I went thrifting yesterday! Spent $15 and came home with the pictured books. 😍📚

New grade level this year means (almost) all new books! The only one that I've taught before is Night, but there are twelve new ones that I have to learn starting with The Rock and The River.
Has anyone taught this one before?

You guys, our bookish blind dates were featured in a Buzzfeed article, "24 Things To Treat Yourself To If You're A Swiftie"! I just had to share with my favorite little bookish community because I know you guys will understand how exciting this is! ??

I'm a little ways in & I'm already loving the way this feels like a very millennial version of "The Road". Obviously this has much more background and it's not a father and son, but it's post-apocalyptic and the journey to Chicago to find a doomsday-prepper's safe house is piquing my interest.

I need to read EVERYTHING this author has published. This book hooked me faster than anything I've read in a while. It was a multi-layered, creepy, brilliantly plotted story about four friends who slowly and brutally pay for a mistake they made ten years prior. The interwoven parts written in the second person were especially brilliant because I spent the first part of the book wondering if it was paranormal or paranoia driving the chaos.

My little reading buddy 🥺

I'm not going to lie, I avoided this book at the library sale for a while because of the title, but it was blurbed by Tommy Orange & the author is being compared to Jordan Peele. I also started the first chapter and realized it's set where my father-in-law lived for a long time, Williston, ND. 😳

I haven't cried real tears for a book probably since I read Firefly Lane. This was multi-layered, character-driven, and so beautifully atmospheric that I was missing my hometown in the PNW the entire time.
The realities of aging and navigating hardship were handled in a way that felt so real. Tova was strong and made tough choices, but I loved watching her heal in real time.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Should I be packing for the move that's happening on Friday? Yes. Am I starting a new book instead? Also yes.

I love doing giveaways on here, but I gotta direct you to our TikTok for this one if you want to enter. 🥰
Our humble little bookshop just hit 2,000 sales! To celebrate, we're giving away a personalized blind date book and a Late Night edition of Midnights CD. Check out the circled video for details. 📚
Our TikTok handle is @ TheBookishCouple

Mars keeps trying to learn to read. 🤓

Did you know our bookshop has a monthly option? These are the books we chose for this May's personalized book boxes. 😍📚 I can't wait to send these out!!
See any you've read and loved?

Such a sucker for mythological retellings, diverse representation, survival games, and gorgeous maps all sandwiched between a metallic cover. 😍📚

Today's book haul 🤓📚

I love when books have pretty maps 😍

Literally all of these 😂📚

I didn't see this until 10:30 pm, but how cool!! I've always loved mobile libraries. I considered specializing in outreach librarianship, but I just can't seem to let go of working in schools just yet. 🤔🥰

Gooood morning! Today is UNESCO's World Book Day, a day meant for spreading the love of books & reading. 🥰
What are you reading today?

Mother's day is one month away! Let me help you send her a cute & personalized bookish blind date with a hand-written card. 🥰📚
Link is in my bio!

Fit check before meeting the new principal 🤩
I'm moving to middle school next year!! I currently teach seniors & freshmen, so 8th graders will be a big adjustment, lol!

Good morning 🌞 We have chocolate croissants and vanilla coffees on deck this fine Sunday morning. Lucas and I plan to read for as long as humanly possible, so my goal is to get through these two books.

Sunday morning means books, coffee, and donuts in bed. 😍

Last book for this week's homework! I really should've done some of this over spring break, yeesh. 😮‍💨

Another book, another coffee 📖☕️

Taking a sick day today...perfect for getting caught up on my reading assignments. Next up: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me. 💔

This is such a cool graphic memoir about Lewis Hancox's coming out and subsequent ftm transition. I loved the humor, early 2000s pop punk references, and the ability to more deeply understand and empathize with the trans youth in my classes. Highly recommend this one.

On the way home! Lucas and I flew to Phoenix to kick off Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. 😍

Bags are packed ✔️
Airplane book chosen ✔️
Auto-reply is on ✔️

Any guesses where I'm headed with an outfit like this? 🤔

Borrowed this from the library after it was recommended by the wonderful @Soubhiville ! I got through half of it in one sitting. It's entertaining and I love the angsty teen British slang.

Getting started on some homework while I wait for an appointment!
I had an interview this morning that went really well. I think we might be moving this summer. 👀🤞

"When do you think she's going to stop reading and take us for another walk?"
"Just keep staring at her. She'll take pity on us eventually."

Happy Sunday!

I woke up ready to drive two hours to a bookstore in rural Nebraska (I've heard it's amazing) only to find out they're closed today. 😂 Plan B: real allllll day. 📖

This book was an emotional coming-of-age starting with the author's move to Alabama from Seoul when she was an 8th grader. She expresses the power of strong friendships, learns how to stand up for herself against racism, and even begins to empathize with her mother when she visits Seoul as an adult and can no longer relate to her old friends. 10/10 ⭐️

I just binge read this. I loved the interwoven memoir and Vietnamese fairy tales. The end actually made me choke up. 🥺

Sunday morning ☀️📚🐶

This week's required reading for my youth lit seminar!

Sunday morning coffee & reading 🤓📚

This book was SO good! A trio of Black female authors who have dedicated their careers to feminist education share their experiences while discussing everything from music to consent to intersectionality in everyday context. They provide practical life advice on how to be a better feminist and how to discuss that to people who still think feminism is a dirty word. It's written for a young audience, but I actually thought that made it so fun.

When Alex Trebek died, it honestly felt like losing an old friend. I always hoped that I'd make it on Jeopardy and meet him one day. 😔
I didn't even know he'd published a memoir until I found it at the book sale today. I'm very excited to read more about his life.

We had a snow day today so Lucas and I visited the Friends of the Library sale. 😍 $13 for the stack!! My TBR is outta control and I love it. 😂

Mars is a big one year old today 🥺🎉

I am fuming over how easy it was for a group of "concerned citizens" to make tangible steps toward dissolving an entire library system. There's a real fight brewing in the town and a lot of fear-mongering. The people behind the petition say that libraries are unsafe for children to visit because they're flushed with pornography. Be for fucking real.
The massive uptick in book challenges lately is extremely unsettling to me.

Moved out to the couch with my 32 lb weighted blanket. 😂

I think I'm just gonna pop a decongestant & turn today into a readathon. 📚🤧

Our Dorgi is keeping me company as I battle a nasty sinus infection. 🤧 Thankfully it's a long weekend & I didn't have any plans as we're pretty well snowed in.

If I'd had the opportunity, I would've signed up to deliver books on horseback SO quickly. 📚

Going to finish this one tonight 🥰 I'm really into graphic memoirs right now & want to get a bunch when I go to the library next time. What do you all recommend?

Had a distance learning snow day today. I've been working for 12 hours straight and I feel a bit loopy. 🥸

Time to fall into a book.

The Valentine's Day books will be listed until the 15th and then they'll be gone for the year! They're 10% off, so now's the time if you've been waiting. 🥰📚

thebookishcouple.etsy.com

TW: Assault

I am one of those women who was raised to be "sugar and spice and everything nice". Men have taken advantage of that and hurt me because I was too nice to stand up for myself and they knew that. I've worried about taking up too much space, not being pretty enough, and yielding to men so I don't seem "out of line". Fuck that. Fuck all of that. I'm learning how to become a better feminist and that starts with shedding my niceties.

Typically no, but I have in the past when the narrative meanders around to the point of absolute frustration. Sometimes I'm just like, "Get to the freaking point of the story!" *cough* John Updike *cough*

#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz