Current Newsletter: Booksellers on the Bestsellers - What's in Your Book Bag?

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• LeeAnna Callon, Blue Cypress Books in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Heather Giese, Reading Rock Books in Dickson, Tennessee
• Serena Wyckoff, Copperfish Books in Punta Gorda, Florida
• Kat Egan, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Sandra Pinkney, Underground Books in Carrollton, Georgia
• Suzanne Lucey, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina
• Nancy Pierce, Bookmiser in Marietta, Georgia
• Jude Burke-Lewis, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
• Matilda McNeely, Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia
• Amanda Grell, Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Cameron Rogers, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Leah Fallon, Birch Tree Bookstore in Leesburg, Virginia
• Brianna Lloyd, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Eden Haymon, Cavalier House Books in Denham Springs, Louisiana
• Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina
• Julie Jarema, Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, South Carolina
• Mandy Martin, novel. in Memphis, Tennessee
• Sarah Blackwell, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Book Buzz Feature: The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
I wanted to write a controlled, intense, strange, sensual, truthful novel set firmly in a genre I’m increasingly thinking of as wonder. You can watch a romcom where someone is covered with bees and they’re terrified, and you’re laughing, so their experience is not the same as your experience. Likewise, you can be watching a horror film, and they think they’re having a normal Monday, and you know better. That’s where the horror happens.

― Maggie Stiefvater, Interview, The Bookseller

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
This is my second time reading this book, and even though it’s been over 15 years since I read it the first time, it still is as honest and poignant as ever. I adore Charlie, and his bluntness and naivety. This book perfectly captures being 15 and experiencing life for the first time. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking and is a must-read.
― Sarah Blackwell, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina