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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So many unrealistic body standards these days! 😡

A real black and white cat sniffs at a fake and very thin Halloween decoration cat.

Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hmmm, I'm collecting my short stories to maybe print a collection, and a member of my writing group said "hey, what about [that one story], I really liked it." But to me that story was written by a very naive young me, and even looking over it to revise and update makes me cringe.

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Mugi @tsumugi-chan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For the sake of posterity: Here's Hank admitting he's writing his new non-fiction book about cancer with the help of Claude Might want to skip buying this book, folks!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Hey #booksky! What are some of your favorite novels with asexual and/or aromantic main characters?

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's Pride! It's a rainbow stack! I'm gonna be posting one a week this month because I have so many wonderful queer books on my shelves to celebrate. See any favorites?

A stack of books held up before early summer flowers (top to bottom): AMBERLOUGH by Lara Elena Donnelly, IDOLFIRE by Grace Curtis, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera, THE WEST PASSAGE by Jared Pechaček, KALYNA THE SOOTHSAYER by Elijah Kinch Spector, HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD by Shelley Parker-Chan, THE SLEEPLESS by Victor Manibo

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/06/2026

Hey, there's an interview with me about Murderbot, Platform Decay, and lots of other stuff on @smartbitches.bsky.social smartbitchestrashybooks.com/podcast/721-...

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721. Exploring Platform Decay with Martha Wells - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

BRB, trademarking Homely Nonbinaries Read

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Kage🎃🐺🦇 @scotkage.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Just turned in final revisions on "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON" It's going to exist at last, everyone!!! Big, deeply-built, intricate Norse myth fantasy. Book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME" Coming from Tor Books Summer 2027

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Snapping up what mass market paperbacks are still being printed... I do like some of these covers, though.

A stick of books, with three on top: The Westing Game, Don Quixote, and Dorian Gray

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I cannot get over how gorgeous Mushishi's art is. And I'm so happy for the new reprints that allow more people to discover and enjoy it.

Color cover of a manga, Mushishi by Urushibara Yuki, Collector's Edition volume 2

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I got to read the ARC of Whalefall in 2023 and have been religiously pushing it on customers ever since, so I am celebrating @danielkraus.com winning the Pulitzer for Angel Down as though I'm personally responsible 😆

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Enormous congratulations to this year’s Winner & Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Daniel Kraus - ANGEL DOWN (W) Katie Kitamaura - AUDITION (F) Torrey Peters - STAG DANCE (F) It was enormous honor to serve on this year’s jury & highlight such ambitious, amazing books. Read all three!

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Customer: "ohhh, if I'd known you have a cat I would have come in sooner!"

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Uhhhhmanda @uhhhhmanda.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Shoutout to my top two: @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social and @villagebookswa.bsky.social! I've got to put this holiday on my calendar so I stop forgetting it.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If you're an author visiting a bookstore, please don't litter your business card all over the shelves of your genre. It's annoying to clean up, and it HAS YOUR NAME ON IT so that's immediately going on my mental "do not order books by" list.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Reminder with the news that B&N is forcing people to charge 14.99 per paperback or have their listings deleted, you can get my pocket-size dyke knight novellas for just 10 from me directly: riengray.shop

A screencap from Rien Gray's shop, showing Galeas the Keen's preorder on sale and two knight books you can get in paperback.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I wish we bookstores collectively weren't so obsessed with being the first/only bookstore in an area/of a kind, if it leads to being dismissive or outright deceitful. I saw a fundraiser for a store opening in a certain city and was excited, ready to donate and repost--

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm not actually going to do an April Fool's joke but I will put this book with boobies on the cover on our spicy books shelf (no customers have come in today, so no one will notice)

A book about watching wildlife in the Galapagos islands, two blue-footed boobies on the cover

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 24/03/2026

Authors & publishers posting abt illustrated books: pls credit the ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are helping to boost them, but also shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Trying out the dating app thing and of course if I say I own a bookstore they ask for recommendations. I did name a few I thought they'd like based on profile, but why am I doing this for free AND in my free time?

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a cartoon character from south park says i don t work for free

ALT: a cartoon character from south park says i don t work for free

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

If you're enjoying the new season of One Piece on Netflix especially Mr. 3, I just need to make sure you know that actor, David Dastmalchian, also writes comics and his newest THROUGH just came out with absolutely amazing art by Cat Staggs. bookshop.org/a/214/979888... (affiliate link)

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David Dastmalchian's Through

Check out David Dastmalchian's Through - For fans of dark fantasy and psychological thrillers, a graphic novel about a perfectionist caught between reality and a crumbling dream realm where saving ...

