A black cat draped around a human's neck, they just barely peaking over.
Customer: I thought you were wearing a fur coat.
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A black cat draped around a human's neck, they just barely peaking over.
Customer: I thought you were wearing a fur coat.
I'm torn between "If there were going to be any adaptation of a book about Alexander it should have been Mary Renault" and also knowing I wouldn't want the fandom chaos coming to the favorite books of my youth.
ETA: ah, I see Annabel Lyon is a Canadian author so that makes sense for JT.
T. Kingfisher's Wolf Worm starts out peacefully with nature and art and maybe a little bit of gothic ominousness, like A Girl of the Limberlost meets Jane Eyre, and then goes horrifically and grotesquely off the rails halfway. 10/10, would ride the roller coaster again. bookshop.org/a/214/978125...
Libro and Binc are both awesome!
I've been weeding books at home and brought several bags to the store to sell, but then yesterday I brought four boxes of books from the store back to my house... 😬
Two books: Passage, and What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
Rest in peace, Maisie from Connie Willis' Passage: you would have loved the What Was [historical disaster]? books.
there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up
Five stacked paperback copies of Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman. The book has a blue cover and a white spine.
Sacramento friends: we're launching the Notes from a Regicide paperback at Capital Books on February 17, 7:00 p.m. If you're thinking of investigating the Locus list, well -- it's a good time for it.
A collage of book covers
I read nine books in January... In my defense, I started Tom's Crossing which is over a thousand pages and still haven't finished 😂 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/main...
I can only think of one major author who is pro-AI and I don't think he's even gotten the awards to fulfill a second criteria...
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
Text on a green background. It says, "Wildthorn: Wildthorn Books is a new imprint of Tor Publishing Group focused on commercial stories that are irresistable, genre-blending and genre-bending. Wildthorn's mission is to become the destination for compulsive, page-turning reads."
NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.
A rack of small notebooks that say 33 slices of pizza, 33 burgers, 33 reads, etc.
These 33 page Tasting and Reading journals are so fun! Which do you want to fill out? www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/s/search?q=33
The way AI is being shoved down our throats and how studios are starting to embrace it ??? Is so absolutely fucking terrifying to me, and scary for our industry and I feel like I can’t ignore it anymore. It’s so fucked. I hate it so much. What is happening. 🫠
A copy of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, with a corner of the cover looking like it's been bitten.
It's always funny when a book comes in looking like it's been through the events of its own plot. The first rule of Book Club is that we don't talk about Book Club.
Speaking of which, we'll have a Silent Book Club on January 24th 3-5pm!
The cover of "It's Not A Cult" by Joey Batey, black and yellow with a musical instrument on fire. Tagline reads "They'd Die For You. They'd Kill For You."
At least I've been able to read some excellent books because in every other aspect 2026 has been absolutely horrific. app.thestorygraph.com/books-read/m...
Closeup of a tuxedo cat, there are bookshelves behind her.
I'm making biscuits for you but where are you? #BookstoreCat #MainStBooksMonroe
A black and white cat with long brown hair draped over her head
Bookstore cat crawled under my hair, guess she wanted to feel bonita.
Three years of college Russian that I have put to absolutely no use until now, watching Heated Rivalry without reading the subtitles.
DNFed a book for saying a character smiled showing all 32 teeth, which is a horrific image.
A tuxedo cat laying on a blue veterinarian exam table
Having a slightly famous cat: 😁
Miranda had her regular checkup.
Me: of course she's indoor only, but she is a store cat and sometimes birds or rodents come into our 120 year old building and are there diseases I should be concerned about--
Staff said "oh yeah, she's the Main St. Books cat, right?"
Glad I read it in 2023 when it was one of my favorite books of the year then 😅
Narrator: "[something in a very mild tone of voice], he screamed."
I'm otherwise enjoying this book but the author is way too fond of the word "screamed." The characters don't just laugh, or snap when they're annoyed, or go "hey!" to get someone's attention. Every. Scene. Someone screams, and it's especially incongruous as an audiobook.
Hey, I'm looking for comics and graphic novels *by* Indigenous writers and/or illustrators, especially in the Americas. Doesn't have to be a recent book. Any genre! Any topic, any themes, does not have to be a memoir or history, though that is welcome too!
Several book covers, including They Bloom at Night, Brides of High Hill, Conclave, One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This, Parable of the Sower...
I have a weekly "how much we need to make to pay expenses" goal... we have not reached it a single week since August...
Anyway if you buy a book through our affiliate @bookshop_org you get a cookie 😉 and we get 30% of each sale!
Some of my faves I've read this year: bookshop.org/lists/best-b...
Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Feeling some good old-fashioned Korean spirit.
Bluesky Writers, what's something you've spent money on that you've found helps you with actually writing? An app or program, a workshop, a getaway to focus on writing, a timed safe to lock up your cellphone so you don't get distracted...? 😗
