book stores are magic – The Bloggess

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.”

I didn’t think I’d missed it so much

So on Saturday we surprised everyone (including possibly ourselves) by actually opening Nowhere Bookshop for one day only TO REAL LIVE CUSTOMERS. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jenny Lawson (@thebloggess) And it was only half of the store and only a limited amount of people could come in at a timeContinue reading “I didn’t think I’d missed it so much”

Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day and I’m pretty sure that should be a national holiday.

So! Tomorrow (Saturday) is Independent Bookstore Day and that means lots of bookstores all over America will be giving out free Broken Oracle Decks (inspired by Broken and illustrated by Katie Gamb). Here’s a map of participating indie book stores. They each have their own sort of celebration and have lots of different offerings andContinue reading “Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day and I’m pretty sure that should be a national holiday.”

It’s going to be okay.

First of all, a reminder that I’m doing my last virtual book tour stop with Christopher Moore tonight, which should be lots of fun and more than slightly ridiculous. And secondly, OMG, I got a deck of the Broken Oracle Cards and they make me so happy. View this post on Instagram A post sharedContinue reading “It’s going to be okay.”