Sure, I’m excited for a movie of the Odyssey. But also, I’m not gonna get my hopes up for an Odyssey movie made by film bros until I know that they are fully aware what an asshole Odysseus is.

Wow, publishing sure has completely failed on fulfillment this season. Maybe it wasn’t a great idea to have 3 companies distribute 80% of the books.

@universalhub.com Any word on what might be happening that has the 39 detoured— which is currently covering for the green line shutdown? So there is actually currently no way to get from here to there?

It’s funny. Restaurant folk always remember me- orders, preferences. I always assume it’s because I’m the fat lady by myself reading, This lady just told me last time I was here, they were slammed & I told her as I left to breathe & she was doing a great job. She says I made her day.

I got an envelope that was sent to me from a publisher by UPS ground. Inside it is a postcard telling me happy holidays from a picture book. That is all. This makes me incandescent with rage.

Why does this picture of Glenn Close look like one of the big head books?

No one really warns you about the grieving you’ll end up doing as a service worker. That maybe you’re not family, but when someone stops in the store once a week, you are family. It’s been a tough week of losses. A regular. A beloved doggie regular. The cat I’ve lived with 3 years. I’m sad.

Is the novel even about World War II if you can’t see the woman’s back on the cover?

Ok everyone is seeing auroras and I can’t see an aurora and I hate every one of you.

Picture books on the brain this week and I remembered Mac Barnett saying “If we don’t think picture books are real literature, then we don’t believe that children are real people.” Yes, sir.

I just found out my newest roommate thinks it was a good thing to put Hayden Christensen as the force ghost at the end of Return of the Jedi and seriously, I don’t know if this is going to work out.

It’s literally on the Freedom Trail

Actually like “If Mamdani won NYC, I can change the sheets on my bed” today.

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Do Bezos next! #Orcas2026

I love teenagers rick or treating. A while ago though, my niece told me angrily about a group of boys in the neighborhood dressed as bush people. I agreed with her that was absolutely inappropriate. But then it turned out they were actually dressed as bushes and just jumping up and scaring people

All I want to do is make displays of stuffies and read picture books to kids in goofy voices. Needing to argue about free speech absolutism while Oh Right! panicking for coworkers under a shelter in place order is not it. There’s a reason I’m behind on everything these days.

When will someone convince publicists that they should always include an isbn in their emails?

Working for years at bookstore information desks has given me the skill to assume that half the information people are giving me is incorrect and hear what they really mean instead…. Niece: mom told me I needed to watch Weird Science and it was horrible. Me: Oh, she actually meant Real Genius.

When all the books have sprayed edges, then none of the books will have sprayed edges. Is that a thing?

Nah, I don’t really need that book… but wait! What is this? Sprayed edges???? Who ever HEARD of such a thing. In that case, I’ll take 700! It doesn’t even MATTER what the book is about.

Why am I crying? People getting sent home on a four year old episode of Lego Masters. Which I’ve seen before.

I know I am a horrible killjoy, but the idea of there being a monetary reward for the best Banned Books Week display makes me want to vomit. A display contest? Like it’s a freaking party? Can’t we just give that money to a store actually spending their labor time fighting legal battles?

I’m working on a catalog reading picture books and a dude just read over my shoulder and said “hard at work, huh?” and I am happy to inform you I did not actually punch him in the face.

Someone pointed out a VERY well paying bookstore job to me and I couldn’t even get a quarter of the way through the job description before it made me want to jump into the ocean.

Does AMZ seriously have an ad campaign about how you can spend less on your children because you can’t stand them? Is this the thing that will get me to pay for no ads on peacock?

I went on vacation for two weeks. For 3 of the days I had ZERO cell phone service. And there were no TVs. There was a very sweet baby water buffalo. I kind of want to go back.

Ok, it’s taken me maybe 10 years to connect it, but it’s not that I hate when Survivor does surprise smaller group tribal councils after the merge. It’s when they do it with no discussion time between the announcement and tribal council. Death purely by chance is boring. There needs to be a fight.

They keep massacring people in line for aid and I see less outrage about that from legacy media than I do for the words Mamdani didn’t say

Obviously the Ai Weiwei exhibit feels intensely appropriate for this moment in our country’s time, but that doesn’t need much analysis. The thing my brain is trying to work through after that and the Chihuly museum are the ways their two forms of art interact with current AI BS being forced on us.

Saw the Ai Weiwei exhibit at the @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social today and I kind of wish every single person in the country could see it right now.

Advance request for every small press that will be presenting at Children’s Institute: you should start by saying who distributes you. #CI2025

If there were two things I could say to the folks who send me emails from small presses, they would be: give an isbn for every book you mention. Always say who distributes you.

All the places I used to buy relatively inexpensive 95masks aren’t selling them any more. Do people still masking have favorite sources?

Mostly, I just like that I work somewhere that when I post that jellycat is sending us a bunch of cheeses, one of my co-workers responds that “sweet dreams are made of cheese. Who am I to dis a brie?” (And anyone who know my store knows exactly which co-worker)

Oh jeez I just realized how soon Children’s Institute is. I should try to think about it. I always take a couple connected days off and usually I do it after to decompress from all the people and talking. I was worried about doing it beforehand this year, but I think maybe this year it’s better

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Jesus Christ how many printing errors can you cram into the same super big book.

I really wish that picture book publishers would make any effort to insist that people riding bikes are wearing helmets. Illustrators are talented. They can make it happen.

Haha you know you live in an old ass New England house when you get excited that it’s finally shifted to the warm months when you don’t have to use a door stop to keep the bathroom door from popping open.

Okay, I'll say it: Tonight has been an absolute DRUBBING for Texas book banners. Texas voters stood up and said clearly that they're sick of trustees demonizing teachers. They rejected the absurd policing of libraries & books that has plagued our state for years.

I’ve said it before, but seriously, if you’d like to get a feeling of my mental space, look at my NYT games stats. It is intensely revealing.

Ok, hear me out, but what if there were an emoji that meant “I understand that this thing is not for me, but I love it and will happily pay money to continue to have it,” I don’t know. a rhesus monkey? Is there a rhesus monkey emoji?

Me leaving Sinners as a white lady: how do I make my face project “I really enjoyed this, but understand it was not for me, but I’m glad you have it and I also want more too please”

And my final statement of the night will be that I did absolutely enjoy Sinners. Despite it not being at all my typical watch these days. And I am very glad I got my butt out the house to see it in imax.

Also? I love soft pretzels. And I will NEVER want the cheese you try to give me with them. Give me mustard. Even honey mustard. Horseradish sauce even. This cheese nonsense needs to go back to its gas station nachos where it belongs.

Do you ever have that thing where you hate having been a waitress because you have to way overtip when you see bs happening, but you also kinda can’t afford it? Sigh. One less treat on vacation. It’s fine. I should have gone home after the movie.

omg some poor woman died after a fall at Purgatory Chasm and OF COURSE SHE DID WHO NAMED IT THAT. Name these things… I don’t know… the Sunshine Slit? Nobody dies falling into the Sunshine Slit. Effing puritans. I blame you.

lol when people keep calling the store to thank you because the folks across the street finally stood up a little bit. (We’re not affiliated, but sure we can sell you a bookstore mug)

So sometimes having a job of thousands of tiny decisions every week cooks my brain. In other news, I just realized I accidentally reserved a rental car to go to Easter at my parents for *this weekend* and the cancellation fee would be stupid, so now I get to decide where to drive this weekend