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Starting the shortest audiobook in my library 🎧 #Classics

Sequel 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

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick
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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

First 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."

??

#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

Another 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
#cocoturns50 #readyourway #classicschallenge2020

LOL 😂 The philosophy of dish washing 😆🤣 Anyone tried this 🤓😜?

It was totally a random pick, but it‘s so good 😊

#haunted #classics #bookquotes

I 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

After 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.

#TeamSlaughter #scarathlon
@Clwojick
#ChillingPhotoChallenge Day 1 haunted

What 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.

Man, I neeeeed to go to a bookshop now. I‘m jonesing!!

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

I 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!

#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

I 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!

#octoberputaspellonyou

Currently reading this classic about a #book

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 terrible hypnotism of #war, the brute mass impulse; the pride & national spirit; the instinctive simplicity of men, that makes them worship what is their own above everything else. I‘ve thrilled & shouted with patriotic pride...Music & flags & men marching in step have bewitched me...then I‘ve gone home & sworn to root this evil instinct out of my soul. God help us, let‘s love the world, love humanity; not just our own country. #quotsynov17

So I've read Parnassus on Wheels several times and love it beyond belief, but have never taken the leap to read the sequel. So glad I finally got started. #inlove #booksforthesoul #parnassus

I was blown away by my Halloween exchange from @rubyslippersreads and love absolutely everything! I actually had tears of joy and unbelief when I opened the vintage Haunted Bookshop. I‘ve wanted to read The Night Circus forever and Distant Waves looks great! Everything was wrapped with impeccable detail and I‘m beyond delighted with everything. It was like you‘ve known me my whole life! I can‘t thank you enough for such a special gift! 😘

I need some inspiration. I'm looking for a bone-chilling ghost story. 💀

More Sunday afternoon indulgence. Bring on the calories!

#FallIntoBooks Day 25: I just finished reading "Parnassus On Wheels" yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. This, being the book's sequel is "NextUp" - perfect for our ongoing #MetaReading theme.

A little disappointing based on the title I had hopes for the supernatural. It was kind of a spy/mystery with the author able to promote books in the telling. It's kind of slow – takes a while to get to the intrigue but interesting after it gets going. I did really like all the references to books and reading! 🤓

I had downloaded this book for free from a Kindle deal, but wouldn't have minded paying for it. Mr. & Mrs. Mifflin own a bookshop in Brooklyn. Titania has come to work for them, by the request of her father, to learn about the business of selling books. Aubrey stumbles upon this shop & gets tied up in a mystery of disappearing books. A quick read that also promotes a love of good books and reading.

I kind of like the reflection in the picture. 😁

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians. #librariansoflitsy

What I‘m telling you is that the bookseller is a public servant. He ought to be pensioned by the state. The honour of his profession should compel him to do all he can to spread the distribution of good stuff.

I'm on a roll with books about books. ☺️📚
#currentread

A companion novella to Parnassus on Wheels. Mr. and Mrs. Mifflin are now the proprietors of a bookshop in Brooklyn haunted by the past greats of literature. After they hire the wealthy Titania Chapman, a real haunting seems underfoot as a certain book keeps disappearing. Ad man and admirer of Titania, Aubrey Gilbert, plays sleuth in this bookish mystery. I've never seen my name in a book before, so that was fun. #24in48 #readathon

My #24in48 #TBR stack for this weekend! Not pictured: some Penguin Little Black Classics that I'll read in between. I'm so excited 📚📖📚

Ohhhhhh how awesome does this 15th century bookshop look?!?! 👀 😲 😍 (it's in Lewes, East Sussex!)

While I've got more than enough on my #TBR shelf to keep me busy for years, I still download books to my Kindle (and borrow from the library on it) for when I travel. This is a #traveling book!

I finished this while audiocleaning yesterday. It's full of a lot of digressions on the noble profession of bookselling, and quite a bit of post-WWI intrigue.... and while I didn't find it as thoroughly delightful as Parnassus on Wheels, it was still lots of bookish fun.

ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK LENT TO A FRIEND:

I GIVE humble & hearty thanks for the safe return of this book which having endured the perils of my friend's bookcase & the bookcases of my friend's friends, now returns to me in reasonably good condition.

I GIVE humble & hearty thanks that my friend did not see fit to give this book to his infant as a plaything, nor use it as an ash-tray for his burning cigar, nor as a teething-ring for his mastiff.👇