in the Congo turned human rights activist in Amazonia, Irish nationalist executed as traitor, gay icon. (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

🪐📚 Lovers of Sci Fi, you are invited to participate in a survey on your preferences. This consists of pairs of book covers to choose from. It all takes 10-15 minutes. This way you will help a Publishing MA student's work on the dynamics of nowadays Sci Fi. Thanks! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

30-Day Book Challenge Day 25: A villain you actually loved The unnamed General in Gabriel García Márquez's "The Autumn of the Patriarch"... I liked the unforgiving way this fictional dictator was constructed, but... love? no way! Too similar to those at home! (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

I think, as science-fiction authors, we can help to explain the misconceptions and misappropriations so often seen in regard to what is disingenuously named, "AI." Here's my take. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #sciencefiction #WritingCommunity #Indieauthor @sfwa.bsky.social

30-Day Book Challenge Day 24: A book collaboration by 2 or more authors ”The Woman in Red” [Femeia în roșu] a multi-layered story of the Romanian-born mystery woman in red who turned gangster Dillinger in. By Mircea Nedelciu, Adriana Babeți & Mircea Mihăieș (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

I'm still at it: 30 Day Book Challenge Day 23: A book quote you know by heart ”The Past is a foreign country...” from "The Go-Between" — L.P. Hartley (1953) (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

Can you spot the difference? Which one do you prefer?

Challenge interrupted: 30 Day Book.. Day 22: Love Story in an LGBTQ novel ”Oranges are Not the Only Fruit” & "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" — Jeannette Winterson (Collage/homage v.2 © Adrian Oțoiu) Can you guess how is this v.2 different from v.1 below? 🖋️📚💙 bsky.app/profile/adri...

So, here’s my husband holding up his book - under the pen name Tudor Alexander, it is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org, Carturesti.ro in Romania. If you love #literaryfiction , #mid-century #Historicalfiction and are curious about faraway places, come along.

📚💡 Here's why for me, when it comes to audiobooks, it's only Nonfiction that will do: bsky.app/profile/adri...

Challenge interrupted: 30 Day Book.. Day 22: Love Story in an LGBTQ novel ”Oranges are Not the Only Fruit” & "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" — Jeannette Winterson (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day Book... Day 21: Anthology You Love ”Panorama of World Contemporary Modern Poetry” — A.E. Baconsky. This monumental anthology, published in 1972 by poet A.E. Baconsky (who died in the 1977 Bucharest earthquake) was the book that formed my taste for poetry. (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu)

Challenge interrupted: 30 Day Book.. Day 20: Unreliable narrator ”The Butcher Boy” — Patrick McCabe* *My photo of Patrick McCabe reading at the Flann O'Brien Conference in Dublin, 2019 © Adrian Oțoiu (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

Challenge interrupted: 30 Day Book.. Day 20: Unreliable narrator ”The Butcher Boy” — Patrick McCabe* *My photo of Patrick McCabe reading at the Flann O'brien Conference in Dublin, 2019 © Adrian Oțoiu (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day Book.. Day 19: Audiobook voice you like Ex-aequo 3 non-fiction* books with a positive message: ”HumanKind” — Rutger Bregman ”Not the End of the World” — Hannah Ritchie ”Ultraprocessed people” — Chris von Tulleken (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) Why only non-fiction? See below ↓ 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 18: A book by a person no longer alive ”The Periodic Table” by Primo Levi (La sistema periodico) Of this Italian author, a chemist and a survivor of the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel wrote: "Primo Levi died at Auschwitz forty years later." (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 17: A person's name in the title ”Chatterton” by Peter Ackroyd. While Chattterton was a real person, his death by suicide at 17 propelled him into the role of poète maudit, genius misfit, prone to endless reflections and deflections. (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 16: A book read more than once ”A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole. — it made me laugh every time I reread it. (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 15: A book that makes you cry sad tears ”A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 14: A fairytale retelling Any of the tales in ”The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 13: Book with color in title ”Purple Hibiscus” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Collage/homage v2 © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 13: Book with color in title ”Purple Hibiscus” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 12: Popular book you hate The ”Twilight” series by Stephenie Meyer (Collage* © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

X / Twitter is (half-)dead tonight. I can see just the first post, but no replies. No posting is possible. What a lark! What a chance to have a respite from that toxic place. Weaning can begin. More time to be on BlueSky!

