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Celebrating Independent Bookstores

Celebrating Independent Bookstores

April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 LiteraryJo Reviews2 Comments

Let’s celebrate and support independent bookstores today!

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Favorite morning light, lavender earl grey, peanut butter toast, goofy pup, and a whole bunch of jellyfish facts. A solid Saturday morning over here. ✨

Happy Friday, friends 💕 • After nearly a month of a book slump, despite trying to reread an all time favorite, I am HOOKED on this book about jellyfish. I am currently reading SPINELESS by Juli Berwald and I’m completely swept up in learning all of the jellyfish facts. These strange ocean-dwelling creatures are fascinating... they’re super weird and cool and there’s so much about them I didn’t know! And this book is really well written, with elements of memoir mixed in, making it approachable and very readable. • Happy this genre switch turned out to be exactly what I needed. What’re you reading right now?

Snapshot from my Saturday morning setup. ☕️ • Confession: I’ve been a slooooooow reader lately. Like, only a few pages at a time. Which is bad when the book you’re reading is over 800 pages...? I also destroyed the cover this morning. So there’s that. 🙃 • How do you yourself back in the reading groove when you’re finding it hard to sit down and read? When you’re easily distracted or stressed and having a difficult time focusing?

@doubledaybooks #partner ✨ • I am so excited to be sharing with you one of my most anticipated reads of 2019 — THE STARLESS SEA by Erin Morgenstern, on shelves November 5th! I’ve been waiting for years for another book from the author of THE NIGHT CIRCUS and I am so happy that it’s here and it’s so gorgeous. • Even better, it’s a book about books and a book about stories, and I have no doubt it’s going to be magical. I also have a feeling it’ll be the perfect fall read. Who else has been waiting years for this one??

Monday mood. ✨ • Who’s been reading spooky reads this October? I didn’t do such a good job with that this month, since I’ve been rereading THE LUMINARIES at such a slow pace (it’s fine, I’m savoring it). But hey, there’s a bit of a ghost story in there, so that’s spooky, yeah??

Friendly fall Friday reminder to shop at your local indie bookstores!!! 💕📚 • Let me tell you about my local bookshop. Since it opened earlier this year, @paginationbookshop.airbnb has become one of my favorite spots in my community. It’s a hub for literary events already (author readings, poetry discussions, book clubs), and it’s a warm and inviting space that is honestly just one of the prettiest places ever (they renovated a historic house and it’s and Airbnb upstairs). They set books aside if you ask and order them for you if they don’t already have them in stock. When I was there last weekend, I got to witness some expert shelf curation/organization in action, a feature of indie bookstores that happens to be my favorite. I am so incredibly happy and thankful that this shop is here in my town and so thankful for the hard work Jen and Coop put into it. ❤️ • You might be able to find that hardback cheaper online... but you aren’t going to find a community space supporting authors like a local bookstore online. You won’t get recommendations like bookshop staff can give you. And you can’t sit on the floor surrounded by pretty books...in a hat that literally says BOOKS. Shop your local bookstore, friends. • And tell me about your local bookstore! What makes it special??

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