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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Columbus used a 15th-century legal doctrine to colonize and slaughter the Indigenous peoples he encountered. And it's still the law in the U.S. today.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

An Indigenous People's Day rec: First America from @rebeccanagle.bsky.social traces the roots of US authoritarianism back to the early nation's systematic genocide of native people. Nagle is a skillful storyteller & each episode of First America makes the present legible, as well as the past.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Added lots of Stephen King titles to the shop today and enjoyed looking at the variety of cover art styles his books have had over the decades. This man has written so many books!! #stephenking #books #booksky #bookcovers #coverart #writing #salemslot #cujo #horror #fiction

The front cover of Stephen King's novel, Salem's Lot, hardcover edition. Photographed against a white background.

The front cover of Stephen King's novel, Cujo, hardcover edition. Photographed against a white background.

The front cover of Stephen King's novel, Different Seasons, hardcover edition. Photographed against a white background.

The front cover of Stephen King's novel, The Outsider, hardcover edition. Photographed against a white background.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?” - David Graeber & David Wengrow #books #history

The front cover of "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow, pictured against a white background.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Didn't notice it, I'm not sure what I was doing, but my sister did!

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well." - William Gibson, Neuromancer #scifi #books #booksky #williamgibson #neuromancer #time #usedbooks #writing #sciencefiction

The front covers of eight books by sci-fi author Williiam Gibson, in two horizontal rows of four books each, against a white background.

In the top row, the front covers of: Virtual Light, Tomorrow's Parties, Idoru, and Spook Country.

In the bottom row, the front covers of : Zero History, Pattern Recognition, Count Zero, and Neuromancer

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth." - Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist #books #booksky

The front covers of three paperback books by Colson Whitehead, photographed in a row against a white background. From left to right, the books are: The Intuitionist, The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've...made love w/joy & taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment." - John Steinbeck #books

The front covers of four books by John Steinbeck, in a Book-of-the-Month edition from the early 1990s. The covers all feature landscapes with the author's name and title in the upper portion of blue skies, above various horizons.

The books are Travels with Charley, The Long Valley, Tortilla Flat/Of Mice and Men, and The Winter of Our Discontent.

Photographed against a white background.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"I wanted to fill my elegy with light of all kinds. But death makes us stingy...[N]othing more to be expended on that, we think, he's dead. Love cannot alter it. Words cannot add to it. No matter how I try to evoke the starry lad he was, it remains a plain, odd history." - Anne Carson, Nox #books

A page from Anne Carson's book, Nox. On the white page there's an image like a small torn off piece of paper with black text on it. The text reads:

"1.0. I wanted to fill my elegy with light of all kinds. But death makes us stingy. There is nothing more to be expended on that, we think, he's dead. Love cannot alter it. Words cannot add to it. No matter how I try to evoke the starry lad he was, it remains a plain, odd history. So I began to think about history."

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just joined the Tacoma Public Library queue for this one! Not surprised that there are a number of holds in front of me for @gilduran.com's The Nerd Reich. #reading

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's kind of amazing that there was time when you could call Nina Simone collect and ask her a question.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some customers buy gift messages to go w/their books — earlier this year a customer asked me to send Wendell Berry's poem, "The Peace of Wild Things," along with a gift to their beloved. It's a wonderful poem. I loved typing it out. Thank you for your art, Wendell. #wendellberry #poetry #poems

Wendell Berry's poem, "The Peace of Wild Things", typed in cursive on an Hermes 3000 typewriter.

Here's the poem:

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry's poem, The Peace of Wild Things, typed on a cream-colored card in a mauve envelope atop the keys of a typewriter. A shaft of sunlight cuts across the card.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I got @stephengrahamjones.com The Buffalo Hunter Hunter from Tacoma Public Library Horror isn't a standard genre for me, but this is one of those books that could change that. I loved it. I'd read it again anytime.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What a life. What a brilliant artist. What a generous spirit. What an incomparable legacy. Thank you, Dolly. #DollyParton

The cover of Dolly Parton's 1978 vinyl LP "Heartbreaker." Dolly is wearing a beautiful flowy gown in shades of pink with lace. She's standing with one elbow on a table top, her other hand on her hip, and one leg lifted so that her foot, in a silver strapless high heel, rests casually on another surface. Her legs are bare beneath the gown and she is looking off to the side. Her expression is watchful, expectant.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Here are flowers, O my Beloved, Here are flowers; Let us lay our hearts today Among the flowers; Let us not be led astray By the mirage far away; Here is verdure, and in verdure Love embowers." - Ameen Rihani, "Water & Flowers" poets.org/poem/water-a... #poetry #poems #books

A close-up image of the blossom of a single red-leafed dahlia against a background of a green garden, gently out of focus. Light comes through the red petals, variegating the color, erupting from a close-hatched yellow center.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"O, to take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into the round jubilance of peach." Li-Young Lee #poetry #poems www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43012/...

