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My library card is exhausted📚 ESL tutor, poet, artist, too-frequent library-goer https://substack.com/@librarybookhog?r=38x04r&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

Top view of three books laying flat on a wooden desk, two on the left, and one on the right centered next to the two on the left. Books shown (clockwise): 1. “The Gloomy Girl Variety Show” by Freda Epum 2. “Immaculate Conception” by Ling Ling Huang 3. “Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop” by Mai Mochizuki
A stack of 7 books on a wooden desk in front of a white wall. Books shown in photo in order from top to bottom: “White Nights” by Fyodor Dostoevsky “Black Skin, White Masks” by Frantz Fanon “Psychopomp and Circumstance” by Eden Royce “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston “Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982” by Cho Nam-Joo “Palaver” by Bryan Washington “Genocide Bad” by Sim Kern
Screenshot of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman shown as 100% completed in the Libby app
A photo of the book “Interview with the Vampire” by Anne Rice overlapping the bottom left corner of an open laptop with an image of a paused episode of the series of the same name to the right of a lit candle all on the top left corner of a wooden desk. Stacks of books next to the desk can be seen to the left of the photo. All in front of a wall with shadows cast by all the items in front of it and the candle.
Five books tucked into the left side of a wooden tabletop tilted bookshelf that sits on a wooden desk in front of a white wall in the background. Books shown in photo (from left to right): 1.“Everyone Who is Gone is Here” by Jonathan Blitzer 2.“Interview With the Vampire” by Anne Rice 3.“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston 4.“Katalin Street” by Magda Szabó 5.“The Fawn”by Magda Szabó
Five books on a desk. Three hardcover books standing vertically at a slight angle facing the right hand side slightly overlapping each other. Two paperback books laying down on the desk in front of the hardcover books. Hardcover books standing up at an angle slightly overlapped: 1. ”Soyangri Book Kitchen”-Kim Jee Hye 2. ”The Bezzle”-Cory Doctorow 3. ”The Lantern of Lost Menories”-Sanaka Hiiragi Paperback books laying on the table in front: 1. ”Iza’s Ballad”-Magda Szabó 2. ”Abigail”-Magda Szabó
Three books standing vertically on a wooden desk in a close slightly overlapping semicircle formation against a white wall background. Books shown: 1. “Gliff” by Ali Smith 2. “Marigold Mind Laundry” by Jungeun Yun 3. “Dengue Boy” by Michel Nieva
Two books standing vertically on a wooden desk in front of s white wall. A textured San Francisco-themed cup sits to the right of the books. Books shown in photo: To the left of the photo: “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky Next to said book in the middle of the photo is “Hunger” by Knut Hamsun
Stack of 5 books on a wooden desk with a stack of books and a white wall in the background. Books depicted (top to bottom of stack): 1. “Of Human Bondage” by W. Somerset Maugham 2. “The Stranger” by Albert Camus 3. “After Me Comes the Flood” by Sarah Perry 4. “Gifted” by Kora Greenwood 5. “Vox” by Christina Dalcher
Black and white photo of tall stacks of old books
Two books leaning side by side on a windowsill against a window that looks out over a park with trees from the second floor of a building. Books in photo: 1. “Sky Full of Elephants” -Cebo Campbell 2. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”-Ocean Vuong
Four books stacked horizontally on a wooden desk with another stack of books visible in the background on the left hand side of the photo. All in front of a white wall. The four books in a stack: 1. “Technofeudalism” -Yanis Varoufakis 2. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” -Ocean Vuong 3. “Sky Full of Elephants” -Cebo Campbell 4. “The Dream Hotel” -Laila Lalami
Three books leaning next to each against a white wall on a cloth-upholstered bench. Books in photo: 1. “The Coin” by Yasmin Zaher 2. “Bad Femminist” by Roxane Gay 3. “The Unworthy” by Augustina Bazterrica
Five books on a desk. Three standing vertically in arranged in a semi circle with two laying flat on the desk in front of them. Books shown in the photo: (The three standing vertically on the desk from left to right) 1. “The Unworthy”-Agustina Bazterrica 2. “By the Fire We Carry”-Rebecca Nagle 3. “The Coin”-Yasmin Zaher (The two books laying flat on the desk in front from left to right): 1. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”-Maya Angelou 2. “Human Sacrifices”-María Fernanda Ampuero
Two books sitting vertically on a wooden desk in front of a white wall at a slight angle facing each other. The left edge of the book on the right stands in front of the rightmost edge of the books standing on the left. Books shown in the photo: 1. “Enshittification” by Cory Doctorow 2. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
Two books laying side by side on a wooden table in front of a pot of yellow flowers with thin yellow pedals on top of green leaves Books in photo: 1. “Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood” by Marjane Satrapi 2. “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” by Joseph Nguyen
Two books laying flat on a library counter. Books in photo: 1. “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi 2. “A Short Stay in Hell” by Steven L. Peck
Four books on a desk, three hardcover books standing vertically around a paperback book laying flat on a desk. Books in standing vertically in photo from left to to right 1.“Walk Like a Girl” by Prabal Gurung 2.”The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot 3.”Lakewood” by Megan Giddings Book laying flat on the desk ”Zero Bomb” by M.T. Hill
Two books standing vertically on a wooden desk. Books depicted: “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky “Hood Feminism” by Mikki Kendall
A top view of the book “Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty” by Kaila Yu that is sitting centered in the frame flat on top of a laptop going diagonally from the top left to the bottom right of the photo. Both are laying flat on top of a wooden desk.
