Alison loves stories

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An eclectic reader looking for new perspectives & unusual reads. Real life librarian and general word nerd who enjoys frolicing in the linguistic playground. Longer thoughts: https://alisontcucchetti.wordpress.com/

book cover for Kim Bo-Young's A Plagued Sea dark and gloomy. houses cling to a cliffside overlooking a sea full of huge dark fish with giant eyes.
The bright yellow book cover of David Graeber’s The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World… text in black serves as the background for his quote (also yellow and black) “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
Up close mound of long stem, a little “spikey” looking though soft to touch moss. Tiny five petals flowers with tiny yellow centers appear to float just above the surface.
book cover for Paul Rudnick's The Tuxedo Society. White background a black and white silhouette of a man in a tuxedo running to the right side of the frame wielding a gun with a silencer. The silhouette broken into 6 horizontal parts by the six colors of the rainbow.
This is a carousel of book covers in order: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States Nicole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Theory of Water Jenn M Jackson’s Black Women Taught Us Kellie Carter Jackson’s We Refuse Irvin Weathersby Jr.’s In Open Contempt Imani Perry’s Black in Blues Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message Jason de Leon’s Soldiers and Kings H.L.T. Quan’s Become Ungovernable David Graeber’s the Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
Low to the ground picture of clusters of baby asparagus seedlings.
Book cover for Paul Rudnick’s The Tuxedo Society. A black and white profile of a man in a tuxedo sprinting to the right side wielding a pistol with a silencer. The image is cut into 6 stripes each a different color of the rainbow
My left hand holding a highlighter and David Graeber’s The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World black text on a plain golden yellow cover.
My left hand holding Hiromi Kawakami’s dragon palace. Black cover title red text. author name golden yellow text. A black and white image of an octopus eye emerges from the bottom edge. Book cover
Book cover for Florent Maudoux’s Freaks first in a new graphic novel series. 3 figures running at you: a werewolf in a leather jacket and jeans carrying a woman in tight leather pants and high boots. A woman runs with then dressed in leather and a purple dress
Book covers for Jonathan van Ness and Julie Murphy’s Let Them Stare lavender cover a plastic trex wearing a red beret, pink boa, purple sweater and carrying a VERY expensive handbag
Book cover for Micaiah Johnson’s The Space Between Worlds. Two views one runs vertically up the right edge light blue futuristic woman in white pants suit. One runs vertically up the left desert woman is wearing military like garb. Both women are walking and looking over a shoulder at you. Parallelism is important.
Book cover for Jared Po’s City of Others. Teal background. Lower third a city with giant red tentacles reaching out. A white cat wearing a red scarf reaching up for waves towering on either side before crashing over the city.
Book cover for Frances White’s Voyage of the Damned blue tone background a stylized fish skeleton almost like a kite golden fins drift upward where a tiny many sailed ship sails away
Gorgeous book cover for Sabrina Imbler’s How Far the Light Reaches: a life in ten sea creatures all deep dark tones with a lighter blue ocean fish circling to swim off the right edge
Book cover for Sabrina In miler’s How Far the Light Reaches: a Life in Ten Sea Creatures dark with a blue sea creature swimming off the right edge
Book cover for Rylan Aoki’s Light From Uncommon Stars. A light blue coy fish with a brilliant red head swims in an expanse of starlight
My left fingers holding a cardboard bacon box. MyBacon above the kitchen counter in front of a summer window view.
Book cover for Ursula K Le Guin’s translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching a Book about the Way and the Power of the Way white cover grey text tree tops across bottom rest of cover mountains through fog.
Hardcover copy offered Fordham’s graphic novel adaptation of Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. You see a simple empty stretch of beach where the green tinged ocean meets the sand. A lone figure seen from above & behind walks away from the sea. His shadow growing and joining the sea. At first glance you miss the figure and the shadow appears a tower.
Book cover for Felicia Day’s the Lost Daughter of Sparta. Black background grey lettering. Ancient Greek architecture a woman faces away from the viewer in the foreground.
Book stack on a couch back overlooking a window view. Top to bottom: Norma Kawelokū Wong’s Who We Are Becoming Matters Mary Oliver’s Devotions Jérôme Baschet’s The Zapatista Experience Maria Popova’s Transversal Not pictured Ursula LeGuin’s Tao Te Ching translation since I’m reading that digitally via Libby.
Red text: the Commitments Black and white photo 10 members of a band mostly men, mostly white.
Our dog Max is a shepherd / catahoula leopard mix. (Mostly brown with black ) Fresh from a groomer bath he’s styling a blue bandana. We sometimes call him Dobby because he’s so earnest and loyal. Best good dog ever. He’s sitting on a grey tile floor looking right at you.
Book cover for QNTM’s There Is No Antimemetics Division. A giant black monolith rises from the forest and fog against a soft rainbow sherbet sky.
An individual spring green package of Deeman cream banana biscuits against my computer screen. The quote “We control nothing, but influence everything- Brian Klaas partial visible, as is my review of ‘Pemi Aguda’s stellar One Leg on Earth in progress.
Book cover for Toni Morrison’s Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon. Robin’s egg blue cover with white text no other images. It is a public library book evidenced by shiny cover and spine label.
Book cover for Gal Beckerman’s How to Be a Dissident agains a grey cushion background. Plain white cover. Plain black text. Downbound Books blue bookmark peeks out the top.
