Lose Yourself in the World of Books
Another old book club selection from December, not my pick, but one I think I'm glad I'm read. I don't know. Two months later and I still can't decide how I feel about it. Synopsis From the publisher marketing:Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader… Continue reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
The Jane Austen Society #2 To say I pestered our sales rep endlessly for a manuscript of Bloomsbury Girls would be an understatement. As soon as I knew it was coming (summer 2020 when I did a virtual event with Natalie for the bookstore) I asked at least biweekly when I would be allowed to… Continue reading Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the NazisPublished originally as No Place to Lay One's Head This is another Nonfiction Book Club selection! As a club that reads exclusively nonfiction, eventually we were going to make our way to WWII, either by reading a memoir or history book. We decided to go… Continue reading A Bookshop in Berlin by Francoise Frenkel
Diary of a Bookseller #9 In the last few days, we've had a number of local, self-published authors come into the store and ask us to carry their books. We have a whole procedure for doing so, but one of the first is assessing who their publisher is. Often, the authors themselves don't know and… Continue reading The Publishers, and Their Imprints
I love visiting all sorts of bookstores and below are just a few that I've visited since the start of the year. Strand Book Store Each and every time I visit New York, I make a point to stop by the Strand Book Store. A New York City institution, it is one of the largest… Continue reading 5 Recent Book Stores Visited
Celebration of Books 