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📷 Day 15: small

A shiny blue beetle with red spots rests on a leafy branch
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📷 Day 14: cactus. This is from ‘The Channel Series’, by Karl de Waal, as seen at the Art Gallery of NSW.

A model diorama of a woman looking at a large cactus. It’s an artwork by Karl De Waal.
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Finished reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚

This reads curiously well alongside To be Taught, if Fortunate. Both describe spaceflight in mundane but compelling detail. Harvey is the stronger writer, but Chambers has the stronger story. Both are writing, for want of a better term, space pastoral.

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📷 Day 13: page.

Fantastic marginalia on this page of a manuscript at the State Library of Victoria.

A medieval manuscript open to show illuminated lettering and extensive hand-written marginalia
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📷 Day 12: magic

Cover of the book, It's not really Magic. Microwave Cooking for Young People
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📷 Day 11: sky

A view of a bay with a sailing ship in the distance and several black swans feeding in the foreground
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📷 Day 10: train

A poster that says, Support railway workers!
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📷 Day 9: crispy

The reflective silver inside of a packet of crisps
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Finished reading: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers 📚My backlog of sci-fi reading is getting a little smaller.

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Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚I seem to be getting through the pile of sci-fi books that never shrinks but only grows.