We have been cursed to live in interesting times.
The year is nearing its end and we’re all dragging ourselves onto the shores of 2022. If you are like us, then you take deep pleasure in the small affections that you find in life, such as your membership at a little local used bookshop. Sending out the member emails has been pretty uplifting, honestly, and writing these little ditties before them is something we look forward to each week. Jason often comes to Vanessa saying, “We should mention the Santa Skydancer in the next one,” or, “Jay really likes snow too much. Let’s make fun of him.” Pleasures like this are rarely found in life. Having this little platform to indulge in our more suspicious, if aesthetically exalted, crimes-upon-literature has been so needed in these Troubling Times.
To this end, as you’ve patiently waded through each ditty without complaint–and good on you for that, really–we’d like to ask: “At the end of the year, when men and women open their hearts to a Greater Spirit of Caring and Compassion, what can we, your local bookseller, do to make the Membership better in the year of 2022?” Certainly we both have our own ideas, but we’d like to know yours too. I mean, it’s YOUR membership after all. And beyond Jay’s request that MORE SNOW be pelted upon our city, there might be something manageable that we could all to amp up this extraordinary service.
Please do let us know.
Also, you’re getting a pretty cool sneak-peek this week on some rad material coming into the shop, including facsimile First Editions and Folio Society books, as well as the usual contemporary poet, activist-minded, modern woman, futurism-loving, crime-obsessed, and/or pervert-aesthete kinda person titles. So enjoy. And pop into the shop. Our Santa Skydancer is here to assist you with all your book-buying needs.
With love,
Jason and Vanessa
