The weird library bookstore

11/11/2020

Reading is cool & do not let the internet tell you otherwise

When 11-year-old Maggie took a picture with her friend during a sleepover, she had no idea how profoundly it would affect her life. Find out how the Ermahgerd m...

11/10/2020

A Novel Experience Bookstore owner Dale Severen was deemed “totally not legit” for lacking a dynamic selection of ancient texts and dark knowledge of demonic gateways.

09/10/2020

Sometimes (most times this year), i feel like we are in a dystopian cyberpunk novel where nothing goes right and the stakes get higher & higher. Maybe the ending will be "it was all a dream". For sure all the old folks are to blame for not taking reasonable action sooner. Anyway, cheap book $1 & you pay shipping.

09/09/2020

To be clear, we're talking 1890s jazz, real hot jazz, up to the publication date mid-1960s. This is the s**t! Written by the guy who signed the Beatles, Nat King Cole, & Frank Sinatra. He worked with The Duke, The Count, & Peggy Lee. If you're not hip to this tip, you better scoot.

8.31 w free US shipping
Amazon sells this for $967.00

Diggin for Dex & Dexter's Blues are both tributes to the author.

Read NYT's review of the release in '64 here: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/12/archives/booksauthors.html

09/08/2020

Existentialism is dead. Long live Materialism. Packed w superior fodder for your next online bully response. Hailed as the most important philosophical work by Sartre.

This is $10.27 w free US shipping

09/02/2020

Kinda like trumps' life story except people actually have moral compass and we have yet to see their fall into squalor. $5 with free US shipping or talk me into lowering the price because this pandemic is walking me closer to the fate of the Lamphams daily.

09/01/2020

A lovely book. You have not read this book. You need to read this book. Conveniently, it is for sale. $6.57 with free US shipping.

08/31/2020

You haven't read this. You need to read it. Conveniently,I have this copy for you. $4 with free US shipping.

08/30/2020

An interesting thing about this book is that even when people say they hate it they still manage to write incredibly long, detailed reviews. Practically everyone writes a long, detailed review. It's like people can't help but pull quotes and cross references. So, yeah, maybe this book will be your new obsession - even if it offends your grammatically sensitive eyeballs (the main complaint reviewers share).

08/29/2020

This memoir holds a lot of sadness, as a form of catharsis.

The author is aware of some of her privileges, but writes as if privilege was hardship. Maybe that's so. Still, as someone who survived a lot of crappy days as a kid I sure couldn't help resenting the author's privileges. I kept thinking what my life would have been if I had a nanny-type around, access to all the things (wealth & celebrities) this person had access to - I'd end up writing a fu***ng memoir and cashing in too!

The writing is sparse and brief. Great if your attention span is destroyed by social media and political insanity. She experienced neglect & an unstable parent, but writes lightly around it, so i can't say it merits trigger warning.

08/28/2020

Can i just get a laugh?
This autobiography is by a human reported to be nice, sensitive, hilarious, intelligent, and goofy. Who doesn't need an injection of that?

08/28/2020

As much as I pan woo-woo BS practices, here is an argument for how it had a hand in women's lib.

According to Radical Spirits, the 1800s spiritualism movement gave women voice and place in white western society. Sadly, this is because they were channeling the voices of pretty much anyone but themselves.

Still, at a time when women weren't permitted to speak in most public spaces ... let that settle in ... the table knocking, trance speaking, automatic writing, and assistants draped in sheets woooing from a corner of the seance room arguably empowered women, adding more voices to the call for equal rights (at least, equal rights for white British/American women, unless you're talking about the few most progressive people who fought for equal rights for all).

Gotta say, tho, I call BS on the whole thing about women being more sensitive or attuned to the spirit/subtle realm than men. But, ya know, I'm a fan of posting about what I despise. 🤡👽☠😘