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#SealeyChallenge complete!

Just under the wire 😅

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On a white surface, my stack of 31 books are piled from bottom up in read-order (except The Lost Words is at the base b/c it’s big & Charismatic Spirals sits face-out b/c it’s small — the tower threatened to topple when these 2 were inserted chronologically — they each have a blue arrow drawn on to show where they belong) so that all spines are seen. There are yellow placeholders (labeled in blue, w/asterisks) for the audiobooks I don’t have physical copies of. (1) We Are Not Where We Are - Matt Donovan & Jenny George (2) Love Works - Janice Mirikitani (3) Three Syllables Describing Addiction - Kate Daniels (4) Night Owl - Aimee Nezhukumatathil (5) Night Watch - Kevin Young (6) _two-headed woman_ - Lucille Clifton (7) Green of All Heads - Aracelis Girmay (8) _asterisk_ - Jenny George (9) To Those Who See - Gwen Frostic (10) Enough Rope - Dorothy Parker (11)* The Lost Words - Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris (12) Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith (13) How to Continue - Matthew Zapruder (14) Lives of the Poets - Beau Beausoleil & Ama Bolton (15) I Am Minor - Ryan Nakano (16) Ocean of Clouds - Garrett Hongo (17)* Charismatic Spirals - Will Alexander (18) Love That Dog - Sharon Creech (19)* 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem - Nam Le (20) Rogue Nun - Dana Levin (21) Equilibrium - Tiana Clark (22) Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur (23) Perennial Counterpart - Yongyu Chen (24)* Where to Begin - Cleo Wade (25) A Fire in My Hands - Gary Soto (26) Sonnets for a Missing Key - Percival Everett (27)* Echo Echo - Marilyn Singer (28) The Haw Lantern - Seamus Heaney (29) _the witch doesn’t burn in this one_ - amanda lovelace (30) Splendor: Trans Poets - many! (31) KNOT - Forrest Gander & Jack Shear Half a full bookshelf (with books in the shape of “I” & “Y” atop), part of a chair & a glimpse of a couch are visible in the background.
September 1, 2026 at 6:55 AM