Wow, wow, wow. We are so grateful to all of you that showed up from near and far to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with us. Shopping locally matters and we’re so thankful you spent part of this very rainy day with us. Thank you. 🥰
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
"A page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire."
We're reading "The Wager" by David Grann for this month's Books & Booze Book Club at SoMe Brewing Co. We're meeting Wednesday, April 16 at 6 pm!
“Screaming. A million mouths screaming but also laughing the sky will bleed and there shall be a great flensing a burning away of the flesh it is coming there is no way to stop what is coming.”
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
Also - instead of purchasing your ebooks and audiobooks from Bezos owned companies like Kindle & Audible, consider supporting companies that support Indies - like libro.fm and bookshop.org. Bookshop.org just added ebooks this week!
We love this! And thank you for sharing this. Support for indie bookstores is vital!
And, we also help you find those books that you didn't know you needed! 😉
3/ Like our friends at @printbookstore.bsky.social said today - how do you reconcile the need, as a small business, to stay active on platforms to help nurture these amazing communities out here, with the terrible things being done by the billionaire turds who own the platforms?
2/ Anyway - we're back in and planning to be much more active here. We were never going to use that dumpster fire that used to be Twitter, but the recent changes from Zuckworld have left all of us in tough positions.
Don't you hate it when you sign up for a new platform, write your first post - and then forget the new password you signed up with?
I mean, there's only so many variations of "P4ssw0rd" it could've been...
Hello from your friendly neighborhood book slingers!
