Today's book: "The Rainfall Market" by You Yeong-Gwang, translated by Slin Jung If you had the chance to build yourself a new, perfect life, would you? What would it look like? The catch: you only have a week. Also, a Magical Cat has joined the party. 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

For the prompt "Quilt" for #FebruaryFrost26 (I forgot to add the other prompt "stars" haha) #art #illustration

Finished "Second Foundation" by Isaac Asimov Maybe it's just me, but this didn't read like the first two books. It felt like the vast scope of the story narrowed, and Asimov was suddenly more concerned with seeming clever, yet no less unsubtle. Still, I'm committed to the series—on to Book 4. 💙📚

Happy National Guitar Day, lovelies! 💬📚 Are you team paperback or team hardback? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

Happy Teddy Day, lovelies! 💬📚 Which genre most helps you get out of reading slump? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

STONE OF FAREWELL (1989) Acrylic on Canvas - 21” X 46” The main problem in doing what is called a wraparound cover—art that wraps around from the front to the back of the book—is in trying to avoid pieces that look like two different paintings stuck together. 1/4 #booksky #fantasy

Today's book: "Second Foundation" (Foundation, Book 3) by Isaac Asimov I've now visited the library enough that when I asked if this inter-library loan had arrived, the librarian didn't even need my name or the book's title, she just knew. Sorcery! 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

Finished "The River Has Roots" by Amal El-Mohtar! ... Twice. Half an hour after closing it, I read it again. What a wonderful fairytale full of reflections of other fairytales. It seems a bit early to have a favorite of the year, but this story's unquestionably worthy of the spot. 💙📚

DRAGONSDAWN (1987) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 25” x 36” This was the first cover in the Dragonriders of Pern series to feature the beloved fire lizards and I really enjoyed painting them. 1/5

Today's book: "The River Has Roots" by Amal El-Mohtar Time for a much-needed touch of Faerie: a fairytale of two sisters, one whose heart lies with one beyond the willows but who is pursued by a mortal suitor. Sounds like my cup of tea. 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

Happy Bubblegum Day, lovelies! 💬📚 Do you have a favorite author? If so, who? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

Afternoon treat 🍎🐭 #art #mice #cottagecore

Today was library day! I've been/still am sick and haven't the bandwidth for the Dumas I'd planned on, so it's short lads for me this trip. –Isaac Asimov's "Second Foundation" –You Yeong-Gwang's "The Rainfall Market" (Translated by Slin Jung) –Amal El-Mohtar's "The River Has Roots" 💙📚 #BookSky

Happy Optimist Day, lovelies! 💬📚 How does reading give you hope? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

Happy National Homemade Soup Day, lovelies! 💬📚 What kind of read brings you the most comfort? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

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This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

Happy Groundhog Day, lovelies! 💬📚 What is the silliest thing you have used as a bookmark? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

Nocturnal for #FebruaryFrost26, a pine marten! #art

February Frost has begun!! And here's my first painting: Snowdrops 🥰 I'm so glad I took photos right before adding the copper cause I feel like it totally ruined the vibe. Now I still have proof of how cute it looked before I went ahead and ruined it 🥲 #februaryfrost26 #FebruaryFrost26Week1

Happy National Freedom Day, lovelies! 💬📚 How do you exercise your freedom through reading? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

"We, seekers of refuge, will find it: if not in the world, then in each other. If not in life, then surely in books." —from Kao Kalia Yang's "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" 💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence

Is January over already? (Good riddance.) Favorite reads this month: –Daniel Nayeri's "Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)" –Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" –Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's "Persians: The Age of the Great Kings" –Kao Kalia Yang's "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" 💙📚 #BookSky

My very own copy of Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" arrived!!! This was the one non-negotiable book on my list: I promised myself I'd ask the bookshop to order it if I couldn't find it there or secondhand. Turned out the shop had seemingly every sci-fi Le Guin except Left Hand, ha ha. 💙📚

Happy National Escape Day, lovelies! 💬📚 How is reading an escape for you? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

FAHRENHEIT 451 (2020) Acrylic on Gessobord - 24" x 36" 

Often the path to a successful cover isn't a straight line. That was certainly the case illustrating Ray Bradbury's iconic novel. 1/7 #booksky #art www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/fa...

New art prompt list for February, hosted by me and some friends! WAHOO!! Participate by making anything and post it during the weeks listed below, and using #FebruaryFrost26!! #art #illustration #promptlist

MYM (1986) Oil on Panel - 32” x 20” My fourth cover for Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony. Following the formula of the other books, a mortal is called upon to serve as a supernatural force. 1/3

GATE OF IVREL (1975) Acrylic and Oil on Canvas Board - 17" x 18" The context for this commission—quite possibly lost in the long arc of our careers—was as C.J. Cherryh’s debut novel. 1/4

Otterly in love 🦦💕 [ #cuteart #traditionalart #posca ]

These books were made for snoozing 📚🐱☁️ #BookArt #BookLovers #illustration #CatArt #CatIllustration #botanical #CuteArt #KawaiiArt

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” Dancing at the Edge of the World Ursula K. Le Guin #BlueskyBooks #Booksky #Reading #Dailywritingquote

Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides Bakkhai Tr. by Anne Carson #booksky #books

#dtawinter2026 You can't stop meeee I'm now up to date and I've painted all day. What A Life #gouache #mountains #slightlycreepy

Today's book: "Blood Rites" (Dresden Files, Book 6) by Jim Butcher Continuing my Dresden Files reread with the book that gives us the Very Best Good Boy of the whole series. (And vampires. Lots of vampires.) 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

Finished "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" by Kao Kalia Yang! A heartwrenching, hopeful read. Could hardly put it down. I'd never learned of the Hmong people before: such a beautiful, humbling, community-driven culture. Yang's family survived so much, and they're just one among many. 💙📚

#BlueskyBookclub kicks off today! We'll be reading I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman! 💙📚 #booksky 📚💙

Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, lovelies! 💬📚 How can you make your reading more whimsical? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

Today's book: "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" by Kao Kalia Yang This caught my eye on the library trip before last: a memoir of Yang's family's escape from war, from Laos to Thailand to Minnesota, and the realities of U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia. 💙📚 #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

Finished "Give Me a Sign" by Anna Sortino! What a great YA book! Had me in tears a few times, and the romance was sweet. It was eye-opening to vicariously experience Lilah's deafness and search for Deaf identity, and frustrating how many dangers overlap for the disabled in an ableist world. 💙📚

It may be time to start over. Only this time we'll be a moss based society, where pinecones are general currency, owls keep the peace, and the dark magic of the old forest gods entertain us through the night.

Books are wonderful coping mechanisms, especially novels that make you feel less alone in your fears/worries by reading about people who have had similar experiences. One reason why it's important to fight book banning. Plus, novels can act as escapism and give you a break from stressors. #BookSky

The February 2026 #BannedBookSkyClub book is #Paradise by Toni Morrison. I will start sharing talking points Thursday, February 12, 2026 (or possibly the night before depending on my schedule). Please join us and/or spread the word! Link to feed in replies. #BookSky

Something about the twist of birds. It's called a murmuration #Art

"I'm not ashamed of my disability or anything like that. What bothers me is trying to fit into the hearing world. That I'm constantly the odd one out, the one who always has to explain or adjust." —Lilah, from Anna Sortino's "Give Me a Sign" 💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence