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This collection of short stories is pretty good. My personal favorites were “Gregg Fisher‘s Pontiac Vibe”, “New Directions”, and “Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday.”

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon 📚🍷😸 (not pictured: Fleetwood Mac on repeat)

Checking another bookstore off my list - Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe in Washington D.C.

Haul forthcoming 📚

Sneaking in some reading before I go home! #allisnotlost @Liberty

A very clever collection of vaguely interconnected short stories that are mostly funny (sometimes laugh out loud funny), but also unexpectedly dark. The unifying theme? Dead end corporate America. I guess I should have been less surprised when things took a darker turn.

Favorite stories: "Northanger Abbey," "Winners and Losers," "What Do You Think Is Wrong with You?," "Back to Me," "Him," and "Sofia Coppola Is My Favorite."

Portrait of the artist in her natural habitat: in bed with a book.

#andawaytheygo #currentlyreading

I bought this very funny short story collection at @strandbookstore in June after hearing @Liberty and @rebeccaschinsky talk about it on All The Books.

It's a small volume, which means it's easy to throw into a purse. And, as you can see it's looking pretty well-loved (or neglected, maybe) as a result.

Does this happen to your books too? Which ones? Are these books well-loved or neglected?

#currentlyreading #andawaytheygo

Sometimes, the perfect thing to get you out of a three-month long reading slump is to go to a crowded bar by yourself, let the chatter turn into white noise, nurse a bottle or two of Original Sin cider, and READ.

#titlewithapropername #readjanuary

I randomly picked two out of my enormous #tbr pile. 📚

This started off so great. It made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion. About 2/3rds of the way through, the stories started being more sad than funny and then they just became straight up weird. A lot of these felt like SNL skits that start off strong, but then go on so long that they're ruined. Definitely pros here, but not my favorite. Has anyone else read this? Maybe I just didn't get it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This feels appropriate to start my first day back after an extended work holiday. I needed something light and funny after Sand.

Not a bad year at all and still a couple of weeks to go!!! #myyearinbooks

The rapid self reflexive allusions in this story ("Northanger Abbey") are fantastic.

Here's my #wanttoreaddec stack--hoping to lift the reading rut that was November by making my way through these shorter volumes. #seasonsreadings2016

Book mail is the best mail!

I pulled this one out of my "Up next" pile, which was starting to look like a "Never gonna get to" pile. So far it's a little strange.

Because @Liberty told me to read this on All the Books.

I've been hunting for this since @Liberty mentioned it on the 5/17 All the Books episode--finally got a copy during today's visit to @strandbookstore aka The Happiest Place on Earth with @Eloisedhead -- the hiding book is Françoise Sagan's Bonjour, Tristesse.

Cannot resist what looks like a laugh out loud collection about the drudgery that is corporate America.

Do you like Dear Comittee Members or Dating Your Mom? ( The book, not the activity) Then this book for you! Funny, quirky short stories centered around delusions and office buildings. My favorite is about an author offering book club questions about her Northanger Abbey book (no relation to Austen.)

I love weird office books (see also: Radio Iris and The Beautiful Bureaucrat) and I love office supplies! (We have spent the last 24 hours on the Book Riot in-house channel nerding out about journaling techniques. It's a beautiful thing.) Back to the book: I also love Unnamed Press! Yay, books!!!