Just finished listening to this devastating masterpiece as an audiobook. The last of C. W. Gortner’s novels I can say I partly read/listened to before his passing. Yes, I ugly cried. #BookSky #historicalfiction

“Using only the sparest of prose, this hypnotically tense and compelling book becomes an astonishingly moving portrait of a man’s life.” -the Booker Prize judges, 2025, on David Szalay’s winning novel, “Flesh” #BookSky #BookerPrize

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” -Writer and physician Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) #BookSky #quote

On this day in 1899, Sigmund Freud published his landmark work "The Interpretation of Dreams." This is the book that gave us Freud’s description of the Oedipus Complex and other theories. #BookSky #Freud #History #OTD

Am I the only one so old and out of the loop that I hadn’t even heard this word before? #BookSky www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-th...

Can’t relate. #booksky www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

“The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data from 2018 to 2022 determined that 78.3 percent of people in the nation age 5 and older reported speaking only English at home.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I made a StoryGraph account early last year, and I’m so glad I did so. #BookSky peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/nad...

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

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. 20/20 - Rough Magic: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder by Miranda Newman #BookSky #20bookchallenge #TwentyBooks #20books

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. 19/20 - Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons #BookSky #twentybookchallenge #20books #TwentyBooks

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. 18/20 - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck #BookSky #bookchallenge #TwentyBooks #20books

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. 17/20 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr #BookSky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #20books #TwentyBooks

“I never saw a moor; I never saw the sea, Yet know I how the heather looks And what a billow be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven. Yet certain am I of the spot As if the checks were given.” -Emily Dickinson, born this day in 1830 #emilydickinson #onthisday #poetry

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. 16/20 - The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean #BookSky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #TwentyBooks #20books

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. 15/20 - Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White #BookSky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #TwentyBooks #20books

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. 14/20 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald #BookSky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #20books #TwentyBooks

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. 13/20 - Parable of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler #BookSky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #20books #TwentyBooks

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. 12/20 - Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt #BookSky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #20books #TwentyBooks

The challenge is to 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. 11/20 - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls #BookSky #TwentyBooks #20books #20bookchallenge #bookchallenge

The challenge is to 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. 10/20 - In a Different Key by John Donvan and Caren Zucker #BookSky #20books #TwentyBooks #20bookchallenge

The challenge is to 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. 9/20 - Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier #BookSky #bookchallenge #20books #twentybooks #20bookchallenge

The challenge is to 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. 8/20 - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King #BookSky #20books #20bookchallenge #TwentyBooks

The challenge is to 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. 7/20 - Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski #BookSky #20books #20bookchallenge

The challenge is to 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. 6/20 - The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton #BookSky #bookchallenge #20books #20bookchallenge

The challenge is to 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. 5/20 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel #BookSky #bookchallenge #20books #20bookchallenge

The challenge is to 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. 4/20 - The Giver by Lois Lowry #BookSky #bookchallenge #20books #20bookchallenge

The challenge is to 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. 3/20 - A Coal Miner’s Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska (Dear America Series) #BookSky #20bookchallenge #20books

The challenge is to 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. 2/20 #BookSky #bookchallenge #20books #20bookchallenge

The challenge is to 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. 1/20 - The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner #BookSky #20bookchallenge #20books