30 Day book challenge Day 11: Character to have dinner with Orlando in Virginia Woolf's eponymous novel. (Surprising win! It's maybe because s/he would have so much to share about historical periods, gender, writing, fashion, house decoration, cuisine, love). (Collage/homage* © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 10: Happy tears ”The Light Princess” by George MacDonald. This spiritual fairy tale, starting in punning and ambiguity about gravity and gravitas, has an end that never fails to touch me. (Collage/homage* © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 9: Book gift Fiction books with chapters shaped like non-fiction. Each to their taste: 👩‍🍳🍛 Food Recipes: ”Like Water for Chocolate” 🌶️🧄 Spice rack: ”The Mistress of Spices” 📘 🆎 Dictionary entries: ”The Surgeon of Crowthorne” (Collage/homage* © Adrian Oțoiu) 🖋️📚💙

30 Day book challenge Day 8: Books everyone should read ”Alexandria Quartet” by Laurence Durrell. A modernist classic. It has everything: exoticism, intrigue, mystery, love. (Collage/homage* © Adrian Oțoiu) *I used the French edition, the only one with covers that do justice to the series. 🖋️📚💙

30 day #BookChallenge 💙📚🖋️ Day 7 — Audiobook on the road ”Travels with Charley” by John Steinbeck I often do read a few pages from this travelogue to brace myself before a new journey. (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) #booksky

Day 6 of the 30 day #BookChallenge Book that broke your heart. ”A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry (Canada 1995). (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 💙📚🖋️

Day 5 of the 30 day #BookChallenge Favourite classic book. ”The Life and Opninins of Tristram Shandy” by Laurence Sterne (1759-1767). (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) 💙📚🖋️

Here are book tags for in use as of February: 📚🎧 Audio 📚💥 Action/Adventure 📚💙 #booksky feed 📚⏰ Booktok 📚🤣 Comedy 📚⏳ Histfic 📚🩸 Horror 📚🖋️ Litfic 📚⚡️ Mystery/Thriller 📚💡 Nonfiction 📚🌶️ Romance/Spicy 📚🪐 Sci-fi/Fantasy 📚⚔️ Fantasy 📚💬 Book chat/discussion thread

I’m creating several starter packs for indie writers – one for each genre – that I then would regularly post links to. If interested in being in a starter back, please reply with your genre. #Indieauthor #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsofsky #booksky

30 day #BookChallenge 💙📚🖋️ Day 4 — book you remember for childhood ”The Mysterious Island” by Jules Verne. This was the first ”big book” I ever read. I was 5½ years old. The cover is that of the original Romanian version. It had the ominous tantalizing engravings by P. Férat,. #booksky

30-Day Book Challenge Day 3 - ”The Man Without Qualities” by Robert Musil (1930). A great monster of a book. I gave up after about 250 pages...

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 5 of 20: Carson McCullers (Collage/homage v2 © Adrian Oțoiu) #Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge

‪💙📚🖋️ Day 2 - ”Atonement” by Ian McEwan #booksky

New 30 day #BookChallenge 💙📚🖋️ Day 1 - Philip Pullman ”Northern Lights” (”The Golden Compass”)

‪Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 4 of 20: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) #Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge

Meme of the day:

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 2 of 20: Toni Morrison (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) #Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge

Who had drawn those images in my volume? It aws Jules Ferat, the original illustrator. They were black and white --but in an age and country where BW photography and TV were the norm-- I had no problem adding my own colours to those.

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 2 of 20: Angela Carter (Collage/homage © Adrian Oțoiu) #Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge

I have been waiting for something a group / feed like this. (Even though I find the term ”literary fiction” a bit odd. At least by European standards...) Thanks for putting this up!