On the store blog today my coworker Anna and I featured our favorite new romances, all contemporary save one, as we thought it time we feature the books that bring us joy in the world right now. Lovely War I read because I'm going to be joining Anna's YA for All Book Club that she… Continue reading Lovely War by Julie Berry
What happens when you take a whole bunch of booksellers and tell them that they have to read all the upcoming releases for fall, the biggest book season of the year, digitally? Diary of a Bookseller #15 One of the best parts of my job as an indie bookstore manager is all the advance reader… Continue reading Going Digital
This is the trickiest time I've had putting together a new release post yet - as of yesterday, books that were due out THIS Tuesday were still having their pub dates changed. To the best of my knowledge these are accurate as of today, May 1, 2020, but all pub dates are subject to change… Continue reading New This Month: May 2020
Originally I had planned to post my review of Elizabeth Wein's latest book, Enigma Game, but I found out on Wednesday that instead of being published on Tuesday as planned, it's now been pushed back until November. So after wandering around my library (well, really spinning in circles looking at the shelves while standing in… Continue reading Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
Diary of a Bookseller #14 Today I went into the bookstore for the first time in a few weeks. At the start of the lockdown, I was going in once a week to process and ship orders that had come in before we closed, sending gift cards out, picking up picture books for virtual story… Continue reading Checking in With My Work Family
I spent the summer of 2018 writing my master’s dissertation on the women who flew military planes for the USA and Great Britain during the Second World War. I had been inspired by Elizabeth Wein’s Code Name Verity as her book introduced me to Great Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary, but until I started my research,… Continue reading The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar
As a lover of books I am often recommending books that I absolutely love, but people have rarely heard of. Whether to customers, siblings, family, or friends, I love nothing more than sharing a great book with them! Click on the image to go to the full review! Often I get asked by people for… Continue reading Hidden Gems
Each night I plug in my phone and put on my cozy phones (flat headphones in a cozy headband so they don't hurt your ears, they're amazing) and choose and audiobook to fall asleep to. During this period of self-isolation and uncertainly, I've been listening to and re-listening to Nimona on near repeat. But how… Continue reading Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
We had our first self-isolation book club meeting this week! While we were supposed to discuss Kabul Beauty School in March, we discussed it a few days ago, and we had a very lively video discussion! Synopsis From the Back Cover:Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan with nothing but a desire to help and a degree… Continue reading Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
Back in 2015 I was going through a reading slump. Nothing was really holding my attention and I was having difficulty reading without falling asleep (I'm borderline narcoleptic anyway), and a friend suggested I give manga or graphic novels a try. I'd already been recommending them to my students, so I figured, why not give… Continue reading Giant Days by John Allison
