Our Bookish Lives: a bookstore blog

Over the weekend, my cat-loving best friend found this absolutely adorable cat named Kameron up for adoption through the county animal shelter. She tagged me in a comment on a video of him and begged me to adopt this cat, since she knows I also like cats. Stan needs a little brother, she said in the comments. The next day, she sent me the post in a private message and wrote, Is there a way you can save him? He spends his day in the cage and he's so sweet. (Stan Lee, or Stan, Stan the Handsome Man, and Staniel...

Meow! Mom promised to give me catnip treats if I wrote a blog post about books I recommend. Also, Mom is currently running a sale on the website. You can get 20% off your order with promo code Stan Lee at checkout. 1. No More Goddesses by Kim Baccellia No More Goddesses is about a teenage girl named Jordan who finds an ancient bracelet worn by her favorite actress in a movie in her grandma's attic and puts it on, hoping it will bring her love. Instead, the bracelet unleashes Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love, who decides it's fun...

Need a good book? Here are 4 we recommend during the sale. (Use promo code Stan Lee at checkout on the website to get 20% off during the sale!) 1. The Crows of Beara, by Julie Christine Johnson The Crows of Beara is about a woman named Annie. She's a recovering alcoholic and just got out of rehab and went back to her job at a PR firm. Despite the fact that Annie's career is hanging in the balance and her marriage is failing, she's sent to Ireland for her job to promote a new copper mine on the Beara...

Ever since reading The Second Mango by Shira Glassman in 2016, it's been one of my favorite books. It's Jewish lesbian fantasy. The main character, Shulamit, never expected to inherit the throne of Perach at the age of twenty. She's 20, fatherless, and coping with being the only lesbian she knows after her girlfriend, Aviva, runs off. To top that off, she's also dealing with severe intestinal problems that everyone thinks she's faking. After meeting an athletic, assertive warrior named Rivka, things start looking up for Shulamit, though. My favorite part was the fact that the author sprinkled different Yiddish...

Meow meow! I'm Stan Lee, the (retired and very smart) shop cat at the bookstore. Here are 3 books I couldn't keep my paws off of. (Note from the humans: we have a sale going on right now. Get 25% off your order through Wednesday if you use promo code Beach read at checkout on our website.) 1. House of Gold, by Natasha Solomons House of Gold is historical fiction about the tensions between what's right for yourself and what's right for your family. It starts in Vienna in 1911, where we meet 21-year-old Greta Goldbaum, who has always wanted...