About
I am a bookseller. I love my job. This is my blog.
A bookavore gobbles books. I am a bookavore. A book glutton. And I enable my addiction by being a bookseller. I work at the Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem PA as the Assistant Book Buyer. (Actual duties: events coordinating, returns to the publisher, local author and regional book buying, ordering out-of-print books, running YA book group and poetry circle, etc etc etc, and of course, working the floor and handselling. An unofficial duty is spreading useless information like author birthday and word origins to everybody lucky enough to be in earshot.)
This blog is primarily about book news and my thoughts on it, goings-on in my store and other bookstores, and the books I read. I try to blog every book I read, and I’m usually behind on this endeavor because when it comes right down to it, at the end of the day I prefer to read books rather than write about them (this is why my full-time job is bookseller, not book reviewer). But I do the best I can. I primarily read: teen fiction, adult non-fiction, comics (excuse me, graphic novels), some adult fiction when I’m in the mood, picture books, and whatever else looks great. So basically everything. But not really.
In my picture I am eating my old and faithful copy of The Phantom Tollbooth, which is my favorite book, if I absolutely have to answer that awful question. Except for when the answer is The Grapes of Wrath, or Promethea. Or Salt. Or Mission to America, or Grumpy Bird, or Vanity Fair, or The Westing Game, or Bombardiers, or——
Your review of Mudbound made me want a steak because it was so meaty. No wonder you never get anything done at work because you’re off reading all these darned books! You are a BookNerd!!
BookNerd I tell you! And furthermore…you misspelled the word “persay” unless you were punning and Sandy should be told you this. And lastly, you are a decorous young person of distinction, and I’m sure your home furnishings reflect this. love love love from that head buyer.
To my very talented niece: I love to read your reviews, and wish that there was someone like you to review kids books. Do you happen to know of anyone, or would you ever consider reviewing them under a separate section of your blog? Just a thought. Many hugs and kisses from all of us!
Hi!
One of my high school students recently forwarded me your blog, which included the wonderful review you did for my novel, The Patron Saint of Butterflies. I just wanted to say thank you for all the generous things you said about the book! It helps so much to have fantastic book people like you out there!!
Cheers!
CG