The Sapphic Scribbler

I’m disappearing for my annual hibernation until the new year so wishing you all a very merry festive season with lots of cosy gaming and lovely reads! 💕🎄

Yeah, sex is great, but have you ever completed a small task, and then added it to your To-Do list *just* so you could then cross it off?

God, The House in the Cerulean Sea is lovely, isn’t it? 🥹

Oooh adding this to my TBR! It sounds so cute 🥹thanks lovely!

Harry🫶

The book cover of The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. The cover is lime green, with the title in small, lower case brown font at the top left of the cover. On the top right of the cover is a small rectangular image of a man's legs and feet, dressed in suit trousers and brogue shoes. At the bottom of the cover is the author's ride in lower case white font.

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: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

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The book cover of The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. The background of the cover is white, with a bold knife silhouetted in red, stretching from the top right corner down to the bottom left corner. The book's title is in black paint-effect font across the majority of the cover, with the author's name is black font at the bottom of the cover. At the top of the cover it reads: Winner / Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

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: The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness

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The book cover for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. A olive-skinned blonde woman with red lipsticks, a swishing green dress and a string of pearls around her neck stands in the centre of the cover. Her body and the bottom half of her face is visible. Behind her is a window in shadow. The book's title is in bold, white text in front of the window, and the author's name sits at the bottom of the cover in yellow font.

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: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

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The book cover for The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. A sky blue background with gold foil leaves surrounding a bow and arrow forming the shape of a heart. The title is in gold foil text at the top of the cover, with the author's name in matching font at the bottom of the cover.

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: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

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#BookSky I'm looking for some cosy festive reads - maybe some romance, maybe a couple of mysteries. Queer and otherwise diverse stories preferred! Please send me your recommendations 💕

🥹Karou

The book cover of Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. The background of the cover is a close up image of petrol blue feathers. At the top of the colour, in swirling white font, reads 'The Doors to Elsewhere are Closing'. In the centre of the cover is the title in white font, and at the bottom of the cover is the author's name in white font.

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: Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor

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The book cover of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. The cover is white with the silhouette of woodland trees in a dark green. A young girl in a black cap, baseball jersey, jeans, and white trainers walks away from the camera towards the woods. At the top of the cover the author's name is in bold gold font and at the bottom of the cover is the title in black font.

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 13: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King

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The book cover of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. The background is red art deco wallpaper and a sideboard with a gold rotary telephone, a black bowler hat and a black cup of tea runs along the bottom of the cover. The title of the book is in bold gold font in the centre of the cover, with the author's name in white font above.

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 12: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie

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The book cover for Watership Down by Richard Adams. The background is the deep blue of night time, a landscape of long grass with four illustrated rabbits. The top and bottom of the cover are bordered with yellow silhouettes of flowers and foliage. The author's name is in light blue font at the top of the cover with the title in yellow font underneath.

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 11: Watership Down - Richard Adams

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The book cover for Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh. A black background with two rows of chairs in the bottom third, these are all grey except for the centre chair which is red. At the top of the cover is a quote by Clare Mackintosh: 'Smart and original. A belter of a book'. In the centre of the cover, the title 'Thirteen' is in bold white font, with the 'I' replaced with a '1' and the first 'E' replaced with a '3', these two numbers are red. Underneath is the tagline: 'The serial killer isn't on trial. He's o the jury'. At the bottom of the cover is the author's name.

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 10: Thirteen - Steve Cavanagh

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botanical artwork on a black background. it features seven plants with celestial common names, plants that we have decided remind us of the sky and space. these are starflower, moonflower, moonwort, shooting star, sunflower, two moons and blue moonwort.

celestial plants 💫

seasonal affective disorder cathy

this is who you’re emailing rn

You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry?
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.

The book cover for 'Now You're One Of Us' by Asa Nonami. The background of the cover is a rich brown wood grain pattern and a large white bar of soap sits in the middle of the cover. A black pubic hair is visible in the centre of the bar. The title is printed above the soap in white font, with the author's name below.

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 9: Now You're One Of Us - Asa Nonami

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#HorrorSky

The book cover of The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean by David Almond. A turquoise blue silhouette of a winged rat sits against a black background. The title of the book is written in white jagged font inside the silhouette of the rat. The author’s name sits at the bottom of the cover, centred, in orange font. Underneath, in white font, it says ‘New York Times best-selling author of Skellig.’

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 8: The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean - David Almond

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This sounds *amazing*!

The book cover for Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. The author's name is in orange capitals at the top of the cover, with the title underneath in bold white capitals. Underneath, the protagonist, Gideon, is walking forward, brandishing a sword in one hand and knuckle knives on the other. She is dressed in black, is well-built, with short red hair, black and white face paint in the shape of a skull, and black sunglasses. Behind her are the bones of exploding skeletons. At the bottom is a quote from Charles Stross that reads "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!".

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: Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

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The book cover for Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum. The author's name is at the top of the book in bold silver capitals, the title is in the centre of the cover in red serif font. The background is a spooky scene in bright and dark greens - a sinister castle in the distance with a full moon behind it, magpies flying away from the castle, the silhouette of a witch (Granny Weatherwax) stands before the castle, a large cup of tea is prominently placed in the centre of the frame. At the bottom of the cover it says 'Discworld: A Witches Novel', alongside the Penguin publishing logo.

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 6: Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett

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A book cover for Beloved by Toni Morrison. The cover is beige and brown with a small black silhouette of a house and a tree sitting in the top third, with what appears to be earth dug out underneath the house to create a cavern beneath.

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: Beloved - Toni Morrison

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It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

The book over of Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson. Three ornate brass door knockers sit against wrought iron railings, with the title in the middle of the cover.

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: Living Next Door to the God of Love - Justina Robson

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Two boxed Diptyque candles sit on a wooden surface. On the left is Ambre, in a white box, and on the right is Sapin in a green box with printed felt Christmas tree decorations on it.

A Fortnum & Mason cardboard delivery box sits on top of a grey footstool.

Unreasonably boujie deliveries this morning.