A photocopied page from a book of poems by Li-Young Lee, in black and white, creased from having been folded. The text on the page is Lee's poem, "From Blossoms." The poem reads:

FROM BLOSSOMS

From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. Virginia Woolf, The Waves.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What books do you bring with you for the unimaginably hard things? Like visiting a friend who is on the shore between life and death, soon to go towards whatever is beyond. I brought these and they have been good choices. #piranesi #susannaclarke #billyraybelcourt #poetry #books #fiction

The front covers of two paperback books, side to side on a white hotel bedspread. On the left is "the idea of an entire life," by Billy-Ray Belcourt. The background photograph is of three fingers of a hand (the thumb, index, and middle finger) spread out over and touching the skin of a torso. Half the image is in shadow, half in light.

On the right is Susanna Clarke's novel, Piranesi. The cover illustration is of a Satyr playing two pipes, balancing on one foot atop a plinth. Hand-drawn waves swirl at the base of the column and stars shine from a deep blue sky in the background.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Read an adapted excerpt from the introduction to Ruthie Wilson Gilmore’s third selection—a collection of Neville Alexander’s writings, Against Racial Capitalism—here:

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Neville Alexander's Struggle Against Racial Capitalism

The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I recognize this from a the cover of "Letter to My Daughter" by Maya Angelou! Of course, what a perfect author-artist connection. #bookcovers #books #art #eclipse #mayaangelou #almathomas #abstract #color #painting #blackwomen #booksky

The cover of Maya Angelou's book, "Letter to My Daughter," featuring a background design by Alma Thomas, called "The Eclipse."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"A more accurate term for a system that erases the boundaries between Big Government & Big Business is not liberal, conservative or capitalist but corporatist. Its main characteristics are huge transfers of public wealth to private hands..." (1/2) #books #booksky #capitalism #bookcovers #nonfiction

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"My pain—how happy it is to leave me whenever I treat it kind." - Andrea Gibson, from "Spider" poets.org/poem/spider-0 #poetry #poems #andreagibson #booksky #pain #writing #books

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"We have choices, and capitulation is only one of them. I am always hoping to do better than to collaborate with whatever or whomever it is that means me no good. For me, it's a mind game with everything at stake." - June Jordan, Intro to "Some Of Us Did Not Die" #books #poetry #junejordan

The cover of June Jordan's book, "Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays of June Jordan." The cover features a black-and-white photograph of Jordan in a striped t-shirt. She wears a necklace (a long slender chain) and hoop earrings. Her hair is cut short. She smiles broadly and looks down at something the view cannot see.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is good news for #TerryPratchett & #Discworld Bluesky, a particularly devoted fanbase! #booksky

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"...Where are my things, the things I loved. It's Spring, I think. I must be alive. I check the bulbs. I touch the green. No arm is being amputated from my only ones, no rib- cage crushed before it can call out a name..." - Jorie Graham, "No One Today" #poetry #poems #books #reading #booksky

The front cover of Jorie Graham's book, Killing Spree," sitting on top of a patterned bedsheet.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

happy pride, tacoma! stay defiant 🌈💜✊

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Weekend reading. [W.E.B. du Bois's Black Reconstruction and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes , atop and old issue of Games Magazine] #reading #books #booksky #history #fiction #dubois #blackreconstruction #bradbury

Laid out on a bedspread, a Library of America edition of W.E.B. du Bois's Black Reconstruction and small paperback of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes , atop and old issue of Games Magazine.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

it's really quite astonishing on how few major works have been done on this towering lady. But 151 years ago today, the child of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10, 1875 in South Carolina. Bethune literally connects the end of slavery to the civil rights era

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit. The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune by Noliwe Rooks

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David Giles @worldofreath.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Any day is a good day to remind people Discworld exists.

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Dr no yes maybe @clinch56.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you" Terry Pratchett.

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Tony Mangino @tonymangino.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape" ~ Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, & is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man #terrypratchett #discworld #books #booksky #fantasy #death #light #darkness #reading #writing

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Author and artist Mervyn Peake sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/peake_... was born on this day, so here's some Gormenghast-trilogy related illustrations (Artist: Mervyn Peake, Bob Pepper, Peter Harding and Charles W Stewart):

The cover to the 1946 UK edition of 'Titus Groan' by Mervyn Peake

The box set illustration for Ballantine Books' 'The Gormenghast Trilogy' boxed set, by Mervyn Peake

The cover to a 1985 UK edition of 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake

Charles W Stewart's "The First Attic", from 1973: one of a set of illustrations for Mervyn Peake's 'The Gormenghast Trilogy' that were apparently never used.

