Peninnah Parpar (@peninnahparpar)

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Mar 2

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 20/20 days

The background of the top third of the cover is dense, green, tropical foliage dotted with hibiscus and bird of paradise flowers.
Across the top in a yellow, sans-serif font is the text "Winner of the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest."
Below that in a large, orange and yellow sans-serif font is the title: Brown Girl in the Ring.
A skeleton wearing a top hat is perched in the foliage beneath the title on the left.
On the right is a woman with medium brown skin and white hair branching above her head like a tree made of lightning. She is wearing a long, flowing, flower patterned, multicolored wrap-dress.
In the center of the cover there's a round opening in the foliage.
A room is visible through that opening. A young woman with medium brown skin and black, chin-length locs is seated cross-legged in the foreground. She's wearing jeans, white athletic shoes, and a black t-shirt with a red and green pattern made mostly of alternating vertical and horizontal lines. Her left hand is on her hip, and she's holding a white, multi-petaled flower in her right hand which is resting on her left knee.
A cigar burns into an offering dish holding a sculpture of a face near her right knee.
To the left of the cover and slightly behind the seated figure is a flat-topped stone table covered with lit, dripping black candles.
To the right of the cover and slightly behind the seated figure is a hand-drum that resembles a small bongo drum.
In the center slightly behind and above the seated figure is a gold and glowing spectral form matching her silhouette.
Behind the glowing form is a window through which a crescent moon and the Toronto skyline are visible.
In the bottom third of the cover the same green, flower-studded foliage is in the background.
The author's name, Nalo Hopkinson, is in the same font as the title though slightly smaller, and a toad perches in the foliage above the author's first name.
Beneath the author's name in the same small, yellow, sans-serif font from the top…

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 28

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 19/20 days

A red box at the top includes the following text:
National Bestseller (in a small, white serif font)
Julia Alvarez (the author's name in a large, black, sans-serif font)
Author of In the Name of Salome (in a tiny, white, serif font)
To the right of the author's name is a yellow and black swallowtail butterfly.
The background of the bottom four-fifths of the cover is a shadowed seaside cliff against a darkened sky.
The title of the book is against the sky in a large, white, sans-serif font: In the Time of Butterflies.
In the bottom right two-thirds of the cover is an image of a young, light brown woman with loose, shoulder-length, shiny, brown hair wearing a white, sleeveless blouse with white lace accents.
She has her hands cupped in the air in front of her chest.
She is looking down at the bright blue and black butterfly hovering between her cupped hands.
A bright yellow-orange butterfly is flying near her left shoulder.
Below and to the right of that butterfly is the text "Luminous...a writer of grace and power." --The Philadelphia Inquirer in a small, white, sans-serif font.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 27

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 18/20 days

The cover art is framed by a pale green border. In the center of the top and bottom of the frame in a small, black sans-serif font are the words "Copyrighted Material."
The background of the cover art is a green moorland dotted with fluffy sheep below a bright blue sky dotted with fluffy clouds. A farmhouse is nestled between the curve of the moor and a small copse of trees.
In the foreground is a close-up of the head and neck of a sheep reaching over a low stone wall.
Six tiny blue men with shocks of red hair and matching braided beards are ranged on the sheep's head and neck and on a bare branch leaned against the stone wall.
They're barefoot,wearing matching red tartan kilts without shirts, matching green greaves, and matching bare feet.
The one standing on the ewe's upper neck and pulling on her ear has a sword strapped to his back.
The title is splashed across the top third of the cover a big, bright, bold, black sans-serif font framed with a touch of blue shades darker blue than the sky: The Wee Free Men.
Beneath that in a smaller, puffy, white font is the text, "They're small. They're blue. And nobody messes with them."

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 26

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 17/20 days

Text in a small bold white sans-serif font at the top of the cover reads, "Pirates and princes, wizards and warriors, demons and dragons - could Megan's magic match them all?"
Beneath that in a large, gold embossed serif font is the title: Harlot's Ruse.
And beneath that and right of center in a small, bold white serif font is the text, "By Esther M. Friesner".
The background is darkened shelving full of old books, various glass ewers & phials, skulls, crystal balls, and similar.
In the foreground on a bed with gold-glyphed sheets and a red tasseled pillow is a sleeping, light brown man with longish black hair and a short, neat beard and mustache. He is wearing silky purple robes covered in gold glyphs and bound with a satiny red sash fallen open enough to bare his muscled chest. An open book with gold glyphs one the brown leather cover is clutched in his right hand, and his left hand is under his head.
In the air above him, a pale-peach, nude, glowing, horned & winged femme being with long, strawberry-blonde hair that is partly comprised of coppery snakes hovers and reaches her hands toward him. Her wings appear to be twin purple dragons with eyes scattered across their purple-to-gold flamey wings.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 25