Book cover for Gal Beckerman’s How to be a Dissident. White cover. Black text in front of a grey cushion.
book cover for Dahlia de La Cerda's Reservoir Bitches Lime green background, black and white image of an open female mouth showing all the teeth.
book cover for Sung-Il Kim's Blood of the Old Kings top half golden orange, bottom purple black. text in silver white central image a man with wild hair grabs for a sword. A open mouthed dragon swirls up from the bottom around and behind the man. Three glowing orbs. One behind the sword; one behind the man's head, one where the dragon's eye might be.
book cover for Nino Haratischvili's the Eight Life: for Brilka the silhouette of a woman's head in profile, bun tight at the nape of her neck. This image surrounded by concentric rings containing varied floral patterns and and title text. All tones of burgundy, black and gold.
book cover for Izumi Suzuki's Terminal Boredom: stories The image feels like a photo negative in tones of red and orange. A woman lies face down an a tatami mat, fingers splayed looking right at you. Only her face and arms above the shoulders visible. All else out of frame on the right. Two books at her right elbow.
Book cover for Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand all soft shimmery pastel tones, huge stylized butterflies surround a seated blue faced octogenarian holding aa cane
Book cover for Bothayna Al-Essa's The Book Censor's Library central image a quirky cartoon rabbit face surrounded by bursting stripes of blue cream and russet.
Book cover for Brian Allen Carr's Motherf*cking Sharks. Cover is sepia tone, text in aggressive black font crushed in the center by an attacking shark diving down from the sky. Book Riot blurb "One of the greatest things I have put in my brain."
Chris Pratt as Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy standing amidst rubble left hand on hip. Text “Dance-off, bro. Me and you.”
A mostly brown book cover for T Kingfisher's Clockwork Boys: Clocktaur War Book One Almost looks like a stone facade with cutwork, patterns resemble two eyes above an enormous mouth. The spaces appear to glow golden behind the facade.
Book cover for Marie Ndiaye’s The Witch. All tones of red and pin. Two crows. One flying down. One flying up. Both negative of the other.
Board game field of play littered with game pieces, scoring sheets and game box. DORF Romantik: Sakura version is a tile laying game in which you explore the Japanese countryside cultivating cherry tree groves, rice fields, building roads and training rivers. Color palette is soft greens and pinks. Think cherry blossom season outside Tokyo.
Book cover for Toni Morrison’s Language As Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon. White text on a plain robins egg blue colored background
book cover for Barbara Truelove’s Of Monsters and Mainframes title in block white text held in a giant mouth with very large incisors, backlit by smeared rainbow colors that appear to be exhaust from a very small spaceship flying through and out the upper left corner. All set on a starry deep space background.
Yes that is the crazy big sushi boat covered in wide collection of vegan sushi. Far left 4 fish nigiri for our non vegan
Book cover Suzanne Palmers Ode to the Half Broken all soft blues and greens a mecha and a dog walk through a deserted town.
My hand holding an I phone. Backdrop: parking lot. Not seen in photo: the time spent diagnosing the tech disaster via Instagram face time; this old dog learning new tech tricks, fighting the apple two factor authentication for a phone that won’t turn on; three hours in the car to retrieve the phone from college attending daughter and the kind humans who replaced the battery.
Book cover for Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Drop of Corruption Black background all black, “Hens and Chicks” sedum crawl up the left side. The bulk of the image framed grey. Each of the four corners has a silhouette human image. The central image same grey leaves extend upward a tiny hand extending down.
Book cover for Olga Raven’s The Wax Child. Old fashioned wooden rocking cradle with smoke or steam lifting out of it. Set on a stark black background. Text in tiny white letters. Title upper left. Author upper right.
Book cover for Wax Child: a wooden rocking cradle emitting smoke all set upon a black background. Text set in upper left and upper right in tiny white type.
Vibrant colorful sign in Square Cafe “It is not success that makes one joyful, it is joy that makes one successful”
US cover for Daniel Kehlmann’s the Director. A black and white image of a man and woman vintage ‘40s clothing shot from behind standing at a railing looking out across train tracks and empty landscape. Text in bright red.
For context the titles I've read or reading right now. Left to right top to bottom: The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi The Director by Daniel Kehlmann On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar
Shop window with a neon “ perpetuate kindness”
Sign at this kickass brunch place with real vegan options White letters on black background: THE WHOLE WORLD IS SHORT STAFFED PLEASE BE KIND TO THE ONES THAT SHOWED UP #SQUARECAFEPHG
Book cover for Still Here by Elin ap Hywel Translated by Laura Fisk all white cover with A delicate blue jelly fish swimming down. I’m holding it outside in front of a newly risen sun above my boxes ready to plant new veg.
A small heart shaped brown leaf on a wet section of asphalt
My left hand holding a piece of wood while splitting kindling for our pizza oven in the background on the driveway. The end of the log looks like a heart.
Book cover for Anjet Daanje's The Remembered Soldier. Army green background a hand reaches down from outside the top frame to grasp a hand reaching in from outside the bottom frame. The second hand is actually the cutout sepia tone image of a WWI soldier who is also a photographer engage in the task.
My black and white dog Riley giving a little side eye while sitting on the couch in a multicolor blanket.
Book cover for Yang Shuang-Zi’s Taiwan Travelogue featuring a white bowl on a train window’s ledge. This image inset on top of a black and white Street scene Asian characters feature in signage.
Book cover for Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch. Central to the image is a woman shown from behind, 40’s attire, looking out across London. The air and sky a surreal rainbow sherbert color. She is standing in the palm of an enormous stone statue hand.