A outside photo of the front of a grey coffee truck with MK white logo and Thies:Cafe with accent marks over the E's. The red and white manga is on a wooden table and the brown with black plastic lid coffee cup is to its right

#NowReReading2024 OISHINBO: JAPANESE CUISINE by writer Tetsuya KARIYA & artist Akira HANASAKI via VIZ Media imbibed at #OtemachiForest #森の大手町 #CoffeeSky #BookSky 💙📚 #Manga #GraphicNovel #FoodSky

Photo is of inside the cafe where a series of clothes dryer can be seen in the distance. In the foreground is the small blue grey paperback book with the title in red in a white speech bubble as if spoken by the white text of the author's name. To the right on the white square table is a blue grey paper cup of coffee with visible brown crema against the inner white of the cup

#NowReReading2024 HOW TO SPEAK MIDWESTERN by Edward McClelland via @beltpublishing.bsky.social imbibed at Hitoyasumi (Pause It) #本蓮沼 #Motohasunuma #BookSky #Linguistics #LingSky #LangSky 💙📚 #Midwest

Photo of inside a cafe. On a round dark brown table is the grey book with YINZ in purple cursive with an arrow at end as graffiti on a wall. To the right is a yellow tray with a white coffee mug & saucer of black coffee and the Doutor label on the mug with the black DOUTOR letters with the second O a yellow coffee bean. To the left on the tray is an ornate blue design around the plate. On the plate is a strawberry mille crepe with lines of strawberry jam. In the distant corner is a Japanese woman sitting with her hand blocking her face as she looks at her smartphone

#NowReReading2024 SPEAKING PITTSBURGHESE: THE STORY OF A DIALECT by Barbara Johnstone via Oxford University Press imbibed at Doutor #Otemachi #大手町 #BookSky #LingSky #LangSky #Linguistics #Pittsburgh 💙 📚

Photo is of a blue plastic cylindrical stool with black body. On top is a small blue paperback library book with a red pillow floating in the clouds. The bar code shows it's a library book. To the left is a long cylindrical grey tumbler with a yellow rubber handle on top. Against the tumbler is a white business card for Kuma Coffee and a bears backside as the logo. The stool is on asphalt. You can see the legs of someone wearing jeans & black tennis shoes in the distance

#NowReReading2024 ASLEEP by Banana Yoshimoto via Grove Press care of Arakawa Public Library imbibed at Kuma Coffee #Narasino #習志野 #BookSky #CoffeeSky 💙 📚

The paperback library book is white with a author/title square in the upper left hand corner and the library bar code in the lower left hand corner. A photo of the author, a Japanese woman with long black hair fully in black sitting on the floor barefoot with her arm wrapped around her curled up knees looking at the viewer, is in the lower right hand corner. A white coffee mug of black coffee is to the right. Behind it is a flat slic of a yellow white cream roll on a white plate. Another mug can be seen behind. To the left is half a brown tray with small white napkins on it. On the back edge of the tray is a Japanese paperback library book. A woman's left arm can be seen in the distance.

#NowReReading2024 N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto via @faberbooks.bsky.social imbibed at Kojima Coffee care of Arakawa Public Library #Okachimachi #御徒町 #BookSky #CafeSky #CoffeeSky 📚 💙

Image is of the book's front cover. It is black with all the text in white. Text reads - Hope in the Dark Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities REBECCA SOLNIT WITH A NEW FOREWARD AND AFTERWARD

#NowReReading2024 HOPE IN THE DARK: UNTOLD HISTORIES, WILD POSSIBILITIES by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social via @haymarketbooks.bsky.social brewed with Bicycle Coffee #BookSky

Photo of inside cafe, a corner countertop, where there is the paperback book with top half orange & bottom half turquoise. ON MY is in bold black letters at the bottom of the top section & OWN is at the top of the bottom section. To the right is a white mug of black coffee on a pink floweresque saucer with a tiny silver spoon in front and a white packaged cookie.