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 16/20 days

In a black bar in a white, serif font across the top is the author's name: Albert Camus.
The background of the cover are repeating rectangles separated by grid lines reminiscent of film negatives or photo booth picture strips.
All of the rectangles except one feature blurred images in the shades of green and white of two men in trench coats and bowler hats.
The gridlines are yellow. In a lowercase, black serif font marching down the top half of the cover along one of the gridlines is the title: the fall.
Near where the title ends is the lone rectangle where the green and white is almost swallowed by black.
Beneath that in a script font is the quoted text "An irresistibly brilliant examination of the modern conscience" attributed to The New York Times.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 24

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 15/20 days

In the top quarter of the cover in a large yellow serif font is the title: The Harper Hall of Pern.
Below that in a smaller white serif font is the author's name: Anne McCaffrey.
The background is a yellow-orange sun setting into a large body of water between two land masses.
In the foreground a red-haired girl in early adolescence is sitting on a rock dangling her left bare foot in the water.
She's wearing a cerulean blue tunic with a calf-length yellow skirt trimmed along the bottom with stylized dragons the same color as her tunic.
Leaning on the other side of the rock is a seated red-haired boy in late childhood.
He's wearing knee-length dark brown breeches, a long sleeved sky-blue shirt, and a dark green vest trimmed along the bottom with stylized dragons the same color as his shirt.
She's playing a lute-like instrument, and a bunch of wee dragonlings in a variety of jewel tones are playing around them in the air and water.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 23

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 14/20 days

A blue sky with fluffy white clouds is the background for small, black serif text at the top center of the cover that reads "The Astonishing Bestseller by the Author of The Clan of the Cave Bear."
Below that against the same sky in the largest font on the cover is the title: The Valley of Horses.
In a medium-sized, black serif font under the title and against the sky is the author's name: Jean M. Auel.
Beneath that and still against the sky in a smaller serif font is the text, "The Breathtaking Saga of One Magnificent Woman Who Shaped the Destiny of Mankind."
In the bottom third of the cover shaggy tundra slopes toward a range of snowy mountains in the background.
In the center of the foreground a slim figure with long blonde hair loose down the back of an animal-hide dress suspended from the right shoulder leaving the pale left shoulder bare.
The figure is carrying a basket of gathered plants in one hand and swinging a long sling loaded with an orange-sized stone.
Between the figure and the mountains on the left is either the haunches and tail of a cave lion or the head and shoulders of a young wooly mammoth..
Between the figure and the mountains in the center is a relatively small, well-watered valley dotted with mature trees.
Between the figure and the mountains on the right is a small herd of prehistoric horses.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 23

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 13/20 days

The background of the cover is a smudgy black.
In the top two-thirds of the cover, a blooming white rose is cupped in a femme hand in a long, black lace glove.
Beneath that in a lavender serif font is the title: In Her I Am.
Beneath that in a smaller, white italic font is the author's name: Chrystos.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 21

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 12/20 days

The title Bisexual Politics is in the top right one-eighth of the cover in a large, black san-serif font underlined in purple against a white background.
Directly beneath in a smaller italic san-serif font underlined in purple against a white background is the subtitle Theories, Queries, and Visions.
To the left of the title is an image of three people facing away from the viewer with their arms around each other. The person in the middle is not wearing a shirt.
To the left of the subtitle is an image of a blooming flower.
Beneath the flower is an image of three human hands palm up in a circle.
To the right of the hands is an image of the upper left quarter of a human face centered on the eye.
Beneath the eye is an image of a crowd of people marching and carrying a banner that reads Bi Pride.
To the left of that image is the text Edited by Naomi Tucker with Liz Highleyman and Rebecca Kaplan in a black, san-serif font underlined in purple against a white background.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 20

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 11/20 days

The background is a bright, collage-like watercolor featuring humans of various genders and shades, a ladder-back chair, a raven, and a window looking out on blue sky.

In a large, white san-serif font in the center of the cover is the title: The Ethical Slut.

Near the bottom in a smaller, white italic font is the subtitle: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities.

Below that in the same white italic font but smaller are the authors' names: Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt [the latter was the nom de plume of Janet W. Hardy for many years].

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 19

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 10/20 days

The first word of the title Sarah the Priestess is in a large, purple, san-serif font in the upper left of the cover against an off-white background.
The next two words of the title are below the first in a smaller, black, san-serif font.
Below that the subtitle The First Matriarch of Genesis is in three lines of white serif font against three color bars of black, purple, and black again.
Further down the left side of the cover in a black serif font is the author's name: Savina Teubal.
On the right side of the cover are three prints of a photo of a millenia-old sculpture of a seated priestess.
The background images are purple and the foreground image is black.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 18

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 9/20

The title The Femme Mystique slants across a blurred black and white background in a large read script font.
Below the title in a smaller red serif font is text reading Edited by Leslea Newman.
Above the title, a pale hand emerges from the blurred background holding an open square mirrored compact reflecting a femme's face ornamented by an earring of the pearl beads. Bright red lipstick matches the red of the title and editorial attribution.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 17

