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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 21

me: this book will ruin you in the best way
also me: waits to question you about every thought and reaction you’ve had while reading it #indiebookstore #booksthatmademecry #booksellersoftiktok #Unhinged #bookseller #booktokchallenge #fourseasonsbooks #emotionaldamage

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

If you aren’t religious and just go randomly go to a mass it’s like a really really low budget very off broadway musical. I mean like the absolute worst community theater project with audience participation and very specific choreography.

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

Final takeaway: If you aren’t religious and just go to a mass it’s like a really really low budget very off broadway musical.

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

The communal pool

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

Jesus was the OG zombie story.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

The male choir lead looks like col sanders

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

Two surprising things.

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

Everyone is dipping into a large granite baptismal pool in the ground - not I.

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

Nobody ever joined a gang for hopes purposes. Isn’t that sorta why the mafia was formed though? To give hope & structure to neighborhoods that had none?

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

The priest is giving a sermon on diversity equality and inclusion about how people have taken language and twisted it.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

If we have eternal life isn’t that actually a curse? It sounds exhausting.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

They are reading the Easter story to the children with a rock egg that is actually so tiny. I have thoughts.

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

This is room is a giant circle. So I’m staring directly at the other half of the congregation. Like directly into their eyes.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 20

Update. Did not burst into flames upon arrival to the catholic mass my family decided to randomly attend. Please hold for a live play by play.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 17

currently holding back the kind of news that would make your book club group chat implode.
we can’t say who’s coming (yet)… but we can say: clear your calendar, charge your phone, and emotionally prepare yourselves.
#shh #bookish #indiebookstore #FourSeasonsBooks #coming2025

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 16

it’s spring break. bribing my kids with baked goods and crystal balls to work with me at the bookstore. fully embracing my haymitch. #bookstore

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Apr 14

imagine leaving us a 1-star review for “too much leftist propaganda” and thinking we wouldn’t put it on a shirt.

be serious.

get yours: www.bonfire.com/too-much-lef...

#bannedbooks #supportlocalbookstores #fourseasonsbooks

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Mar 31

WRONG ANSWERS ONLY: Use one sentence to describe The Farm House by @chelseaconradt.bsky.social

Bonus points if it’s cursed.

The truth? You’ll find out June 17. Preorder now—before the corn finds you.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Mar 26

me: nursery rhymes are harmless.
also me at 2AM reading smut that made the itsy bitsy spider a weapon of mass destruction.

i will never look at a rainstorm the same way again.
i would say send help but I don’t want to be saved. #darkromancec #bookclub

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Mar 26

What’s the best piece of advice I could give an author?

If you’re everywhere, you’re nowhere. Let the people miss you. Especially if you want them to show up.

that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Mar 24

If we don’t draw a clear line between defending queer books, BIPOC voices, and progressive literature vs protecting actual predatory content, we lose credibility—and we put vulnerable people at risk.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Mar 24

Defending this kind of content under the banner of “book banning” does real damage to the movement to protect intellectual freedom.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Mar 24

And here’s where it gets complicated: we need to talk about censorship and freedom to read—but we also need to talk about how those conversations get hijacked when actual abuse and exploitation are involved.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Mar 24

The fact that there’s even a debate because the author is a woman speaks to a dangerous double standard. Harm is harm, no matter who writes it.

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that bookish events manager @spilltheplot.bsky.social · Mar 24

Let’s be honest: if Tori Woods were a man, the public reaction would be completely different. No one would be crying “slippery slope” or defending this as just “fiction.” If a man wrote a book fantasizing about a toddler, we’d all be in agreement—it’s predatory, full stop.

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