Jill Center

When you watch true crime documentaries and realize on the 3rd episode you know a member of the family and wonder how you had no idea but then realize it happened after you had moved away and that the 90s were over 25 years ago and gosh you're old.

Some people live, laugh, love.
I fear, fret, flail.

Cover of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri showing a painting of Virgil leading Dante into a level of hell.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day #20

Cover of The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Subtitle A Terrifying True Story. White background with title in red letters above a colorized photo of microscopic image of ebola virus over green circle

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day #19

Cover for The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson subtitled Murder,Magic, And Madness at the Fair that changed America

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day #18

Cover of book. Puffin Classics version of An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott. Red background fades to orange at bottom, forming a portrait border around a young woman sitting at a piano keyboard while she plays. Her hair is up in a soft bun with tendrils loose at temples. She is white with reddish brown hair and wearing a white pleated front long sleeve blouse with a black band of fabric pinching at her waist and black skirt. She is seated on a red embroidered pillow covered bench with a carved table behind her that has drawers and a round dark vase on top with pink roses in it.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day#17

Cover of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark:collected from Folklore and Retold by Alvin Schwartz Darwings by Stephen Gammell White cover with red "scholastic" border. Outside border of black. Illustration at center is black pencil on white of field. Abandoned barn on right side. Cemetery headstones on left. In center an oversized skeletal head sprouts from ground with blue accent along midline and red around nose and mouth. Corn cob pipe gritted between teeth with smoke drifting up into night sky with a full moon.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day #16

Cover for The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. A white background with a red border. Drawing of Winnie the Pooh standing in grass flying a kite that is red with a yin yang symbol.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day #15

To have a dream is a wonderful thing. To know that the only thing between you and your dream is money is America.

Cover of Isle of Woman by Piers Anthony subtitle A Novel of Human History. Letters in gold over jungle leaves with face of woman looking out. Woman has black hair and tan skin and blue eyes, painted horizontal stripes of pink, yellow and blue and a band of darker blue painted around eyes.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day #14

Cover for Luce Irigaray's book titled This Sex Which Is Not One, translated by Catherine Porter

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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DAY #13

Cover for The Chronicles of Narnia Book 7 The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis. Purple background with bonfire. Shadow figures battling across bottom. Black arrows fly across the top.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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Day #12

Cover for book "Never Talk to Strangers" with drawing of two children with eyes closed and faces turned away from animals gathered around them. Animals include a bird, alligator, cheetah in a suit, grumpy bear, whale in a driving cap and scarf, camel, pink llama, horse, giraffe, gray fox, rhinoceros with a frog on its tail, kangaroo and the Easter Bunny.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
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Day #11

I met John Ritter outside an audition in LA and he was in Hero at Large with Kevin Bacon, so mine is a 2.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
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Day #10

Covers for Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Firebrand. A woman dresses in a blue ancient gown stands in front of a sculpted pillar with steam rising from a bowl at the top. Mountains and ruins of a Greek temple surrounded by evergreen trees are in the background with a full moon hanging over the sea at the horizon.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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Day #9

A watercolor style picture of a turkey swimming across the top of the water. Underneath, a decorated christmas tree with eyes and mouth like a shark are positioned like it is swimming up to eat the turkey from below.

Covers for book #1 in Jon's Mysteries by AJ Sherwood, Jon's Downright Ridiculous Shooting Case

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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Day #8

And for my mom...stove top dressing and canned cranberries🤢

#Thanksgiving
We don't really celebrate this, but I love to cook, so since everyone will be home...
French Toast Bread Pudding
Salmon Cream Cheese Tarts
Raspberry Chipotle Turkey Breast
Mac and Cheese
Green Beans
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Hawaiian Rolls
Pumpkin/Cream Cheese Pie
Apple Maple Walnut Pie

Cover for Animal Farm by George Orwell

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day #7

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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Day #6

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

I love this.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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Day #5

Celebrating "Hanks-giving". My oldest is interested in seeing more Tom Hanks after I showed them Man with One Red Shoe and Joe vs. Volcano. Having a mini marathon between now and Thanksgiving.

share your top three Tom Hanks movies.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3