books
Favorite Fiction Pick – The Summer Wives
I’m going to be posting some of my favorite books from 2018 here on my blog in the weeks to come! As you likely know, I work at an independent bookstore – Content Bookstore in Northfield, Minnesota. I love that I am surrounded by books at work and at home and feel lucky that I am…
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Reading Past my Bedtime
I was up way past my bedtime last night finishing an advance reader copy of Saints for All Occasions, a novel by J. Courtney Sullivan which will be on sale May 9, 2017. I confess, I stayed up past my bedtime reading this book the night before last, too. And was reading it at breakfast yesterday morning. And…
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Chocolate Cake – Life from Scratch
A few months ago, I finished reading Life from Scratch: a memoir of food, family, and forgiveness by Sasha Martin, blogger at Global Table Adventure. I thoroughly enjoyed the book so I wrote a mini-review to recommend Life from Scratch to our customers at Content Bookstore. Among other things, I wrote that Life from Scratch is “a delicious read, with recipes!” Each chapter of the book…
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Locally Laid – a Plucky Memoir
Back in the beginning of August, Content Bookstore had an event with Lucie Amundsen, author of the memoir Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm from Scratch. I was excited to be working at Content that night as I was really curious about the book and wanted to learn more of how Lucie and her husband, Jason, started up an egg farm in…
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Thanks for the Reminder, Lab Girl
Part of the fun of working in a bookstore is that we get advance copies of books to read. Another great thing is that we have author events. I feel like I hit the jackpot because the author of one of the advance copies I am reading, a memoir titled Lab Girl, is coming to…
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Books for Spring Break
My daughter, Rose, and I are heading to Chicago early tomorrow morning for a mother/daughter mini-break. We’re going to visit a couple of colleges, see some sights, shop a bit and enjoy some good food. Also on the agenda is plenty of writing and reading time – hopefully accompanied by a good coffee or cup of…
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Goodnight Mr. Darcy
Today I picked up a cute little book I special ordered from Content Bookstore where I work part-time. The book, Goodnight Mr. Darcy, is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice in the fashion of the beloved children’s classic Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. I honestly don’t remember how I found out that Goodnight Mr. Darcy existed, I must have seen it…
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Books for Christmas
Books are a mainstay present in our family at Christmastime. This year, likely because I work at Content Bookstore so my shopping for books for gifts was super easy, we ended up with more books for Christmas than other years. I was delighted to receive four new novels from Owen and the kids, all of which were on…
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Books and more books!
I love books so I’m super excited to say I have a new part-time job working in a local independent bookstore – Content Bookstore in Northfield, Minnesota. Content opened about a year ago when a friend of mine, Jessica, purchased the bookstore known as Monkey See, Monkey Read, moved the inventory into a bigger space in downtown…
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C is for Clearing Space
I think I’m like a lot of other people in that I get overwhelmed when I look at the cluttered areas in my home, garage and garden and see all the work I have to do to get it all organized. What happens to me is I look at the clutter and the task of cleaning and organizing seems…
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