Wake Robin Books & Arts
@wakerobinbooksarts.bsky.social
A Latina- and disabled-owned independent bookstore coming soon to Alexandria, Virginia. Come to our September pop-ups and art nights in Falls Church! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maker-mondays-tickets-1587265476769
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We're planning to open an independent bookstore and arts center, and we could really use some support. We envision a true community space, welcoming and inclusive, with opportunities to learn, connect, and create. Thanks for your help! #BookSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-jenni...
More books! More crafts! #IndieBookstore www.eventbrite.com/e/maker-mond...
September 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
More books! More crafts! #IndieBookstore www.eventbrite.com/e/maker-mond...
Compare a display from our first ever pop-up just two weeks ago (is THAT all it’s been?!) with last night’s. Our garden is growing! #IndieBookstore
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Compare a display from our first ever pop-up just two weeks ago (is THAT all it’s been?!) with last night’s. Our garden is growing! #IndieBookstore
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There's maybe never been a more important moment for #BookSky to get REALLY into small & indie presses. If you don't know where to start, tell me what you're into and I'll give you a recommendation
if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.
September 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
There's maybe never been a more important moment for #BookSky to get REALLY into small & indie presses. If you don't know where to start, tell me what you're into and I'll give you a recommendation
Bookseller Richelle is also former librarian Richelle, so nothing made her happier than assembling our Hispanic Heritage Month list on Bookshop #BookSky #IndieBookstore bookshop.org/lists/hispan...
Hispanic Heritage Month
OK. We probably don't have to tell you that Richelle, a former librarian, went a little bonkers on this list.
bookshop.org
September 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bookseller Richelle is also former librarian Richelle, so nothing made her happier than assembling our Hispanic Heritage Month list on Bookshop #BookSky #IndieBookstore bookshop.org/lists/hispan...
Hello #BookSky! We really appreciate the support you’ve given us, liking and reposting the updates about our adventures. Can you help us promote our next pop-up bookstore and art night, set for this upcoming Monday, September 15, in Falls Church, Virginia? Thank you!
We’ve got another great pop-up and art activity cued up for Monday, September 15 from 6 to 8 at Settle Down Easy Brewing in Falls Church, Virginia. Come for a relaxing couple of hours of making beautiful art and browsing our selection of books! Ticket link in bio. #IndieBookstore #MakeSomething
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hello #BookSky! We really appreciate the support you’ve given us, liking and reposting the updates about our adventures. Can you help us promote our next pop-up bookstore and art night, set for this upcoming Monday, September 15, in Falls Church, Virginia? Thank you!
We’ve got another great pop-up and art activity cued up for Monday, September 15 from 6 to 8 at Settle Down Easy Brewing in Falls Church, Virginia. Come for a relaxing couple of hours of making beautiful art and browsing our selection of books! Ticket link in bio. #IndieBookstore #MakeSomething
September 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We’ve got another great pop-up and art activity cued up for Monday, September 15 from 6 to 8 at Settle Down Easy Brewing in Falls Church, Virginia. Come for a relaxing couple of hours of making beautiful art and browsing our selection of books! Ticket link in bio. #IndieBookstore #MakeSomething
The spread at our first pop-up bookstore/craft night! Does it kind of look like we hunted down this table of books and are posing with it as a trophy? Because that’s not too bad a description of what’s happening. #IndieBookstore
September 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The spread at our first pop-up bookstore/craft night! Does it kind of look like we hunted down this table of books and are posing with it as a trophy? Because that’s not too bad a description of what’s happening. #IndieBookstore
We love that the first book we ever sold was Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen and we love that we sold it to Stuart Holt, President and CEO of ArtsFairfax, a cherished supporter of ours. WE’RE BOOKSELLERS!!! #BookSky #IndieBookstore
September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We love that the first book we ever sold was Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen and we love that we sold it to Stuart Holt, President and CEO of ArtsFairfax, a cherished supporter of ours. WE’RE BOOKSELLERS!!! #BookSky #IndieBookstore
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Thys meetinge koude have been a poignant and thought-provokinge expressionist filme
September 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Thys meetinge koude have been a poignant and thought-provokinge expressionist filme
We stopped by Settle Down Easy Brewing, where we’ll be having our Maker Monday pop-up bookstores every Monday in September starting on the 8th. It’s such a great space and we’re so thankful to the owners for giving us an opportunity to build our business! #IndieBookstore #MakeSomething
August 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We stopped by Settle Down Easy Brewing, where we’ll be having our Maker Monday pop-up bookstores every Monday in September starting on the 8th. It’s such a great space and we’re so thankful to the owners for giving us an opportunity to build our business! #IndieBookstore #MakeSomething
For Women in Translation Month, Richelle is reading I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz, lent to her by Jennifer. It considers themes of freedom and constraint, isolation and community, even…the meaning of life. #BookSky #WITMonth #IndieBookstore
August 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For Women in Translation Month, Richelle is reading I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz, lent to her by Jennifer. It considers themes of freedom and constraint, isolation and community, even…the meaning of life. #BookSky #WITMonth #IndieBookstore
We're excited to announce our FIRST-ever pop-up September 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Settle Down Easy Brewery in Falls Church. It's the first of our Maker Mondays in September, where we'll sell books and do a fun project. First up: bookbinding! #IndieBookstore #BookSky www.eventbrite.com/e/maker-mond...
