A Bookseller Used to Giving Out the Book Recs

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Today, we're setting up Nicole Brinkley, Bookseller and Manager at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY (and host of the Misshelved podcast). Nicole read and recently loved Year of the Witching and A Spindle Splintered, and she’s Oblong’s resident specialist for kids and SciFi Fantasy books. She loves autumn, and is impressed by other people’s generosity with their friends. She could give an on-the-spot TED talk about why frontline booksellers should make more money (we agree), or how Slenderman has big arms for big hugs. She’s looking to expand her reading list outside of her usual genres, and we’re more than happy to help. The picks Shop from the Lit.Bar Neon Gods by Katee Robert My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales Well Matched by Jen DeLuca The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne Where to find us: Find our show online at blinddatewithabookpod.com and @bookmeetcute on Twitter and Instagram. Please follow and tell us all the books you've fallen in love with recently.

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Today, we're setting up Nicole Brinkley, Bookseller and Manager at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY (and host of the Misshelved podcast). Nicole read and recently loved Year of the Witching and A Spindle Splintered, and she’s Oblong’s resident...

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