#NowReReading2024 ON MY OWN: KOREAN BUSINESSES & RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA by In-Jin Yoon via @uchicagopress.bsky.social imbibed at Fukuka Cafe #Machiya #町家 #BookSky

Photo is of inside the cafe. On a rectangular standing wooden tray is the paperback book. To the right is a handleless coffee pottery mug of black coffee on a faux wooden tray along with a plastic wrapped brown wet napkin in front and 2 round tan cookies in plastic to the left. A step leading to another room can be seen in the distance

#NowReReading2024 THE FRUIT 'N FOOD by @leonardchang.bsky.social via Black Heron Press imbibed at Ogu Cafe #HigashiOgu #BookSky

Photo is outside a cafe where an alley with several orange cones on the left side and a parked bicycle in the distance. In the foreground is a plastic woven table. On the table is the white hardcover book. To the right is a white mug of black coffee with the Lish Coffee logo of a black dog with a white nose/mouth.

#NowReReading2024 DISPATCHES FROM THE SPORTING LIFE by Mordecai Richler via Knopf Canada imbibed at Lush Coffee #KitaSenju #北千住 #Books #BookSky

The photo is of a table in the cafe. On the left is a yellow paperback library book. On the right on is a dark wooden tray with a white mound of shaved ice with orange piece in lower right next to a tiny glass thimble of condensed milk. A long silver spoon facing left lies parallel to the tray. A plastic encased wet towel runs perpendicular on the left of the tray

#NowReReading2024 THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain via Penguin Books care of Arakawa Public Library System imbibed at Mizoreya #Okubo #大久保 #BookSky 💙 📚

The photo is outside a cafe On a round wooden brown table is the grey paperback book with a green spine of yellow illustrated men shining the shoes of the men above them, the man at the top holding a martini glass. To the left is a white mug of black coffee. You can see the front of 2 bicycle ls near a green and white strip of paint along the road

#NowReReading2024 FEAR OF FALLING: THE INNER LIFE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS by Barbara Ehrenreich via Harper Perennial imbibed at Mills Coffee #Senju #千住 📚 💙

The photo is outside a cafe. On a brown round wooden table is the paperback book with a black and white photo of a young Black boy smiling with a toy gun pointed at his head. He is wearing suspenders holding up jeans He is also wearing a long sleeve striped dress shirt. The book's title ERASURE is i uppercase yellow letters. To the right is a white lidded white coffee cup with "mills coffee" in red lowercase letters. Close to the table is a green painted line with white outline and a silver van passing by on the street

#NowReReading2024 ERASURE by Percival Everett via Faber & Faber imbibed at Mills Coffee #Senju #千住 💙 📚 #BlackLiterature

The photo is from inside the cafe where the legs of someone can be seen outside the window. On a brown wooden table is the pink paperback book with illustrations representing people & things around Tokyo Ueno Station such as a panda & train station facades. To the left is a brown wooden tray with a cookie on a white plate & a brown mug of black coffee. In the distance the back of a Japanese man can be seen sitting on a stool at a counter looking out the window

#NowReReading2024 TOKYO UENO STATION by YU Miri via Tilted Axis Books imbibed at Cafe The World in Okubo (Chiba) 📚 💙

Photo is of a wooden table. In the middle is the blue paperback book. To the right is a gray mig of black coffee. To the left is a white bag of coffee beans featuring the pelican logo holding a bag in their beak. Across the way is a window, where we can see a blurry Japanese man walking past to towards the left

#NowReReading2024 SO MUCH BLUE by Percival Everett via Picador imbibed at Philocoffea #Funabashi #船橋 💙 📚

The photo is of a dark brown round wooden table inside a coffeehouse. In front is a mug & saucer of black coffee. The yellow paperback book is behind it, as is a white plate with a slice of pound cake with cream. And old style wooden chair is behind the table & an alley view can be seen our the window where a blurry masked Asian woman can be seen looking at the canera

#NowReReading2024 CROOK MANIFESTO by @colson.bsky.social via Doubleday imbibed at Miyakoshiya Coffee #Ginza #銀座 📚💙

Photo is of a light brown wooden cafe table The paperback book is old timey brownish focusing on a coppery belt buckle of a cowboy. Behind the book is a small narrow wicker basket perpendicular to the book. It contains a tiny silver spoon in a tiny white bowl containing a dollop of yellow and white scrambled eggs and a long protruding thick rectangular slice of toast with red strawberry jam on it. To the right is a white mug and saucer of black coffee. It has the Komeda Coffee logo of a man in a cowboy hat drinking coffee. There is a tiny silver spoon in front of it, handle pointing left

#NowReReading2024 WOUNDED by Percival Everett via Faber & Faber imbibed at Komeda Coffee #Kameari #亀有 📚 💙