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Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
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This turned out all right. Still some display changes to be made, but we're making progress. Next up, we'll add some displays for Iowa history and for signed and collectable children's books. Then it will be time to redo the Art & Criticism room.

submitted 54 minutes ago • 0 comments

Um... that's real.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Your periodic reminder that, 150 years ago, a desire to read fiction was considered both a sign of mental illness in women and a symptom of it. The groups devoted to banning some books because they're "immoral", "obscene", etc. are just growths from the same bad root.

submitted 20 hours ago • 26 comments

Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Still a lot of books to reshelve, and I may not get many done yet tonight, either... But our fuzzy boss appreciates one important choice. The bottom of the second column would have blocked the heat vent if our handyman hadn't cut this hole in the backing of the bookcase. Now there's a kitty bed ✅

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Would you like this bookcase? Go to Artifacts in #IowaCity! 331 E Market Street (319-358-9617) They just picked up six bookcases. More may follow in the coming weeks. Polyurethaned pine, a few dings and screw holes, nothing that can't be patched up easily.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This will kill people. Make sure your representatives know you oppose that. Mine have literally stopped answering calls from my numbers (work and cell), so make your call count, please!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

They're rushing this bill because they know most Iowans will oppose it. We don't want criminal penalties for librarians. We don't want the government deciding which books are in our public libraries. bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

As soon as the bathrooms are designated for "biological" men and women (a designation created on the basis of a third-grade understanding of biology), the gender enforcement will begin. Tomboys and men with slender builds will risk getting "reported". A lot of people will end up in jail.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I wish Swiffers came with compostable parts. I'm pretty religious about keeping our waste to a minimum, so that would be especially helpful while I am cleaning and installing the new shelving. But I won't feel *too* bad considering that we only rearrange every 6-8 years 😄

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Okay. It'll look better when I have respaced the individual sections and added labels, but here we go: 3 down, 33 to go.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I'm waiting for the new shelving to dry (scrubbed with oil soap and disinfectant, because I found one (1) mouse turd). So I'm going through miscellaneous papers found in the books we're beginning to process. Here's a note from Herself: "When you skip voting, it's not rebellion. It's surrender."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The bookcase switch is taking much longer than expected. I will try to let folks in to browse, just be aware that three rooms are in disarray.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ubi tyrannus est, ibi plānē est nūlla rēs pūblica.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Oh help. Bookshop Toddler just realized we're moving the bookcases, and now he's anxious and sobbing and wants us to put everything back. Ideas, parents?

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

We FINALLY have some Jane Austen in stock. 5... 4... 3...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Geography Twister. Why doesn't this exist?

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

On a - well, not literally lighter - note, there is chaos in the store today, as we are moving bookshelves to make more space.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Going through hundreds of other people's libraries, one begins to be unsurprised by what one finds there. This, though, is devastating. The man who owned this bookshop was in an internment camp as a child, because he was an American in China during World War II. I think this is a map of the camp.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Realized I never posted this over here. In 2022 I wrote about how libraries are not and have never been neutral, and why it's crucial we as LIS workers stand up for our marginalized patrons and staff. prismreports.org/2022/07/21/l...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Some of you organized people might have plans or even seedlings started for this year's garden. Just a heads up to the late bloomers, though: when we install new bookcases in the Iowa/Food/Gardening section, we'll expand gardening by a full shelf. See you this weekend? 🌽 🍅 🌷

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Article is paywalled, but it's nothing surprising. While conceding that it's true that everyone already has rights to challenge books in school and public libraries, the article frames the matter in terms of a GOP call to "protect" children. www.thegazette.com/state-govern...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

TIL a box of pop-up books actually does not weigh any less than a box of normal hardcovers and paperbacks. (Three of the twelve boxes of pop-up books I have packed in the last hour)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments