Jay Avery

@jthebookworm.bsky.social

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Queer, neurodivergent bookworm of no specific gender from the mountains of Maine.🌲: Devoted reader of Queer Books : Genre Fiction Enthusiast : Any Pronouns 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

A paperback of Be Still My Unbeating Heart by Josh Winning. The two leads stand back to back with an Italianate city in the background. One lead has light brown skin with dark hair, wearing a dark blue polo shirt. The other is pale with shoulder length blonde hair, sunglasses, and a Hawaiian shirt. Between them sits a black cat.
Two movie tickets. One for The Odyssey and one for Hadestown.
A mug in the shape of a black bag with big eyes and an orange mouth, wearing an orange and black striped bowtie, full of orange foam, sitting next to a hardcover copy of Spread Me by Sarah Gailey, which has an orange cover. On the orange background is the image of a black geodesic dome with a mass of tentacles dangling from the bottom and wrapping around the bright yellow block text of the title.
Paperback of Shatter the Sun an anthology of "queer tales of unfold adventure", two pieces of Neon Hemlock art, one the cover of Unfettered Hexes and the other character art of The Oblivion Bride, and a Neon Hemlock bookmark.
Paperbacks of The Black Parade by Ilana M. Lindsey and The Lilac People by Milo Todd
A large white mug with silhouettes of the Sanderson sisters surrounded by stars with the words "I put a spell on you" in gold. The inside and handle of the mug are blank.
The cover of You're No Better by Andrew Joseph White. It's sketchy, almost comic-esque style image of a teen in a leather jacket and school uniform skirt kneeling on front of a pile of crime scene photos, hands coated in and dripping blood. The background is a series of images in sections of a shattered mirror with cracks spiderwebbing between them.
Paperback of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows. The cover is black with the title in gold and a design of red leaves.
Rainbow Pride flags, the progress Pride flag, a rainbow stars and stripes flag, and the pansexual flag, are waved over the heads of the crowd on the side of the street as the parade passes by. It's a bright, sunny day.
Kindle displaying the cover of Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning. Two skewers with toasted marshmallows and a bloody held together as though over a campfire, with a border of dense pine trees along the bottom of the cover.
Cover of The Way it Haunted Him by Laura R Samotin. A blue demon climbs to a red fountain pen. A gold chain swirls throughout the design. The background is black and the title is printed in a white archaic font.
Paperback of the graphic novel Galaxy: As the World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod and Rye Hickman. The cover is Galaxy flying through what look like falling stars in a blaze of light.
Paperback copy of How to Fake it in Society by KJ Charles. Two men in regency clothing stand back to back, with their hands entwined. The shorter man in the bright green coat is dressed much more ostentatiously than the taller man in the more austere dark blue coat.
Cover of The Black Parade by Ilana M. Lindsey. The illustration depicts two young men, their face partially obscured by a dandelion. There are hands on their shoulders, holding them down not supporting them.
Cover of Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill. The cover is what appears to be a cluster of fungi, until you look closer and realize a face and multiple hands are emerging from the fruiting bodies.
Cover of The Fake Divination Offense by Sara Raasch. Cover is an illustration of the two leads in an embrace, with Orok holding Alexo up in the air.
Cover of Honor & HERESY by Max Francis. The cover is a painting of two men approaching a balcony surrounded by towering book shelves.
Web image of the cover and sprayed page edges of The Duke by Anna Cowan
A red hardcover book, without jacket, the covers and spine decorated with an elaborate design in gold foil. The jacket lays next to it, the design a crown and wood against a forest backdrop beneath a medieval-esque sky of stars.
Hardcovers of The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman and Spread Me by Sarah Gailey, and paperbacks of In Memoriam by Alice Winn and Swordcrossed by Freya Marske, along with two bags of candy from Wilbur's of Maine. One with peach gummies and one with chocolate-covered orange peels.
Richard Muenz as Lancelot in the 1981 production of Camelot.
Cover of The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. Cover is a black man in horseback wearing the uniform of the French revolutionary army, saber raised.
Embroidery of a leaf in two shades of green on a olive green linen fabric.
A hardcover copy of The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan and a paperback of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
The cover of Platform Decay by Martha Wells the eighth book in the Murderbot Diaries series. The cover shows Murderbot in its armored suit hanging onto a metal wall while it's body floats in zero gravity
The cover of This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier. Dorian, in a beautiful watercolor gown, is leaning over an end table clearly distraught while The Portrait hangs on the background, smiling.
Cover of Last First Kiss by Julian Winters. Two men dance together under string lights against a background of greenery.
Photo of a snowbound driveway that hasn't been plowed in so long that the surface is completely undisturbed.
Digital image of the hardcover edition of The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan. A white cover with the title and author in an antique style red font. In black between the title and the author it reads power is a hungry beast. The image is of strange animal's head that appears wolf like in shape but with spiraling antlers like tree branches. The image suggests that the finished hardcover copy will have bright red sprayed edges.
