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The cover of Joyfully Ever After by Sara Raasch, which features three couples and bunnies and eggs. The top couple are two white men, one redheaded and one with black. The bottom is two white men, one redheaded and one with brown hair. Middle andlrest couple are two women, one white with red hair and one Black with braids.
Opinion article entitled “There’s Only One Thing Voters Dislike More Than Democrats” by Ingrid Jacques
The cover for The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz. The cover features two white dolls in dresses and aprons (Gretel and Red Riding Hood) on a stair case in front of a lit-up, four room doll house. There is a large white car to the right of the stairs.
The cover for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares. The cover is black with white and grey text and has a red light that looks like a laser.
The cover for The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson. The cover is pink and shows an aerial view of a roof with five black and grey drawings of teens attached to a hand by puppet strings. One of the strings has been cut and that drawing is laying sideways. The text is black.
An infographic shows CK along with a silver dollar in front of the Capitol building. The text reads “Breaking: Republicans introduce bill to put Charlie Kirk on U.S. currency alongside the founding fathers. The bill directs the U.S. Treasury to mint 400,000 silver dollar coins with Kirk’s likeness.”
Cover of a Banh Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen. The cover is pink and features a white food stand between two young Asian women. The one on the left is Vietnamese-American and wears a red ao dai. She has braided hair and white pants with black shoes. The one on the right is Vietnamese and wears a white ao dai with a floral pattern, red pants, and pink boots. The food stand says “Banh Mi 98” on the side and top.
Headline from Ezra Klein’s NYT Opinion story which reads “Charlie Kirk was Practicing Politics the Right Way”
A biracial woman, wearing a red hoodie and showing off her glasses
The cover for Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green on a background made to look like multicolored molecules. The book cover is yellow and features a microscope looking illustration in green and orange. The text is black.
The cover for Everything Is Tuberculosis: the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green. The main color is yellow and features a microscopic circle in orange.
My February 2025 wrap up graphic with ratings. From top left: Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 3 (4.0), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, Vol. 1 (4.75), Girlmode (4.0), XOXY: A memoir (4.75), Anthony & the Gargoyle (3.5), Does it Count if You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?, Vol. 1 (3.0), Gender Queer (2.0), A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities (5.0), Navigating With You (4.75), Unhappy Camper (4.5), Hammajang Luck (5.0), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, Vol. 2 (4.0), One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (3.75), Big Jim & the White Boy (5.0), Go Luck Yourself (5.0), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, vol. 3 (3.5), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, vol. 4 (3.0), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, vol. 5 (4.0), Yuri is my Job!, Vol. 13 (4.75)
The cover for Sara Raasch’s Go Luck Yourself. The top left corner is a snow scene featuring a white man in a blue shirt, jeans and a green and red scarf. He has his hair in a bun and is carrying a red duffel bag. The bottom right corner has a white man in a paint-stained raglan shirt with green sleeves and black jeans. He has orange hair and headphones around his neck. He’s carrying a palette and painting a picture in a spring scene on rolling hills. The text is green.
The cover for the anniversary edition of Chobits. The cover features the main character, Chi, a female-presenting robot in a white dress sitting in a railing in the wind. The background is a blue sky. Chi has white hair that is very long.
Figgy, a grey striped tabby, wearing a pink gingham bandana with fringe
The cover for Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. The main background color is yellow and has black and red text. There are black mountains and blue waves and red spikes layered over the yellow with a white sun in the back.
The cover for Lovely War by Julie Berry. It features a white female-presenting person from the nose down in a pink coat holding the Eiffel Tower with three planes flying around it. The background is a sepia print of soldiers.
The cover of The Giver by Lois Lowry. It features a picture of an old man’s face with a beard in black and white and a ripped lower left corner showing sepia colored trees. This one has the Newbery medal on it.
Figgy, a grey striped tabby, sitting in a pink gingham bandana with white fringe. The tag has a cat head and says Neko on it.
The cover for Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman. The font is white. The background is a wave and features a blue outline of a bird on the top and a white outline of a bird on a hibiscus flower at the bottom.
The Tea Dragon Society by K O’Neill. The cover has the medal for winning an Eisner award. The cover features a Black female-presenting character in a striped shirt and jeans with small horns and a white female-presenting character with pink hair, dragon horns, a pink tail and furred feet in a blouse and blue skirt. They’re sitting in a field on a red picnic blanket with a small yellow tea dragon, who is yellow with chamomile growing out of its head and a tea pot.
