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Blind Date with a Book

Jun

1

2021

“Snark Sells”: (Surprising) Blind Dates with Books from A Good Book

From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: It’s been one of those “making sh*t up” weeks. We do Blind Date books at the bookstore, and they’ve morphed from traditional blind date sorts of profile to Snark in a Brown Paper Wrap. It turns out that snark sells. Over the last few years, I’ve done more …

Aug

4

2020

Thinking Outside the Bookstore:
Bespoke Boxes from A Good Book

From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: We’re doing bespoke blind date boxes as a way to get you the good stuff during this time of anxious separation. Well, suffice to say the bespoke box has been a hit. Enough so that we’ve spent most of the week racing around the store, finding cool things …

Apr

26

2019

Indie Bookstore Day display at Island Books

Seattle Bookstore Day 2019!

From the Island Books tumblr April 23, 2019 Seattle Bookstore Day is in its 5th year running, and we couldn’t be more excited! Island Books plans on celebrating all of April 27th with a schedule of activities (listed below). If you don’t know much about this wonderful holiday, Independent Bookstore Day was started in Northern California …

Feb

11

2016

Blind Date with a Book

Blind Date with a Book, A Good Book Cafe-style

We’re doing an extended riff on the dating life here; roll along with us, okay? So, we’ve gone to the trouble of making some of these books more alluring and mysterious. And no, we’re not just taking pictures of them in front of sweet yachts. Give us a little credit here. We think more highly …

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