Elisabeth (@cookschicken)

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Mar 21

I was inspired to write this by @alexanderchee.bsky.social's newsletter piece on Heated Rivalry (I'll link below), my friend Rosa, and recent and semi-recent books. It's about "escapist" reading/viewing, fantasies, and transformation. Thx for reading! #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/the-transfor...

Cartoon image of two hockey sticks doubling as the spine and covers of a book, as flames rise from its fluttering pages

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Jan 1

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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 20

Cover of The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones, featuring green and yellow abstract images, some of which look like paint splatters.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 19

Cover of an older edition of Sylvia Plath's Ariel with an introduction by Robert Lowell. All-caps title lettering, no images.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 18

Cover of Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, showing a black and white photographic image of a person sitting at a cafe table with a water carafe and other beverages.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 17

Cover of the 1925 edition of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, displaying a sketch-like illustration of a bunch of flowers. Color scheme is black and white and yellow.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 22

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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 16

Cover of A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt, showing a color photograph of a bed and nightstand in what looks like a dimly lit motel or hotel room.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 15

Cover of A Greater Music by Bae Suah, translated by Deborah Smith, showing curvy green-blue abstract shapes on a white background.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 14

Cover of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, showing photo of the side of a woman's face and hair.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 13

Cover of Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, featuring a sepia-toned photo of the author wearing what looks like a black dress under a long outer garment and holding a wide-brimmed straw hat.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 12

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 11

Cover of Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri, displaying what could be a photo of lines of sunlight across a rippled curtain.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 10

Cover of C Pam Zhang's How Much of These Hills Is Gold, with blue tigers in what could be interpreted as a combative pose against a gold background. There's a sense of motion and energy that I love, and the colors are in gorgeous balance with each other.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 9

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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 9

Cover of Erasure by Percival Everett, showing a simple black line illustration of a book against a red background.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 7

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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 8

Cover of Intimacies by Katie Kitamura, showing close-up of one figure embracing another. Black line drawing on deep pink background.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 7

Nude under a Pine Tree, Picasso (1959)

Orange tabby cat curled up on couch with small Christmas tree visible in background

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 5

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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 7

Cover of Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior, showing a person dressed in white lying face-down, raised slightly on arms and knees as if trying to get up or just having fallen.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 5

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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 6

Cover of Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World, translated by Lisa Dillman, showing a desert landscape in black and white receding into a black background.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 5

Cover of Mikhail Zoshchenko's Before Sunrise, translated by Gary Kern. Plain red and black geometric shapes on a bright yellow background make it completely obvious that this edition was published in the 1970s.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 4

Cover of Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, showing black and white photos of the author and a barren landscape

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Dec 1

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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 3

Cover of Marie NDiaye's My Heart Hemmed In, showing a black and white photo image of what looks like dilapidated floorboards.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Nov 30

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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 2

Cover of Ling Ma's novel Severance, mostly a plain pale pink background made to look like an envelope or postcard with stamps on it.

Elisabeth@cookschicken· Nov 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 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 1