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger." - Muriel Rukeyser #poetry #poems #writing #books #booksky #murielrukeyser #art #reading #invention

The front covers of three books by Muriel Rukeyser, photographed against a white background. From left to right, The Gates: Poems; The Life of Poetry; and Out of Silence.

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The Venerable Weed @simonberman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Whom do I know in the Tacoma area who might like to get paid to build a LOT of Warhammer terrain the week of 07/13?

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's a Geek Love summer, my dreamlets

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“What about Pride?” “You just had Pride.” “Well, what about Second Pride?” (Me as a disabled Hobbit, probably.) IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH, FOLKS! We have a flag too! Designed by Ann Magill, and updated to this version to prevent strobing issues while scrolling on devices! #DisabilityPride

The disability Pride flag with red, gold, white, blue, and greenl stripes on the dark grey background.

Explanation of the diagonal stripes on the dark grey background.

Red - physical disabilities
Gold - neurodiversity
White - invisible disabilities and undiagnosed disabilities
Blue - emotional and psychiatric disabilities.
Green - for sensory disabilities

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Just because it perished?” - Edna St. Vincent Millay tinyurl.com/owlintheattic #poetry #poets #poems #books #booksky #usedbooks #vintage #poem #ednastvincentmillay #millay #breakups #love

The front covers of two books against a white background. On the left, the front cover of Nancy Milford's book, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, which features a black and white portrait of Millay looking out at the viewer, chin in her hand. To the right is the cover of a copy of Millay's Collected Sonnets

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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

for anyone who knows the incredible Oji-Cree writer & friend of the bookstore Joshua Whitehead, his father Peter passed away suddenly & his family are asking for help. if you’re in a place to help through a donation or resharing it will mean the world to him and his family gofund.me/52720ca90

Funds for Peter
Whitehead's Funeral and
Memorialization
Organized by
Krista Whitehead

$if you didn't know my dad, Peter, trust me you did if you've read my works. he was a seminal part of full-metal, Jonny, Making Love with the Land, my editorial approaches, & my two forthcoming works. he's the joyful motor, the translator of pain and ruin into joy and futurisms, that animates so much of my published work (though god knows i'm not always the best practitioner of it always yet). nearly everything i've tried to do has been in spite of what he was told he could never, but, perhaps more importantly, legacy work for him, the violences the 60s Scoop placed upon him/us, his mother (my grandmother's) place in MMIWG2S, & aiding him in achieving his own goals as a Cree man. everything i have, everything i've been able to share with Canadian & Indigenous literatures (& the research and pedagogies of them) is owed to my father. if i can have a fraction of his fortitude & drive whenever my time comes, i'll have felt i succeeded. that i touched the divine, something akin to god.$

"On June 20, 2026, Peter Whitehead, our beloved husband/ father/papa passed away suddenly and very unexpectedly. Our family, between AB (Treaty 8) and MB (Treaty 1), is deep in mourning and aiming to meet Peter's final wishes with limited to no financial assistance for his funeral, memorialization, and the caretaking of family costs. Hence, his daughter Krista has put together a GoFundMe and call for community aid at this time to assist his family, wife, children, and final wishes during this grieving period. At this time, Peter's family, friends, and communities would like to thank all who have reached out, sent their love, flowers, food, have visited, shared stories, and overall supported us during this time so far. And to anyone willing and able to donate: please know we are deeply touched by everyone's generosity and care".

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"our worlds, fiction to each other, the raging ocean between us, a murder of marine life. cut me open & there they are: the ones who left me, the ones i left, the roots that ground me, the wind combing my hair." - Fatimah Ashgar, from [i love them still] #poetry #poemoftheday shorturl.at/6wsst

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[i love them still]

my kin, my ripe bushel of apples,

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren." - Éowyn in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King #books #booksky #tolkien #lotr #gardensky #bloomscrolling #eowyn #healing #herbalism #flowers #writing #reading #lordoftherings #calendula #feverfew #writing

The front covers of four books by J.R.R. Tolkien: the complete Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Silmarillion, against a white background.

The books have black backgrounds and symbolic imagery particular to each novel depicted on each cover.

A photograph from our garden: a large orange calendula blossom emerges on its long green stem from a sea of little flowers (feverfew, a small flower with white petals surrounding a buoyantly yellow center; similar in look to chamomile).

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