Book break

💬 what are you currently reading? a novel love story by @heyashposton // review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A Novel Love Story" by Ashley Poston is the ultimate dream for every book lover who’s ever wished they could jump right into their favorite book world. Like, imagine your car breaks down, and you find yourself in a cute AF town that’s straight out of a romance novel. Umm, sign me up, please?! Meet E niileen Merriweather, our girl who’s just trying to find some peace in her beloved books. But things…

Here's a lovely old advisory from William Matthews Bookseller, explaining how to open a book for the first time, which was a major operation in the age of hand-sewn hardcover…

You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow on BookBub. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically acclaimed author of Girl in Pieces comes a stunning novel that Vanity Fair calls “impossibly moving” and “suffused with light”. In this raw, deeply personal story, a teenaged girl struggles to...

“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion. A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue,