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Jesse Doogan
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Bossy little bluebird. Former bookseller. Sometime children’s publishing person. Hamline MFAC ‘24. Currently querying. http://jessedoogan.substack.com
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Amy Sherman-Palladino is perfect for this but WHAT ON EARTH is Ryan Reynolds going to do? Play Nanny????
Screenshot from Netflix announcement reading “Ryan Reynolds and Mae Schenk Star in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Eloise Adaptation The live-action film is based on the beloved book series by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight.”
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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There are a few of these nearby and I find them to be TOO MUCH
Giant plastic skeleton torso that is supposed to look like it is a much bigger skeleton emerging from the ground. This one is in a rather bare living room for some reason.
September 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Bernadette’s tail was not allowed to see the storm
A cat sitting on a cat window shelf but the cat is obscured by the curtain except for the tail, which is visible on this side of the curtain.
August 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Did a screen write this
Newspaper headline from The Guardian reading: A moment that changed me: I resolved to reduce my screen time - and it was a big mistake I was looking for liberation from the apps, but quitting them only made my life harder and turned me into a man obsessed By Joe Stone, August 13, 2025
August 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Well.
Twitter anniversary notification I set up for myself in Gmail
July 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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I think this is part of the reason for the popularity of “spreadges” (sprayed edges). There is a huge market in the fantasy world right now for inexpensive special editions that mimic this style with cheap modern materials. (I’m not a fantasy girly, just reporting on the trend as a book collector!)
Special editions of a fantasy series including The Witch Collector. Each of the four books have custom sprayed edges and black covers with gold foil. Legends and Lattes in a special leather like edition with sprayed edges that are designed to look like milk poured into coffee
May 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Somebody had a quarter-life crisis and then left the Barnes & Noble
A found stack of two books on the gel pen testing counter at the Barnes & Noble. Top book is a teal book with gold edges titled “gratitude journal” and the bottom book is a pink and yellow self-help book titled “how to break up with your friends”
May 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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What are these? Bulbs of some kind, I think!
Yellow tulip-like but not tulip (I think) flowers with five or six pointy petals on tall thing stems. Pulled back image of yellow tulip-like flowers
April 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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If you see this, post your lockscreen
Lockscreen that reads 5:53pm with an upside down tortoiseshell cat with one green eye open
March 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Thank you!! Some balloon flowers at their peak for you
March 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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A new coat
February 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Update: apparently once Bookshop dot org has created a way for booksellers to integrate ebook sales into their websites, bookstores will get 100% of the profits, per Publishers Weekly. That’s great!
The platform launches with content available from all the major publishers, with plans to onboard Draft2Digital's self-published titles this spring. Independent bookstores will be able to integrate e-book sales directly into their websites starting around April. Sales made directly through a bookstore’s own site, rather than a store’s Bookshop.org affiliate page, will return 100% of the profits back to the bookstore. Until that time, bookstores will be compensated according to Bookshop’s traditional arrangement. Purchases made on the Bookshop.org affiliate page will see 30% of the sale price of e-books return to that bookstore, with a further 10% retained for the e-tailer’s profit-sharing pool, to be distributed back to all its affiliate indie bookstores.
January 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Right, but these books have DRM. You don’t get a file, you get access to it within their apps. I’ve already purchased a book to test!
Receipt for purchased ebook: Entangled Life Ebook Qty: 1 Visit your Ebook Library to read now! $2.99 Subtotal $2.99 Shipping $0.00 Tax $0.00 Order Total $2.99 Purchased ebooks should appear in your Ebook Library immediately. You'll receive a separate email confirming your ebook's successful delivery. In rare instances there may be a delay in delivery. If your ebook is not in your ebook library within 4 hours, let us know. Please contact us here or by emailing us at info@bookshop.org for order changes or any other questions! We'll come up with a solution for you. Ebooks purchases are final and nonrefundable. If there’s an issue with your ebook that’s preventing you from reading it, please reach out to our customer service team here for assistance. Read your Bookshop.org ebooks anytime, anywhere with the free Bookshop.org apps for iOS and Android!
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I'm telling you it's the exact same deal only worse for consumers. Kobo at least tried to solve the DRM problem. www.bookweb.org/kobo-ebooks
From the American Booksellers Association website: ABA members interested in selling ebooks can join the Kobo eReading program, and offer their customers more than six million titles. ABA members share in the revenue on every sale. Sell Kobo eBooks in four steps: This program is currently under revision as of August 2024. More information to come soon. Access the Kobo Reporting Tool Here for Customer Account and Transaction History Kobo eReaders As of November 27, 2018, the Online Hardware Affiliate Program for ABA member bookstores will no longer be operational. Any individual or store interested in purchasing eReaders can visit kobo.com.
January 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Cap Garland forever, honestly
Excerpt from Prairie Fires: Haunted by the prospect of spending an entire weekend stranded with the wretched Bouchies, Laura was thrilled when Almanzo Wilder drove up to hte schoolroom door in a sleight on her first Friday afternoon and offered to take her home. From then on, he never missed a weekend, coming even when the temperature dropped to forty-five below with a stiff north wind. On that occasion, Almanzo told her that he had been hesitating, standing beside his horses at a hitching post in De Smet, when Cap Garland passed by, gave him a glance, and said "God hates a coward." For her part, Laura was undeterred by the weather, telling Louis Bouchie that she would go "if I froze for it." She was so stiff by the ned of the drive that her mother had to pry her out of the sleigh.
January 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Winter geraniums
Close up of a shelf with books and a wicker purse shaped like a house. Focus of photo is a 3-inch pink vase with red geraniums in it and a bud vase shaped like a pale woman holding a single geranium blossom.
January 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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119.5k people are mad! On Facebook!
A photo of a Facebook group called Chicago-style thin crust pizza forever! (we don’t call it tavern-style) but the T in tavern is x-ed out
January 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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“Grunts variation”
Screenshot of Spotify daylight called “call nature afternoon” and the first song is called The Creatures of Nature (grunts variation) by The Octopus Project, Riley Keough
January 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Ah yes, the film Small Things Like These, known for its suspense and also action
Screen shot of Small Things Like These available to buy or rent and categorized as suspense / action
January 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Little guy and big little guy from my last trip to the Art Institute
Wee little boar flask from art institute. The description reads mid-4th century BC terracotta. Boar has a plaintive face and small hooves. Giant dog creature made out of seashells made to look like a seaside souvenir but is about two feet tall
December 12, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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I forgot it was St. Nicholas Day until I opened day 6 on my very German, all-marzipan advent calendar and got this wee Santa
December 7, 2024 at 5:14 AM
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Real Hemingway baby shoes vibes over here
Facebook marketplace listing with a photo of an ISBN code and the listing is titled The Marshall Fields Cookbook (last one)
November 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Spotted @lyz.bsky.social at Burger Joint in midtown
Colorful graffitied wall featuring a white circular sticker with an illustration of a burning wedding dress and the title This American Ex-Wife
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Look how fancy you can be!
November 18, 2024 at 4:56 PM