If there HAD to be a deeper meaning I think it might be wild imagination or hallucinations, or digging deep into your brain. But I don't think there was one to be intended, I think it'd just meant to be a foolish tale. Yk?

Bookdepository.com hasn't ever done me wrong either! Longer than amazon but great service and always free shipping

I want that for everyone, not just people centered around me

damnit

Friendly reminder that Amazon has more small and local business on it, giving you a wider selection of independent booksellers to support at a lower cost to you and a higher profit to them as Amazon takes far less than 30% of sales.

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I'd love to buy more from Bookshop.org but they seem to have a pretty limited stock of books. I look there first most times but never seem to find the exact edition I'm looking for. 95% of the time I end up having to use bookfinder.com.

Hmm, I read it to be more Elvish, but to each his own.

I like supporting my community because my community supports me. It’s not a matter of deserving it or not. I want to be able to walk to a bookstore owned by someone local, and purchase a book. I want my neighbors to be able to do the same. I want to be able to go to local book events and see local authors talk.

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Amazon owns them, but at least you are still buying from actual book shops, so they benefit.

My local bookstore says that if it’s a book they don’t have in-store that youre picking up in-store, they make the same profit if you order from bookshop or from them directly. They promote bookshop a lot for this reason. You can always ask your local book store what works best for them.

Why not just order from the local bookstore???

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Right? I've read The Mob Doctor, IT and Carrie a few times. Thinking about giving the Godfather series another run as well.

It's a children's story. Then it became a classic children's story and literature professors started falling over themselves to infer a deeper meaning into it.

My local bookstore has said that if it’s a book they don’t carry in-store, they make the same profit from bookshop.com as they do if you order from them directly. They heavily promote bookshop for that reason.

Last paragraph in your post should've been the title.

I almost never buy books, because I use minimalism to help manage my ADHD. (Thank you from my bottom to the libraries!)

But I just read Emily Nagoski's Come As You Are. I was about to suggest it to my 18-year-old, when I realized that this is the kind of book that's more like a reference text that you might want to read slowly and revisit over the years.

So I decided to buy her a copy. And I found my local bookseller on bookshop.org! I gave her the book yesterday, and it was predictably awkward, but I told her I wished I'd had that book when I was her age. I hope she finds it helpful.

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Cartel is a soap opera with beheadings. Two of the women had sexual knowledge that drove men crazy. Oh vey.

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Isn't using a website like this avoiding that "character" the local bookstore has?

If you're not going in, then why's it matter what that in-store experience is to you at that point?

And further, why does a bookstore deserve money due to the arbitrary coincidence of its zip code matching your own? Why shouldn't a business halfway across the country deserve to survive just as much? I've never really understood this mentality that a business deserves to survive because it hasn't found much success and grown yet, but if it did grow then it'd no longer be worth spending money at

The people who reviewed the book poorly didn’t connect to the character or plot, or found them frustrating to read about. It’s just an opinion… you have your own opinion, and that’s great! We all perceive art differently, and that’s why we have such a huge range of plots to consume. Sometimes it’s not worth watching critical video reviews of something you really enjoyed, or sometimes a creator just has a very different way of looking at fiction in general and you’re not the target audience.