August 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We're excited to announce our FIRST-ever pop-up September 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Settle Down Easy Brewery in Falls Church. It's the first of our Maker Mondays in September, where we'll sell books and do a fun project. First up: bookbinding! #IndieBookstore #BookSky www.eventbrite.com/e/maker-mond...
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The #HugoAward for Best Related Work goes to Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press). “Insist that tomorrow belongs to everyone.”
August 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The #HugoAward for Best Related Work goes to Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press). “Insist that tomorrow belongs to everyone.”
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‘Why, to avoid naming Boccaccio, did Chaucer invent a fictional Latin poet as his source for 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘴? It seems that Boccaccio already had a reputation problem.’
Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s dirty book:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s dirty book:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Barbara Newman · Dirty Books: Boccaccio’s Reputation
Boccaccio took great pains with the Decameron. He revised it extensively and produced several copies with his own hand,...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
‘Why, to avoid naming Boccaccio, did Chaucer invent a fictional Latin poet as his source for 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘴? It seems that Boccaccio already had a reputation problem.’
Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s dirty book:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s dirty book:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Hey #BookSky It's a lovely Saturday morning. It's tax free weekend in MA. It's a good day to buy yourself a work of radical, speculative...optimism. And support a kickass small press while you're at it.
Crocosmia by Miranda Mellis
A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the "great turning"--a moment of radical social and ecological change effected in part by the art of her mother, Jane. As Maya recalls her upbringing--from a commune run by anarchist nuns to a time of rural isolation before her mother's disappearance--Mellis's prose gorgeously conjures a life defined by revolutionary thought and action and the interplay and tension between family life and political commitment. At once a fantasy, a handbook to political thought, and a work of eco-fiction, this lush novel meditates on how, in a world on the precipice, dreams of communal care can bloom.
portersquarebooks.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Hey #BookSky It's a lovely Saturday morning. It's tax free weekend in MA. It's a good day to buy yourself a work of radical, speculative...optimism. And support a kickass small press while you're at it.
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You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.
August 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.
Happy #NationalBookLoversDay! Find a cozy spot and get lost in a great story today. What’s your favorite? You can see some of ours at our Bookshop page: bookshop.org/shop/wakerobin #BookSky #IndieBookstore
August 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Happy #NationalBookLoversDay! Find a cozy spot and get lost in a great story today. What’s your favorite? You can see some of ours at our Bookshop page: bookshop.org/shop/wakerobin #BookSky #IndieBookstore
Ah.
there's a reason why printing presses look so much like guillotines
July 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Ah.
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"Her favourite part of the Penguin Books archive? It's the Terry Pratchett collection, devoted to the work of the bestselling author of the Discworld series."
Sorry but Pratchett was not a Penguin author, irrespective of subsequent mergers / acquisitions. He was Gollancz and Corgi and that is that.
Sorry but Pratchett was not a Penguin author, irrespective of subsequent mergers / acquisitions. He was Gollancz and Corgi and that is that.
Inside Penguin Books' Northamptonshire archive
A nondescript warehouse is home to more than 1.5 million books by the famed publisher.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
"Her favourite part of the Penguin Books archive? It's the Terry Pratchett collection, devoted to the work of the bestselling author of the Discworld series."
Sorry but Pratchett was not a Penguin author, irrespective of subsequent mergers / acquisitions. He was Gollancz and Corgi and that is that.
Sorry but Pratchett was not a Penguin author, irrespective of subsequent mergers / acquisitions. He was Gollancz and Corgi and that is that.
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This is my magnum opus as bookshop chronicler
1 like = 1 picture of the bookshop I have on my phone (limit 10,427)
July 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is my magnum opus as bookshop chronicler
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This biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder has everything: big business assaults on scientific facts, species extinction, the fuzzy line between memoir and fiction, copyright battles, fraught mother-daughter relationships and the Koch Brothers. Absolutely compelling and completely contemporary.
July 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder has everything: big business assaults on scientific facts, species extinction, the fuzzy line between memoir and fiction, copyright battles, fraught mother-daughter relationships and the Koch Brothers. Absolutely compelling and completely contemporary.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: We're back. As was the case on Twitter, if you respond to one of Ms Rhys's posts, please be aware she is very, very unlikely to reply. Because she's dead.
November 13, 2024 at 2:06 PM
EDITOR'S NOTE: We're back. As was the case on Twitter, if you respond to one of Ms Rhys's posts, please be aware she is very, very unlikely to reply. Because she's dead.
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I had never thought of it this way and I have to admit, I am not completely comfortable with the thought 😳😳😂
July 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I had never thought of it this way and I have to admit, I am not completely comfortable with the thought 😳😳😂
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July 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM