Jane C

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Escaping into: books, big stones, kdrama, trees, mystery, scifi 📚 Reality: capitalism is shite, ILC BC, not really allowed booze with new meds 😱 Fun: #commonerschoir + a bit of DIY ritual, art n that 🌱 That'll do. Leeds UK. #mumu #kdrama #booksky

A riot of sunny yellow flowers with a few big white daisies in front of a red brick wall. A green/yellow creeper grows up the wall. In the foreground, some green fern fronds in front of a slice of grey tarmac.
Book cover showing drawing of a beach cove, thin sandy beach with steep rocky hills to the right. One house us nestled between them. On the left us black water. Behind are some huge slab cliffs of rock, like gravestones, with text: Tom Cox Everything Will Swallow You (Quote from) Guardian: Deeply comforting.
Old boxy tv on legs
Smiling young woman wearing bright stripey clothes and sporting a cropped haircut with pink spike at front.
Close up of camellia flower head. Dense pink petal swirl in the centre, more open and paler at the edges.
Blurred photo of London in background, with peoples faces picked out by computer squares. In the middle is clear image of 2 men's faces, one looking sideways, one looking at him opposite viewer. They are also surrounded by a computer graphic square.
A painted wooden box on a pole at the front of a garden To left is a small standing stone amongst plants including forget-me-nots. To the right a flowering magnolia in a pot. Through the door window you can see it's filled with books. At the top it says 'Little Free Library'.
Small clump of little pinkish red flowers with yellow centres.
Pic of top half of woman's fave. She has a pink fringe and wearing glasses and a black bowler hat, adorned with a tiny robot like figure made of metal pieces, including cogs and hammers.
A man lying across the top of a giant cog, looking like he may be squashed as it turns against other cogs (still from 'Modern Times'.)
Ceramic bowl on an outdoor table with 4 birds feeding from it. They're standing on the rim, 2 dipping right down so you can only really see their tails sticking up; 2 looking at each other. They are tiny balls of fluff with unusually long tails. Pic found on net, by Warren Photography.
Picture of 5 women: 2 sitting on sofa, 2 on the arms, 1 behind. Fairly casually dressed. Text: The Nerve.
Incredibly handsome Korean actor (Hyun Bin) in military uniform wearing a helmet with nights ope attached. He's looking enigmatically away to viewer's right.
Image of a young handsome Korean actor (Hyundai Bin) in army uniform. Face to front, looking sideways with the beginnings of a smirk or looking wistful(?). Dimple fully employed.
5 different book covers with spacey images. Titles: Planetfall, After Atlas, Before Mars, Atlas Alone, Before After Alone.
Book cover showing long haired man in loincloth walking towards you, with a hill behind covered in alien plants and tall conical structures (plants or?). Huge birds flying in sky. Text: Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a strange land Hugo Award Winner
Calm river lined by lots of different trees.
Smiling Korean man in ridiculous uniform covered with medals
Photo of Valerie Solanas on cover of her pamphlet. Text: S.C.U.M. Manifesto Society for Cutting Up Men
Close up of korean actor wearing a woolly polo neck.
Round black red and white logo. Text: Ministry of peace 2+2=5 War is peace 1984 Ingsoc. Oceania.
A line of robed buddhist monks walk down the middle of a street lined with people clapping and throwing petals at their feet.
Stylish korean woman wearing a white beret pinned to the side of her head at an unfeasible angle.
Book cover shows a four eyed deerlike creature standing in shallow waves. Some birds fly near it's head. All enclosed by a transparent circle which slightly distorts the image so it doesn't quite line up with what's outside the circle.
The cover of the SF Masterworks edition of "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K Le Guin. The cover features a large ying-yang symbol, the white half of which contains a snowy landscape with two men pulling a sledge. The dark part shows a starry spacescape with a large blue planet. Text: WINNER OF THE HUGO AND NEBULA AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL URSULA K. LE GUIN The Left Hand of Darkness SF MASTERWORKS
Close up of Korean man's face. Somehow he looks unhinged.
Book cover showing sketch if an eye with red iris. Text: A TRIUMPH SUNDAY TIMES BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION HAG-SEED MARGARET Atwood 'RIOTOUS, INSANELY READABLE AND JUST THE BEST' OBSERVER VINTAGE
A santa claus surrounded by ICE agents manhandling him, in the snow.
A snowy scene of a uniformed cop holding Danta face down over a car bonnet, digging an elbow into his back.
