Linda

@lindabeyond.bsky.social

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Bookfreak, writer, poet, photographer, paper artist. ME/CFS, mental health, caregiving, social justice, history. Living on Ojibwe ceded lands in MN. 💙📚 #BookSky IG @/lindabookmania 🌌 🌛🌕🌜🍉 https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/lindasbookmania

An image of The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens on a table pictured in a listing with a Sold banner across the top.
A view of a smoke-shrouded sun amid trees on a suburban street. The smoke is from the BWCA wildfires in northern MN. Taken near St. Paul.
Picture showing a round 8 inch cake frosted red and decorated with a web design for Spiderman. A small Spiderman figure is on top webslinging a number 5 candle. The cake says Happy Birthday Carl.
A sticker showing a medical mask that says Queer as in mask the fuck up. Underscoring the need to still mask for many in the population. Masking is a personal choice.
Copies of The Last Dickens Matthew Pearl, Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer, and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley, bought at Uncle Edgar's/Uncle Hugo's Bookstore.
A glass of red, a glass of white and a Dunkel in a stein.
A shot of the front of the F. Scott Fitzgerald house on Summit Ave in St. Paul, a brown sandstone row house with bay windows. Plaque in front showing National Register.
A photo showing the ruins of Uncle Edgar's / Uncle Hugo's after the store burned during the riots after the murder of George Floyd.
Shot of Minnehaha Falls from the front and side. Pretty heavy flow! Lovely.
Twilight image of the waxing crescent moon, with Venus bright in the center. Jupiter can be seen faintly off to the lower right.
Glass tile showing residue in grout line.
Shot of a very large stalk of Bearded Iris with deep purple flowers. These Iris have frilly, extravagant petals, hence the term bearded.
Showing a spinning shelf unit surrounded by piles of stuff.
A Barnes & Noble plastic book bag showing a 4 inch rip down the side after only one use.
Signed tip-in sheet showing signature for Evelyn Clarke, which is VE Schwab and Cat Clarke collaboration, with a bookplate laid in that is signed by VE Schwab as herself.
Jupiter in upper left with a crescent moon.
Signature page of The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, showing his signature on 9/13/91.
Roughly 40 books arranged on the floor in my living room that I bought at a Friends library sale.