the library haunter  🦉 🎄 ❄

you want some good news from 2018? I bet you do • book sales are up this year over last year • sales of physical books have grown every year since 2013 • indie bookstores have increased by 35 percent in the past decade reading isn’t dying, it’s *thriving.* happy new year.

get your girl something she'll love this Christmas: a wolf-hound, an evening gown, a horse only she can tame and a sword from a lake signifying that she is to be queen of this land.

getting rid of books you don't want anymore is easy provided you accept that you'll have twice as many books when you finish and you won't know where they came from and the bedroom is theirs now, forever.

if indie bookstores can weather the rise of amazon and the internet and continue to THRIVE and grow and enrich the world, then so can you. there are so, so many good things ahead of us.

At midnight they heard a “click, click, click” on the housetop. “It’s Santa!” the children exclaimed. “Yes, Santa,” said their father as the clicking grew louder. He would not tell them the truth. He did not want them to scream.

starting a GoFundMe to build a wall in my cellar; all racists are invited to come down for a refreshing glass of wine.

how did it get to be 2019? wasn’t it just yesterday we were eating pizza bagel bites on our parents’ couch and spending our whole allowance on the Scholastic book fair

forget nudes: in 2019 we’re sending pics in our fanciest attire. gauzy floral skirts. ball gowns. the kind of fur coat worn by a wealthy lady who has been thrice-widowed and hasn’t seen her fourth husband in some time.

cars: • dangerous • expensive • easily hijacked by Vin Diesel Cat-Bus from Totoro: • environmentally friendly • all-terrain vehicle • kitty

movie producers: looks like we’ve filmed EVERY story library: not true producers: what to film next library: I got some stories producers: how about three THOUSAND sequels, prequels and reboots library: are you *kidding* me