The Oxford World Classics edition of War and Peace next to the tiniest little Merriam-Webster's Pocket French-English Dictionary
A copy of the Oxford world classics edition of War and Peace sitting next to a metal book shaped container of pens, highlighters, and sticky notes.
Am underlined passage from the introduction to de Sade's Justine where he states that his publisher wanted the book "well spiced" and Sade "gave it to him fit to plague the devil".
A page from the Grove Press Justine et al. de Sade collection full of black ink annotations about Sade's word choice, his snark about hypocrisy in religion, the fad for fairy tales in 17th and 18th century France, defining the French words contes and fabliaux, etc.
The grove press edition of the Marquis fe Sade's Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and other writings combined into one brick of a book, the spine of which currently looks like a shedding snake because the plastic film of the cover has started bubbling and wrinkling up away from the spine.
Paperback copy of Alien: Perfect Organism by Shaun Hamill. The cover features an image of a xenomorph inside a gilded, very H.R. Giger looking ornate gold frame
A paperback copy of The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen with a small section of pages at the end of the book pitched between two fingers.
Screenshot of AP News results showing No on 1 up 20% and Yes on 2 up 17%
Screencap of AP news results showing No on Question 1 is up 10%
Paperback of The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen. The title is displayed in red in an archaic font against a cream background. Along the bottom of the cover is a macabre still life including a skull, fruits, insects etc al.
Tradr paperback of Looking for Group by Alexis Hall. The cover is a pretty illustration of two fantasy game characters an orc and an elf, standing on a road leading away into beautiful green hills. Above, on either side of the title, are illustrations of the main characters as they look in real life. In the distance between them is a castle on a hill.
Hardcover copy of The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes. The cover is a deep purple. In the center, forming a circle around the title, a pale gold centipede consumes its own tale. A design of pink and green vines, leaves fills the rest of the space with a flower in the upper left corner.
An ereader displaying the title page of The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes.
A photo of my shoulder with a dark blue bandaid on it that says Hannaford Rx in white font.
Tradr paperback of All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles. The cover is a gorgeous vintage pulp Gothic style illustration in blues, greens, and blacks depicting two men in suits fleeing an ominous, looming manor house. The title is done in yellow with a properly classic vintage pulp novel font. I'm obsessed.
Paperbacks of The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson from Penguin Classics, The Monk by Matthew Lewis from Oxford World Classics, Looking for Group by Alexis Hall, and The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch circled around a red stripped brown paper bag with the logo for Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop in the middle.
A hardcover copy of We are always tender with our dead by Eric LaRocca. It has an orange cover with red circles and a pattern of black coffins and buildings beneath the white lettering of the title. The style of the coffins and buildings is reminiscent of wood block prints.
Ereader displaying the cover of Play Nice by Rachel Harrison. The illustrated cover is of a Victorian house wrapped up in a classic demon tail with an arrow head on the end.
An e-reader displaying the cover off Andrew Joseph White's You Weren't Meant to be Human.
The cover to Emma-Claire Sunday's The Fortune Hunter's Guide to Love. On the cover, two women stand together. The blonde in the front is wearing a blue gown and standing with her back to a redhead in yellow. Their faces are turned to the side so their foreheads can press together. Behind them, long sea grasses wave in front of a blue sea.
The cover of Seth Haddon's Volatile Memory. A golden bird head is split down the middle to reveal a pink human face split down the middle top reveal a round void surrounded by something purple and smoke-like. All on a dark blue background.
Paperback copy of Inferno's Fall by Philippa Ballantine and Clara Čarija. The cover depicts two Colonial Marines with rifles fighting off red xenomorphs while an Engineer ship hangs on the sky in the background.
Kindle in a maroon case laying on a very waffle weave blanket. The screen is displaying the cover of KJ Charles' ALL OF US MURDERERS: A NOVEL where two man in suits flee a mist enshrouded Gothic mansion in the style of 60s and 70s Gothic pulp novels
A blue plant pot full of soil and perlite with tiny little green lavender shoots growing in it.
Cover of A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle featuring two people embracing against a blue background.
The cover of Moonglow by Bitter Karella, a psychedelic swirl of blue, pink, red, and white. Mushrooms grow out of the body of a woman beneath a tangle of roots, maybe mycelium, with a skull in the center.
The delightfully spooky vibes cover of The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parish. An old Victorian house behind a wrought iron gate stands out against a very orange background framed by tall trees draped with Spanish moss. A skull and crossbones sits outside the gate while the crescent moon hangs overhead.
Penguin Deluxe Classic Edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, translated by Tiina Nunnally, edited and introduced by Jackie Wullschlager
The gloriously hot pink and neon cover of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White.