Today is Small Business Saturday and the bookstore is hopping. Unfortunately, I am not at the store for the first SBS in 6 years, but I'm there in spirit! As a follow up to last week's Nonfiction November intro, our employee's Covid-19 test was negative (thank goodness!) and so things are mostly back to "normal."… Continue reading Week 4: The TBR Pile Overflows
This year I have many, many children under the age of 4 to buy books for: Seb, Maeve, Gabriel, Eliana, Madison, Lincoln, the list goes on and on! As such, I've been starting to work on curating a picture book list that includes titles that are gorgeously illustrated, fun and easy to read aloud, and… Continue reading Best of the Best Picture Books
To say that it's been a stressful week would be an understatement - we have had our first incidence of a staff member at the bookstore needing a Covid-19 test, a test we still don't know the results of. I'm a few days late here, but hopefully no one will hold my tardiness against me!… Continue reading Week 3: Expert Opinion
Follow up to Adultolescence I'm not a bit poetry person, and I didn't entirely love Gabbie's style in Adultolescence, I did relate to the content. When I saw the digital advance copy come through, and then saw how many people were hate-rating Dandelion on Goodreads before having access to it, I realized that it was… Continue reading Dandelion by Gabbie Hanna
I LOVE doing "If You Like This, Try This" lists - we have a whole section for them at the bookstore and it's such fun. One thing we haven't done, however, is pair fiction and nonfiction so I'm excited to do so now! I may also throw in some binge watching/book pairings here as I… Continue reading Week 2: Nonfiction, Meet Fiction
A Travelogue I don't entirely remember what led me to pick up Displacement, but it came out around the same time my grandfather was moved to a nursing home and was suffering severe memory loss. But however this book came to be in my possession, it started a years long love of Lucy's books which… Continue reading Displacement by Lucy Knisley
A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation It's another Nonfiction Book Club selection! This was one that I put forth to the group for voting and it was definitely a compelling read. Synopsis From the publisher marketing:Handsome and charismatic, Albert Hicks had long been known in the dive bars and… Continue reading The Last Pirate of New York
I am so excited to be participating in my first Nonfiction November! I've been following the reviews on What's Nonfiction and had so many lovely comments back and forth with Rennie that I figured it about time I commit to joining in for the month, even though it's a hectic one at the bookstore (and… Continue reading Week 1: Year in Nonfiction
Happy November! The first three Tuesdays of this month have a reasonable number of new releases, but after this it dies off a bit until the end of January. I'll still have lots of books to tell you about for January, but this month will actually be two-fold, November & December. As the book buyer… Continue reading New This Month: November & December 2020
Fourth Book Published in the Verity series Code Name Verity will forever and always be one of my all time favorite books. Whenever Elizabeth Wein has released a new book in the series (none of which follows the other directly but all are related) I immediately want to read it. And while none has thus… Continue reading The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein
