Open Cover Books

Cat sleeping in a basket

Sticker of the "No" sign through the letters I C E

Everybody stay safe and warm today

#iceout #antifa

Screen capture of audiobook "Automatic Noodle"

Me: "Robots cooking! This will be a nice break from the Nonfiction of Capitalism and Military Murder Programs."

Book: *smacks me with Immigrant Rights, Citizenship status, global warming, and California seceding from the US.*

🙃🙃🙃

#scifi #automaticnoodle #damn #robots

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Due to Chronic Wrist Pain we are reading a LOT MORE audiobooks on @libbyapp.com and @libro.fm

HURRAH FOR ACCESSIBLE READING!!!!!!

#disabled #chronicpain #allsysystemsred #aflowertraveledinmyblood #therushworthfamilyplot #automaticnoodle #audiobooks #lgbtqia #queer

WE 🩵 MURDERBOT and are plowing through every single story WHEEEEEE!!!!!

#murderbot #scifi #booksky #artificialcondition

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If your VERY EXPENSIVE special edition's art is confused for AI?

I don't care how many proof of process the artist posts.

The work should NEVER HAVE BEEN APPROVED.

#gameofthrones #afeastforcrows #specialedition #booksky #got

And things were already so, SO bad, love this trilogy to bits. *throws characters into jar and shakes them*

This book is a MASTERCLASS in escalating "Oh. SHIT." to "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh SHIT." *wild applause*

#booksky #lgbtq #thequicksilvercourt #fantasy #rooksandruin

Enjoyed it very much!

Kevin R. Free narrates and loved him since Night Vale. Delivery sides on robotic, which is intentional. Since, you know, Murderbot. Also only a few hours long!

Screenshot of audiobook "All Systems Red"

Murderbot: Born to watch TV, forced to solve stupid murder plot against humans it MAYBE likes DON'T TELL THEM

#murderbot #booksky #thrmurderbotdiaries #scifi #allsystemsred

#booksky #ew #ewno

But the witch of November remembers

Screen capture of audiobook "Someone You Can Build A Nest In"

oh look it is SCREAMING ABOUT ACE MONSTER GIRLFRIENDS o'clock

#someoneyoucanbuildanestin #sapphic #lgbtq #monsterlover #ace #queer #booksky #horrorsky #bodyhorror

When the wait is FINALLY into the single digits! 😹😹😹

(We 🩷 Libby!!!)

#femalehusbands #trans #lgbtq #libby #femalehusbands #booksky

Stack of graphic novels in sunlight

Orange cat sitting in an artistic sunbeam

Yellow and brown leaf with dramatic sun and clouds in sky

Closeup of a grey and white cat wearing a rainbow bandana

May you have good things today

#bookstack #fall #bookshopcat #mrcharlesbingley #lupinthethird

GO VEL GO!!!!!!!!

#happythings #dogs #oregontail #velthehusky

A display of a cute ghost, with a word balloon saying "What's scary? BOOOOK BANS"

Thank you everyone who stops and TALKS ABOUT BANNED BOOKS!

We get high-fives and parents asking for recs and youth saying "Wait my FAVORITE BOOK is banned?!" and talking to their friends about it.

Community is how we keep going.

#readbanned #bannedbooks #banbookbans #righttoread

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Writing progressively unhinged book summaries WHEEEEEEE!

#booksky #lgbtqia #blindbox #mysterybook #indigenous #surprisebook

a handy dandy venn diagram, perhaps. If you will.

Join us, joiiiiin uuuuuuus 👻👻👻👻 (Next event Westerville Midnight Madness!)

#stickercult #queer #stickers #bookish

An orange cat sitting in a sunny window, with a big tree in the background

How dare he be so pretty 🧡🧡🧡🧡

#bookstorecat #mrbingley #orangecat #catsofbluesky

BOOK TAKE: Dark Romance is Erotica.

(And there is NO SHAME in reading it!!!!)

#booksky #booktake #darkromance #erotica

Screen capture of audiobook - "Empress of Salt and Fortune" by Nghi Vo

Looking for Cozy & Queer? Read this!

A monk and bird companion sort through effects of a dead ruler. Stories come with each item, courtesy of a former handmaid. They are small things. Games. Paper scraps. A figurine. Intimate and kind.

Nonbinary, Poly, & Sapphic!

#nghivo #singinghills #booksky

"The Haunting of Hill House" - The ghosts are probably real AND metaphors and also LESBIANS!

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TRUE LOVE: Crying at a cliffhanger then hooking your friend on the books SO YOU CAN BOTH HAVE EMOTIONS 🤣🩷🤣

(Anyway y'all should read the Burning Kingdoms trilogy ~)

#booksky #friendship #friendshipistrauma #bookish

Closeup of graphic novel panels talking about grief from "Huda F Wants to Know?"

A hand holds the graphic novel "Huda F Wants to Know?" with blurred trees in the backgrouns

Good day to read and ugly cry in the woods

#hudafwantstoknow #booksky #hudafahmy #muslim #grief

"Catching Fire" - For ALL the mistakes the Hunger Games trilogy made, that entry? Perfect. It's the only one I ever want to rewatch.

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BOOK TAKE: Billionaire Romances are Conservative Propaganda

No you cannot change our mind

#bookish #booksky #nothankyou #billionairesshouldnotexist #taxtherich