Well, I barely made it, but I read my 52 books for the year (not including the hundreds I "blurb" read, but these are the ones I really read.) This year that included a couple of surprises and also reaffirmed that I need to vary my reading particularly when it comes from reading books by… Continue reading 2020 Year in Books
A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence In my continuing efforts to read a book in every section of the store, I realized that the book I called true crime had a week argument at best. When I came across We Keep the Dead Close as an advance copy, I figured it… Continue reading We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World I have never been interested in reading about things that currently are a realistic threat to me (i.e. pandemics, cancer and global warming). However, as I do not have sole determination of the books we read for book club and pretty much everyone else… Continue reading The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
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 by Rich Cohen
