Brooke Hathaway

Love the commitment to the math here 😂

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza creators at @biketrailbooks.bsky.social this afternoon! 💙📚

Just hosted the creators of Taco Goat Cheese Pizza at the bookstore, too. It was so fun to learn behind the scenes of developing a viral game like that

On my reread of #onyxstorm and I’m LOVING listening to the audiobooo version for the second pass. Highly recommend (and I’m not normally an audiobook preferred kinda gal). Obvs get it from @librofm.bsky.social 💙📚

Silent Patient is my go to for anyone that’s “not a reader” but wants to grab a book!

And our Xaden Daddy margarita & The Pearlescent Andarna spritzer

I’ll go first:
- Onyx Storm
- Iron Flame (reread)
- Book Lovers by EH
- Au Pair Affair by TB
- Fangirl Down by TB
- Tell Me Everything by ES
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Okay, we’re 3 weeks into Jan. What have you read in 2025 so far? 💙📚

I read within the last year but still needed a reread. Highly recommend listening to the audiobook version (esp on @librofm.bsky.social)! Helped me get through it quickly for the re-read. (Also, 1.3 speed!!!)

Our Battle Brief & nametags we handed out at our Onyx Storm release parties #booksky

I'm listening to this one, and I enjoy it. But, I always recommend her as a frivolous, character-driven story -- never plot.

Here are my favorite romance tropes:

enemies to lovers : 9/10
slowburn : 8/10
forced proximity: 8/10
grumpy/sunshine : 8/10
friends to lovers : 8/10
second chance : 5/10
age gap : 5/10
love triangle : 4/10
why choose: 3/10
fake dating : 1/10
pregnancy : 0/10

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Headshot of bookstore owner Brooke Hathaway DeSantis wearing a navy sweatshirt stating 'PLANTS & BOOKS'

Hello! My name is Brooke, and I opened a bookstore in Greater Cincinnati last year! I own & run the 1300 sq ft store, & I'm excited to join #BookSky!

If bookstore vibes, wine, caffeine, parenting little kids, suburban resistance, or reading are on your 2025 bingo card, then let's connect!

Our first “Feminist” book club is tonight; it’s an outgrowth of a Blue Bracelet meetup, turned @redwineblueusa.bsky.social local group. Each month the group is meeting up twice: once for action-based meetings and once for a community bookclub

Love that you’re doing this!

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org is a godsend for small indie bookstores that don’t have the bandwidth, staff, etc to ship books. We make 30% of the sale without touching a single book or packing material. I make a decent portion of revenue each quarter via this.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Hey Lara! I’m an indie bookstore owner in Ohio. Here’s what’s I’d recommend: 1) finding a local indie bookstore & shopping via their website, 2) picking out a larger indie bookstore like Joseph Beth’s, Powells, Schuler Books and selecting shipping, 3) buying from Bookshop.org

If a customer does not indicate a particular store to support, it goes into a general fund. Then they split that pot up and send out bonus checks once a year to all stores. It really IS amazing for indie bookstore owners!

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Hey there - just want to step in as a local bookstore owner. This is not true. Bookshop.org gives all participating stores 30% of all sales (there are some criteria to participation).

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Sample of printed handouts at Bike Trail books’ Onyx Storm release party.

Two participants dressed in costume at Bike Trail books’ Onyx Storm release party.

Registration table with Basgiath War College backdrop at Bike Trail books’ Onyx Storm release party.

Also, still basking in our amazing #OnyxStorm launch parties the last two nights. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!

That’s my point — there’s room for “content” (and really just mean normal people like me) sharing their desires for more straightforward ingredients AND preferences for science, research, etc.

Susie down the street needs to know I like sourdough & public health.

But, I also like NIH and funding health research. I love vaccines & the diseases & death they prevent.

An acquaintance at dinner said “at least RFK will clean up our foods.” And I was like “and eliminate vaccines.” She was like “Huh??”

For example, I want my kids outside more and love the idea of 10,000 hours outside. I want to eat pastries and breads made out of ingredients like Europe has. I like to make homemade butter.

Another thought I’m thinking thru: how can I share things online (“create content”) of ideas/things our family does that may mimic the MAHA movement. So many friends, aquantiances are n this crunchy camp, but there’s got to be ways to encourage them to think more critically.

- Getting off TikTok. I love it, but I’m torn between the community/idea sharing versus the ick of the last week
- Setting up monthly, automatic donation; consistent funding is crucial for hyper-local/small nonprofits to operate
- Gardening & wine. This is not the year(s) I’m dropping either

Things I’m thinking through/planning on implementing (at some level):
- No Buy Year (or, attempting to thrift first)
- Canceling Amazon Prime (member since 2008 & massively used in our family; have to weigh this with the mental load it’d carry)

- Officially joined our Episcopal church
-Signed up for paid subscriptions on Substack for ~5 writers/journos to support their work & follow responsible news
- Signed up for ~10 free Substack newsletters of likeminded people/creators that bring me joy

Things I’ve done so far — not announcing as a pat on the back but to encourage idea sharing.
- Joined League of Women Voters in my very conservative county (annual membership dues were quite minimal)
- Recommitted to @redwineblueusa.bsky.social (our Loveland, OH group)