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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚

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Bookseller. Opinionated. Likely suspect. 📚 🧀 🐈‍⬛️ Would love to read yr nwsletter but no to substack. Also nope to spotify playlists.

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Mar 11

Alright. Five favourite genres it is.

1. But first, a snack.
2. While in the distance still the mountain waits.
3. It was peculiar, indeed.
4. The mushrooms in your heart will soon be grown.
5. The birds are patient, there is time.

#booksky #fivefavouritegenres #bookseller

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · 5d

They're using AI to write these things? Yeah, i guess that tracks.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · 7d

#bookseller Pick of the Day. What a charming book, and a fascinating read. #perelachaise #booksky @greystonebooks.bsky.social

A hand holds up the book "The Secret Life of the Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise" by Benoit Gallot.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · 26d

Now in stock at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social
Highly recommended.
#booksellerpick #yeg #booksky #freepalestine #saeedteebi

Cover of You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: a memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times by Saeed Teebi

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · 29d

It's her It's here It's here yippee!

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Sep 2

The kind of wholesome content we all really need rn. #yeg fans can pick this up from @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social
#booksky #buffy #protecttranskids

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Aug 22

#booksky #bookseller pick of the day @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social
Look at that eye-catching cover, and what a fascinating history. Can't wait to dive into this.

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Aug 18

Saw some stills from today's meeting and all I can think is "Zelensky put a suit on, after all these months, so those nitwits in the oval wouldn't get distracted by fashion issues again".

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Aug 15

Must have the whole collection. These covers are just wonderful.

Spines of five colourful books from the Yale Little History collection.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Aug 14

Would love 1 of these if they're still available.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today's #bookseller #pickoftheday honours the brave and tireless Joanna Macy, who passed from this life last weekend.
#booksky

A hand holds up a copy of 'World as Lover, World as Self', by Joanna Macy.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Jul 18

Feeling very seen by Susan Holbrook. Thanks to @coachhousebooks.bsky.social for publishing 'Steamy: a menopause symptomology'.

A hand holds a book open. At the top of the left page is the title '22. Tinnitus'. The rest of the page is unreadable.

A hand holds up a copy of 'Steamy: a menopause symptomology' by Susan Holbrook.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Jul 11

#booksky, it's been a minute, but here is my#bookpickoftheday. Yoko Tawada is a pick for me any time, but this looks especially fascinating.

A hand holds a copy of Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Jul 7

'The Safekeep' seems to be getting notice now that it's in PB. Lovely debut with strong characters but a plot so obvious I was annoyed.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Jul 2

Tuesday reading. Would read anything by #irenesola, and I'm loving 'I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness'. Anyone else out in #booksky reading this?

Garden scen with chair covered in colourful blanket and cushion, an iced drink on the arm. Beside it, a table carries a copy of 'I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness' by Irene Sola.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Jun 24

I just wrote 'Substack Did Not See That Coming'.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/subs...

Substack Did Not See That Coming

Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis?...

newsletter.anamariecox.com

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · Jun 2

#yeg #booksky friends.. My Book of the Summer is on the Globe & Mail bestseller list, which means it's 25% off at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social ...

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · May 29

#booksky Here's my Pick of the Day. Sophie Lewis gets into the thick of how Western feminism has so often served colonial and patriarchal efforts over feminist collective needs, and how we need to tackle this if we're to find a truly liberatory feminism. #bookseller #enemyfeminisms

A hand holds up a copy of Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · May 25

A meme I made with a goose yelling “you do not have to be good”

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · May 23

#booksky pick of the day. This one is for @blackriders.com , who is going to be utterly delighted when he sees it, in the way that only my most bookdragony colleague can be.. #ashimpa

A hand holds up a children's picture book title 'ashimpa the mysterious word' by Catarina Sobral.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · May 16

Good, because this is pretty much my plan.

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · May 16

Remember, you're under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading a riveting novel, drinking multiple kettles of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of croissants.

Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · May 14

#booksky #pickoftheday #bookseller
A new edition of Martel's incisive meditation on art vs artifice, with intro by Donna Tartt. Niiiiccccce.

A hand holds up a book titled 'Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice' by J.F. Martel, with an introduction by Donna Tartt.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · May 13

my friend, at lunch: hasn’t the LHD done enough. Just LOOK at reality rn. How many times do we all have to die for the multiverse before we get to a reality that is at least MODERATELY not batshit

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · May 13

RIP Issac Newton (aka the last alchemist), you would have loved watching the physicists get annoyed because they accidentally turned lead into gold
theconversation.com/physicists-a...

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider turned lead into gold – by accident

The ancient dream of turning lead into gold is now a reality – but it’s not quite what the alchemists might have hoped for.

theconversation.com

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Audreys Books 📚 Edmonton @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social · May 12

At long last... we have bookmarks. Iykyk
#booksky #audreysbooksmerch

Rumour has it we have a new tote bag, too....
#bookstoreswag

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Sam the Bookseller 💙 📚 @samthebookseller.bsky.social · May 12

'Things Become Other Things' by Craig Mod.

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · May 12

Dive into the April 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin summary: second-warmest April on record globally, 1.51°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. End of four months with record low Arctic sea ice extent for the time of the year. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/2nd-warmest-...

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