Porcelina

@porcelinarr.bsky.social

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Public-sector STEM jockey, constant reader, language learner 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇪🇸🇲🇽🇫🇷🇰🇷🇮🇪 I’m 🟦 political (migration, inequality, climate, democracy) but I like jokes, art, books, and wonders of science & nature too.

Sunset. Upper sky is blue, with bands of pink and gold clouds below. Leafless trees and houses in the distance.
Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDonough, running down a dark street with pantyhose on his head and a pack of Huggies under his arm.
The album cover is an image of a metallic spiral rising from the edge of a red surface striped in white into a yellow sky with brown horizontal stripes. The album title is a small blue banner with white letters and the band’s name is in the lower foreground, in brown letters outlined in blue.
District of Columbia license plate showing the motto TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Wavy blue and black feather or fur shapes on an off-white background.
The cover shows Angela Merkel dressed in royal blue and wearing a necklace, against a matching blue background.
The background is black and may be a starry sky or an aerial view of a river, which appears in white. The title THE MIGHTY RED appears in red and the author’s name, LOUISE ERDRICH, is in a golden earth tone.
The background of the book cover is an overhead view of the ocean with waves breaking on the beach. At lower right a boat sits in shallow water.
The cover is yellow. The title (Martyr!) is at the top and the author’s name (Kaveh Akbar) is at the bottom. In the lower left corner there’s a line drawing of a helmeted Persian warrior on a horse with a speech bubble saying “A NOVEL”.
The title (The Message) and author’s name (Ta-Nehisi Coates) appear in white on a beige background along with splotches of white, red, blue and black and what might be blurry bits of black text.
The cover is a chess board with squares in yellow and gray. Five different chess pieces, shown from overhead, cast shadows of women and men. The author’s name, SALLY ROONEY, appears at the top in black and the title, INTERMEZZO, appears across the bottom.
The background of the cover is yellow. On it, a Black man and little girl are seen from behind and below, holding hands and looking at a white house with a large porch.
The cover is beige. Horizontal text is black surrounded by 19th-century-style curlicues. The title, Missy, runs vertically bottom to top in red block letters. Below it, a handgun shoots curlicues up into it.
The cover is a pinkish red. The author’s name, Carson McCullers, is shown in white. A white box shows the title, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
The cover is white and shows a line drawing of a man with blue eyes surrounded by geometric shapes. To his lower left is a green shape. To his right is an orange shape covered with stars in an animal print. At the bottom is a stylized blue typewriter. At the top is an animal-print shape with a motorcycle over it. At upper right is a purple box with the title (THE BOYFRIEND SCHOOL) on it in white. Over that is a red stripe showing the author’s name (Sarah Bird) in black cursive.
The cover shows an illustration in the style of the 17th or 18th century, of some kind of earthwork or rock formation by the sea. On one side, two men in round hats with wide brims and belted coats are standing on a tall circular wooden platform lifting a large cylinder. On the other, a man is using a large hammer to build another, lower wooden platform.
The image shows 13 book covers arranged in a grid on a white background. Text above says: 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024 and below that, “I want to read 13.”
The cover shows a boy with red hair lying in bed, frowning, in an untidy room.
The cover is white. The author’s name, Timothy Snyder, and the title of the book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, are in a block of black text in the center. Five thin vertical red lines are on the left and right edges.
The cover image is a black-and-white photo of a woman with straight hair and bangs/fringe smoking a cigarette. The author’s name, Edna O’Brien, appears in large capital letters and the title, Country Girl: A memoir, is in smaller letters.
The cover is divided between two images: above, a photo of a rocky seashore with some buildings in the background; below, a detail from a painting shows 19th-century soldiers, backs to the viewer, pointing rifles at an unseen target.
The cover shows three women in profile, dressed in black bonnets and high-necked dresses, on a blue background. The title Women Talking: A Novel appears in pale pink over the black bonnets. The author’s name Miriam Toews is at the bottom in black letters.