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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The absolute fucking goal of bookselling. I'm gonna be high on this for a fortnight

Customer Comments: Hello!! I recently moved to Baltimore from Porter Square and I'm missing a little bit of home. I've been going to the Cambridge location for ~ 10 years and Josh's recs were always a favorite. I read anything and everything. The obscure is good and welcome! Though on the weir front, I would stay away from either Renee Gladman or anything published by Coffee House Press since I've read a lot of their back catalogs. Hope Cambridge is treating you all well. <3

Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I think it's...notable that Fuck Ice is just a part of American pop culture now. Like, we sell Fuck Ice pins at the bookstore. Got this t-shirt at The Hold Steady show last night. Has any entity become so hated, so broadly, so quickly?

Black T-shirt with the phrase Double Whiskey Coke Fuck Ice

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I just need society to survive long enough for us to get at least one meal from the ramp patch we've been tending at my mom's house.

View from above of a handful of small green leaf sprouts coming up through brown leaf litter. Ramps.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Some truth on the Somerville bike path. I don't know if there's a more fearful being on the planet than a MAGA white guy

Graffiti on a trash can that says "Only cowards love Trump."

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Honestly, I did not expect Francis to go this FREAKIN HARD. I'll never look at fries eggs the same way.

Quote from Bread and Jam for Francis that says But sunny-side-up eggs lie on the plate and look up at you. And sunny-side-down eggs just lie on their stomachs and wait. There is emphasis ok the word wait.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I don't know if this will connect with anyone else, but sometimes you've just got to get something out.

To Alyce, who does not know the times are interesting

If, because
I chose to fight,
they take me from you I
hope you never forgive me.

Forgiveness comes from understanding, understanding
too goddamn often
a consequence of experience.
If you experience the choice to fight
my taken-ness will have been
one of the million grains of failure
in the pile of failure.
(The pile of piles of failure.)

(and if you forgive me still my ghost will be consoled
that we raised you right while we raised the world wrong)

If, because
I chose to fight
they take me from you
I hope you never forgive me
for choosing the world you could
have over the time would we have

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Victory gardens & CSAs aren't going to solve the potential foodways crisis on the way, BUT they can help your family, while lessening the stress on the system AND connecting you to satisfying work & a community. If you can get to North Cambridge I highly recommend Sun Moon Farm www.sunmoonfarm.org

Jalapeño seedlings in a red solo cup in a small greenhouse.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Skyline cleanse. Sound on for full effect.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Got back in pretty quickly, thank you! Here they are at the vet beforehand.

Two large black cats snuggled together in a corner.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Maybe...Evocative & ebullient bafflement. Which I think is actually a not insignificant genre of literature. (Which, of course, would include Tone.)

The book Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Hold my calls! What? Yes, I know I don't really get any calls, just let me have this! (Very early into My Lesbian Novel & I *think it's going to be like watching open heart surgery on the novel form. Thank you @dorothyproject.bsky.social )

Two books. My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman and T.O.A.F by Renee Gladman

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Been really enjoying The Case of Cem. Historical fiction told through oral testimony. For fans of The Cat at the End of the World & The Corner That Held Them

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Publishers: We don't have the money to pay livable wages or give indie bookstores better discounts. Also Publishers: We've got money for this stuff to promote an already multimillion selling series.

A stress ball in the shape of a brain that says Diary of a Wimpy Kid No Brainer

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

So very early but still getting my prep work in. Me & Peter Coviello at Twin Cities Book Fest. 10AM.

Cover of Is There God after Prince: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things by Peter Coviello. Background is an airport floor

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Elderberry fermented honey! For (among other things) the best frigging hot toddy you'll ever have.

Mason jar with black lid and dark amber honey. Background is a movie poster for Mystery of Chessboxing

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

It would be so pretentious to call your book, "The Book*." I mean, come on. *Unless you are my queen Mary Ruefle. Mary does what she wants and we are grateful for it.

The Book a poetry collection by Mary Ruefle in front of white stars on blue background.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Just an absolutely ridiculous Costco purchase today. (Yes, it comes with a mini sword

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

More thoughts later but this might be the weirdest detective novel I've read. Keep in mind, I'm me

Cover of The Red Handler by Johan Harsrad

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

But Josh, do you have any actual evidence that you are good at picking out books for strangers?

An image of a Slack message saying I need to pick out 3 more books for the customer because they already read the 3 I picked. The books are Where the Wild Ladies Are, Thistlefoot, & Too Like the Lightning

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

For the 2nd book in a row I've done a little shopping at Hub Comics the day before release date. A little relaxation ritual. Here's what I got pre Libromancy launch

Berserk Vol 1 and Grendel Omnibus Vol 1 in front of a pencil drawing of a skull.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

A view of the flower garden while we wait for real libromancer content

View into a flower garden with orange & red flowers. Stone wall in the foreground. Old barn in the background.

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