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 8/20

A battered paperback book cover with a black rectangle at the top that includes the text Penguin Classics in a white serif font with a stylized penguin inset between the two words.
Below that in a larger white serif font is the name of the author Michel de Montaigne, and below that in the same font is the book's title: Essays.
The bottom two thirds of the cover feature a pale green background with a heraldic shield in the upper left.
Centered in the foreground is the author who is a pale, mostly bald man with short cropped black hair, slim black eyebrows, dark eyes, a nose that sits large in his face, medium-sized ears, a neat mustache, a soul patch, and a pointed chin.
He is wearing a small white lace ruff, a large gold chain (of office?), a purple velvet doublet, and a burgundy-silk lined cape.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 16

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 7/20 days

A black rectangle with two layered pieces of ragged aged parchment )or vellum?) filling most of the space.
The bottom piece of parchment peeks out from beneath the top piece in the upper left of the cover and has small black illegible text in Hebrew.
The top piece has the title Legends of Our Time in a large red italic font and the author's name Elie Wiesel in a smaller black serif font.
A tiny red serif font centered on the black rectangle above the parchment pages reads, "Wiesel's confrontations with the past [represent] writing of the highest quality."
~New York Review of Books

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 15

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 6/20 days

Parchment colored background with the title The Creation of Feminist Consciousness in a burgundy serif font across the top third.

In the next third are an inset image of a Medieval painting of a seated nun with her face upturned and haloed by a lit fireplace in the background on the left and on the right the subtitle From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy in a smaller black italic font.

In the bottom third are the author's name - Gerda Lerner - on the left in a black serif font the same size as the title and an inset image of self-emancipated Black American activist, speaker, mother, and preacher Sojourner Truth.

She is standing erect wearing a white peaked cap, a long-sleeved, full-skirted late 19th century dress, and a medium-sized shawl. She is holding the head of a walking stick in her right hand and has a handbag over her left wrist.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 14

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 5/20 days

The cover is a painting of a brown woman wearing pale orange pants astride a gray horse without any riding tack running on a beach with stylized white-capped green and yellow waves cresting behind them.
Above the waves are stylized green and yellow clouds.
Two white, five-point stars flank a brown rectangle centered at the top of the cover.
Inside the brown rectangle, a pale orange star is centered at the top.
Below that in a white serif font is the author's name Diana Rivers.
Below that in a manuscript font is the first part of the title Journey to Zelindar.
And below that in a smaller white serif font is the subtitle the Personal Account of the Sair of Semasi.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 13

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 4/20 days

A blank pale green background with a book cover centered.
The book cover has Surprised by God in large dark blue serif font with the p in surprised italicized.
Beneath that in smaller black italic font are the words How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion.
And beneath that in slightly larger dark blue serif text is the author's name: Danya Ruttenberg.
The text overlays a blue sky background above a blurred city street.
The author stands in the foreground facing away from the reader. She is wearing a black cap-sleeved blouse. A bracelet of some kind is visible on her left forearm. She is carrying a black leather purse. Her longish, straightened brown hair flows beneath a black and white yarn kippah.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 12

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 3/20 days

A brightly colored under-resourced city street provides a background for bold, fiery font reading The Complete Hothead Paisan Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist across the top and a smaller but still bold font reading Diane Dimas in the lower left.

In the center of the cover is the titular character who has a shock of black hair, is on the thin side, well muscled and wearing a ragged purple tank top, bright green pants ending loose at mid-calf, black stompy laced-up boots with purple soles, and a knife & sheath strapped around the bare calf between shorts hem and boot top. A machine gun is slung over Hothead's shoulder. Hothead grins widely and strides toward the reader carrying an ax in two hands. Chicken (plump, grey & white, loyal feline companion) strides to Hothead's left and slightly ahead.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 11

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 2/20 days

Cover of Elfquest Book 2 by Wendy Pininfarina (art) and Richard Pini (lettering).

At the top of the cover in a plump, curvy yellow font is the text Elfquest Book 2 (larger & centered) above Wendy & Richard Pini (smaller text to the right).

A green forest of thick-trunked trees is in the background, and a human man and woman in rough, earth-hued clothes peer into a large, bramble-carpeted clearing where two pale-skinned male elves stand. The silver-haired one on the left holds up an eye-shaped stone on a cord, and the very light blonde haired one on the right holds a crescent-bladed sword.

They're dressed in earth-hued clothes of finer cut and fabric than the humans. They are flanked by two dire wolves both in shades of grey. The one on the right has an injury to one eye.

Two tiny green beings with brightly colored, butterfly-like wings and flower hats flutter beside and above the two elves.

A green-skinned, black haired male troll peers from a small opening in the earth and extends one hand toward the ankle of the elf on the right.

There's illegible text in red font across the bottom of the cover.

Peninnah Parpar@peninnahparpar· Feb 10

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! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge Day 1/20 #TomRobbins Baruch dayan ha'emet May his memory be for a blessing