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The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop | Christopher Morley
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GatheringBooks
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#WickedWhispers Day 16: #Haunt - The “haunted bookshop” is essentially haunted by “the ghosts of all great literature.” Nicely put, right? My full review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-gov

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent ❤️ 2w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2w
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Robotswithpersonality
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Panpan

This book is so confused. It's something of a sequel to Parnassus on Wheels, which is a pity, because that felt like a clear narrative. Roger Mifflin continues to have a passion for books, eloquently if verbosely expressed. Due to the time of publication (1918/19) now added to the many things he suggests they are a remedy for is the tragedy of war. Again, some incisive anti-war sentiment I can get behind. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Alas, there are also some very old ideas about the world buried in here. I would happily have read a work surrounding the plot of a young woman, daughter of an old family friend, being a new employee at Mifflin\'s now stationary book selling institution, The Haunted Bookshop. Even if Helen is now kind of a background character. Morley decided he needed to add a touch of truly painful romance and a mystery involving an advertising man. 1mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? I think Aubrey is supposed to be vaguely ridiculous for plot purposes, but he comes off as a moron that gave me a headache.
Worse, he\'s proved at least partially right in his prejudices when the German-American turns out to be the bad guy. Oh, and the dog dies, violently. WTF Morley?!
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Robotswithpersonality 4/4
Good news: You don\'t have to spend money on this if you\'re still curious, it\'s available in digital form free via the Internet Archive.
⚠️ derogatory/out of date language, animal death
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Robotswithpersonality
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Congrats Morley, you got it in the dictionary! 😄
“The word is considered a coinage by American writer Christopher Morley. In his novel The Haunted Bookshop...“
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-librocubicularist-mean-slang-...

TieDyeDude 👍 😂 1mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.

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Robotswithpersonality
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“...love humanity, love the world, not just our own country!“ 👏🏻🙌🏻
20th and 21st century history make a compelling case for the dangers of patriotism wielded as an ideology: nationalism.

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Robotswithpersonality
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📚♥️

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Robotswithpersonality
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The most elegant description of a dog's Big Stretch™ I've ever encountered.

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Robotswithpersonality
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Okay, but I would seriously read an entire book of book stats like these. 😁

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Robotswithpersonality
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New booktube challenge video idea.

Texreader This is great!! 1mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Custom bookish dog house. ☺️

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Robotswithpersonality
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Hee hee.

dabbe 😂🤩😂 1mo
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Texreader
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Join us for the #HauntedShelf games hosted by @PuddleJumper #hexesandcrows @Catsandbooks

If you haven't signed up yet, there are still two days left. Just click on the link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7g2cbAys_w6B9G5HHloV6kRr1yQvXVOptseGn...

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🐦‍⬛🧡 1mo
PuddleJumper 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🖤 1mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Librarians kept sane by the grace of the catalogue. Truth. 😁

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Robotswithpersonality
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I'm leery of how respectful a phrase like “all manner of Irish“ might be these days, but I am intrigued by any book promoted in the vein of 'a relapse into irresponsible freakishness,“ 🤪.

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Robotswithpersonality
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Warning as marketing?

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PurpleyPumpkin
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Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 2mo
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BkClubCare
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Starting the shortest audiobook in my library 🎧 #Classics

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Eggs
Haunted Bookshop (Dodo Press) | Christopher Morley
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Pickpick

Sequel to Parnassus on Wheels, this one is set in Brooklyn around the time of the end of World War I. It continues the story of Roger Mifflin, the book seller in Parnassus on Wheels. It also details an adventure of Miss Titania Chapman and a young advertising man named Aubrey Gilbert. Witty and clever

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick
#SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

TheSpineView Well done! 1y
Andrew65 Great 👏👏👏 1y
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monalyisha
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So…I started to do this & it‘s way too hard for me. 🙈

Basically, I like all of these things. 🤷‍♀️🙃

The only answers that felt very clear to me were:
🦇 Treats (over tricks)
🦇 Caramel Apples (over bobbing)
🦇 Skeletons (over zombies)
🦇 Bats (over cats; I‘m allergic 🤧)

Cute graphic, @wanderinglynn !
#HHS #HauntedHollowSwap

wanderinglynn Thanks! It is tough on some of them! 🙌🏻🎃🖤 3y
Reign_5.0 May I do this 3y
monalyisha @Reign_1982 Of course! You can find the original template (without my markings) over on @wanderinglynn‘s page. 3y
sweet_anemone For me:
Treat
Witches
Pumpkin
Scary books
Caramel apples
Dracula
Costume party
Chocolate
Skeleton
Hot chocolate
Black cats
3y
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mrp27
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#litsyspringbreak #hauntedhouse

Not quite a house but is it really haunted? I read this awhile ago and I enjoyed this book about a book shop in Brooklyn in 1919.

