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It’s Romance Bookstore Day!! Come check out the swoony collection at Belonging Books…Centering underrepresented romance ...
08/15/2026

It’s Romance Bookstore Day!! Come check out the swoony collection at Belonging Books…Centering underrepresented romance stories everyday. 💕

Reel Review / me not shutting up about kennedy ryan:

I always call Kennedy Ryan my soul author because there’s something about the way she writes people that just gets me every 👏🏽 single 👏🏽 time 👏🏽 !!! Her characters are so real and raw, her prose is stunning, and her stories are completely addictive!!!

I’ve read 60+ books this year, and Reel is one of only three five-star reads! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Does that tell you how much I adored it????

And bonus points: the audiobook is an absolutely incredible, all-around listening experience. REMEMBER: You can listen through Libro.fm Audiobooks and support Belonging Books while you do it!!

Reel Review cont.

REEL HAS SO MANY OF MY FAVORITE THINGS I like to see in books:

♡ mental health + chronic illness representation
♡ Black history woven throughout the story
♡ Dual POV
♡ complex, deeply human and flawed characters
♡ love stories that are so much more than romance !!
♡ thoughtful explorations of memory, grief, survival, art, creativity, and what we leave behind
♡ complicated family dynamics. all handled with tenderness and care!

One of my Favorite quotes from REEL:
—> “We are artists… When there is no joy to be found, we have the power in our hands, the will of our souls, to make it.”

MORE ROMANCES I’VE LOVED ♡

And because one romance recommendation is NEVER enough… here are a few more of my favorites you can find in-store or online at Belonging Books! 💌📚

♡ The Missed Connection by Tia Williams
♡ The Last Page by Katie Holt
♡ How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
♡ Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

As a certified lover girl, I was MADE for bookstore romance day! 💖

Danielle Allen’s Curve series changed my life! The trilogy follows three best friends, with each book telling one woman’s story over the course of the same summer. The series centers on fat Black women navigating friendship, body confidence, dating, s*x, love, and all the messy s**t in between. In interviews, Allen has specifically talked about centering fat Black women as romance heroines, particularly women

Belonging Books, Cape Symphony, and The Cordial Eye present Mixtape — a one-of-a-kind evening of music featuring Play Pr...
08/14/2026

Belonging Books, Cape Symphony, and The Cordial Eye present Mixtape — a one-of-a-kind evening of music featuring Play Pretend’s indie folk vibes alongside Alyssa Wang and Michael Weinfield-Zell’s repertoire of classical-style violin and marimba duets. This will be a night of fusion, exploration, and new musical encounters.

Date: Thursday, Aug. 27
Time: 6pm
Location: 438 Main Street, Hyannis
Tickets: $10 online (link in bio) or at the door

August Events at or in collaboration with Belonging Books! Learn more and RSVP at www.belongingbookscapecod.com/events (...
08/07/2026

August Events at or in collaboration with Belonging Books!

Learn more and RSVP at www.belongingbookscapecod.com/events (link in bio).

If you sign up for a program and can no longer attend, please update your RSVP or send us a note and to let us know. Thank you! 📚

07/25/2026

Can’t make it in store? Shop online!

Order directly from us via our e-commerce site, where you can browse our curated selection of in-store books and swag. Orders ship directly to you, or are available for pickup at your convenience.

You also have the option to:

•Fill out a special order form to get that book that’s sold out everywhere!

•Purchase digital gifts cards that can be sent via email or text to let your bookish friends know you’re thinking about them!

Or…

Select Belonging Books as your local bookstore when shopping on Bookshop.org they have millions of titles of physical & e-books. Orders ship directly to you. As long as you have chose us, all your purchases will support our work! 

Stay tuned for part 2 of “How to Support Belonging Books”!

07/23/2026

Our hearts are still so full from this weekend of creative events.

Thank you to artists, Annika Sarin and payal
kumar, for installing their moving exhibition, What was Lost / Can be Remembered, and for facilitating the vibrant and personal collage workshop this past Saturday. Annika and payal gave prompts and guided people to create collages on wood panels using personal family photos.

The exhibition and event explore the invisible links connecting us through collective memory, ancestral inheritance, and shared storytelling. Come through to see the exhibition showing until August 7.

Thank you, Annika, for including Belonging Books and The Cordial Eye on your artistic journey and bringing us all together.

What Was Lost / Can Be Remembered is part of Building, Belonging, and Becoming, a narrative change program for AANHPIs around Massachusetts. This program is part of the AAPI Arts & Culture Collaborative, a key initiative of the Asian Community Fund at the Boston Foundation.

