A little bookstore tour for you! ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [A short video at two times speed walking through the bookstore.] #Bookstagram #Bookstore #BookLover #IndieBookstore #InInglewood #YYC #BookNerd #Bibliophile #reading

This week is about the history of books and reading. ⁣ ⁣ I hope you’re as fascinated as I am! ⁣ ⁣ All the books mentioned today can be found in the curated list “For the Love of Books and Bookstores” on the site. Link is you know where! ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [A screenshot of Sabrina holding up A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel .] #Bookstagram #BookLover #Bibliophile #AHistoryOfBooks #BookHistory #Bookish #AHistoryOfReading #IndieBookstore #InInglewood

BEYOND THE ORANGE SHIRT STORY is a unique collection of truths, as told by Phyllis Webstad’s family and others, that will give readers an up-close look at what life was like before, during, and after their Residential School experiences. ⁣ ⁣ Phyllis’ hope is that all Canadians honour the lives and experiences of Survivirs and their families as they go Beyond the Orange Shirt Story. ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ We hope that everyone takes today as an opportunity to start their path of truth and reconciliation and supporting Survivors. ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [the book BEYOND THE ORANGE SHIRT STORY is propped up on a wooden ladder in front of the fifth volume of The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Canada’s Residential Schools: The Legacy.]

Bright books for a perfect fall day. ⁣ ⁣ CHRONICLES FROM THE LAND OF THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH by Wole Soyinka, the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, gives us a savagely satiric, gleefully irrelevant, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ⁣ ⁣ PLEASE DON’T SIT ON MY BED IN YOUR OUTSIDE CLOTHES by Phoebe Robinson is her latest essay collection. Robinson says, “We’ve all been through a trying time, which is why I wrote something to make you laugh until you pee a little, feel until you want to rage a little, and think until you go back to laughing a little.”⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [Two books lying askew on a wooden counter. Soyinka’s book cover is lime green and hot pink while Robinson’s features her looking like “a bootleg Diana Ross” in a green sequin dress with big sleeves.] #Bookstagram #NewReleases #NewBooks #BookLover #BookNerd #BooksOfInstagram #Essays #PhoebeRobinson #Reading #AReadingHabit #ReadersGonnaRead #IndieBookstore #YYC

Set against the backdrop of an America in socio-political unrest, where personal dramas and political ones play out both independently and cheek-by-jowl, RADIANT FUGITIVE by Giancarlo Latta is an expansive family saga enriched by brilliantly wrought characters and a dazzling lyricism. ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [the book is propped up against a radiator.] #Bookstagram #BooksOfInstagram #LGBTReads #QueerReads #BookLover #Reading #AReadingHabit #BookNerd #IndieBookstore #ShopLocalYYC

How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was ... not exactly human?⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣these are some of the questions T.C. Boyle asks in his wide-ranging and hilarious new novel TALK TO ME, exploring what it means to be human, to communicate with another, and to truly know another person—or animal…⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [the book is propped up on the wooden rolling ladder. The photo is taken at an angle so the rest of the bookstore is visible in the background.] #Bookstagram #BooksOfInstagram #TCBoyle #NewBook #BookNerd #BookLover #ShopLocalYYC #BooksBooksBooks #Reading #AReadingHabit #InInglewood #IndieBookstore

"I can hear change humming⁣ In its loudest, proudest song.⁣ I don't fear change coming,⁣ And so I sing along."⁣ ⁣ Anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes—big or small—in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves. ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [the book is propped up on a wooden step stool in the middle of the bookstore. A young Black girl with her hair up is holding a large guitar. The cover is a riot of colors.] #Bookstagram #BooksOfInstagram #ChildrensBooks #PictureBook #AmandaGorman #BlackGirlMagic #Poetry #BookLovers #BookNerd #Reading #AReadingHabit #IndieBookstore #ShopLocalYYC

A shorter video sharing a #BookHaul: old books from an amazing collection for the used book section! ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [Sabrina holding up an old edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.] #Bookstagram #BookLovers #Reading #UsedBooks #AReadingHabit #OldBooks #IndieBookstore #InInglewood

Equaled perhaps only by the human figure and integral to cultures, identities, myths and philosophies around the world, trees, and their distinctive patterns of branch, bark, leaf and root, have offered arresting subjects for photographers across the centuries. ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [the book is propped up on a wooden ladder.] #Bookstagram #BooksOfInstagram #Trees #Photography #Photo #Art #ArtBook #BookLover #Bibliophile #Reader #AReadingHabit #IndieBookstore #InInglewood #ShopLocalYYC

🍂🍁 Happy fall equinox! 🍁🍂 Do you celebrate or note the occasion?⁣ ⁣ Meanwhile, we are getting ever closer to spooky season…⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [Two books surrounded by yellow leaves: MOON LISTS: Questions and Rituals for Self-Reflection and MOON BATH: Bathing Rituals and Recipes for Relaxation + Vitality.] #Bookstagram #BooksOfInstagram #Fall #Autumn #FallEquinox #Rituals #HarvestMoon #Reading #Read #BookLover #NewAge #IndieBookstore #InInglewood #ShopLocalYYC

The epic rendering of a Black woman’s journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature.⁣ ⁣ First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is ready to publish again. Palmares is the first of five new works by Gayl Jones to be published in the next two years, rewarding longtime fans and bringing her talent to a new generation of readers.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [the book is propped up on a wooden ladder.] #Bookstagram #NewBook #BooksBooksBooks #ReadersGonnaRead #Reading #ReadingHabit #BookLover #InInglewood #GaylJones #IndieBookstore #ShopLocalYYC

Mondays can be a bit of a drag, but not these books!⁣ ⁣ ⁣THE PERFUME THIEF by Timothy Schaffert is A Gentleman in Moscow meets Moulin Rouge set in Paris on the eve of World War II, where Clementine, a queer, American ex-pat and notorious thief, is drawn out of retirement and into one last scam when Nazis invade. ⁣ ⁣ LATE CITY by Robert Olen Butler. A 115-year-old man lies on his deathbed as the 2016 election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ [a hand holds two books up in front of book. They form a heart. Both books have black and white photographs of cities.] #Bookstagram #BooksOfInstagram #BookLover #Reading #NewBooks #TBRPile #BooksBooksBooks #reading #AReadingHabit #InInglewood #IndieBookstore