book stores are magic – The Bloggess

Your next great read

One of the greatest things about owning a bookshop is that I not only get to read amazing new books, but I’m SUPPOSED to read them. I bring home boxes of books each week and stay up late reading and then mail boxes of books to my family and stuff Little Free Libraries with themContinue reading “Your next great read”

I don’t know how to make the emoji of a brain exploding but if I did I’d make it here.

Hello! If you are a member of the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club you should check your email because you just got a special invitation to come hang out online with me and July’s book pick author, Virginia Feito as I ask her a million questions about Mrs. March, including “WHAT TIME IS THIS SET IN?”Continue reading “I don’t know how to make the emoji of a brain exploding but if I did I’d make it here.”

Hello, strangelings.

TWO BLOG POSTS IN 48 HOURS? WHAT. Honestly, I’m feeling more motivation than I have in a long time and I am taking advantage of that to catch up on a million good things that need attention and one of those is the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club, which is keeping me sane and helping toContinue reading “Hello, strangelings.”

Nowhere is now here!

I’ve got a lot to write about but I’m still in a depression and it’s made me into a small damp rag. If I had a normal amount of energy I would have written about my first ketamine session for treatment resistant depression on Friday and about how it was weird as hell but mayContinue reading “Nowhere is now here!”

Hello strangelings! (Honorary and otherwise)

Three lovely things: Did you finish Sorrowland? Did you love it? ME TOO. No worries if you gotten to it yet, because there are no rules in the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club. But I’m going to open it up for discussion here and on the Fantastic Strangelings Facebook page if you want to talk aboutContinue reading “Hello strangelings! (Honorary and otherwise)”

It’s been a weird week and it’s only Tuesday.

So Saturday we opened Nowhere Bookshop for the day and it was amazing because there were real live people in the store and my talented friend Heather Gauthier delivered a special giant celebratory painting with lots of amazing little hat-tips… …including this one hidden in the background which took me three minutes to figure outContinue reading “It’s been a weird week and it’s only Tuesday.”