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The Book Rambler
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If you're looking for random fun facts about bookish history, wordy nerdiness, and the (sometimes weird) lives of late authors, then you've found yourself the write page. I mean, uh, RIGHT.
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Happy 134th birthday to the one and only Zora Neale Hurston! She was born in 1891, but don't tell the school board, because she did knock ten years off her age in order to finish high school for free. 🤫

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A stack of three books by Zora Neale Hurston: BARRACOON, DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD, and THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD. The third book has a gold and white crocheted bookmark halfway through it. The background is wood. Layered in front of this picture, there is an outlined black-and-white photograph of Zora Neale Hurston laughing and smiling in a dark fur coat and a hat with a big feather on it. Rainbow bunting hangs behind her. The text reads: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ZORA!"
January 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Small Business Saturday is the PERFECT day for our first independent bookstore spotlight: the Midtown Scholar! 📚✨

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Surrounded by ornate gold borders, there is a picture of various bookshelves and book-covered tables in the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. A banner with a photo of Charlotte Bronte says "Famous Authors." Another sign says "NEW IN PAPERBACK." Photoshopped into the scene is an excited-looking plastic skeleton with his mouth open and his hands raised. He is wearing pink cartoon glasses and a black t-shirt that says "The MIDTOWN SCHOLAR: WE SPECIALIZE IN DEAD AUTHORS" with a cartoon of another skeleton giving thumbs up in the center.
December 7, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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November is already almost over, which freaks me out – BUT! On the bright side... it means there are only three days left until daily fun facts about books and writers get going!
An excited-looking plastic skeleton holding his hands up, surrounded by colorful neon stars against a grey background. The text reads "3 DAYS UNTIL FUN FACTS!"
November 28, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Hello, book-nerd friends!

My page will celebrate the awesome readers, writers, and editors behind every bookshelf, so all this AI crap and corporate greed won't make us forget our true purpose in life: being creative little freaks with opinions™ about prologues.

Daily fun facts start December 1st!
Against a grey background, there is a plastic skeleton wearing pink glasses and a black t-shirt. The t-shirt says "The Midtown Scholar - We specialize in dead authors" and has another skeleton giving a thumbs up on it. The plastic skeleton is shouting into a megaphone. The text around it reads: The Book Rambler, coming soon, fun facts about bookish history, wordy nerdiness, and late, great authors.
November 21, 2024 at 11:03 PM