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I do like this trend of red-green covers to make the reader feel unsettled because it suggests Christmas and as we all know, Christmas is *terrifying*

Three books, Zero Saints and Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias and These Women by Ivy Pochoda. All have colors in red, green, and black.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

All I want is to read my favorite genre: what if women, but worse

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER! I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is! On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Things I do as a bookseller that could be in the Olympics: Carrying a stack of books (vertical) Moving a stack of book (horizontal) from one shelf to another Lifting a box of encyclopedia volumes onto the post office counter Pushing a cart full of books

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Customer: I thought you were wearing a fur coat.

A black cat draped around a human's neck, they just barely peaking over.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm torn between "If there were going to be any adaptation of a book about Alexander it should have been Mary Renault" and also knowing I wouldn't want the fandom chaos coming to the favorite books of my youth. ETA: ah, I see Annabel Lyon is a Canadian author so that makes sense for JT.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

T. Kingfisher's Wolf Worm starts out peacefully with nature and art and maybe a little bit of gothic ominousness, like A Girl of the Limberlost meets Jane Eyre, and then goes horrifically and grotesquely off the rails halfway. 10/10, would ride the roller coaster again. bookshop.org/a/214/978125...

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Wolf Worm

Check out Wolf Worm - Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher<br...

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I've been weeding books at home and brought several bags to the store to sell, but then yesterday I brought four boxes of books from the store back to my house... 😬

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Rest in peace, Maisie from Connie Willis' Passage: you would have loved the What Was [historical disaster]? books.

Two books: Passage, and What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

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Isaac Fellman @isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Sacramento friends: we're launching the Notes from a Regicide paperback at Capital Books on February 17, 7:00 p.m. If you're thinking of investigating the Locus list, well -- it's a good time for it.

Five stacked paperback copies of Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman. The book has a blue cover and a white spine.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I read nine books in January... In my defense, I started Tom's Crossing which is over a thousand pages and still haven't finished 😂 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/main...

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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

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Isaac Fellman @isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.

Text on a green background. It says, "Wildthorn: Wildthorn Books is a new imprint of Tor Publishing Group focused on commercial stories that are irresistable, genre-blending and genre-bending. Wildthorn's mission is to become the destination for compulsive, page-turning reads."

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

These 33 page Tasting and Reading journals are so fun! Which do you want to fill out? www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/s/search?q=33

A rack of small notebooks that say 33 slices of pizza, 33 burgers, 33 reads, etc.

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Vivienne M @vivziepop.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The way AI is being shoved down our throats and how studios are starting to embrace it ??? Is so absolutely fucking terrifying to me, and scary for our industry and I feel like I can’t ignore it anymore. It’s so fucked. I hate it so much. What is happening. 🫠

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It's always funny when a book comes in looking like it's been through the events of its own plot. The first rule of Book Club is that we don't talk about Book Club. Speaking of which, we'll have a Silent Book Club on January 24th 3-5pm!

A copy of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, with a corner of the cover looking like it's been bitten.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

At least I've been able to read some excellent books because in every other aspect 2026 has been absolutely horrific. app.thestorygraph.com/books-read/m...

The cover of "It's Not A Cult" by Joey Batey, black and yellow with a musical instrument on fire. Tagline reads "They'd Die For You. They'd Kill For You."

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Bookstore cat crawled under my hair, guess she wanted to feel bonita.

A black and white cat with long brown hair draped over her head

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Three years of college Russian that I have put to absolutely no use until now, watching Heated Rivalry without reading the subtitles.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

DNFed a book for saying a character smiled showing all 32 teeth, which is a horrific image.

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Having a slightly famous cat: 😁 Miranda had her regular checkup. Me: of course she's indoor only, but she is a store cat and sometimes birds or rodents come into our 120 year old building and are there diseases I should be concerned about-- Staff said "oh yeah, she's the Main St. Books cat, right?"

A tuxedo cat laying on a blue veterinarian exam table

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Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I'm otherwise enjoying this book but the author is way too fond of the word "screamed." The characters don't just laugh, or snap when they're annoyed, or go "hey!" to get someone's attention. Every. Scene. Someone screams, and it's especially incongruous as an audiobook.

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Aleksi Gray @alakotila.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Hey, I'm looking for comics and graphic novels *by* Indigenous writers and/or illustrators, especially in the Americas. Doesn't have to be a recent book. Any genre! Any topic, any themes, does not have to be a memoir or history, though that is welcome too!

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