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📖 Bookstore owner: @WickedGoodBooks.bsky.social
🐰 Toy store owner: Silly Bunny
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And Summer's lease hath all too short a date
- Sonnet 18 - #ShakespeareSunday
a cartoon of bugs bunny reading a book while eating a carrot
ALT: a cartoon of bugs bunny reading a book while eating a carrot
media.tenor.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
-The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday #MayThe4th #StarWarsDay
May 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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The Great Gatsby (available at Wicked Good Books) was released 100 years ago today. Here’s a 1926 profile of F. Scott Fitzgerald from The New Yorker.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/192...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, That Sad Young Man
John C. Mosher’s 1926 Profile of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: “All was quiet on the Riviera, and then the Fitzgeralds arrived.”
www.newyorker.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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🐝 One month away! It’s the Second Annual Adult Spelling Bee!
🏆 Watch contestants display their spelling mettle or demonstrate your own orthographic skills.
🎫 Audience Tickets $10
bit.ly/4bvENHF
🎫 Contestant Tickets $25
bit.ly/41HqTPs
March 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936)
January 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Thanks to your recent generous donations to our checkout jar, we just made our first donation of 2025 to PALS Animal Life Savers. The kitties say thank you! You can make a donation anytime here: palscats.org/donate/
February 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Hollywood studio logos from the silent era
January 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Happy Hannukah! From Wicked Good Books and Silly Bunny Toys.
December 25, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Metropolis (1927), directed by Fritz Lang
December 6, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895), the first comedy film. Directed and produced by Louis Lumière
December 1, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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We are closed Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day so that our staff may enjoy the holiday with their families. We are thankful for your business and look forward to seeing you on Friday.
November 27, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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We’ve got the perfect cookbook for you or your host.
November 25, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
- Richard II - Act I, Scene 3
#ShakespeareSunday
November 24, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Conan O’Brien reveals how Robin Williams helped him through a dark time after ‘Tonight Show’ firing www.boston.com/culture/cele...
Conan O'Brien reveals how Robin Williams helped him through a dark time after 'Tonight Show' firing
Conan O'Brien revealed how Robin Williams unexpectedly helped him after being fired from "The Tonight Show" in 2009.
www.boston.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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😺 Hello and thanks to the over 700 (including many indie bookstores) who have followed us on Bluesky over the last week. Here’s to books and toys!
November 21, 2024 at 1:48 PM