12/23/2025
Yes! What they said. 😂
The delays and damaged shipments and wrong orders and etc. have made this holiday season very challenging, for sure. Thank you so much to every one of you who asked about an order and when we told you we were still waiting, you just shrugged and said, "No worries, it'll get here when it gets here. You're doing your best." WE SO APPRECIATE YOU. Yes, the pickings are a bit slim on the shelves right now, but there are so many treasures still to be found -- and of course we're happy to help match you up with a perfect book we do have in stock. Thanks for being such a supportive community, Roscoe Village and beyond!
We are taking a brief pause from the holiday chaos to say, enjoy the browse. This year, due to several factors beyond our control (publisher consolidation, warehouse overloads, too many robots?!), deliveries are delayed more than we’ve ever seen in our 11 holiday seasons of co-ownership. Orders that were supposed to arrive at the bookstore in 2 days are now taking 8, 10 days or more. Yesterday, we opened a desperately needed restock order to find that even though it was our address on the label, it was some other bookstore’s order inside! We often joke that we are out of books two days before Christmas, but this year it’s painfully true. And what’s worse is that we know that all the books on your list are coming… sometime in January. And then after those books are here, the bills for all those books that you wanted in December will arrive. But by then Chicagoans will be hibernating, not shopping a stupendously well-stocked bookstore. So what we are asking today is if you come to the bookstore, we likely don’t have every book on your very specific list, but we do have lots of treasures. Because we are a mission-driven feminist bookstore, every book on our shelves has been carefully curated for you to discover. So please stop by and, as Lynn always says, enjoy the browse.
With love,
Lynn & Sarah
