#5JoysFriday!
🌹A perfect bloom in the rose garden at church
🤗 Every person in my Education for Ministry group!
👶🏼 A FB memory of the year my roommate‘s boyfriend made a baby Jesus-shaped cake for our Christmas party 😂
🎄📚Reading by the Christmas tree
🎶🎷My husband‘s big band Christmas concert last night
“A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day.”
pick#TheBookshop #EvanFriss #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations. This was an interesting book about the history of bookstores.
Spent the afternoon at a giant book sale! Found a bunch of holiday books - book haul to come.😆🎄🎅🏼📚 #christmaschapterchasers #wintergames @StayCurious
6 NONFICTION books completed in November—setting up a few interesting matches. The tagged book was my pick. And my enjoyment of it pushed it ahead of its competitor from September. However, I‘m still thinking about the wild card memoir—so I gave it the nod to move on. But in the end, my love of a well-written narrative nonfiction propels “Challenger” into the finals. What a fun year this has shaped up to be!
#2024ReadingBrackets
My #bookhaul from the First Light bookstore in Austin, TX.
pickAre you a big book nerd? Have you always wanted to know how people become librarians or booksellers? Then this collection of interviews might be perfect for you! My lament…I wish it had more interviews of truly independent bookstore owners and employees. It felt like the majority of interviews were from bookstore chains … and those stores are super important to the book economy!….i just wanted more of the one off, mom and pop stores!
pickThis ended up being heavier in tone than I anticipated, but it provided a beautiful contrast with lighter, warmer and quietly triumphant moments, and the happy ending. The characters introduced are at once simple caricatures and lonely people with real world problems. The answer is as much about community and connection as it is about books. 1/?
pickI really enjoyed this breezy history of bookstores in the U.S., from colonial days to the present (shoutout to my local indie, RJ Julia Booksellers, which garnered a mention!). It took me a month because I didn‘t read it straight through — I dipped into it a chapter or a section at a time. Definitely recommend for anyone who loves books about bookstores —and nonfiction.
I can‘t pass them up. Must look even if they don‘t appear to be my type of read. 📚
