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Dipped into this for five months. I always liked it. I don‘t know if I could have read it in one go, but i am now considering reading the sequel.

#weekendreads

Going to be very hot here in my neck of the woods this weekend so planning on staying indoors under the ac and dig into these two titles.

Well… I finally did it. ☝️ I canceled my Audible membership. Sucks, because I took full advantage of premium status; the Great Courses lectures were one of the best things I had ever come across. But the amount of ‘included-with-membership‘ books made it possible for me to save a huge chunk of titles purchased with credits. Which will give me some time before I (most likely) move to LibroFM.

I had the best time with my sister participating in the NEO Indie Bookstore Crawl this weekend. We drove 100+ miles, shopped in 7 stores, went to a Scholastic-style book fair at a music venue, and had fun shopping with friendly readers (my favorite kind of people). I can‘t wait to do it again next year!

A pretty fantastic #bookhaul for #independentbookstoreday! I needed to buy enough to get a free tote. 🤷‍♀️

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! I'm off to catch the last six bookstores on the Greater Charlotte Book Crawl. Support your local indies today! 📚
#independentbookstoreday #bookcrawl #gcbc
(oh and Benny says hi 😽) #catsoflitsy

Seems like an appropriate way to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. Honestly, I haven‘t missed them in the two months since I quit Amazon.

It‘s not terrible. 🤷 It‘s not so much a history as it is a highlight of bookshops the author found interesting. Not a problem, but some of them were not to me. I also do not like the way certain historic events were worded. Eg. In the chapter about “radical” bookstores, he states that Eugene Debs (an American socialist) went to prison. No context. It makes me wonder about other facts he tossed around.