book stores are magic – The Bloggess

Recapping my year in books.

I’m not sure 2021 counts as a real year so personally I’m just counting it as 2020 part two and holding out audacious hope that 2022 finds a way back to normality, but one thing that last year was good for was staying home and reading books. According to Goodreads I read 180 books, whichContinue reading “Recapping my year in books.”

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)”