Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie

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Tech writer by day, bookbinder by night! See thebookroadie.com Feminist, green-haired nonbinary weirdo, cat employee. Still masking. They/them. Member of www.artisans.coop For info on why Clippy is my profile pic go here:

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Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Sep 5

All set up to vend at the NW Tarot Symposium! #NWTS2025

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Mar 21

All set up at the Oregon Ghost Conference in Seaside, OR. This vendor room has a ton of awesome stuff in it, dang.

My booth, two big tables in an L shape with lots of books both lying down and on stands. I'm behind one table, giving thumbs up.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Mar 6

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 16/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, by Linda Bacon, PhD (now Lindo Bacon, PhD). The cover is white with a bathroom scale in a trashcan.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Mar 2

Not home, but I know my way around.

Hannibal's sumptuous library/office, with two armchair facing each other, multiple desks, and a two-floor library wrapping around the large room.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Mar 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. Day 15/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The fancy red-book-of-westmarch edition of The Lord of the Rings, bound in red faux leather with a matching slip case and gold foiling with blue and green bits.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Mar 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. Day 14/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth About Reality by Brad Warner. It's a graphic of a public bathroom's toilet and toilet paper holder, and the title is broken up to look like torn bits of paper, stencil letters, etc.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· 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. Day 13/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, Foreword by Isaac Asimov.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 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. Day 12/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of "Webster's Dictionary Game: A dictionary with over 5000 esoteric words, whose definitions you won't recognize and can't guess. Plus complete rules and scoring" Quote at the top of the cover says "Bet you can't play this game without laughing!"

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· 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. Day 11/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The British paperback cover of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. It shows a bunch of people of various sizes and shapes, dressed in armor and using swords/arrows against a dragon that's breathing fire at them. It's kind of grotesque in art style but I love it.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 19

@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social 's latest video is awesome as usual. It also contains this bit of wisdom, which I want cross-stitched on my wall or something. This guy is so talented! Check him out if you haven't already: youtu.be/TgKsG6NZSIo

A screenshot from the linked video. A young Black man is holding a mic and gesturing. Below the video, a commenter quotes from the comedian's set and comments on it. The important bit is the quote, which I have highlighted: "Art can save your life, but believe me when I tell you that entertainment will never be your salvation. Entertainment, by and large, is escapism, and no one has ever escaped their chains by forgetting they were there."

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· 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. Day 10/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of the book Evolutionary Witchcraft by T. Thorn Coyle

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 15

The classic pic of Captain Picard face-palming

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· 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. Day 9/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of The Annotated Dracula, by Leonard Wolf with illustrations by Satty. The cover is a photo of a sculpture or puppet of Dracula lying in his dirt-lined coffin.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· 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. Day 8/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of the book The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future, by Cynthia Eller

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 13

The latest Threat Model: Covid newsletter is out. As usual, it's well worth reading. Knowledge is power, right? Or at least it helps you make informed choices about things like covid boosters & masking. Also it has this important reminder: It's still "during covid." www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

A graph of US New Daily COVID-19 Infections and 1-Month Forecast, from PMC19.com/data. It shows the various spikes since Jan 2020, with each one labeled "During Covid." The final spike on the graph is Jan 2025. Because, you know, it's still "during covid." Covid hasn't gone away.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· 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. Day 7/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of a book called The Book on the Bookshelf, by Henry Petroski. The cover image is the spines of four books, which have the title and author's name in place of the book titles.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· 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. Day 6/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality, by Paul Barber. The cover has an old woodcut of a cemetery on the lower third, with a crescent moon the same color as the main part of the title.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· 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. Day 5/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, by Cordelia Fine. There's a quote: "[Fine's] sharp tongue is tempered with humor and linguistic playfulness...read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is." - Katherine Bouton, New York Times.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 7

Let's try these as quote reposts, hopefully it'll make 'em easier to read. 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 #BookSky #BookChallenge

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 6

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 3/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker. It's a black cover with white text and an assemblage/collage image and the quote "Pete Walker's new book is an invaluable, comprehensive resource for anyone with a childhood history of trauma. This book is ccertain to benefit clients and clinicians alike" - Jule Schenman, MA, MFT.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 6

Indeed.

A skeleton on fire holds up a sword and is moving toward the left side of the image. Text above the skelly says "state of the world? bad. mental health? also bad." and at the bottom it says, "but still, we charge forward"

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 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. Day 2/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

The cover of A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A Basbanes. It has ornate flourishes in a thick frame around the cover with the title and attribution above and below an old woodcut of a person reading in a library.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 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 #BookChallenge

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Jan 16

We're harboring a Sith Lord, apparently.

A gray-brown tabby with white lower face, chest, and lower legs is mostly under a black blanket with white, gray, and orange markings. Her face is visible, giving massive side eye, and her left foreleg is stretched all the way out, like she's reaching for something.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Jan 15

Finished my first ever paperback repair for a book repair certification course I completed! I am really happy with it, I was skeptical at first but it worked! I have a couple more to practice on, then I can offer this as a service. You might be surprised how often I get asked if I do this.

An old paperback book is lying open on a piece of wood resting on a green cutting mat. The book is not looking good, the pages are separating in clumps and the cover is detached.

A paperback book is open on a workbench, the photo is focused on the bottom of the book. The spine is curved in a semicircle and the pages are all sticking out nicely.

My hand holding the paperback up so you can see its spine, which has been added back to the book now that it's not in pieces.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Jan 4

Hey visual artists! I am looking for spooky/paranormal/creepy/cryptid/etc art pieces to attach to books I'll be selling at the Oregon Ghost Conference in March. Anybody want to sell me some?

Four images of a book with a black cover. A glossy postcard of a painting of a skull is set into the cover.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Jan 4

Busted out my sewing frame for the first time in at least a year during today's livestream! I'm still improving my technique, so it's slow going. I'll get there though! Sewing frame by AffordableBindingEquipment.com

the sewing frame consists of a piece of wood with two posts in the corners closest to the edge of my workbench, with a wooden cross piece across the top of the posts. The wood cross piece has long metal bolts with hook ends on the down side, held by butterfly nuts. The hooks have cord tied to them. The cord goes down through a slot in the wood base and is attached to big butterfly paper clips so it's held taut. The pages for the book are positioned with the spine against the cords, there are three pairs of cord spaced along the pages, positioned to go with holes I punched in the paper for sewing.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Nov 20

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. Doesn't 100% fit because I know two other people who know about it (both because of me, tho!). But almost nobody has even heard of Dracula: The Series (not the new tv series - this is from the 90s). I was in middle school, okay?

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 12

That's what we did! Two thumbs up, highly recommend. (tbh they do sometimes pick on each other but they're also very cute, so it evens out)

A gray-brown tabby with white lower face, chest, and paws is curled up on a gray couch. She's partly on top of an orange tabby who doesn't seem to mind that she's using him as a pillow.

Ealasaid Haas aka The Book Roadie@thebookroadie· Feb 2

After some disagreements, this week I persuaded my printer to produce lined paper for two books plus a short book I want to read in hardcopy rather than pdf. Lots of folding paper in my future. #bookbinding