Bright pink book cover featuring a sheep standing looking the left, above bold yellow text: 'The KLF Chaos, magic and the band who burned a million pounds John Higgs 19th anniversary edition.' 'with new material'.
Book cover shows female angel figure looking down and possibly walking a tightrope. Below is a sparse landscape with broken fence around a field and a huge fire - not sure uf it's buildings or vehicles. Text: Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 'An astonishing monumental performance' Independent. *Penguin logo*.
A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’
Alt text: 39 Day Book Challenge Day 1 - A book by your favourite author Day 2 - A book you've read multiple times Day 3 - A book with a colour in the title Day 4 - A childhood favourite Day 5 - A book published in the decade you were born Day 6 - A book you couldn't finish Day 7 - A book from your favourite genre Day 8 - A book you were assigned in school Day 9 - A book of short stories Day 10 - A book that made you cry Day 11 - A book set in a location you would like to visit Day 12 - A book with a one word title Day 13 - A book published in the last 12 months Day 14 - Your favourite classic Day 15 - A book you always wanted to read but haven't yet Day 16 - An award winning book Day 17 - Your guilty pleasure book Day 18 - A graphic novel Day 19 - A book with a name in the title Day 20 - A book from your favourite series Day 21 - A book by an author no longer alive Day 22 - A book with a beautiful cover Day 23 - A book set where you live Day 24 - A banned book Day 25 - A book longer than 500 pages Day 26 - A book that has been adapted for film or TV Day 27 - A book with a number in the title Day 28 - A book that has been translated Day 29 - A novella Day 30 - The last book you rea
2 images of the same actress, both with blank expressions. In the top one she wears a demure looking dress, in the lower one she wears a strapless shiny 'robotlike' costume.
Black n white photo of a shorthaired young woman curled up on a chaise longue, looking pensive. In front of her is a cheeky looking young man wearing a checked waistcoat, all cheekbones and skinhead.
A beautifully dressed couple - she in white, he in black - dance tango in a street festooned with twinkly lights.
A card with text: Do the opposite, propped on top of a box full of similar cards. Front of box says: 'Ambagious Tactics A Tribute Act'.
Book cover shows a deep dark gorge between two flat landscapes, groups of people each side, with a rainbow in the sky above, straddling the gap. Text: The Gate to Women's Country A novel
Plate of coconut macarons above. Pale fluffy lumps with desiccated coconut strands everywhere. Below, different coloured macarons - 2 meringue like rounds sandwiched together.
Book cover with huge X on it, one arm with text: ACCEPTANCE.
A man in military fatigues riding a bicycle, with a woman perched between him and the handle bars.
Young handsome korean actor in fluffy oversize poloneck jumper and fashionable long overcoat steps forward, surreptitiously brushing hands with a long haired woman walking the opposite way.
Book cover shows concentric circles of ornate text with old oil lamp in the centre. Text: The End of Mr Y. Scarlett Thomas. Hugely enjoyable. A masterpiece.
A shallow box lined with green felt on wall hanging from a nail. It features a cork cross with a simple stuffed felt jesus hanging on it, with pins stuck into hands, feet and heart.
A korean woman with long hair looking down and to the side, slightly quizzical? Blurred pots of flowers in background.
A seated man and woman look seriously at each other, over a pile of money bundles and electronic scales.
Book cover showing a small Earth in space, surrounded by other nebulous entities. Text: Orbital SAMANTHA HARVEY The Booker Prize 2024 Shortlisted 'Beautiful' SARAH MOSS 'Awe-inspiring' MAX PORTER 'Stunning... An uplifting book SUNDAY TIMES 'An extraordinary achievement' OBSERVER
Close up of a ladybird on a leaf.
Close up of young female korean character with long hair, middle parting.
Book cover of 'What Katy Did'. Girl in long floaty dress on a swing with long hair streaming behind her. A couple of birds fly nearby.
Young man with bleached hair has friendly hand on a smiling young woman sitting next to him. He looks at her fondly.
Sloth sleeping on a mossy branch.
Dancer with mohawk, wearing a glam black in all in one, in a kneeling lunge; in front of stylised tall flower stems with fried egg flowers.
Woman with 'got ya expression' holding up a paper document to her mobile phone. Text: Then what's this?
Man in south korean army uniform.
On left is a woman with gloves on in boxing stance. A hand claws fencing behind her. Text: review MY NAME. On right the same woman is kneeling over a man, prone on the ground, about to punch him. Men are boxing behind her.