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What’s in a name?
“So, how do you pronounce ‘Read Queen’ – is it ‘Red‘ Queen or ‘Reed‘ Queen?”
Well, just as the Queen herself says:
“I love to read, the Queen she said, and in so doing I am well read.”
So the pronunciation is ‘red’ as a book must be ‘read’ in order to be a used book. It’s also an homage to The Red Queen of Lewis Carroll’s classic Through the Looking-Glass (the follow up to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), two of our favorite books.
In a quote all too fitting to our current times, Carroll’s Red Queen says “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
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Welcome to the second part of our Holiday Gifting Guide!
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This December we are featuring a wide variety of gifting ideas from the hottest series, fun accessories, and ideas for the young readers in your life.
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Don’t miss the first half of our gift guide for even more ideas.
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Happy Holidays!
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Welcome to our Holiday Gifting Guide!
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This December we are featuring a wide variety of gifting ideas from the hottest series, fun accessories, and ideas for the young readers in your life.
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This is Part 1 of our Gift Guide don’t miss more ideas in part 2 tomorrow.
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Happy Holidays!
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#bookstagram #bookrecommendations #staffpicks #indiebookstore #bookishmerch #giftguide
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Welcome to our Holiday Gifting Guide!
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This December we are featuring a wide variety of gifting ideas from the hottest series, fun accessories, and ideas for the young readers in your life.
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This is Part 1 of our Gift Guide don’t miss more ideas in part 2 tomorrow.
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Happy Holidays!
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#bookstagram #bookrecommendations #staffpicks #indiebookstore #bookishmerch #giftguide
Staff Pick: Cain`s Jawbone by Torquemada (Edward Powys Mathers) – from Emma
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Welcome to our bonus staff picks in December. This week’s bonus pick is Cain`s Jawbone by Torquemada (a.k.a. Edward Powys Mathers).
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This book is a murder mystery on a whole different level! It`s 100 pages that are all out of order. Once you figure out the order of the pages you can then figure out who all the murderers and victims are. It`s a big puzzle that`s only been solved 4 times since it came out in 1935!
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November might be over but we still LOVE this #1 Pick!!
-- "a novel of American slavery loosely based on Dante`s Inferno"
-- "a novel of American slavery loosely based on Dante`s Inferno""
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Staff Pick: A Lady`s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin – from Robin
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This week’s staff pick is A Lady`s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin, a historical romance that would be a great pick for Bridgerton and Jane Austen fans.
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A lovely and charming new historical romance, with witty characters and serious Jane Austen vibes. Kitty needs to find a rich husband. Her parents have just died leaving the family massively in debt and it is up to her to secure the future for her four younger sisters. She goes to London for the season in hopes of finding such a husband. And it all seems to be going even better than she had hoped, until she is seemingly thwarted by the older brother of the man she has set her cap for.
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What is JALABOKAFLOD?
An Icelandic tradition roughly translated to FLOOD OF BOOKS! During WWII books weren`t rationed like other commodities. Gifted books became the norm and created a nation of BOOKWORMS. A tradition was born and now continues with YOU!
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The FUTURE is Indie...
The PRESENTS are now!
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