Nook & Cranny Books

The Artist-in-Residence Program is back at Nook & Cranny!

This month featuring Nikita Ares!

Prints available all month and you can join us for a special meet n greet at our first U-District Art Walk event on May 16!

Check out website for more info

#Artwalk #Indiebookstore

Happy belated book birthday to The Lilac People by Milo Todd!

"It unearths an essential chapter in Trans history, long obscured by stigma and oppression, and celebrates the soul-sustaining life force of community."

#booksky #transhistory #wwii #readmorebooks

Voting is open for our June "Read Around the World" Book Club pick (books from Syria)! Cast your vote by 5/7 and sign up for email reminders!

www.nookandcrannybooks.com/book-club-vo...

#booksky #bookclub #readsyria #vote

Nook and Cranny presents, Thursday May 1, Doors at 6:30pm, Open Mic Night. Theme: Reboot. RSVP at NookAndCrannyBooks.Com

Spoken Word Open Mic this Thursday! Check out our website to RSVP and/or sign up for email reminders!

#openmic #poetry #storytelling

One intrepid listener found the Golden Ticket in the final hour! Thanks for this awesome prize, @libro.fm!! 😍

Awesome! Pickins are slim right now, but I'll have a big restock on Tuesday 😅

It was hoppin' today! 😴

Calling All Seattle Creatives! We're re-launching our popular Artist-in-Residence program...and regularly joining the 3rd Friday U-District Art Walk!

If you're a visual artist interested in displaying your work, or a creative of any discipline interested in vending for Art Walk, shoot us an email!

Thank you for the great write-up!! Can't wait for this weekend!

ROUGE IS SO GOOD 😭

Only read digital or don't have an indie in your neighborhood? @bookshop.org just launched ebooks AND they're offering FREE SHIPPING during Indie Bookstore Day weekend!

#ebooks #indiebookstoreday #shopindie #booksky

Are you an audiobook fanatic? @libro.fm is holding their Indie Appreciation Sale through April 27!

#audiobooks #librofm #shopindie #indiebookstoreday #booksky

We'll be open 9am-8pm on Saturday and 10am-6pm on Sunday for Kick-off Weekend!

There will be snacks, door prizes, and exclusive Indie Bookstore Day merch!

Go to SeattleBookstoreDay.com for more info on the 11th Annual Seattle Indie Bookstore Day Passport Challenge!

#Grandopening #booksky

Am$n and B&N conveniently scheduled their annual sales for this weekend.

Indies can't send celebrities to space, but we support local economy and offer community that algorithms can only dream of. Plus, we know how to PARTAAY! Come show some love during our Grand Re-Opening Extravaganza!

#Booksky

We LOVE Libro! 💜💜

And we can't have that, can we? The plebs might get...ideas... 👀

Oh hey...it me! 😂😂 (Exceptional book choices 💜)

Keys to our new home acquired! Look out for the "Coming Soon" sign at 5637 University Way NE!

#booksky #moving #indiebookstore

Time to knock out February book club reads!

There was a LOT to say about Cobalt Red yesterday. But you can still join us for Poet of Tolstoy Park on 2/23!

Learn more (and check out March picks) at www.nookandcrannybooks.com/book-clubs

#booksky #bookclub #socialjustice #readaroundtheworld

Escargot says, "Happy Valentine's Day!"

#booksky #kidlit #escargot #valentinesday

Do you have your copy of Black in Blues yet?? The moment I saw it, I knew it had to pair with this STUNNING book from one of my favorite illustrators 😍

Pictured:
Black in Blues by Imani Perry
Blue by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond & Daniel Minter

#booksky #blue #blackhistorymonth #kidlit #nonfiction

Happy belated book birthday to these Wicked Witches!

#booksky #kidlit #newrelease

Good question -- I don't know! The publishers would be the ones to decide whether to implement DRM software or not. Like, Tor tends to offer DRM-free titles, so you should be able to download any of those directly, even from Bookshop. They should really create a special category for that!

There will be some books available to download now, and I believe the plan is to add Kobo support and/or launch their own e-reader. (I'm voting for the former.) Regardless, it's a big win for small business if even a handful of folks switch from Kindle! 🥳

Amazon's software is proprietary, so you would never be able to read on a Kindle device without the ebook provider contracting with them (ie. OverDrive/Libby). For other e-readers, it will be at the discretion of the publisher, so Bookshop would have no say in it either way.

I really wanted to love it! 😭 I have a thing about books with manipulative sibling relationships, lol.

January Reading Wrap-up - Just Because Covers of Abarat by Clive Barker, King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild (audiobook), North Woods by Daniel Mason (audiobook), and King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis (audiobook)

January Reading Wrap-up! 4/4

Plus, maybe a title just looks interesting! Or maybe my neighbor decides to lend me a book she likes while we're bonding during a fire alarm evacuation in the rain!

What are you reading to kick off the year?

#booksky #readingwrapup #justforfun

January Reading Wrap-up - Libro.fm Backlist Covers of The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells by Rebecca Rego Barry (audiobook), Batshit Seven by Sheung-King (audiobook), Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez (audiobook), and Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon (audiobook)

January Reading Wrap-up - ARC Backlist Covers of Clara Reads Proust by Stephane Carlier, The Coast Road by Alan Murrin, and Service by Sarah Gilmartin

January Reading Wrap-up! 3/4

I also have an obscene backlog of ARCs and ALCs that I am slowly working through. 😅

Thanks to the publishers and @librofm.bsky.social for the comps!

#booksky #alc #arc #backlog #newrelease #audiobook

January Reading Wrap-up - 2025 Book Club Reads Covers of We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba (audiobook) and Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann

January Reading Wrap-up! 2/4

And of course there are the *current* book club reads!

#booksky #betherevolution #socialjustice #readaroundtheworld #bookclub #germany

January Reading Wrap-up: Book Club Backlist Challenge Images of My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (audiobook), Vagabond! by Eloghosa Osunde (audiobook), and The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

January Reading Wrap-up! 1/4

What did you read in January?

For 2025 I've set myself the dubious task of reading through our #ReadAroundTheWorld #BookClub backlist. First up: NIGERIA! (Official pick back in July 2023 was Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

#booksky #readingwrapup #january #nigeria