TheKidUpstairs I haven't read this one yet, but I loved 4y
bibliobliss Yes, Parnassus on Wheels is great! (edited) 4y
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bibliobliss
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Look, here's an old copy of How to Be Happy Though Married, which I see the publisher lists as 'Fiction.'

😂😂

#recentlyread #readharder #funnies #classicliterature

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bibliobliss
The Haunted Bookshop | Christopher Morley

"The people in books become more real to you than anyone in actual life."

#recentlyread #readharder #classicliterature

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bibliobliss
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Mehso-so

First finished book of 2021 ?

1 / 50

3 / 5 ⭐️ The tagged book is the charming sequel to "Parnassus on Wheels" but doesn't quite live up to the fun and hijinks of the first book. This one didn't hold my attention like the first one. Also, it was trying a little too hard to be a caper and the action felt a little tacked on near the end. Still, a good read and now the series is complete!!

#recentlyread #readharder #classicliterature

CuriousG I loved Parnassus On Wheels but DNF'd this one. You are correct- it just doesn't live up to the first one 4y
bibliobliss @CuriousG Yes, it fell a bit short of the first one but I am glad to have read it 😉 4y
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bibliobliss
The Haunted Bookshop | Christopher Morley

"Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness."

#currentlyreading

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bibliobliss
The Haunted Bookshop | Christopher Morley

"You know how much I live in and for books."

#currentlyreading

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bibliobliss
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"They seemed normal enough from behind, but in their eyes he detected the wild, peering glitter of the bibliomaniac."

??

#currentlyreading

suvata Hey, Bibliomaniac is my Twitter name 🤓 4y
bibliobliss @suvata It's quite fitting then, eh? 😉 4y
suvata @Readage Absolutely 4y
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bibliobliss
The Haunted Bookshop | Christopher Morley

The feminine intellect leaps like a grasshopper; the masculine plods as the ant.

Is this offensive or not 😂

#currentlyreading #booksaboutbooks #booksarelife #classicliterature

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bibliobliss
The Haunted Bookshop | Christopher Morley

The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.

#currentlyreading #SerialReader #classicliterature #booksaboutbooks #booksarelife

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Linsy
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Another great read ruminating on books and what they mean to the world, but this time with intrigue! I must admit though, I prefer Parnassus. 📚

+16 pts #teamslaughter #scarathlon #screamathon
#cocoturns50 #readyourway #classicschallenge2020

BookInMyHands Me too, but I really enjoyed both. I read them out of order so it was probably nice to read my favorite last! 4y
TheSpineView 🧡📚🖤🎃 4y
Clwojick 🎉👏 👏 Way to go #TeamSlaughhter!! 👏 👏 🎉 4y
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Blackink_WhitePaper
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LOL 😂 The philosophy of dish washing 😆🤣 Anyone tried this 🤓😜?

It was totally a random pick, but it‘s so good 😊

#haunted #classics #bookquotes

Arvena I listen to audiobooks while doing dish washing and similar chores :) 4y
KVanRead @Arvena I was just thinking, this guys really would have loved audiobooks! 4y
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Becker
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I recently read both of these little gems and they are such a joy. Nostalgic and folksy, short and sweet. 🤓

Blueberry Parnassus on Wheels was a lot of fun. 😄 4y
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Lizstarks
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“It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress. No matter what the work is, one must spiritualise it‘s in some way.” P.13

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Ncostell
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Pickpick

After reading Parnassus on Wheels, I moved on to its sequel, The Haunted Bookshop. Roger and Helen Mifflin have set up shop in Brooklyn which is haunted by the ghosts of the books they have yet to read. While not quite as charming as Parnassus on Wheels, it was still entertaining and an ode to book sellers and book lovers alike.

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Liatrek
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MidnightBookGirl Love that cover! 5y
Clwojick Looks good! 5y
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Rothdell
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Pickpick

What a beauty of a book! Romance, action, a mystery, a beloved dog, and references upon references of books one should read. The major theme of the novel is discovery and what may curiously sit on a shelf in a bookstore, where unknown words can come alive, described greatly in the above picture. Highly recommend.

