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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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I had a whole caption written and ready to go with this post today... talking a bit about how I have been quiet around here because of an anxious and grumpy and emotional week etc etc... • And then I received some news that a friend of mine passed away. A friend that experienced homelessness, a friend I saw almost every week for the past three years at Friday Morning Breakfast, who had an exceptionally difficult life but still somehow brought laughter and joy and hugs to mine. I am heartbroken today... but also trying to embrace a much needed perspective shift. Tony wanted people to be happy and to do good for others and I’m going to take that, and the memory of his smile, along with me. ❤️

A lovely Saturday. 💛

Spent the morning with an oat milk latte and my current read (and brought along some company—take a look at my stories to see who it was 🐾). • I know I am wayyyyy late to the party to just now be picking up THE HANDMAID’S TALE... but I’m currently a little over a hundred pages in and I am HOOKED and can totally see why it’s such a big deal. Of course, the subject matter, but this is also my first Margaret Atwood so I’m finally getting a taste of her writing... just in time for THE TESTAMENTS to come out next week! • Also, because I know I’ll probably get a few more questions about this lovely cover—this is a UK Vintage Classics edition. I spent a good amount of time hunting around for a copy I liked a couple years ago and ended up ordering this one online from a UK bookstore because I wasn’t crazy about most of the US covers. 😂 The things we do for books! • Got any funny/obsessive book stories? Lengths you’ve gone to track down a copy or get an edition you wanted? I’d love to hear them!

Back to work after a weekend of reading and hanging out with these goofs 🥰 • September is already looking like it’s going to be a busy month, but I’m extremely excited for everything on the calendar!! I’m also hoping to be more intentional with my reading habits this month, which I may have neglected a bit over the course of the summer. Now is as good a time as any to be more intentional (ie spend less time scrolling and more time turning pages). • Anything exciting on the calendar for your September? How about any big reading goals?

Probably going to read a whole book today and I consider that a day off well spent. 👏

A Sunday morning #wafflesofbookstagram shot, featuring Scout and a stack of some of my most anticipated reads (thanks to the tagged publishers for the gifted copies)! • I actually started NAAMAH earlier in the weekend and am about one hundred pages into this enthralling and creative and honestly quite strange retelling of the the story of Noah and the the Ark, where Sarah Blake imagines the previously unnamed wife of Noah and gives us her story. • Anything from this stack on your highly anticipated list? Have you read any of them yet??

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