2. There are three ways to spot light falling ray by ray on the thousand facets of an ecosystem. One is to stand on a mountain in early afternoon; one is to sprint through an old forest. The other is to read Emily Wilson.
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2/5
WHAT YOU MISSED at last night's poetry reading:
1. A slapstick, short-lined, generously funny yet facepalmingly apt narration of the writing process by Anastasios Karnazes.
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1/5 š§µ
I bought the second one from the sale and will now hunt down the third. Thanks for the heads up!
A hand-drawn poster showing a rabbit, a turtle, a penguin, and a tree against a sky of yellow, green, and purple stars. The figures are announcing the names of the readers; clouds above contain the words "The Haunted Bookshop" and "April 20th 7PM". Below the figures are the words: Hosted by Farnoosh Fathi Amazing Reading Night of Poetry and Mirth on the Righteous Night of the Supposed Huntsman's Return in Poodled Light of Spring and All the Other Great Things It Brings Out of the Burnt Mountain Like the Great Puppets Available for Purchase at the Bookstore of Nialle" ("I don't know how I got in there, but I'm honored..." says either the Axolotl Puppet, the Ostrich Stage Puppet, or Nialle, not sure which.)
TONIGHT, 7PM
Katie Fowley - Katie Taylor - Emily Wilson - Anastasios Karnazes
LIVE at The Haunted Bookshop
*Footnote because of course I checked the next page just to make sure I hadn't missed anything and of course there was THIS and it's one of my favorite collections of all time and it's everybody playing at the tops of their games and
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I have to stop. I have poetry to catalogue. "The Hate U Give" is in here, read by Bahni Turpin (who could read me an encyclopedia and make me love it). I see Grady Hendrix and Stephen Graham Jones, Phillipa Gregory and John Le CarrĆ©... and each book is blurbed by *indie* booksellers. Go explore! šš§ā¤ļø
You know that thing where people post black and white photos of MLK Jr like he didn't live well into color? It's a way of distancing from the horrors of slavery and segregation. This book restores the immediacy of the past:
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If you haven't met Breq yet, let me introduce you.
She's witty. She's fast. She's desperately loyal in a world that twists loyalty and crushes alliances. She will not tell you how she feels. One day you'll look at what you know... and you'll see her through the details.
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For my series lovers: this sale is crammed with Terry Pratchett
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Also, if you're fond of sassy young Victorians, I see the first several books of the Emma M. Lion series. Total period popcorn.
What do you do when your experiences have changed you in a way that others just refuse to see?
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What do you do with your courage and your convictions when the world is spinning apart and it's tearing you down as fast as you can build?
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The second has very different pacing, but I will gladly follow this author wherever she wants to go with these characters.
And speaking of devastating conflict caused by inequality and reinforced by division... that someone struggles to bridge, only to discover that every answer raises another searing question... a story underpinned by *real* hope:
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Speaking of love letters to New York, here is a book about unlikely alliances across artificial boundaries, about empowerment and courage and hope, even in the midst of very real clashes brought about by smallness of heart and bigness of wallets:
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Speaking of love, nothing burns slower than this tale of two elementally different people in early 1900s NYC. He escapes his jar only to find himself trapped by conventions of the New World. She, made to serve, struggles with loneliness and lack of purpose.
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What the world needs now... is this book. Finding romantic love is only one part of a spectrum, a rainbow from which our culture isolates just a couple of hues to see. hooks restores our vision for a future in which empathy, care, and more are restored to our daily lives.
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Octavia Butler's DAWN is part of the sale! This book, about a first contact with an alien species, explores how humans react when what the aliens want is not conquest or even colonization, but something far more insidious and absolute.
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Uh oh!
@libro.fm indie bookshop appreciation sale!
And there's a Charlie Jane Anders book?
Well... now you know where I'll be for the next hour. Going through the sale for more treasures! libro.fm/sale
A thing I have seen over and over: surprise, and seldom the "sticker shock" type. Far more often, I hear "That's all?!"
Most people have no idea how *little* it costs to buy an attractive, important book.
The trouble, of course, is that you never stop with one.
Still noodling the price, but I won't likely ask less than $500. So it goes š
An attractively penned gift note that reads "Merry Christmas to Mother from Will and Nellie - 1893"
This and a little light shelfwear at spine ends. She's beautiful šā¤ļø
A close up of part of the spine and the front cover of a book in brick-orange cloth blocked with small black shamrocks, with gilt titles, a few small gray spots and little scratches, but remarkable for its unfrayed corners and undimmed color.
Anyway, scary math genius children aside, here's Tess.
Without googling, who can tell me why it's cooler that this is the *second* American edition?
Probably the only thing that could have torn me away from this 1893 "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"*?
Our kid pointing out that my phone is at 80%.
And that Daddy's is at 26%, so "he needs to charge his phone more better."
Guys, the kid is 4 š¤Æ
This room has a rectangular black rug on a wooden floor. The rug has two long gray stripes because I haven't moved the table that normally stands here for, uh, seven years. To either side of the rug are bookshelves and some chairs, four straight backed and one upholstered with a shabby old quilt thrown over it and some displaced jigsaw puzzles parked temporarily on the seat. A southern window, tall and with a foot deep window sill, sheds light on the problem.
Been a while since we held a reading at the bookshop, so it's been a while since we moved the table and the book press. Anyone got clever tips for erasing the dust outlines, other than just rolling the vacuum over them š
... we'll put it this way, my house doesn't have room for 2-4 *more*
Carl Conrad Coreander, but with a delivery sideline?
I am šÆ supportive of this idea šā¤ļø
(Don't come after me, dear Internet. The price difference is usually about $10.)
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Okay, I admit it.
There are usually 2-4 books in this building that are deliberately overpriced.
That's my TBR. The prices will be adjusted when I've had time to read the books.
Sometimes someone buys a book at the TBR price, usually without comment.
I then give free books to a random kid.
