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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Happy Burns Day! Some hae meat an canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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. Day 20/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Seamus Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

OK, I read Orbital and I have to say, it just did not connect with me. Harvey has a poetic gift with her prose, but there are only so many different ways you can describe the beauty of earth from low orbit. A lack of emotional buy-in due to a lack of plot and interesting character arcs killed it.

Cover image of Samantha Harvey’s novella Orbital.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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. Day 19/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Allan W. Eckert’s The Frontiersmen.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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. Day 18/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book Say Nothing.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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. Day 17/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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. Day 16/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Hans Fallada’s novel Every Man Dies Alone.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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. Day 15/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Gore Vidal’s Point to Point Navigation.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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. Day 14/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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. Day 13/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of John Steinbeck’s The Log From the Sea of Cortez.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

📚 Thomas Mann may be a "forgotten" giant, but his influence shapes modern literature in surprising ways. From The Magic Mountain to his essays, his legacy deserves a fresh look. Dive into my latest Substack essay to rediscover his enduring relevance! 👉 substack.com/home/post/p-... #BookSky

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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. Day 12/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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. Day 11/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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. Day 10/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of Anne Sexton’s poetry book All My Pretty Ones.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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. Day 9/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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. Day 8/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover image of John Fante’s Ask the Dust.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Another small haul today. This is enough for the TBR shelf for now. #BookSky

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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. Day 7/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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. Day 6/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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. Day 5/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover for Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today’s mini-haul. I continue my love/hate relationship with Murakami. I am always hopeful going into his novels. It doesn’t not always end that way. Stranger Than Fiction is just a “me” read. I can’t imagine not liking this. #BookSky

Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Frank’s Stranger Than Fiction.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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. Day 4/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover of Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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. Day 3/20 #BookSky 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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. Day 2/20 #Skybook 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Cover of Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Finished reading this fever dream of historical fiction. Yuri Herrera just has a way with description. If you are interested in New Orleans or the Mexican Revolution, this is an interesting and very short read. #BookSky

Cover of Yuri Herrera’s Season of the Swamp.

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Jeff Tobin @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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. Day 1/20 #Skybook 💙📚👀. #Books #Bookchallenge

Vintage Classics cover of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

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