Dark Matter Books @darkmatterbks.bsky.social · 01/12/2024back at it again at the krispy kreme!!! here's a self-indulgent rec: UNCOMMON CHARM, a pastiche of chatty domestic tragicomedies a la PURSUIT OF LOVE. teen socialite and shy magician uncover hidden family history, argue moral philosophy, encounter surreal magic bookshop.org/a/105152/978... 11910
Dark Matter Books @darkmatterbks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Brainstorming store rules. Dogs strictly forbidden but birds allowed, if leashed 351
Dark Matter Books @darkmatterbks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024this is Bert he does our finances and he isn't good at it 2485
Dark Matter Books @darkmatterbks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024today's recommendation: @libraryatnight.bsky.social 's DARK ARCHIVES, a history of books bound in human skin. Not a grisly wannabe-shocker catalogue but an EXTREMELY accessible work on material culture and the medicalization of race and criminalitybookshop.orgDark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin a book by Megan RosenbloomOn bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if y... 1186
Dark Matter Books @darkmatterbks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024we love backlist, books that play with genre conventions, and characters who constantly reassess the things they owe to others so we love Rosemary Kirstein's THE STEERSWOMAN. the "Big Twist" is that it's seemingly-fantasy then actually SF, but what *i* love about it... bookshop.org/a/105152/978...bookshop.orgThe Steerswoman a book by Rosemary KirsteinFREEDOM OF INFORMATION If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman's knowledge is shared with any who request it; no steerswoman may refuse a question, and no steerswoman may answer with anything but t... 100
Dark Matter Books @darkmatterbks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024There's just two of us, we're both prior booksellers, and incorporating a business made us cringe. Right now the only labor abuses we can commit are to each other... that's Romance! I'm gonna hit Meagan with hammers 160
Dark Matter Books @darkmatterbks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024What's up, fuckers!!! Sorry that was very rude. We're Meagan and Emily and we're starting a bookstore in east St. Paul. Hit up our landing page @ darkmatterbooks.co and sign up for the newsletter which is about how we really hate publishingdarkmatterbooks.coDark Matter Books 172
Dark Matter Books @darkmatterbks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024My other account is old enough to be invite only and I still haven't seen that hawg 120
