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PASSING by Nella Larsen (1929) via Oshun Publishing imbibed at Yanaka Coffee
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HOW TO BE DANISH: A JOURNEY TO THE CULTURAL HEART OF DENMARK by Patrick Kingsley via Short Books brewed with Yanaka Coffee Jamaican Blue Mountain

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The photo is of a couch divider. The couch is grey, the divider brown plastic. On the divider is a white coffee mug of black coffee & a graffiti-esque D is visible. To the left is the white paperback book with red & blue illustrations of trees, flowers, circle shapes, birds, cherries, & a barn Above the book is a red & pink strawberry donut in packaging
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    PARADISE by Toni Morrison via Vintage Books imbibed at Moshi Moshi Coffee

    The photo is of a brown faux wood table on which is the worn white paperback book with a bright green yellow black & long skinny orange beak bird of paradise. To the right is a paper cup of black coffee. The cup is white interior with brown exterior with the coffee shop's logo of a 'phone' made from 2 paper cups & string
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    WOUNDED by Percival Everett via Faber & Faber imbibed at Komeda Coffee
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    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
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    CROOK MANIFESTO by Colson Whitehead via @doubledaybooks imbibed at Miyakoshiya Coffee
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    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
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    SO MUCH BLUE by Percival Everett via Picador imbibed at Philocoffea
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    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
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    TOKYO UENO STATION by YU Miri translated by Morgan Giles via Tilted Axis Books imbibed at Cafe The World in Okubo (Chiba) @bookstodon

    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
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    ERASURE by Percival Everett via Faber & Faber imbibed at Mills Coffee
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    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
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    FEAR OF FALLING: THE INNER LIFE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS by Barbara Ehrenreich via Harper Perennial imbibed at Mills Coffee
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    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
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