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Rothdell
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Man, I neeeeed to go to a bookshop now. I‘m jonesing!!

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Rothdell
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I moved from Iowa City to Colorado and the last book I bought from my favorite bookstore was the owners favorite! I don‘t think I‘ll ever go again so the text is already quite nostalgic for me... and if you made it this far in my block of a post, here‘s a wonderful quote from the novel: “The world has been printing books for 450 years and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printers ink is the great explosive: it will win.”

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Carleneishere
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My local independent bookshop is run by romance author Angela Quarles and her shelf tags are always good for a giggle! #romantsy

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HillsAndHamletsBookshop
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I recently listened to this on Libro.fm with @underground_bks and so enjoyed it! Despite some understandably dated gender politics, as booksellers his work is often quoted and referenced and it was really fun!

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GatheringBooks
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#BlackCatChallenge Day 19: Contrary to what the title suggests, there are no ghosts in this novel. The bookshop is essentially #haunted by “the ghosts of all great literature.” Nicely put, right? I also loved how the main character articulated the nightmare of every bibliophile who has his or her own library – the sheer impossibility of reading all the novels in the world that speak to us. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-gov

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staci.reads
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Visited this charming, historic bookstore today 😍 #supportindiebookstores

rather_be_reading how awesome!! love the name! 6y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Oh wow! (How haunted is it? 🤭) 6y
staci.reads @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Scariest thing we experienced was a pretentious English major complaining loudly about what she believes is a badly translated version of Le Miserables 😂 6y
staci.reads @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled The story is that the bookshop is named after the Christopher Morley book by that name. 6y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Ah! Now I get it. And, pretentious English majors 🙄 - I‘d rather face a ghost, thanks 6y
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HotCocoaReads
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I loved this book about the spooky happenings around an old dusty bookshop on the east coast. Okay, so it's not haunted with ghosts, just the souls of the books that have chosen their readers. I love this idea. So many lovely quotes for us bibliophiles! The detective story was good--not predictable, so I consider that pretty good!

LeahBergen I‘ve had this book for ages (along with Parnassus on Wheels) and should really get to them one of these days. 🙄 6y
HotCocoaReads @LeahBergen I want to read Parnassus on Wheels now! 6y
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mrp27
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#octoberputaspellonyou

Currently reading this classic about a #book

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YouReadMyEyes
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Till the season...when things go bump in the night. BOO 👻 I love fall.

A great #bookhaul at the #antiquarianbookfair today! I‘m ready for October and all the creepy things.

#sciencefiction #horror #haunted #bookfair #screamathon

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Quirkybookworm ❤️❤️ 6y
Amyegia I loved this book! 6y
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Megara
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Cute handwritten ex libris found in a 1919 copy of The Haunted Bookshop. #usedbooks #exlibris #foundinabook #cats

Libby1 Wonderful! 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.”
#readingresolutions #bookstore

Liatrek Oh wow then my house is filled with ghost! I better get reading😊 I wonder can I use that as a call out excuse. “Hey, boss I can‘t make it I got some ghost busting to do “📚📚📚 7y
mrp27 This is one of my current reads (I always read more than one book at a time)! 7y
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sunnyaltman
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I'm getting a head start on one of my New Year's resolutions to actually post on Litsy! A coworker who used to own a bookstore brought this to me to read today. Let's see if his recommendation holds up!

RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon 7y
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RaimeyGallant I have a link to a blog post I wrote with some other peeps on here with a bunch of Litsy tips, but someone yesterday told me I was being spammy. If you want it, let me know. :) 7y
sunnyaltman I would love the link @RaimeyGallant! (edited) 7y
BookishMe I LOVE the other book 7y
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xicanti
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Today I went to Sidney, the Saanich Peninsula's Book Town. I spent most of my time poking around the museum and all the awesome thrift stores (with lots of attention paid to the books sections), then scarfing down some amazing fried cod and chowder at Fish On 5th, but I did manage a longish dive into The Haunted Bookshop.

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BarbaraJean
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...the terrible hypnotism of #war, the brute mass impulse; the pride & national spirit; the instinctive simplicity of men, that makes them worship what is their own above everything else. I‘ve thrilled & shouted with patriotic pride...Music & flags & men marching in step have bewitched me...then I‘ve gone home & sworn to root this evil instinct out of my soul. God help us, let‘s love the world, love humanity; not just our own country. #quotsynov17