Rubber Rose Books
@rubberrosebooks.bsky.social
Independent bookstore in downtown Kankakee, IL celebrating & uplifting BIPOC and Queer authors ✍️🏼
✨️Woman & Queer Owned
📚 2025: 35/60
📖 Educated - Tara Westover
www.rubberrosebookshop.com
https://bookshop.org/shop/rubberrosebooks
✨️Woman & Queer Owned
📚 2025: 35/60
📖 Educated - Tara Westover
www.rubberrosebookshop.com
https://bookshop.org/shop/rubberrosebooks
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Read for your rights all day every day this Banned Books Week 📖
Every single one of these titles in our inventory has been banned or challenged in schools, libraries, and correctional institutions across the country.
Today and always, we believe in fREADom because censorship is so 1984...
Read for your rights all day every day this Banned Books Week 📖
Every single one of these titles in our inventory has been banned or challenged in schools, libraries, and correctional institutions across the country.
Today and always, we believe in fREADom because censorship is so 1984...
October 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Read for your rights all day every day this Banned Books Week 📖
Every single one of these titles in our inventory has been banned or challenged in schools, libraries, and correctional institutions across the country.
Today and always, we believe in fREADom because censorship is so 1984...
Read for your rights all day every day this Banned Books Week 📖
Every single one of these titles in our inventory has been banned or challenged in schools, libraries, and correctional institutions across the country.
Today and always, we believe in fREADom because censorship is so 1984...
Shop small and support our bookshop instead of ~that billionaire~ with your audiobook purchases!
Through October 13, build your TBR with audiobooks from @librofm’s Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale.
Head to the link below to get started:
libro.fm/sale?booksto...
Through October 13, build your TBR with audiobooks from @librofm’s Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale.
Head to the link below to get started:
libro.fm/sale?booksto...
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Shop small and support our bookshop instead of ~that billionaire~ with your audiobook purchases!
Through October 13, build your TBR with audiobooks from @librofm’s Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale.
Head to the link below to get started:
libro.fm/sale?booksto...
Through October 13, build your TBR with audiobooks from @librofm’s Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale.
Head to the link below to get started:
libro.fm/sale?booksto...
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Last Saturday I spent the whole day @rubberrosebooks.bsky.social. In this month's Widely Read, I lay out my embarrassments, shame, victories, and observations of spending a whole day at a bookstore while it celebrates its anniversary.
I hope you enjoy!
widely-read.ghost.io/my-kid-says-...
I hope you enjoy!
widely-read.ghost.io/my-kid-says-...
My Kid Says, “You should sell books!” and 9 Other Thoughts After a Full Day at a Bookstore
On August 2nd, I had the rare opportunity to spend a whole day at a bookstore (Rubber Rose Books and Print in Kankakee!) during its three-year anniversary. I was there to support my kid doing a little...
widely-read.ghost.io
August 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Last Saturday I spent the whole day @rubberrosebooks.bsky.social. In this month's Widely Read, I lay out my embarrassments, shame, victories, and observations of spending a whole day at a bookstore while it celebrates its anniversary.
I hope you enjoy!
widely-read.ghost.io/my-kid-says-...
I hope you enjoy!
widely-read.ghost.io/my-kid-says-...
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Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism
Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism
“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, inter...
www.haymarketbooks.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism
SALE 📣 SALE 📣 SALE
Our BIGGEST sale of the year starts Wednesday, September 17, and goes through Saturday, September 20th.
Approximately 75-80% of our brand new book stock in store will be 40% off.
As an indie bookstore, rotating our inventory is a must to stay in business. We love our customers!
Our BIGGEST sale of the year starts Wednesday, September 17, and goes through Saturday, September 20th.
Approximately 75-80% of our brand new book stock in store will be 40% off.
As an indie bookstore, rotating our inventory is a must to stay in business. We love our customers!
September 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
SALE 📣 SALE 📣 SALE
Our BIGGEST sale of the year starts Wednesday, September 17, and goes through Saturday, September 20th.
Approximately 75-80% of our brand new book stock in store will be 40% off.
As an indie bookstore, rotating our inventory is a must to stay in business. We love our customers!
Our BIGGEST sale of the year starts Wednesday, September 17, and goes through Saturday, September 20th.
Approximately 75-80% of our brand new book stock in store will be 40% off.
As an indie bookstore, rotating our inventory is a must to stay in business. We love our customers!
Can you take the heat? Join @libro.fm’s reading challenge this month for the chance to win free audiobooks, merch, and more! Plus, you can feel good while doing it; not only will you be supporting our indie, but our wider community 💗
Learn more and get started: blog.libro.fm/heat
Learn more and get started: blog.libro.fm/heat
July 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Can you take the heat? Join @libro.fm’s reading challenge this month for the chance to win free audiobooks, merch, and more! Plus, you can feel good while doing it; not only will you be supporting our indie, but our wider community 💗
Learn more and get started: blog.libro.fm/heat
Learn more and get started: blog.libro.fm/heat
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I have been called out
May 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I have been called out
How many books did you read in 2024? Did you reach your goal?
I read 63/60 books last year. Five books a month seems to be a good pace for me, so I'm setting a goal of 60 for 2025!
I read 63/60 books last year. Five books a month seems to be a good pace for me, so I'm setting a goal of 60 for 2025!
January 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
How many books did you read in 2024? Did you reach your goal?
I read 63/60 books last year. Five books a month seems to be a good pace for me, so I'm setting a goal of 60 for 2025!
I read 63/60 books last year. Five books a month seems to be a good pace for me, so I'm setting a goal of 60 for 2025!
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good news: tomorrow is another opportunity for someone to flirt with you at ur local bookstore.
December 22, 2024 at 4:05 AM
good news: tomorrow is another opportunity for someone to flirt with you at ur local bookstore.
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Big thank you to Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner for spotlighting queer bookstores' value and visibility to communities across the country for T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
The Queer Book Shops Opening Across the Country
Plus: a stylist’s new fragrance line, a sophisticated stationery box and more recommendations from T Magazine.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Big thank you to Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner for spotlighting queer bookstores' value and visibility to communities across the country for T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
Repost with a cool song that's under two minutes long... one of the many cool songs on our stores playlist 🎧
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December 4, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Repost with a cool song that's under two minutes long... one of the many cool songs on our stores playlist 🎧
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Sending endless thanks to those in my community who came out for Small Business Saturday yesterday. Where you shop MATTERS, now more than ever!
December 2, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Sending endless thanks to those in my community who came out for Small Business Saturday yesterday. Where you shop MATTERS, now more than ever!
Share something black and white
December 1, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Share something black and white