A small wrapped gift in front of a slightly twisting stack of books on a wooden desk in front of a wall
Picture of the book “Martyr” by Kaveh Akbar standing upright on a wooden desk in front of a white wall
Top view of the book “Winter in Sockcho” by Elisa Shua laying flat on a wooden desk
A long and skinny graphic showing a collage of the covers of all the books I read this year (95 books total) arranged in four columns
Two stacks of books sitting on a wooden desk in front of a wall. Stack on the left (top to bottom): “The Echo Chamber” by John Boyne “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov Stack on the right (top to bottom): “Misfortune Cookie” by Vivien Chen “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie “Seven Empty Houses” by Samanta Schweblin
Top view of a book laying flat on a desk. Book in photo: “Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients” by Ben Goldacre
Four books on a desk, two leaning against a wall and two laying flat on a desk in front of them. Books against the wall: 1. “The Death of Ivan Ilych & Confessions” -Tolstoy 2. “The Starlet and the Spy” -Ji-Min Lee Books laying on desk: 3. “Five Little Pigs” -Agatha Christie 4. “The Membranes” -Chi Ta-Wei
Three books standing up vertically side to side at an angle on a desk in front of a wall Books shown (from left to right): 1. “Almond” -Sohn Won-Pyung 2. “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” -Shirley Jackson 3. “Beautyland” -Marie-Helene Bertino
Four books standing up vertically on a wooden desk in front of a white wall in the background. Books shown (from left to right) 1. ”Katabasis” -R.F. Kuang 2. “James” -Percival Everett 3. “Maktub” -Paulo Coelho 4. “Weather” -Jenny Offill
Four books on a desk, two leaning against a white wall and two laying down flat on the desk in front of the other two. Books leaning against the wall: “The Spy” by Paulo Coelho “Maktub” by Paulo Coelho Books laying down flat on the desk: “Walk Like a Girl” by Prabal Gurung “Hood Feminism” by Nikki Kendall
Three books, two leaning on a vertical folded wooden table, one laying flat on another wooden table placed right in front of the other two books. Books shown: 1. “Bad Monkeys” by Matt Ruff 2. “The Butterfly Garden” by Dot Hutchison 3. “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein
A picture of the book “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life” by Alice Wong leaning against a wall on a desk
Three books standing up on a stack of large books against a wall with a candle in front of them to the left illuminating the books. Books in photo from left to right: 1. “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang 2. “Black No More” by George S. Schuyler 3. “Bad Monkeys” by Matt Ruff
Stack of four books on a wooden desk against a white wall in the background. From top to bottom “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” -Shirley Jackson “The Anomaly” -Hervé Le Tellier “Beautyland” -Marie-Helene Bertino “The Half Has Never Been Told” -Edward E. Baptist
A screenshot of the book “Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop” by Hwang Po-Rum from my library’s website
Two books propped up on a windowsill against a window 1. “Parable of the Talents”, Octavia E. Butler ⭐️ 2. “The Hour of the Star”, Clarice Lispector
The book “Sula” by Toni Morrison laying flat on a wooden desk.
Laying on top of s light-colored wooden table: 1. A blank notebook with the following written in cursive: “Monday September 1st, 2025” with a squiggly line underneath, followed by, “Goodbye, past / You have nothing left for me / Hello, future / You have everything left for me”. It is signed “-Kelly Rice” with a red chop stamp of a Chinese name to the right of the signed english name. A pen and ink drawing of a cocoon hanging from a branch with a butterfly half-emerged from it is at the bottom of the page. 2. Laying to the right of the notebook, a silver metal bookmark with the Chinese character for happiness 　 “福” and the english word “happiness” engraved in it alternating down the length of the bookmark with a circular metal piece attached to the bookmark by a thick piece of string.