When you shelve a book with a title that sounds like "Save the Last Dance" & the song gets stuck in your head for days #bookstoreproblems

Numeratized? Innumerated? guhhhh, help out a tired brain, what's the word for alphabetized except by number? #librarylife #bookstoreproblems

Without my specs, first time in 7yrs. And NOW I get an email inquiry for pictures of Marvel Daredevil omnibus. #bookstoreproblems #notjoking

I: Darn.
E: What's wrong with "Buried Cities"?
I: It's about #Pompeii and #Herculaneum.
E: And?
I: Not Atlantis or Lemuria.
E: That's pretty classy binding & a good publisher--
I: Classy schlock was totally a thing in 1868.
#overheard #antiquarian #history #Bookstoreproblems

Today I went to Half Price Books.

Saw the same Marissa Meyer book shelved in YA, fantasy, romance, and fiction.

You know what frustrated me most?

Someone got paid to do that.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #AmReading #BookstoreProblems

the Freud Little Thinker, so I had to clarify that we needed a *regular-sized* #banana and a *tiny* Freud) #awkward #toys #bookstoreproblems

M: Jane English is a pretty awesome name for a translator.
N: Awesomer if her co-translator were named Wenyen Wen Cheng.
#overheard #nerd #bookstoreproblems

Went to the bookstore today with the noble goal of not buying a book.

So naturally… I walked out with two books and a magazine.

Look, they were shiny. Probably cursed. 0/10 self-control, 10/10 no regrets.

#BookstoreProblems #OopsIBoughtMoreBooks #SendHelpSendShelves

Daily agony: just enough research to qualify a #book's place in a #library, trying not to learn enough to fall in love. #bookstoreproblems

CATS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I AM COMMUNING WITH CHICAGO 1908 AND MARK TWAIN AND HOLY WHAT WHAT WHAT #bookstoreproblems #WorldSeries

#ThatMomentWhen a customer buys one #book by an #author who proposed to me and one by an #author who turned me down #bookstoreproblems

CAT: Raaaow.
M: [inverts the king of cats]
CAT: Raaaaaaaooooow!
N: I'd like to be the knight of moneys.
#bookstore #bookstoreproblems #tarot

Twice today. Thought I had Maguire's "Wicked", then Harbach's "Art of Fielding" but one's in Spanish and one's in French. #bookstoreproblems

Considering what #books are #mytype, arranging a #tryst is impossible; lunch too short for a chapter with good #footnotes #bookstoreproblems

Today's t-shirt depicts a robot, his bear, a balloon, & a nightfogged city. Today's #challenge: not to #write the #story. #bookstoreproblems

Considering how often we have the discussion, “is Frankenstein shelved in the Horror or Scifi section?” 🧪🧪🧪

#frankenstein #motherofscifi #horror #monster #bookstoreproblems #gothic #classics #azbookstore #booksky