#100coverchallenge

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im posting this with the disclaimer that i haven’t finished it yet so hit me back in a week and maybe I’ll tell you i was off my rocker 🐞 The Astonishing Color of After has color in it’s lifeblood, so i really wanted to turn up the saturation on this one as well as practice some illustration skills 🕊️ also, it’s the pick for this months bookmess. if you’re interested in following along with my lit crit as well as my lettering, come check us out @ tinyletter dot com slash jessandtessmess 🔖 @femalehemingway and i are a blast, i promise 🎉 and as always, im taking suggestions: what should i cover next?

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i recommended this book to my dentist while her fingers were in my mouth 😬 and im recommending it to you too: “i know it’s about hockey but it’s really about right now. It’s about America post 2016 and our past and our future and everything that’s ever happened, even though it’s set in Sweden and it’s kinda sorta a little bit about hockey 🏒 "bear town” is the kind of book that defies explanation because to explain it would be to ruin it. but it’s stunning. 🐈 it’s “cat person” only it’s 432 pages and it’s not just about millennials 🌇 if “the art of fielding” (my other favorite sports novel not actually about sports) was the baseball novel about our lives, then “bear town” is the hockey novel about our lives today 📘 anyway, read it. 📸: Joshua Fuller and Christian Holzinger @unsplash

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same same but different 🖤

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a choice suggestion by chief bookfriend @brendanmleonard that everyone should read because it's a beautiful reflection on womanhood and voice and humanity and coming of age and it's meditative and lyrical and even if it was slow to start for me, by the end it left me reeling. (hi @mommy_kerry u read it yet??) 🕊️ 📸: ace bird photography by Richard Lee @unsplash

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maybe for the next handful of books, i should do ones I've actually read recently so i can say something more profound than i really like brush lettering 🖌️ real talk tho. i tried doing this with a pencil first, but got really frustrated because my downstrokes weren't weighted right ✏️ i'm not Ken Barber i guess and I need more practice before i can whip out his spencerian-looking script like it ain't no thing 🖋️ so I pulled out a brush marker (hi @tombowusa) and whipped this out real quick—plus, you know some photoshop tricks to knock it out of the watercolor 💦 scroll back on the tl for a bit for a peep at the original sketch. 🌼 got a book i should read? a book i should recover? my tastes are varied, passion of recommendation is what i mostly take into account. (that and what's available at the library)