The cover for the Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. Translated into English by Philip Gabriel. The background is a sky blue and the cover features a large white cat surrounded by branches of a Japanese maple tree with a little white van driving on one of the branches.
Yuna, a white and tabby cat laying on my lap
The cover for book one of a Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning. The cover features a tall, thin man in a suit looking out the door and down on three sad children: a tall girl in a burgundy coat with a bow, a short boy in a suit with glasses and a baby in the girl’s arms, also wearing a bow.
The cover for Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. The cover is shades of yellow and orange in the shape of a Phoenix wing with an Asian femme-presenting character in a black and gold suit on the front.
The Penguin Classics version of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Père). The cover features two men on a beach with a boat and a fortress behind each.
The cover for The House Before Falling into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang and illustrated by Hanna Cha. The cover showed a small Korean child standing in front of her house by the edge of the ocean in a blue dress and white sweater.
The cover for The Adventures of Amina Al-Sarafi by Shannon Chakraborty the background is light blue and yellow and features a pirate ship being engulfed by magenta tentacles from a kraken.
The Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl performance flag made up of Black people dressed in red white and blue
The cover of volume 1 of Ouran High School Host Club, story and art by Bisco Hatori. The outline is purple and the one is pink with a black outline. The title is black font with a pink outline. The cover features Haruhi, a masc-presenting person in a salmon colored suit with a large bouquet of roses and a huge close up of Tamaki’s face, a blonde man who is winking.
Cover of the collector’s edition of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. Cover is black and red and features parallel crows, wolves, knives, feathers, wolves and guns with a heart at the bottom and the Grishaverse symbol at the top
The cover of Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker. Cover is black with a full moon and features a Black teen boy in a red suit and blue bow tie holding a skull and a Black teen girl in a blue dress with gloves, a red head scarf, and a lit candle.
The cover for Watership Down by Richard Adams. The cover features a brown rabbit sitting by a gate in an open field.
The cover for Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura. Translated by Philip Gabriel. The cover features a white hand reaching into a mirror with the face of a little girl in it and a yellow line making a fox mask.
Cover for How to Staycation Like a Snail by Naseem Hrab and illustrated by Kelly Collier. The cover is green and features rainbow lettering and leaves. A light green snail has a brown shell with binoculars hung over it and a white mug that says “I 🩷 here”
Cover for How to Party Like a Snail by Naseem Hrab and illustrated by Kelly Collier. The cover is real with rainbow lettering and confetti. It features a light green snail with a yellow striped party hat on his brown shell and a plate with a blue birthday cake. The candles on the cake spell “shhh”.
Figgy, a tabby cat, staring into the void
The cover of America Redux: Visual Stories from our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger. The cover is blue with mostly white font (Redux and the author name is in black and highlighted). The arm of the Statue of Liberty is wearing a red sleeve and the flame is a collage of different pictures from American history.
The audiobook cover of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, read by the author, as shown on Libro.FM
My wrap-up infographic from Storygraph. Books: 27. Pages: 6,156. Avg. Rating: 3.74 stars. Highest Rated Reads: The Favorites by Layne Fargo, The Pale Dreamer by Samantha Shannon (both 4.5), In the Name of the Mermaid Princess by Yoshino Fumikawa (4.0). Avg. Book Length: 197 pages. Avg. Time to Finish: 2 Days. Pie chart: Fiction 96% Nonfiction 4% Bar Graph: Manga 19, Fantasy 10, Romance 10, Science Fiction 5, LGBTQIA+ 5 Pie chart: Print 52% Digital 44% Audio 4% Line graph showing how many pages I read per day that is wildly inaccurate because I don’t update pages on a consistent basis
The cover for Why I Adopted My Husband by Yuta Yagi. The cover is pink with white font and features a dark haired man in a blue suit holding flowers and a brown haired man in a white suit.
The cover of Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker. It features a Black boy in a red suit holding a skull back to back with a Black girl in a blue dress holding a candle in front of a full moon
Library copy of The First State of Being on a pink comforter. The cover is yellow and features three children walking reflected in a puddle.