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GRACE NOTES - JANUARY 2022

 

Happy New Year! We’re going meta this month, focusing on books set in bookstores and libraries. If there is a unifying theme in most of these books, it is the high quirk factor that accompanies life in a repository of literature. Award-winning author and bookseller Louise Erdrich’s new one is a salute to booksellers wrapped in a horror story wrapped in social commentary. A turbooken, if you will.

GRACE NOTES - DECEMBER 2021

I am writing this on Cyber Monday, ostensibly the day when everyone goes online to polish off their holiday shopping in one fell swoop. Call this a commercial, call it a public service announcement, call it a heartfelt plea - this month’s blog is a bald-faced exhortation to shop locally. If you are shopping online, please shop at a place that has a storefront in your community.

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