Saturday, April 26th 2025
Did you know that today
– Saturday, April 26th –
is a very special day for our local booksellers?!
If you can this weekend, go out (or even online) and show them some love 🖤
hot Ghoul bookshop walk 👻
With the weather being overcast and foggy on the east coast, I went for a spooky moody walk to support my favorite local bookshops in the downtown area ⚓
Support local 🍁
More than ever, we need to support each other and truly be compassionate on this planet. Today being such a special one for our indie bookstores, showing them endless love and gratitude for their presence was a no-brainer, but it’s also just super important to consistently show up for our local vendors as much as we possibly can.
They provide us with such wonderful, collectively shared, good energy and without their existence, we might not get a taste of the amazing stories and perspectives they can share with us (or find the coolest books that must be added immediately to my bookshelf 🤭)
What felt like eternity inside my sacred happy place was merely less than an hour before I decided on the goods and made my purchase. I might have been on a book buying ban before… now I’m on a book buying EXTINCTION (until I can add more $$$ in the book envelope…)
👀 CIBD Contest for Book Lovers
If you happened to purchase any books from your local bookstore and have your receipt handy, you can actually enter in the CIBD Book Lovers Contest and win some $$$ (and I’ll be the first to admit, I’d have a good chunk of that $$$ go towards buying more books 🙈)
You can visit their webpage (by clicking on the image above) to learn more about how you can support your local bookstores, and how you can enter the contest 🌟
Show me your books 📚
I’ll show you mine… if you show me yours?
…so I can add more to my never-ending TBR 😈
I walked out of Bookmark with three delightfully terrifying tales: Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou was an INSTAbuy with how hot it made our May Morbid Curiosities voting poll, and False Bodies by J. R. McConvey recently came into my view after reading the synopsis, but The Rats by James Herbert was a fun one to find with that cover art 😍 (and my obsession with Charlie Day on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
💬 Did you go on a book haul?
drop them books in the comments below 👇
Book Spotlight on 🔦 False bodies by j.r. mcconvey
I’m captivated by the mentioning of “genre-bending noir” meets “heart-pounding tension and creeping fear of Alien” in False Bodies. Seriously, I can’t wait to dive deep into a squid monster horror which happens to be set in my home province of Newfoundland! 🖤👀
I hope you all had a wonderfully word-filled Caturday and thanks again for stumbling into this creepy corner of the interwebs 🕷️🕸️
Until we meet again,
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