pickThis book, the sequel to “Parnassus on Wheels,” follows Roger and Helen Mifflin to their brick-and-mortar bookstore in Brooklyn. It‘s a weird mash-up of a mystery punctuated by Roger‘s lengthy harangues about the state of the world. Not as charming as the first book, but still a pick for me because Morley‘s prose is almost hypnotic. I love the way he can turn a phrase.
#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
panThis 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/?
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-...
Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.
“...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.
The most elegant description of a dog's Big Stretch™ I've ever encountered.
Okay, but I would seriously read an entire book of book stats like these. 😁
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Librarians kept sane by the grace of the catalogue. Truth. 😁
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,“ 🤪.
pickSequel 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
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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
#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.
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
"The people in books become more real to you than anyone in actual life."
#recentlyread #readharder #classicliterature
so-soFirst 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
"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
"You know how much I live in and for books."
#currentlyreading
"They seemed normal enough from behind, but in their eyes he detected the wild, peering glitter of the bibliomaniac."
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#currentlyreading
The feminine intellect leaps like a grasshopper; the masculine plods as the ant.
Is this offensive or not 😂
#currentlyreading #booksaboutbooks #booksarelife #classicliterature
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
pickAnother 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
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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
pickI recently read both of these little gems and they are such a joy. Nostalgic and folksy, short and sweet. 🤓
“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
pickAfter 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.
pickWhat 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.
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.”
My local independent bookshop is run by romance author Angela Quarles and her shelf tags are always good for a giggle! #romantsy
pickI 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!
so-so#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
Visited this charming, historic bookstore today 😍 #supportindiebookstores
pickI 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!
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
Cute handwritten ex libris found in a 1919 copy of The Haunted Bookshop. #usedbooks #exlibris #foundinabook #cats
“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
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!
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.
The Haunted Bookshop | 