07/23/2026

Our hearts are still so full from this weekend of creative events.

Thank you to the author of Diaspora-ish, Gayatri Sethi, for leading a community conversation on seeding solidarity. We could have gone on for another hour. Tea time was special— we got to mingle informally, enjoy the art exhibition and be in community.

This event accompanied the moving exhibition What was Lost / Can be Remembered by Annika Sarin and payal kumar. The exhibition and events explores the invisible links connecting us through collective memory, ancestral inheritance, and shared storytelling.

Grab your copy of Diaspora-ish from Belonging Books and unlearn, learn and heal. And come see see the exhibition showing at The Cordial Eye gallery until August 7.

07/22/2026

In collaboration with The Cordial Eye, this past Friday we welcomed Pranav Swaroop Bettagere and friends for a summer evening of music, culture and homecoming!

Apna-Sa – Sounds of Belonging is a thematic South Asian concert series celebrating the cultural heritage of South Asia. Curated by Indian classical violinist Pranav Swaroop Bettagere, the event featured collaborations among talented artists (Shivaraj Natraj, beatboxer, and Antony Mathew, keyboardist) from the Greater Boston area, representing diverse South Asian traditions and influences.

Apna-Sa—which means “like my own” in Hindi/Urdu—aims to bring together South Asian communities to reconnect through sounds, stories, and traditions that feel deeply familiar, personal, and evoke a sense of home and shared cultural memory.

This special concert kicked off the opening weekend for What was Lost / Can be Remembered — an immersive, community-centered art exhibition and collage by Annika Sarin and payal kumar. This exhibition is on display now until August 7th and you don’t want to miss it.

07/18/2026

The weekend of incredible events has begun!!!

About last night…thank you for Pranav Swaroop Bettagere Shivaraj Natraj ANTONY etc for opening our special weekend. Many hearts are full.

Today!!

Join author, educator and cultural worker Gayatri Sethi for a participatory conversation on how we seed the solidarity we need to grow beyond this turbulent world we inhabit now. 

10 a.m.: Tea time and book signing with Gayatri Sethi. Arrive when you can.

11 a.m. Community conversation and Q&A on seeding solidarity led by Gayatri Sethi.

1 p.m. Join us for the collage workshop co-facilitated by gallery artists Annika Sarin and payal kumar to process, play, and transform your family photos into collages exploring memory and inheritance.

What Was Lost / Can Be Remembered is an immersive, community-centered exhibition and event series that explores the invisible links connecting us through collective memory, ancestral inheritance, and shared storytelling.

What Was Lost / Can Be Remembered is part of Building, Belonging, and Becoming, a narrative change program for AANHPIs around Massachusetts. This program is part of the AAPI Arts & Culture Collaborative, a key initiative of the The Asian Community Fund at The Boston Foundation at the Boston Foundation.

July Events at or with Belonging Books! We have an incredible line up of events this weekend. Check out our website to l...
07/16/2026

July Events at or with Belonging Books! We have an incredible line up of events this weekend. Check out our website to learn more and RSVP at our website (link in bio!).

Author Event with Gayatri Sethi on July 18!On Saturday morning, join Gayatri Sethi, author of “Diaspora-ish,” for a comm...
07/07/2026

Author Event with Gayatri Sethi on July 18!

On Saturday morning, join Gayatri Sethi, author of “Diaspora-ish,” for a community conversation on seeding solidarity.

Amidst ongoing genocides and wars, escalating violence against immigrants, and the tightening fist of fascism, many of us are falling into despair. Or worse, hanging our hopes on the politicians who continue to architect our oppression. 

Are you craving community connection? Do you seek a space for collective inspiration? Do you have an idea or inquiry you want to share? This conversation needs you.

Join educator and cultural worker, Gayatri Sethi, for a participatory conversation on how we seed the solidarity we need to grow beyond this turbulent world we inhabit now. RSVP at www.belongingbookscapecod.com/events (link in bio).

*10 a.m. to 11 a.m.: Tea time and book signing with Gayatri Sethi. Informal meet and greet. Arrive when you can.

*11 a.m. Community conversation and Q&A led by Gayatri Sethi.

What to Bring: 
* Yourself
* Something to write on
* A copy of Diaspora-ish (available to purchase from Belonging Books)

Stay for the collage workshop led by artists Annika Sarin and payal kumar from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and check out the art exhibition, “What was Lost / Can be Remembered”

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