Dear friends,
It’s B&D Annual Reading Week Sale time!
25% off in-store!
That’s right, folks. With our national sovereignty being threatened on the daily, we’ve come to believe that NOTHING MAKES SENSE ANYMORE so why not make our beloved READING WEEK SALE reflect the times! In celebration of the 25% tariffs leering over the shoulders of hardworking Canadians everywhere, we’re offering a temporary rebrand:
The Bookseller Tariff Sale!
Rip our income directly out of our hands and get 25% off each purchase in-store!
We are also continuing to offer a 100% discount on couch rental and basement fees to any rogue American bookseller who can make it across the border under the guise of a “book fair in London. No, not that London. London, Ontario!” We’ve recently been freaking exhausted by the whole shit-show down south but sometimes it’s enough to make us two introverts and generally well-raised kids flip the bird at the Greater Story Being Told by world-conquering narcissists and techno-douches.
At this point, why not just make everything free so NO ONE can pay the bills? Fortunately, according to Russell Vought, the free market will win out in the end. You know, it all works like such a smoothly-oiled machine.
Our little world of bookselling, anchored (unfortunately) to the great tides of history and morally despicable people with inexplicable amounts of power, does what it can when it can. In this case, we offer some dinkish and humorous relief by slashing our top end by 25%, a greater gift to the world than the condescendingly meagre government tax holiday that was the GST Free Christmas.
Thank the students of London. Seriously, without them, our town slogan would be “Brantford: With More Drugs.” The college and university drive the bus around here, employing every smart alec artsy Joe in driving distance. To you, the adjuncts and partial-loads, the TAs and administrators, we tip our hats. Please take advantage of this sale. You are our best customers, and we love you.
Maybe a stack of new-to-you books will give you some relief from the flood of the Great Reset? Maybe reading a text that’s edited by a real person, contains more than 5000 words, and hearkens to a larger, more patient, and interesting idea than memes and moral-panic can imbue you with a sense of meaning that defies the chaotic moment we are living in.
Then again, whatever. We’ve thrown up our hands at this point.
Tove Janson, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Sowell, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Guy Debord, Sandra Boynton, Marilynne Robinson, M.F.K. Fisher, we need you now! We need you in our brains! We need you on our shelves! We need a life’s work that is by anyone, ANYONE, who doesn’t believe they possess the Moral Right of Kings!
Jeepers this all really, really pisses us off. Enjoy the sale.
Much love,
Jason & Vanessa
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