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Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 12d

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 12d

#nokings in San Francisco

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 27d

You know where you can find some actually radical ideas? In an indie bookstore. Specifically in the young teen section. Those kids are reading about some wild ideas like equality, justice and consequences.

Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 27d

I am hoping that someone in publishing will remember that indie booksellers exist and we are the influencers they've been looking for all this time. I'm tired of hearing that middle grade is dying, when it just needs to be handsold by an expert. Also, I miss author dinners.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Oct 1

I saw your face in PW. It was very exciting. Congratulations!

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Sep 9

I mean my reach here is tiny. But this is one extremely smart and talented children's book expert.

Jess @anthropologue.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bookselling compatriots in the Bay Area, or publishing buds with remote positions, hit me up if you need a big brain with strong opinions for your team 👀 I’m on the lookout.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Sep 6

Today I am on the back of the struggle bus wedged under the seat.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great disturbance in the bookselling force tonight as B&N buys Books Inc, the oldest indie bookstore in the west.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Aug 11

And for those of us who are less cool. Alex Kingston will be on Strictly!

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jul 21

Crap

Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jul 19

This morning in #bookselling an elderly customer was complaining that “the animals in this book don’t even live in this country”. So I guess even animals can be the target of isolationist nonsense.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jul 18

Is it just me or does the news seem like something from a South Park episode right now?

Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jul 12

In awe of this icon at MoMI in Queens when a Gen Z woman behind me said “she’s so beautiful”. She is.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jul 2

Pulp’s Misshapes has never sounded more spot on. I keep listening to the live version from Glasto this weekend and I just cry.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jul 2

Oh Alanis, I wish I had 10,000 spoons.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · Jun 27

Everyone who went to school between Sandy Hook and today gets a free pass. No one over forty gets to tell you a damn thing about “back in my day.”

Adults spent over two decades “protecting” you from books and did less than dick to protect you from getting shot.

Have all the middle fingers.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jun 27

There have been a lot of bad days. Today seems to be one of the worst. Read. Think for yourself. Check in with your real life communities.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jun 26

In the spirit of Glastonbury I am seeing a symphonic version of Bowie’s last album today and Earth Wing & Fire tomorrow. I contain multitudes.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today in #bookselling a retired librarian asked me if I’d heard of Alan Garner. This was the moment I’ve been training for since I was 9 years old.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Jun 22

If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jun 22

I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jun 21

What? I mean, I know we’ve previously synced up on the books we’re reading by accident, but this is a new level of synchronicity. We must be magic.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jun 21

Yesterday in #bookselling I met an enthusiastic dog named Gusto and played catch with a two-year-old. It's not a good living, but it's a good life.

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Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · Jun 21

Today in #bookselling TikTok admits it "was not enough, it seems, to build a successful publishing business." I've been saying this for ages, I think social media just promotes books. Booksellers sell them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/b...

TikTok’s Owner Wanted to Publish Books. Not Anymore.

www.nytimes.com

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