Lose Yourself in the World of Books
It's time for my bi-annual seasonal reading recommendations! These are the books that I've put up for our staff picks for the summer for 2022. And this time, unlike the last few seasonal lists, I've actually reviewed most of them on here already! Each image links to the full review, if it doesn't go anywhere,… Continue reading Best Books for Summer Reading
It's March, which means at the store we're once again doing our Tournament of Books! The last time I posted about the Tournament was a week before we closed the store due to Covid so it's been awhile since we had a real tournament. This year, though, I have a lot of picks that are… Continue reading Tournament of Books 2022
Today is International Women's Day - a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality (definition from the IWD website). Each year there is a theme to International Women's Day and this year's theme is Break the Bias. As… Continue reading International Women’s Day 2022: #BreakTheBias
Diary of a Bookseller #23 Just when I think I know myself and what I like to read, my habits and interests decide to take a complete turn. For the last five years or so, I've read predominantly nonfiction with little interest in fiction and I've been trying to figure out why, particularly as I… Continue reading A Reading 180°
Diary of a Bookseller #22 I've been looking to cut Amazon out of my bookish life for quite some time now, but because of a cruel twist of fate from the publishers during the pandemic, I'll never be able to go fully without it (one of these days I'll share why I had to break… Continue reading Ditching Goodreads
I've been conspicuously absent I fear. I've read so few books in the past six months I am ashamed to call myself a bookseller. I am, however, very much a hobby person and every few years a new hobby takes over my life and eats up all my time and right now I'm baking a… Continue reading Summer Reading Favorites
Seven weeks ago I started a journey I never wanted to go on - my doctor found a lump (which turned out to be three) in my breast. I'm about the same age my mom was (early thirties) when she was first diagnosed with cancer (non-smoker's lung) and it's been my greatest fear (other than… Continue reading Breaking Free of a Reading Slump
Three years ago I wrote a blog post about feminism, "Good Little Feminist," fueled by incidents at concerts where I was fearful of men. I included a list of books about feminism that I had reviewed and in looking back on that list, I came to a startling revelation. Diary of a Bookseller #20 March… Continue reading International Women’s Day
While searching for an out of print hardcover on used book sites the other day, I stumbled upon a number of secondhand sellers trying to sell advance reader copies of books and it inspired me to say something about them here. Diary of a Bookseller #19 There's nothing quite like getting an advance reader copy… Continue reading The Aches of ARCs
This weekend I'll be building faux built-in shelves for my guest bedroom/library with my mom and it has me thinking about the best way to organize my books when I take them back out of their boxes to put them on their new shelves. Diary of a Bookseller #18 There are a number of different… Continue reading Methods of Book Organization
Celebration of Books 