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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 6h

From today's reading:
"Tiffany's Before Breakfast"
"I'm forced to pause, whenever I'm going to have a nervous breakdown, and consider the single most obvious objection: I can't afford one."

A copy of I Used to be Charming on a shelf packed with other NYRBs.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 11h

I loved it!

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 13h

On the new fiction table! I ordered copies for the store!

A copy of A Harvest of Furies on the new fiction table at Island Books

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 14h

I do remember you! I left the Ubookstore at the end of 2018 for Island Books. Congratulations on your debut!

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 16h

Tuesday October 14: "Everyone's a Winner in Meadow Park" by Amber Sparks. "I'll bet you think ghosts are so fucking romantic. I'll bet you think they only haunt rich people, or like, Europeans: pale lords and ladies in castles or governesses in old family mansions."

A copy of And I Do Not Forgive You in front of a duck shaped dish. The cover is bright yellow with a collage of flowers over two women's faces.

Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for a bus.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 1d

The Endless Week and a BLT!
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The Endless Week

Like Beckett’s novels or Kafka’s stranger tales, The Endless Week is a work outside of time, as if novels had never existed and Laura Vazquez has suddenly invented them. And yet it could not be more c...

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for spooky season books?
Here are recommendations from my co-bookseller Brad and I!
islandbooks.com/blog/haunted...

The Haunted Bookshelf II: The Return of The Haunted Bookshelf

My favorite season is upon us once again and that means wool socks, scarves, and ghosts. It also means a return to the Haunted Bookshelf, my yearly attempt to place spooky books into the hands of Isla...

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 1d

Monday October 13: "The Barn at the End of Our Term" by Karen Russell. "The girl is back. She stands silhouetted against the sunshine, the great Barn doors thrown open. Wisps of newly mown hay lift and scatter. Light floods into the stalls."

A copy of Vampires in the Lemon Grove in front of a duck shaped dish.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 2d

From the title story "Waiting for the Fear" by Oguz Atay and translated by Ralph Hubbell: "My country and its people infuriated me: No one read anymore. No one even knew how to properly feel. Which is why you couldn't trust the culture of a people who repeated everything they heard."

A copy of Waiting for the Fear on a bookcase packed with other NYRBs. The cover is grays and blacks and shows a man with his face partially obscured by a coat looking up a look of horror is on his face.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 2d

Waiting for the Fear.
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Waiting for the Fear

Short stories about people on the margins, from story peddlers to beggars, by one of Turkey's most innovative fiction writers, now in a new English translation.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 2d

"My Life in a 36DD Bra
or, the All-American Obsession"
"When I was fifteen years old, I bought and filled my first 36DD bra. Since then, no man has ever made a serious pass at me without assuring me in the first hour that he was a leg man."

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday October 12: "La Sainte-Vierge" by Daphne Du Maurier.
"It was hot and sultry, that oppressive kind of heat where there is no air, no life."

A copy of Don't Look Now on a shelf packed with other NYRBs. The cover shows a distorted screaming face.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 3d

Another fun angle is after the 1969 season the Seattle Pilots moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 3d

I just picked up my copy of I Used to be Charming by Eve Babitz and opened it up to the first essay. "All This and The Godfather too."
"I hope everyone's having a good time. I know I certainly am."
– Diane Keaton
#NYRBWomen25

A copy of I Used to be Charming on a bookcase packed with other NYRBs.

Page guide for group read of I Used to be Charming.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 3d

My dad took my brother and I to see George Carlin when we were kids.

Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant film! My dad took my brother and I to see Reds when we were young teens.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 3d

Canon is in my read this soon stack.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 3d

Saturday October 11: "Stay Awake" by Dan Chaon.
"Zach and Amber's baby was born with a rare condition that the doctors told them was called craniopagus parasiticus. This meant that their baby had two heads."