Mastodawn

@kimlockhartga recommended some books seemingly only available in USianland. I bought the books second-hand and I've been watching their journeys using overly-detailed trackings.

A book makes a stop, and I give myself 30 minutes to learn something vaguely interesting about where they are.

It's harder than you think!

Mableton, Georgia
Itasca, Illinois
Avenel, New Jersey

Something I've learned is that because the U.S. dollar is weak, it's cheaper to get graphic novels and YA books from Fashland than it is here! I don't know how to feel about this.

#Bookshops #BookRecs

Martyn 3d ago

Ever dreamed of running a second-hand bookshop?

A read of Shaun Bythell's trio of bookshop diaries is the perfect antidote.

I really enjoyed this hilarious insight into the second hand book trade, and recognised the eccentricities of small town rural life.

https://quitebookish.com/2026/04/01/lost-and-found-in-wigtown-the-bookselling-diaries-of-shaun-bythell/

#books #bookstodon #bookblogging #bookreviews #Wigtown #Scotland #bookselling #bookshops

Lost and Found in Wigtown (The bookselling diaries of Shaun Bythell)

“A customer at 11.15 a.m. asked for a copy of Far from the Maddening Crowd. In spite of several attempts to explain that the book’s title is actually Far from the Madding Crowd, he resolutely refus…

Quite Bookish

Steven Lawson Photography 4d ago

I am sat having lunch in Waterstones’ cafe after a photo walk around Glasgow and it occurred to me that in my 63 years I have never witnessed bad behaviour in a bookshop. No rudeness, no vulgarity, no unpleasantness of any kind, just quiet, civil, dignified behaviour. That’s quite telling, isn’t it?
#bookshops

TheEdinburghBookshop Mar 20

#WhatWereReading : Ivana loved The Brides, by Charlotte Cross, a fantastic prequel to Dracula, with a feminist twist & plenty of Gothic atmosphere. Out now from Tor Nightfire.

#books #livres #CharlotteCross
#TheBrides #Gothic #Dracula #fiction #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #RecommendedReading

Matt Mar 20

My local bookstore @prismaticpages will start publishing books under the name Prismatic Press 📚

If you want to join the launch party / signing for their first book, That Quiet Fog by Jay Samuel, follow the link:

🎈 https://shop.prismaticpages.com/products/book-launch-and-party-that-quiet-fog-by-jay-samuel

#books #bookstodon #oslo #allheimen #thatQuietFog #JaySamuel #bookshops #bookstores

Book launch and party: That Quiet Fog by Jay Samuel

TheEdinburghBookshop Mar 19

It's here!! Jamie Smart (the insanely popular Bunny Vs Monkey series) has his new collection, Megalomaniacs, just arrived from David Fickling Books

#comics #BandeDessinee #GraphicNovels #books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #Megalomaniacs #ComicsForKids #ChildrensComics #JamieSmart #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Robin Ince Mar 19

I’m coming back to #pontypridd - tickets here

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-Books/t-pllqpog
#wales #southwales #poetry #bookshops

TheEdinburghBookshop Mar 19

Always a pleasure to have a return visit from the excellent Scottish scribe, Jenni Fagan - signed copies of her new novel, The Delusions, available now!

#books #livres #TheDelusions #JenniFagan #Novel #Roman #ScottishFiction #ScottishLiterature #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #SignedBooks #SignedEditions

TheEdinburghBookshop Mar 18

#WhatWereReading : Joe found Professor Anna Whitelock's The Sun Rising (pub Bloomsbury) to be a fascinating insight into the change from the Elizabethan to Stewart period, laying foundations for a more global Britain afterwards (for good & ill!).

Less a biography of James, more about the world changing around him, at home and abroad (in a seemingly ever expanding world as ships explore more and more of the globe), and how he and those around him react or change to those.

Now in PB

#books #livres #History #Histoire #TheSunRising #JamesI #JamesVI #AnnaWhitelock #HistoryBooks #LivresHistoires #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #BritishHistory #ScottishHistory