Thank you all for a fantastic holiday season! It's hard to believe December is nearly over. Bear with us in the store as we rebuild displays and catch up on orders! We look forward to seeing you all coming in with your gift cards to pick out your next reads!
With 2023 right around the corner, here's a look at our hours for this weekend: New Year's Eve: 10am - 4pm
New Year's Day: 12pm - 4pm
January 2nd: Closed for Inventory
While supplies last, all holiday items are 50% off (does not include books), so now is a great time to stock up on wrapping paper and advent calendars and holiday cards!
As 2022 winds down, our booksellers have been reflecting on their favorite books that they read this year (both new releases and backlist), and in addition to sharing them on our social media, we've compiled them into a handy shoppable list for you!
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Staff Pick of the Week!
Reagan reads Getting Lost by Annie Erneaux.
"In Getting Lost, Annie Ernaux–French author, Nobel laureate, and autosociologist–reproduces in raw state the text of her diary from 1988-1990, the year-and-a-half of her cataclysmic affair with a diplomat at the Soviet Embassy in Paris. In printing the total matter of the diary without (Ernaux testifies to its unalteredness) the rewoven latticeworks of truth and time that constitute a novel, Ernaux drives herself and her audience into “something raw and dark, without salvation, a kind of oblation”–a narrative all but adjacent to the experience of immediate reality, an uncanny lodgment in the present-past that exudes the immediate, desperate vitality of Ernaux at the instant of living. In prose Ernaux herself has described as “l’écriture platte”–“flat writing”–a personal ballad of death, love, and writing is set down in a manner so firmly declarative as to bleed, contrarily, a dark vulnerability.
"Getting Lost is in a category of its own. Written without respect to an audience, its rhythm of admissions and denials produces a document of extreme disclosure–one that calls into question the role of readership, the art of self-description, and the entire nature of love. A great choice for readers of Patrick Modiano, Jean Rhys, or Anais Nin."
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We have new products in our Bonfire Shop! Sporting our Retro Gibson's Bookstore logo, we now have tote bags in two colors and mugs in three styles! Browse these and the rest of our merchandise here!
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There are so many upcoming events that we can't fit them all in this newsletter! Click the calendar above to see all of our upcoming events, in addition to the events highlighted here.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2023, 6:30pm, in-store.
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023, 6:30pm, in-store.
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The Laydown is a monthly podcast where 3 of our booksellers chat about all things literary! We also have the occasional Bonus Episode where Ryan interviews authors!
You can listen on our website or wherever you get your podcasts.
We talk about a lot of books every episode, and we've compiled shoppable lists of those books for your convenience! Shop The Laydown here!
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Kitty Corner
If you've ever wanted a sweet little book that celebrates bookstores and cats and also feels like a bedtime story that you could read to a child or enjoy as an adult, then Gibby has the perfect recommendation for you this week: Good Night, Little Bookstore by Amy Cherrix, illustrated by E. B. Goodale.
"Part lullaby, part love song, this perfectly pitched bedtime book gives a nod to its classic predecessors as it champions the vibrant independent spirit of local bookstores.
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